Horizontal Guidance

You can receive horizontal guidance relative to the following design features:

  • Lines within office designs or infield surfaces
  • Design surface boundaries

Setting a horizontal offset moves the horizontal guidance away from the selected line. You add or subtract an offset square to the selected horizontal line.

Access the Horizontal Guidance screen

Perform one of the following actions to access the Horizontal Guidance screen:

  • Open the Work Settings menu.
  • Touch and hold the horizontal offset field in the guidance bar.

The horizontal offset icon on the guidance bar displays differently according to the value of the current horizontal offset:

Offset type Icon Offset value
Negative Negative/left of line
None Zero
Positive Positive/right of line

TIP – The arrows on the selected line indicate the direction of the line. A positive offset is to the right-hand side of the selected line, relative to the direction of the line. A negative offset is to the left-hand side of the selected line, relative to the direction of the line when you look along the line in the direction of the arrows.

The Horizontal Guidance screen

Use the Horizontal Guidance screen to:

  • Select a horizontal line to guide to

  • Optionally apply an offset

Select a line for horizontal guidance

  1. Access the Horizontal Guidance screen.

  2. If you have not already done so, select a line to guide to. Either select a line from the drop-down list or tap a line on the plan view.

  3. Tap Apply.

In the Horizontal Guidance screen, the plan view draws the selected line in red. Arrows indicate the direction of the line.

Alternatively, you can select a line for horizontal guidance from the context menu in the work screen. The options vary depending on which line types are present in the area you touch and hold:

  1. From the plan view guidance pane, touch and hold anywhere near the line you want to select. A context menu displays.

  2. Tap either Select 2D Line or Select 3D Line:

    • If only one line is available within the area you touched, it is selected automatically.

    • If there are multiple lines in the area you touched, a list displays. Select a line.

  3. Tap Horizontal Guidance.

To use the context menu to stop guidance to the line, repeat this process and select this icon .

If you selected a design in the Job Setup menu that contains 3D lines, from the work screen use the shortcut key or Work Settings menu to select a 3D line for guidance.

If you change from one line to another for horizontal guidance, any horizontal offset is retained.

Apply a horizontal offset

NOTE – The Apply button saves values temporarily. The values are overwritten the next time you enter a different value. If you want to save the entered values as a memory, use the Save button.

The horizontal offset is the offset distance left (–) or right (+) of the selected line.

  1. Access the Horizontal Guidance screen.
  2. Optionally, select a line to guide to.
  3. Optionally, enter the value of the offset or tap the or buttons to increase or decrease the value.
  4. To save this as a memory, tap Save.
  5. Tap Apply.

When an offset is entered (other than zero), in the Horizontal Guidance screen, the plan view draws the original selected line in cyan. Arrows indicate the direction of the line. A positive offset is to the right-hand side of the selected line, relative to the direction of the line. A negative offset is to the left-hand side of the selected line, relative to the direction of the line when you look along the line in the direction of the arrows.

The guidance line is drawn in red, it is offset from the selected line by the offset value and is the line guidance is provided to.

Tap Memories to select an existing horizontal offset memory or to create the new offset memory values that the system saves for later use.

Applying a horizontal increment

  1. Access the Increments screen from the System Settings menu .

  2. Optionally, enter the value of the increment in the Horizontal Distance field.

  3. Tap Apply.

The horizontal increment value is the amount the horizontal offset changes each time the or buttons are tapped in the Horizontal Guidance screen.

Horizontal position information

The center lightbar provides horizontal guidance from the focus to the guidance line. For more information, refer to the On-screen Lightbars guide or the External Lightbars guide.

In addition to the lightbar, the following text items are also useful:

  • Guidance Line: Shows the named line of the line selected for horizontal guidance (if named).

Creating, editing or deleting memories

In the Horizontal Guidance screen:

  • Tap the Save button to save an entered offset value as a memory.

  • Tap the memories button to open the Horizontal Offset Memories screen.

In the Horizontal Offset Memories screen:

  • Tap the overflow icon to edit or delete a memory.

  • Tap the Create button to create a new memory.

  • Touch and hold on a memory to select multiple memories for deletion.