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Posted by hansmex at Aug 31, 2010, 4:36:01 PM
Re: I'd like to see...
Joe, maker,

1- Rotating walls and floors
When you have the plug-in Copy as new furniture installed, you can come close to rotating walls and/or floors. After drawing your walls, select them, then Tools --> Copy as new furniture, then Edit --> Paste and you have a copy of your new walls. If there's a floor/ceiling, that will get copied as well. You can now rotate you walls plus floor.
1a - You can still give the walls a texture/colour. Advantage: the top edge of the wall gets coloured too, important if that part is visible. Disadvantage: if you include wall/ceiling, they also get recoloured/retextured.
1b - This might come in handy if (e.g.) you doubt between two houses or apartments, and their only difference is that they are mirrored.
1c - You cannot use this trick on floors/ceilings only. Walls have to be included.

2 - You can select any combination of elements in your design and group them. You can then copy this group and treat it as a new piece of furniture. If you need to make changes, just ungroup and each individual element can be edited.

3 - Walls can be freely rotated (or drawn) by deselecting Magnetism enabled in File --> Preferences.
3a - With Magnetism enabled you can draw walls in any direction by pressing SHIFT while drawing your wall(s).

All this information has been given before on this forum. Maybe we need better search possibilities? Or just ignore repeat-questions?

Hans
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