Specifications

Page 50 of 89
1. To add a surface from scratch, select the icon to the right of Venue in the
Project Explorer pane. This will add a surface with the stating coordinates (0,0,0)
in your Venue View. To save time, you could also right-click anywhere in the
Venue View and select Add Surface. This will create a surface with the starting
point located at where you right-clicked. You can then alter the properties of this
new surface in the Properties pane, as we have done for the previous surface.
2. To Clone a surface, switch to the Project Explorer pane and click the icon to
the right of the surface you wish to clone.
Once clicked, a pane will come up on the screen for you to modify the conditions
of the cloned surface. By just accepting it “as-is” the new surface will simply
overlay the old surface and will not be visible. Making changes to the new surface
using the cloning pane is as follows:
 NAME - select a name for the new surface
 MIRROR - There are two ways to mirror a surface
o X - Mirror the surface against its X axis
o Y - Mirror the surface against its Y axis
 OFFSET - You can preset new coordinates for the surface prior to it being
cloned. These coordinates can be set on all three axis’ (X,Y,Z)
Once you have set the parameters and coordinates for the cloned surface, simply
click OK and the new surface will be created in the model. Most often, this will only
be a rough placement that we will have to adjust, but it can be a little quicker than
starting from scratch each time.
5.4 Adding A Balcony
We want to add a balcony above the Main Surface in our model. Using the clone
feature we can copy the width of the venue to the new surface even though all the
other parameters will need to be entered manually.
1. To the right of “Main Surface” in the Project Explorer pane, click the Clone
button, which will open up the cloning pane for us to set new parameters and
coordinates for the cloned surface.
Define a new name for the surface “Balcony”
If you already know the coordinates of the balcony, you can enter some of them
under Offset.