Licensed drawing programs. Drawing program sPlan - repair assistant

Good day to all readers! This time we will digress a little from the actual construction topic. Today I bring to your attention the most useful drawing program.

It's called sPlan (currently the seventh version is current). When renovating, very often you need to draw something, design something, and draw up a floor plan. This thing allows you to do all this easily and quickly.

Here's why I personally use it in my work:

Creation of apartment/room plans with all sizes and areas included
Designing plasterboard structures, especially useful for calculating rounded shapes
Drawing up a wiring plan
Drawing up visual diagrams for counting material

Using a computer program for these purposes is much more convenient than drawing everything by hand on paper.

sPlan makes it easy to make any adjustments to drawings, export them to common image formats and print everything. But the most important advantage of this program is its simplicity. At the end of the article I will give specific examples of my drawings and what was done with them.

sPlan, in fact, is designed for drawing up electrical diagrams, but we will consider it only as a program for creating drawings.

General information about this drawing program

sPlan is a German product from ABACOM. It works for everyone operating systems from Microsoft, starting with Windows 2000 and ending with Windows 8. Contains many built-in object libraries: all kinds of capacitors, transistors, etc., but we don’t need that. All components, shapes, lines are snapped to the sheet grid, the size of which is specified by the user. The program supports cutting, copying and pasting objects, applying dimensions: linear, angular, radial. This is what the working window looks like:

On the left is a field for selecting ready-made components; its width can be changed, but we are not interested in it. To the right of it is a column of working tools for creating and editing a drawing: (from top to bottom) pointer, rectangle, circle, special shape, shape, line, Bezier curve, dimensions, node, text, text block, drawing, magnifying glass, meter. We'll talk about them a little later.

The largest field, of course, is the drawing area, and at the bottom of the window there is a status bar, which displays: (from left to right) cursor coordinates, scale, grid size and magnification, settings for aligning and joining objects, bending and rotation angles, line settings and figures, tips. The program has the ability to create several sheets of drawings in one file, similar to Microsoft Excel.

Settings

All basic sPlan settings are located in the Options/Default Settings menu:

Here are the main ones:

Numbering of sheets. On the tab next to the sheet name there will be its number. A matter of taste.
Numbering of elements taking into account the sheet number. Before letter designation element will be automatically assigned a sheet number. We don't need this.
Text smoothing is a desirable thing, because when this function is turned off, the text in the drawings looks non-ice.
Show ruler. Similar to MS Word. A handy thing that makes it easier to navigate the scale of the drawing.
Ruler on a white background. Change the ruler color to white. Essential Function(sarcasm).
Snap to grid. Must be included in mandatory, without it it is completely impossible to draw.
Line sticking. The function allows you to save connections between circuit components in the program when moving one of them. Must be enabled.
Joining the ends. As soon as we approach the end or starting point graphic element to the same similar end of the other, their ends will automatically join. A red square at the connection point will indicate that the common point of connection between the ends of the elements is captured. Definitely put it in.
Compress the picture file when writing. If the drawing contains raster images, the program will compress it. Leave a checkmark.
Windows FileInfo support. Saving information about files that reference a document. No need.

Font settings look like this:

I use a drawing font, so everything looks more serious, I even printed my diploma with it, although everyone was perplexed as to why, but I got a 5. I use the same settings for texts and text blocks. We will not need fonts for contacts, symbols and denominations.

Grid Settings:

A mesh size of 0.5 mm is almost always enough for me; more is not the same accuracy, less is inconvenient. The grid size change step in sPlan is 0.1 mm. A grid marker is a gradation of its lines. Number 5 in in this case means that every fifth line will be thicker than the rest, this is very convenient.

Size settings:

Dimensions are always needed when drawing up any drawings. Again, I have a drawing font here, only the color is not black, but gray (you can choose any one). “The end of the arrow” implies the angle of its divergence, its sharpness. The size of the arrow is its length; everything else here, I think, is clear.

We don't really need the rest of the settings. Let's now talk in more detail about creating drawings.

Creating Drawings

The first thing you need to do after creating a blank drawing in the sPlan program is to set the sheet format and dimensions.

This is done through the Sheet/Properties menu item, or by right-clicking on the sheet tab and clicking Properties. Sheet formats (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4...) are known to everyone, you can choose one of them in vertical or horizontal orientation. And you can set the sizes yourself. I always put A0, it’s definitely enough for any drawing. In the same menu you can set the name of the sheet and its description.

So, we consider that we have created the drawing file, we have adjusted all the parameters to suit ourselves, we can start drawing. To begin with, I propose to consider the tools available for this. We look at the vertical toolbar. After the pointer there is the “Rectangle” tool, we’ll start with it, but first we must indicate its properties in the status bar:

Here you set the thickness of the rectangle outline, its appearance, color, you can draw with a fill inside the outline and choose from several options for this fill. Let’s say we don’t need to change anything, we’re happy with everything anyway. Click OK and we see how the cursor has some kind of axes, they are very helpful in navigating the ruler:

To start drawing, you need to hold down left key and drag the mouse diagonally. We see that a rectangle emerges:

The status bar (left) shows two pairs of coordinates. The left pair shows the absolute coordinates of the mouse cursor in the drawing, and the right pair shows its coordinates relative to the upper left corner of the figure. That is, we get a rectangle with sides 91x52 mm. The cursor axes have Blue colour, and in places where they overlap the lines of the figures they are painted yellow. Release the left mouse button - the rectangle is ready:

We see that it is purple, and at the edges it is surrounded by squares of black and white flowers. This means that our rectangle is selected. If you pull the black squares, the figure will stretch in size in the corresponding directions, and if you pull the white squares, the corners will be smoothed out:

Any shape or line in sPlan can be selected and modified in the same way. Selection is carried out by a single click with the left mouse button on the figure. There is another type of selection - by another click on an already selected object:

In this case, the black squares turn into arrows, by grabbing which we can rotate the figure. The rotation is carried out not smoothly, but in steps; the gradations of the rotation angle can be changed in the status bar (green arrow):

With the Circle tool everything is exactly the same, but rotating it doesn’t make sense. In general, using this tool, we get general case ellipse, and to get exactly a circle, we need to hold down the left mouse button together Shift key(in some versions of the program, for some reason Ctrl, look at the prompts in the right corner of the status bar):

With circles in sPlan you can do one interesting thing- open them, turning them into arcs. When designing multi-level plasterboard ceilings or figured partitions this function very useful. The white square on the rightmost point of the circle when selected is responsible for it. Pull it down - the circle opens, upward - an arc of the same radius appears instead:

“Special Figure” has four options: Polyhedron, Star, Table and Sine.

All options are customizable, but the need to use them is extremely rare.

"Figure" (or "Polygon"):

One click of the left button starts drawing, each subsequent click specifies a vertex at a given point, and stopping drawing is done by clicking the right mouse button.

“Line” - this tool is used, perhaps, more often than others. Here, too, everything is simple, pressing the left button starts the line, a second press sets the break. If you further press the right button, the line will remain, but if you continue pressing the left button, you get a broken line that ends when you press the right key.

"Bézier curve". I suggest you read about what it is on Wikipedia, it’s a very interesting thing, but we absolutely don’t need it in the drawings.

“Dimensions” in sPlan come in four types: linear, radius, diameter, angle, all of them are presented in the figure:

"Knot" - regular bold point on the drawing. “Text” is just text anywhere in the drawing, just like “Text block”, only it gives the text a certain shape, width, let’s say. With “Drawing” and “Magnifying Glass” everything is clear, but “Measurer” provides information about the experimental object, in this case about the picture:

It's a pity it doesn't measure the area, it would be very cool. We still have to consider possible actions on drawing objects. Let's draw, for example, a circle, select it and see how some buttons have become active:

When you select more than one object at the same time, you can align them relative to each other, group them, and ungroup them.

What remains for us, perhaps, is to talk about the properties of lines and text in sPlan. The properties of the figures have already been discussed above. So, line properties can be edited by left-clicking on the line icon in the status bar, or by right-clicking on a specific line in the drawing and selecting the Properties menu (in this case, only the properties of that specific line are changed):

At the top of the window you can set different styles for lines: solid, dotted, dash-dotted, dotted... The buttons on the sides are responsible for defining and selecting the types of arrows at the ends of the line. With thickness and colors, I think everything is clear.

Text properties:

In general, the window for these settings repeats the window for setting fonts, except that the text itself is also edited here. We are not interested in the settings of the lower half of the window.

Also duplicated here initial settings, but it becomes possible to set specific size, if you uncheck Auto. Here you can also add a diameter icon, prefix-suffixes and tolerances, which is sometimes useful.

Now let's look at exporting and printing drawings. Export is saving a drawing as an image; it is available through the File/Export menu:

Export options window:

Here you can specify the format of the future image and its resolution. After clicking OK, all that remains is to specify the path to save. The print window can also be called up via the File menu:

You can select the print scale, drawing orientation, number of copies, as well as templates for placing the document on the page.

Well, with the basics of our sPlan programs We met. Now I propose to see what can be drawn with its help, on specific examples. Go.

Drawing of a three-level ceiling with lighting:

Close-up:

In this drawing you can see how I used sPlan to draw the circular arcs. It was impossible to use a compass in this case - the center of the circles was behind the wall, and to mark the ceiling we used discrete values of distances from the base line. This method very often helps in marking arches. And here’s what came out of it (although here the panorama is stuck together crookedly):

And here is a project for a decorative plasterboard partition in a children's room:

The partition itself:

A simple drawing of the layout of tiles in the hallway:

Result:

Well, and finally, a drawing of a two-level ceiling - a combination of plasterboard and stretch ceiling:

The ceiling itself:

Now you've probably seen how useful a simple drawing program can be for repairs. It generally saves me a lot of time when calculating all sorts of square and linear meters, as well as in preparing estimates. In general, I recommend downloading! Don't forget to subscribe for updates, and good luck!

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