• the type of mark 
• length
• rectangle
• area
• perimeter
• the colour of the mark
• a display of the current mark's annotation
• the vertical and horizontal scaling factor
• a button to select a different drawing
• a magnified view around the cursor for accurate marking
• a slider next the the magnified view enabling the user to adjust the amount of magnification

                    Close the current drawing

                 Change drawing access to another user. Initially when using drawings, you are restricted to drawings YOU have imported.
                         Clicking this button and providing another USER name, you can access their drawings.

            Preferences options
                        Click this to choose how certain things look/work in the drawing measures.
                        The following dialog will appear:

Choose the Line type you want - solid, dots, or dashes
Click on the 'Width' combo box and choose how wide you want lines to be
Slide the 'Opacity' slider to select how 'strong' the line is to be - sliding to the left allows the image under the line to 'show through' more - to the right and the image 'shows through' less
Tick 'Show Tags;, and any TAG you have added to a measurement will show
Tick 'Show Distance Meter', and a small window will appear in top right of the drawing showing distances of the current cursor position from the last 'mark' during measuring

Tick 'Request TAGs', and every time you make a measurement, a dialog will appear asking you to enter the TAG. TAGs can span multiple lines, each line being separated using the 'ENTER/RETURN' key

Click on the 'Colour Legend' button to bring up a dialog whereby you can create up to 16 colours, each with a description, for choosing from when clicking the
'Colour of Measurement Marking' (see below). Here is an example of a Colour Legend:

        magnifying glass : a magnified area of the image immediately under the cursor, superimposed with a crosshair for accuracy

                    a slider to increase/decrease the magnification of the magnifying glass

            Zoom In button:

click with LEFT mouse button, and it increases incrementally the image
click with the RIGHT mouse button, and it magnifies current image by 2

            Zoom Out button:

            Select from another drawing

              Select 'Colour of Measurement Marking'

Click this to choose either

directly from a Colour Pallette, OR
from the Colour Legend which appears as a menu list, as shown below:

              Print this drawing and measurement markings

             Click this to incrementally move UP the drawing
                       RIGHT click this to set the top edge of the image at the top boundary of the drawing

              Click this to incrementally move DOWN the drawing
                       RIGHT click this to set the bottom edge of the image at the bottom boundary of the drawing

               Click this to incrementally move LEFT on the drawing
                       RIGHT click this to set the left edge of the image at the left boundary of the drawing

               Click this to incrementally move RIGHT on the drawing
                       RIGHT click this to set the right edge of the image at the right boundary of the drawing

            Click this to CENTRE the Drawing

Click the button to select the current measuring mode. The 'No' mode is set each time you execute a 'Set Scale' or 'Select Drawing' option
The 'Perimeter' button is a checkbox and modifies the characteristics of the Rect and Area functions to measure the Perimeter of the respective shape.
This measurement type draws a dotted outline around the shape's perimeter to differentiate from other types.

You can comment each measurement by simplying typing the comment while the drawing is active. You will see your comment being entered into this control as you type. You must type the comment BEFORE  marking the measure. This comment will be placed into the COMMENT column on the same line as the measurement in your currently selected worksheet. After the measurement has been handled, the current comment will be erased.

            Click this to expose the 'Constants' controls.        Click this to hide them.

When this control is visible and only when visible, each time a measurement is registered in the worksheet, the measurement is suffixed with '* Width * Depth' and '* Factor'. Click inside the Width,Depth, or Factor text box to enter/change it's details.

• Technical Information
• When more than 1 monitor is ATTACHED (even if they are not powered on), the computer's graphics system creates a Coordinate pane encapsulating all ATTACHED monitors (**even if they are not powered on**)  as depicted below
  
• When VJ saves any Worksheet/Window, it also saves it's location within the coordinate pane (NOT the location within the displaying monitor) so if THE monitor which would be displaying the Worksheet/Window is connected but not powered on, VJ will not know this and the Worksheet/Window will open in the coordinate space and position where it was last closed, and consequently not appear.
  On the other hand, if the monitor that would normally show this Worksheet/Window is disconnected, (or doesn't exist), VJ will know this and NOW move it to the prime monitor and show it
  
  
• The consequences to the User
• e.g. If moving a Project from one computer with multiple monitors to another computer with a single/multiple monitors, all windows will automatically be adjusted to show on the primary monitor
  

Understanding the button or (CTRL+ENTER)

• It's action depends on which worksheet type is clicked:
• A QWUS:
• This is the only worksheet type which stores a DRAWING
  If no drawing has been previously used, then the user is requested to choose one, which then gets stored in this worksheet, and opened
  If a drawing has been previously used in this worksheet, then it will automatically get opened
• Any other worksheet type:
• If this worksheet type does not contain a QTY column, then nothing will happen
• If this worksheet type does contain a QTY column
• If the QTY column already contains a QWUS, then it is opened, otherwise a new QWUS is created and opened
  In either case, once the QWUS is opened,  the button is automatically clicked without user interaction and the above rules applied
  

1. Open the worksheet to receive the measurements; in this example we will start in an Estimate Worksheet
2. Select the item to receive the first measure.
   This item must not have a direct entry in the QTY cell, as the program will either attempt to open an exiting QTY Workupsheet, or create a new one.
   Subsequent measures will be placed on following inserted lines in this workupsheet.
3. Press the CTRL+ENTER key combination OR click  - this starts the measuring process
4. A File Dialog will show, requiring you to select an existing Measurement Drawing. 
   
   
   The first time this feature is used in a Project, the list will be blank, therefore you will need to click the 'Drawings' button at the bottom.
   
   
   
5. Navigate to and Open the drawing you wish to add to the Project.
   Supported file types at the moment are limited to PDF, PNG, JPEG, GIF.
   
   
   
6. Having selected an appropriate Drawing, the Drawing is copied into the Project, and a Measurement file is created which maps a Canvas upon which all your measurements are done.
   Here is an example after executing this step:
   
   
   
   
   
7. Importantly, before you can do any measuring, you will need to Scale the drawing by Marking a known length on the drawing.
   You must do this before the first measurement.
8. Click the Horizontal Scale button, then mark the first and last points on the drawing between which you know the distance.
   In the example above, we would use the dimension 46.8 by clicking on the left and right endpoints of the dimension.
9. You are now asked to 'Enter the marked length'; for the above example '46.8'
   The program will now calculate the 'SCALE' for the drawing and show it in the Control Panel in the top right of the measuring screen.
   The horizontal and vertical scales will be both set the same when you click the 'Hor...' button, and the vertical only will be set when you clcik the 'Ver..' scale button.
   You can reset the scale at any time by clicking the 'Scale'  buttons in the Control Panel and redoing the process.
   This scale is now stored in the drawing information, and will not need to be reset unless the drawing is subsequently placed onto a different monitor.
10. We can now start our measurments.
    Each time a measurement is taken, the measure will be entered into the currently selected cell of the current workupsheet
    If the worksheet is a Quantity worksheet, any comments will be placed into the 'COMMENTS' column. If the worksheet is not a Quantity worksheet, the comments and a preceding ';' will be added to the end of the measure. This will be highlighted later.
11. Firstly, lets measure the areas for each of groups A B and C
    In this example, we will demonstrate this in an Estimate Worksheet
1. Open any Estimate Worksheet
2. As we have not as yet used the above drawing in this Project before, we need to Import it
1. Press the CTRL+ENTER key combination to start the process
2. Click the  'Import' button to import a new Drawing
3. Navigate to the appropriate drawing and Open it
4. Immediately click the 'HScale' button and 'Mark a known length' to ascertain the scales of the drawing
   In this case we click the two end points of the dimension '46.8' .
5. 'Enter the Marked Length' = 46.8
6. The Control Panel now shows the 'Scale' 
7. We now start measuring the Areas for the 'A' group
1. Firstly, we will add the item for group 'A' into the Estimate Worksheet
1. At the moment our drawing is 'Active' (receiving keystrokes) so we need to make the Estimate Worksheet 'Active'
   Press 'CTRL+ENTER' - this moves you back and forth between the drawing and the Worksheet
2. Now type in the description = 'Group A areas', UNIT = 'm2', and open up the Quantity Workup Sheet
   It is important to note here that the 'Active' drawing is accessible to all relevant worksheets.
1. Now we will measure each of the Group 'A' areas.
1. Measuring rectangular shaped areas is achieved by:
1. Click the 'Rect' button in the Control Panel to signify that we will be measuring rectangular areas
2. Type any annotation you might want for this measurement e.g. Rm 101
3. Now click any two  adjacent corners thus delineating the area
1. The two side dimensions will be calculated and the expression 'width * height' will be entered into the worksheet at the current selected cell
2. The appropriate area will be shaded on the drawing in the colour that is currently selected in the Control Panel
3. Any annotation we made will be inserted into the Comments column
4. The comments will be deleted ready for the next measurement
   
4. Repeat items 2 and 3 above for each subsequent rectangular area
   
   
   OR IF THE RECTANGLE IS BOUNDED BY AN UNBROKEN LINE
   
   
5. Type in any annotation you wish
6. click inside the area to be calculated WHILE holding down the ALT key
7. Now Add a TAG if you want
   A TAG is your label for a measurement, and it is shown centrally over the measurement. In Drawing Preferences (we discusss this later) you can make the program request the TAG after each measurment automatically.
   You can manually Edit/Add a TAG to an existing measurement by RIGHT-Clicking on the measurement, and choosing the option to Add/Edit the TAG from the popup menu.
2. Measuring irregular shaped areas is achieved by:
1. selecting the 'Area' button in the Control Panel
2. typing in any annotation we wish
3. clicking each corner point on the shape's perimeter and then 'double-clicking' on the last point to signal we are finished
   For curved sections on the shape's perimeter, click around the curve at small intervals - the smaller the interval the more accurate the area calculation will be.
4. Double click on the last point to complete the marking of this shape
5. The entry in the worksheet for this irregular shape will be one - the calculated area

1.  When we have finished measuring the areas for Group 'A', close the Quantity Worksheet
2. Now for the next group of areas - Group 'B'
1. Type in the description and unit in the Estimate Worksheet
2. Open up another Quantity Workup Sheet
3. Press the 'CTRL+ENTER' key combination to 'Activate' the drawing again
4. Measure the areas as before
   Maybe you want to change the 'shading' colour for these. Do this by clicking the 'colour' button and select the desired colour
3. If you make a mistake, then any measurement on the drawing can be removed by RIGHT clicking on the 'marking'. If it located the measurement, then a Popup will appear asking you to select yes or no to remove it.
   NOTE:  This only removes the marking from the drawing - you will need to manually remove the corresponding entry in the worksheet
1. The same process is repeated to make length measurements
2. When finished with a drawing, Click the 'Change Drawing' button to select a different drawing

Constant Width  Depth or Factor

Certain circumstances require repeatedly measuring lengths and/or areas and applying a constant width and/or depth and/or factor (No. of) to these measurements.
e.g. Concrete slabs of a constant thickness
    Strip footings of a constant width and depth.

These circumstances are accounted for by:

• clicking the expose constants button    in the Control Panel
  This opens up three text fields for width depth and factor as shown below:
  
  
  
• enter the width and/or depth and/or factor dimensions for each
• measure the items in the normal manner
  When a measure is made the measure will be
• if in a Quantity Workup Sheet
  the measure is placed in the DIM1 column
  the width if specified in the DIM2 column
  the depth if specified in the DIM3 column
  the factor if specified in the FACTOR column
  the comments in the COMMENTS column
• if not a Quantity Workup Sheet
  the measure will have each of the width and depth appended with an '* and the dimension
  the ';' and comment is then added to the result if the comment has been specified
  the final constructed measure is then placed in the current active cell of the Parent worksheet to this drawing

If the 'Width' and 'Depth' text boxes in the Control panel are not visible (achieved by clicking the UP yellow arrow), then they will not be used even if they have entries in them. In other words, the 'Width' and 'Depth' text boxes must be visible for them to be taken into account.

Drawing Preferences

Configure some of the behaviours of On-screen drawing by clicking the drawing preferences button in the Control Panel.

A dialog will appear as shown here:

Line Properties

Choose the Line type - Solid, Dots, Dashes - to represent length measurements
Select the line width - 1 to 5 - by clicking on the combo box and selecting one from the list
Select the Opacity - slide to the left and the underlying image shows through more, to the right and the image shows through less

Other

Show Tags

If this is ticked, then any TAGs that have been assigned to this measurement will be shown.
You can Add/Edit any TAGs to an item by Right-Clicking on the measurement and choosing the appropriate option from the popup menu

Show Distance Meter

This is a small window that appears in the top/left of the drawing when this option is ticked.
Having marked the start of the meaaure, this window will display the distance along the X and Y axis of the current cursor position relative to the last mark made, as well as the Length between the two

Request TAGs

If this is ticked, then each time a measurement marking is complete, a Request Dialog will appear for you to enter the measurement's TAG

Colour Legend

Click this button, and a dialog will appear enabling you to set up a standard list of colours and a description of what they represent

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

TO DO THIS	DO THIS
Open a drawing for measuring	Open the worksheet to receive the measurments and Press CTRL+ENTER
Open a different drawing while measuring a drawing	Click the button in the Control panel and select from the appropriate file navigator
Annotate dimensions(Comments)	With the drawing Active, just start typing. If there is already a comment, the text will be appended to the existing. Press the Backspace key to delete the last character
Remove all the current comment	Press the CTRL+Backspace key
Measure lengths	Click the 'Length' button in the Control Panel type in any annotation if required Mark the two end points of the measure
Measure lengths progressively	Click the 'Length' button in the Control Panel type in any annotation if required Mark the first point of the first measure Mark each progressive end point of successive measures while holding down the SHIFT key. Release the SHIFT key when marking the LAST end point
Measure Rectangles	Click the 'Rect' button in the Control Panel type in any annotation if required Mark the two diagonally adjacent points of the rectangle
Measure irregular shaped areas	Click the 'Area' button in the Control Panel type in any annotation if required Click each point in succession for straight lines Click successive points around curved lines ( the closer each point clicked, the more accurate the calculaton of area Double click on the last point to complete the marking OR type in any annotation if required click inside the shape while holding down the ALT key to calculate the area If the shape is a Rectangle, it will be measured as such NOTE: The shapes MUST BE outlined with an unbroken line, otherwise the measurement will 'spill' into other areas or you will get an error saying 'Unbounded Area'
Draw a Line	Click the 'Line' button in the Control Panel Mark the two end points of the measure
Draw progressive lines	Click the 'Line' button in the Control Panel Mark the first point of the first line Mark each progressive end point of successive lines while holding down the SHIFT key. Release the SHIFT key when marking the LAST end point
Remove a marked measure or line	RIGHT+Click on the marked measure then choose  Delete from the Popup Menu. NOTE: This only removes the marking - you must physically remove the corresponding entry from the worksheet as well
TAG a measure	RIGHT+Click on the marked measure then choose  'Add/Edit TAG'  from the Popup Menu.
Activate the Worksheet from the drawing	Press CTRL+ENTER
Activate the Drawing from the Worksheet	Press CTRL+ENTER

Quick Measure Guide

Here are the simple steps to start measuring:

1. Select the cell in  the worksheet to receive the measurements
2. Press the 'CTRL+ENTER' key combination
3. Navigate to and select the drawing to measure off
4. Set the drawing's scale (only necessary the first time)
5. Do the measure
1. Type in any annotation for the measure (comment)
2. Click the radio button in the Control Panel of the type of measure 
1. Length
2. Rectangle
3. Area
3. Select the colour you want the drawing to be marked in
4. Do the measure
1. Click the end points for length
2. Click the adjacent corners for a Rectangular area
3. Hold the ALT key down and click inside a bounded shape for area
   
   OR
4. Pregressively click around the perimeter of an unbounded area then double click on the last point for area