Firstly, what kind of design are you about to create - kitchen, bathroom or bedroom/study? To select your type of design (or "Room System") click "File" - "Select Room System".
Select the room system and click "OK". It will take a few seconds to reconfigure itself.
Before starting your design there are certain options you may wish change. What is the ceiling height in this room? Has the customer specified tall wall cabinets? What door and handle to use? This chapter will run through the options you may wish to change before starting. They are found under the "This Design" menu:
The "Photo/virtual Realism Colours" is used when changing the colours in your design. See Changing colours in your design for details.
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The room settings depend on the current room system.
Room Settings for the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom/home study Room Systems.
Tall Base Units refers to the height of Larders, Fridge Housings, Oven Housings in your design. As a general rule, if you are using small Tall Base Units you would also use small Wall Units to ensure a consistent gap between the worktop and the bottom of the wall units. Likewise for medium, tall and extra tall units. Details on changing the pre-defined heights can be found in Changing Defaults.
Before starting you need to specify the default tiling height (not applicable to Bedroom/Home Study designs). Turn tiling on by ticking the "Tiled" box, and choose your heights to tile from and to. The tiling specified here will be applied to all the wall components used when drawing your room. Set it to whatever the majority of the design should have. You can alter the tiling for the rest of the walls later by editing the wall components or using the Tiling Area Tool on the Utilities Window.
IMPORTANT - You must change the tiling option before you start drawing your room. You cannot change the tiling options afterwards. However, if you forget you can edit the walls individually.
The "Doors Have Frames" option controls whether cabinets are drawn with "plant-on" or "In-frame" style doors. See Door Frame Type on the Utilities Window.
With the exception of the tiling option, you can change any of the properties found under "Room Settings" as you are doing your design and it will update the design to the new settings.
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To change the manufacturer click "Change Manufacturer".
This brings up a list of the door manufacturers installed on your system. Click on the one you wish to use and click "OK".
Once you have selected a manufacturer you can now select the range by clicking "Change Range".
The currently selected range has a red box around it (in this case "Shaker"). To select another range, click the button with range name on.
Once you have selected a range, you can now click "Customise Door" to pick the handles.
Each range has a default handle. To change the handle, first select the door type from the "Door Type" drop down box.
Then select the handle ("Handle..." button) and handle position ("Handle Location..." button) for this door type. The handle positions will change depending on the door type. Repeat for the other door types.
Click "OK" once you have selected your handles etc. Click "OK" to exit from the "Door Type" window.
NOTE - You can return to the "Door Type" section whilst doing your design, or once it is complete. You do not need to change the range or all the handles etc before starting the design. Any changes made will update your current design.
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Details of the client. The fields you can fill in depend on the room system (above is from the Kitchen room system).
The details are stored with the design and can be automatically placed onto your print outs - see Creating Page Layouts.
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When a unit is placed onto a design it will have the option of having worktop, cornice, pelmet "attached" to it automatically. The "Attachments" window allows you specify the profile of your worktop edging, cornice etc.
Select the item you wish to change. It will show you the currently selected profile. Press "Change..." to see the available profiles.
Select the new profile by clicking on the button with the profile name on.
NOTE - the profiles available vary between room systems.
NOTE - Cornice and Pelmet have a special option "Hidden Cornice" or "Hidden Pelmet". This removes cornice/pelmet from all the units in your design.
You can change the attachments at any time while you are designing and it will update your design.
Now your design has been set up you can move on to drawing your room - Drawing The Room.
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