Zone Tool Settings

To access the Zone tool settings, choose Edit ▸ Settings Window ▸ Zones or double click the tool icon on the Toolbox.

The Zone settings windows includes two panels: Zone Settings and Names and Colors.

Zone Settings

The Zone Settings panel is organized into two sections, Zone Id and Label.

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Zone Id

  • The Name menu to choose a name from a pre-defined list: the selected names are added in the top most section of the list as Active List of the current project.
  • The Zone Color menu opens the Palettes window to select a color. The Zones palette below the Standard HighDesign palette offers 16 pre-defined colors: if there is no choice, the colors are automatically assigned from the Zones palette starting from the first one of the Zones palette.
  • The Default Opacity option is set as 25%: the Opacity control allows to set a different value.
  • The Id is automatically set in a growing numbered order starting from the firstly created zone.
  • The Height option allows to set an average height of the zone in order to get a computed volume in schedules.

Zone Label

The Label section of the Zone Settings panel provides all the options that define the style of the label, or stamp, of the zone and the information displayed in it:

  • Label Style, with six different border and style alternatives.
  • Information, to select one or more of the following information to be displayed in the label: Area, Perimeter, Height, Volume.
  • Font, which offers all the font, color, size, style and capitalization options of the text label of the zones.

Names and Colors

The Names and Colors panel displays the current zone Active List of the project with the names and associated colors. Lick name or color button to make changes.

The List menu provides the default zone lists available in the HighDesign Library, the saved lists available in the User Library or the current list in the Project.

The Save List button allows to save the current list in the User Library to be available in new projects.

Use the “+” and “-“ buttons to add new zones to the list or to delete the selected zone.

The floating window in the bottom of the drawing window allows the quick selection of the Name and Color properties of a new zone or those changes of the selected zone: it shows up when the Zone tool is active only.