Find your way around VCAD

Choose your language

1. Click the language menu at the top right, just left of the account menu.

   

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2. Choose your preferred language from the list.

Switch between your sessions

1. Click a tab at the top left.

   

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2. Click + to the right of the tabs to start a new session. See Start a new session.

Use the toolbar

1. Click a tool on the toolbar.

   

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2. Press Esc or click the tool again to cancel.

3. Right-click a tool with a small arrow. The tool's settings open below it.

4. Right-click Snap, the button with the magnet. The list opens, and here you choose what it snaps to.

   

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5. Click Snap to turn snapping on or off.

6. Click the arrows to the right of Snap, or press Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, to undo or redo.

7. Click the button at the far right to save, export or plot.

Open the panels

1. Click Tools on the toolbar.

   

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2. Click what you want to open:

   • Properties shows and changes what you have selected. See Change an object's layer, color or linetype.

   • The trade panels, for example Sewage and Utilities, hold symbols and lines for their trade.

   • Toolbox has line tools and utilities.

   • Map turns the background map on and off.

The trade panels and Toolbox open on top of the drawing. Drag their title to move them.

Read the bar at the bottom

1. Start a tool, for example 3D Polyline. The message line in the middle at the bottom tells you what the tool is waiting for, for example POLYLINE: Click start point.

   

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2. Move the mouse over the drawing. To the right of the message line, X, Y and Z show where the mouse is.

3. Click the coordinate system's name at the bottom left to change it.

Open the account menu

1. Click the account menu in the top right corner.

   

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2. Choose what you need:

   • Settings opens the Settings window, where you adjust VCAD, for example import and coding.

   • Remote support opens a window where you help a colleague on their screen or create a one-time link so someone else can see and help on yours.

Next, move around and zoom the view and select objects.