Change surface

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Example

Suppose you receive a changed floor plan. An existing polygonal room or area gains or loses a part of its surface, which changes the number of corner points and walls.

Application

Activate polygon features

The polygon editing functions can be enabled or disabled.

	If you need to change the geometry of a room, you can enable the polygon editing features. In this case, the connection between two walls (e.g a corner of a room) is displayed as a node and the center point of a wall as a line segment .
	When you have finished editing, you should disable the polygon function again to prevent accidental changes.

Close all dialogs.
Select any wall by clicking .
Click . The context menu appears.
Select: Advanced Display contour as Polygon
The option changes the status.

Edit the nodes

of the room contour

Point to the node , it turns green .

Click to start the functionMove Node .
Clicking opens the context menu with a selection of other editing functions.

Move Node

The selected node is deleted and the two adjacent nodes are connected by a straight segment.

Delete Node

The selected node is deleted and the two adjacent nodes are connected by a straight segment.

Node Position

You can change the coordinates of the node numerically.

Move Room (not possible)

Edit line segments

of the room contour

Point to the node of the segment , it turns green .

Click to start the functionInsert Node .
Clicking opens the context menu with a selection of other editing functions.

Insert Node

The center point of the selected segment is converted into a node and is attached to the cursor. One click inserts a new node, the function remains active. You can insert additional nodes or quit the function with [ESC].

Move Parallel

The selected segment is moved parallel with the cursor and is fixed by clicking .

Move all Nodes Parallel

The entire trace is dynamically increased or decreased with the cursor and fixed by clicking . The result will be a parallel movement of all segments.