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== Osnap buttons (Object Snap)== | == Osnap buttons (Object Snap)== |
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The Worksheet Is a tool that allows you to make and design types, from the most common to the most complex.
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Action Buttons
: with this button you can assign or change the general data of the typology.
: if in the box that allows to assign accessories is active the optional field, pressing this button opens a window that has the function of choosing the options matched to a typology in the Worksheet.
: with this button you can assign the dimensions to the typology and to change the typology to an arch, over sized or round shape.
: it needs for join or divide two structures of a typology.
: it needs to print the typology.
: with this button you can open the Parts box to see or change parts of the typology (see Job Management).

: it activates Display single node, for which see the chapter Node Definition Window.
: shows the tool machinings on the profile, sent by the program to the machining center, where it is present. For further information on Opera CAM, please see the reference manual.
: it needs to insertion in Worksheet of structures to be used to make the typology.
: with this button you can delete a structure of the typology. After pressing it will be necessary to simply click on the structure you want to delete. When finished it should be deactivated.
: with this button you can edit a structure of the typology. After pressing it will be sufficient to click on the structure you want to edit and will be opened structure configuration framework whose contents and functioning are explained in the section concerning the button [File:tastoinser.png]]. The edit button is as a switch, so it must be turned off when finished.
: is used to duplicate a structure already present on the Worksheet. After pressing it, the cursor takes the shape of a square and allows us to insert the copied structure from the corner of the typology already present in the Worksheet. To change the position of the structure to be inserted, it is necessary to operate on the OSNAP buttons, the function of which will be explained later in this chapter.
: it needs to multiply structures of a typology.
: it needs to select a typology of an existing drawing on the WorkSheet.
: it needs to switch the opening direction.
: opens the panel to enter or edit the typology panes.
: it opens a box when you can enter or change notes that allows to add notes to the scheme of the typology
: it opens the box that allows you to manage frame cuts of curtain walls.
: allows you to manually measure the distances of the typology drawn in the Worksheet. After selecting it, simply click a point on the typology with the mouse and drag it to the desired place. This picture will be shown where you can read the measure you are interested in and/or enter it within the typology.
Curtain Walls buttons
: with this button you can entry lines and columns.
: with this button you can marge selected mirrors.
: it opens the panel that allows to enter data for frame cuts.
: it opens the panel that allows to enter data for Floor position.
: it opens the software that allows to edit the typology in .dxf format.
Zoom buttons
Zoom or detail buttons are a very useful function: they allow the visual dimensions of the structure to be changed, or to focus on specific details of the structure.- File:Tastozoom-.png:Each press reduces the design by a certain percentage. It is useful to have more space in the WorkSheet.
- File:Tastozoom=.png: zooms the drawing to take up all the available space in the Worksheet.
- File:Tastozoom+.png: allows you to zoom in on a particular part of the drawing. After pressing it you will notice that the mouse pointer will take the shape of a cross: at this point you have to draw an area with the mouse around the area to be zoomed in and left-click when finished. The selected area will be zoomed in until it takes up all the available space in the design sheet.
Osnap buttons (Object Snap)
The buttons of this group are an additional function of the Worksheet. Their use in the design phase is to guide the user in linking a new structure to the typology already drawn by helping him to specify precisely the connection point between the two structures. The connection modes (snap) are as follows:- File:Tastoosnap0.png Corner snap: allows to connect the new structure starting from a corner of the current typology.
- File:Tastoosnap1.png Free snap: allows to connect the structure starting from any point on one of the typology sides.
For a better understanding of the next two buttons, it is necessary to start with the last one in the group.
- File:Tastoosnap4.png Split factor: allows you to set the number of parts into which the side of the typology should hypothetically be divided, to which you want to connect the ‘’'new structure,‘’' in order to be advantaged in the connection process. In fact, by using the buttons explained below, it will be possible to make the connection from an exact point, e.g. from the middle, from one-third, from two-thirds, etc.… In practice, if you have set the value 4 in the button, you will be able, with a simple click anywhere on the side, to connect the structure to exactly ¼ of the typology width.
- File:Tastoosnap2.png Structure snap: If the typology to which you want to link the structure is made of several structures, this button will allow you to grab exactly one point of only one of the structures on the side specified in the split factor.
- File:Tastoosnap3.png Typology snap: If the typology to which you want to link the structure is made of several structures, this button will allow you to grab exactly one point of only one of the structures on the side specified in the split factor.
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Snap buttons
These two buttons allow you to set the values for moving the mouse cursor in the Worksheet. Suppose you draw the structures on a millimeter grid, in which mouse movements are guided, so that the pointer can move only at the lines or columns that make up that grid. The grid size can be changed in this way:
- File:Tastosnapspostamento.png Movement: allows you to define the distance between lines/columns in the grid.
- File:Tastosnapdelta.png Delta: If the pointer should move on a grid constructed from the base of the typology or from the starting position of the pointer.
Show buttons
These buttons determine the display modes in the Worksheet.
- File:TastimostraO.png : allows you to set display options that will allow you to see, while viewing the typology, some of its features, such as profile names, cutting dimensions, component design, and opening direction. For more details see the Diagram details setting
- File:TastimostraI.png – File:TastimostraE.png: Interior view and Exterior view. They determine the display mode of the typology, in interior view and exterior view, respectively.
- File:TastimostraV.png : opens the box Custom views.
- File:TastimostraL.png : shows the machinings matched to the typology in their positions.
- File:TastimostraP.png : shows each side of the structure a miniature of the actual profile section.
- File:TastimostraT.png : shows the thermal transmittance data of the typology.
- File:TastimostraB.png :activates and deactivates the overlaps and notches of the typology (Available from version 3.7)
- File:TastimostraG.png : activates and deactivates the guideline display (Available from version 3.8)
- File:TastimostraD.png : shows the technical details set up in the Technical Details and Wall Symbols Archive or set up through the notes
- File:TastimostraF.png : shows Floors in Curtain Walls.
- File:TastimostraH.png : shows the accessories with the matched technical drawing (see the chapter Accessory icon management)
: activates and deactivates Id codes for structure management
Layers button
Pressing this button allows you to select the layer on which you want to operate. The Layers function is useful for making overlapping types. In fact, it is possible to overlap typologies, one for each layer. This function is useful to realize monoblock types such as windows with shutters. In this case you set the window on layer 1 and the shutter on layer 2. With button File:Tastonascondi.png we can disable the display of all layers except the one on which you are working.
Export buttons
These buttons allow you to export the type in different formats:*‘’'DXF'‘’: creates a 2D dxf file
- 3D: creates a 3D dxf file
- VRM: creates a file in a format compatible with the 3D modeling language ‘'VRML’'
Pressing these buttons will open a box in which the user will be asked to type the name of the target file. Pressing will save the file to the place of your choice.
The ‘’'VRM'‘’ button is also useful for figuring out if the nodes of a type have all been created, especially with very large typologies; in fact, pressing it will show dots: ‘’'green'‘’ (if the nodes are all present), ‘’'red'‘’ (if they are missing), thus allowing us to make the necessary corrections (see image).
Undo/Redo buttons
During editing of a typology in the design sheet, Opera Job Management saves the history of the operations made so that they can be restored at will at a later time:
- File:Tastoundo.png Undo: undoes the last change made on the type
- File:Tastoredo.png Redo : restores the last change made on the type.
Once the undo/redo functions are used, next to each of the two buttons will appear the number of steps by which it is possible to move.

Direct actions on the Worksheet
With a simple mouse click you can perform some actions directly on the design of the typology and are explained below:
Quoting profiles with the use of the mouse[Opera Job Management#Release Notes|Available from version 3.7]])
In the work you can quote a frame profile by selecting it with the left mouse and drag it to a direction.
For composite typologies, it’s also possible to use the displacement of the single structure, selecting the profile with the right mouse button and dragging it to a direction.
Variation or elimination of profiles or accessories belonging to one side
Clicking on a profile of the typology will open a table showing the list of profiles belonging to the side where you have clicked and in which you can make additions, deletions or variations of profiles and/or accessories, calculation of the cut and more.
Editing a cut
By clicking on a corner of the type you can change the cut. It will open the frame on the side where you can choose the desired cut.
[[Image:gestioneMTI.png|thumb|left|Variation of risers/traverses/fills]Setting of uprights, traverses and fillings
Clicking on an empty area of a mirror will open the MTI Management where you can choose whether to assign or vary uprights, traverses or panes.
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In this mode you can specify the size of the typology. The areas where you can interact are two: Typology dimension at the bottom and Options on the right. By pressing the button between the arrows you can enable or disable the display of nodes.

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Typology dimension
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- Total width and total height: These are the perimeter dimensions of the typology excluding any batting fins (or covers). When you set the dimensions of the type you must enter the value that you have detected by measuring the space on which will be mounted the typology separating the short distance that must of course between the wall and the frame. However, this short distance can be
set directly on the typology as the gap value between frame and wall so that it is automatically spun off.
- Lock : ”: The height of the lock or handle. This value depends on the setting given to the following buttons.
- File:Altezzaserratura.png the height will be considered starting from fixed frame of the structure excluding the batting fin.
- File:Altezzaserratura2.png the height will be considered starting from mobile frame of the structure including the batting fin.
- File:Altezzaserratura3.png the height will be considered starting from mobile frame of the structure excluding the batting fin. So that the program can vary the height of the lock with this setting, you need determine the difference in tubing in the profile in the archive.
- File:Altezzaserratura4.png the height will be considered starting from mobile frame to the chamber.
- File:Altezzaserraturadaterra.png It is equal to the first height, but with the only In the case of composite structures, the dimension reference may be: taken from “bottom”.
These buttons must be set first to assign the height value of the lock.
- File:Tastoaltezzacentr.png This button is used to center the lock on the basis of the setting of the three previous buttons.
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- Door shift: This is the width of each door in an opening structure. This dimension is only required if the structure has more than one door.
Considering the doors of a window, the reference points of the measurement of movement of each door go from the left side fixed frame chamber (if the view is internal; right if the view is external) up to the middle of the central node, as shown in the figure on the side. The setting of the door shift value is assisted by buttons that follow.
File:Tastoante.png allows you to automatically get doors that have the same dimensions, maintaining the same distance between the various chambers.
- File:Tastospec.png allows you to automatically get the mirrors.
- File:Tastolungh.png enables the setting of the dimension on typologies with multiple doors relative to the width of the doors, allowing to act on each individual door of the structure.
- Door width:force the width of each door in a structure opening
- Door height: force the height of each door in a structure opening
- Window box height: The total height of the window box. If it is a box derived from a structure of the pre-assembled window box type this value is taken automatically from the height of the accessory that has been assigned to the structure. In this case, the value of height of the window box.
- Horizontal dimension and Vertical dimension:This is respectively the width and height of a structure belonging to a typology composed of several structures.
File:Quotaorizzontale.png Example setting a horizontal dimension (width) of a structure belonging to a typology formed by two structures. | File:QuoteNodiLargCentroTraverso.PNG Viewing a horizontal dimension (width) with reference from the frame light to the center of the opening of the adjacent structure. | File:Quotaorizzontale2.png Example of setting a vertical dimension (height) of a structure belonging to a typology formed by two structures. |
The setting of these dimensions is assisted by the buttons explained below.
- File:Quotaverticale.png If this button is pressed you can start to quote structures starting from the first right, or from the first up; useful in the case of typologies formed by many structures linked horizontally or vertically between them, such as tape typologies.
- File:Quotaverticale2.png If this button is pressed you can start to quote structures starting from the first left, or from the first down; useful in the case of typologies formed by many structures linked horizontally or vertically between them, such as tape typologies.
- File:Quotaverticale3.png If this button is pressed you will be able to quote the single structures; useful in the case of typologies formed by many connected structures horizontal or vertical between them, such as tape typologies.
- File:Vertical4.png If this button is pressed you can change the reference points relative to the dimensions, setting the references within the frames as shown in the figure.
- Friction position: This is the position of the friction. Only valid for swing structures.
- File:Tastoaltezzacentr.png The setting of this dimension is supported by this button that allows to center the friction according to the height of the muntin of the mobile frame.
- Hinge position: This is the position of the central hinge. It is required for structures with more than two hinges.
- File:Altezzaserratura.png If this button is active the height given to the hinge will be considered starting from the fixed frame of the structure excluding the batting fin.
- File:Altezzaserratura3.png If this button is active the height given to the hinge will be considered starting from the mobile frame of the structure excluding the batting fin.
- File:Tastoaltezzacentr.png The setting of this dimension is supported by this button that allows to center the hinge.
- Lower bolt dimension and upper bolt dimension: This is the height of bolt. This dimension is only required if the structure has more than a door. This value depends on the setting given to the following buttons.
- File:Altezzaserratura.png: the height will be considered starting from fixed frame of the structure excluding the batting fin.
- File:Altezzaserratura2.png: the height will be considered starting from mobile frame of the structure includingthe batting fin.
- File:Altezzaserratura3.png: the height will be considered starting from mobile frame of the structure excluding the batting fin.
- File:Altezzaserratura4.png: the height will be considered starting from mobile frame to the chamber
- Height of transom: This is the height of the transom. The setting for these dimensions is supported by the buttons explained below.

- File:Altezzaserratura.png the height will be considered starting from fixed frame of the structure excluding the batting fin.
- File:Altezzaserratura3.png the height will be considered starting from mobile frame of the structure including the batting fin.
- File:Tastoaltezzacentr.png The setting of this dimension is supported by this button that allows to center the transom.
These buttons calculate the height of the transom even in combination with following buttons.
- File:Altezzatraverso.png the height will be considered starting from the frame (fixed or mobile) of the structure at the beginning of the transom.
- File:Altezzatraverso2.png the height will be considered starting from the frame (fixed or mobile) of the structure in the center of the transom.
- File:Altezzatraverso3.png the height will be considered starting from the frame (fixed or mobile) of the structure at the end of the transom.
Option
These buttons are used to transform the typology in arch, oversize or round shape and to make equal glasses or heights of the central transoms.
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- File:Fuorisquadra.png: it allows to transform the typology into an oversize. The side panel will be opened.
The press of this button allows to transform the typology into an arch or a round shape. The following panel will be opened, followed by an explanation of the contents.
- Type: In this field we enter the type of arch or round shape that you intend to produce. The type can be:
- Round arch: in this way the radius of the arc will be equal to half of the total width of the typology.
- Low arch: the radius of the arch will be defined by the user. Only in this case it’s necessary to enter the height of the radius in the appropriate box.
- Round shape:with this voice we transform our typology in round shape, fixed, by an opening or by a transom (only possible typologies).
File:Tuttosesto.png Example of a round arch | File:Sestoribassato.png Example of a low arch | File:Oblò.png Example of a round shape |
- File:Tastovetriuguali.png: allows you to automatically set equal glasses in horizontal in a typology made up of several structures.
- File:TastovetriugualiV.png: automatically sets equal glasses in vertical in a typology composed of several structures. (Available from version 3.7)
The operator using this function must know that before acting on the button will select the structures on which the glasses will be set equal, as in the following example.
- [File:tastotraversiuguali.png]]: it allows to set the same height of the transoms in the composed typologies by more structures. Also in this case the same glass process applies; the operator must first select the structures on which to intervene and then act on the button.
- [file:tastoinglesina.png]]: The function of this button is to determine positioning of the muntins in case they are loaded on a composed structures with mirrors in different sizes.
File:Fogliodiprogettazionevetriuguali.png Example of using the same glasses button | File:Foglioprogettazioneinglesine.png Example of use of the muntins key |
The activation takes place by pressing on the button and then in the mirrors affected by the muntins.
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