We covered the basics of starting a new job in Chapter 3, PlanSwift 03.03 - Creating a New Job and Adding Plans, now we'll take a detailed look at jobs.
By the end of this Chapter, you will be an expert at creating new jobs, copying jobs, importing jobs, and sharing jobs with others.
To create a New Job
- Clicking the New Job button on the Home Tab's ribbon bar
The New Job properties dialog box opens.
In the New Job dialog,
- Fill in the Job number and description of the job
- Add any notes about the job
- Select the location where the job will be saved (all open/configured Storage locations are listed in the drop-down)
- Set the measurement type (English or Metric)
- Click Next to add Images (Plans) to this Job
- Next, browse to the location (folder) where the images are stored
PlanSwift lists all available images in that folder in the Add Images grid, however they are all "unselected".
- Select the image files you want for the job (click "Check All" to select all the files)
- Click Next
The next window will give you options for converting PDF files and other formats.
If you load PDFs, you can have PlanSwift convert them to TIF (which tend to provide better performance, although they images may not be as crisp).
For an organizational purpose for jobs with more than one page, you have the option of separating TIF files into individual files. This can be helpful if you are looking to delete just one page.
If your computer runs a little slow, you may want to downsize the TIF files so your computer will run smoother and more quickly.
And finally, you have the option for Page Naming which allows you to append text to the page name.
**(The files used in this example were already TIF files, therefore no options for conversions are available.)
If you use the EarthWork Pro Plug-in, you must convert all pages to TIF - the Plugin only works with TIF files.
- Click Next after setting up your Image conversion options
In the Ready to Create Job screen, you can go back and make changes, cancel, or Finish.
- Click Finish
PlanSwift copies (and possibly converts, if you chose that option) all the image files to the project Data Store and adds them to this Job.
If you create a Job in your Local store, the image files are copied there.
If you want to share this job over a network, be sure to create it in a network store so the images are copied in the shared location.
When finished, PlanSwift opens the first page of your project.
Now that all of your pages have loaded for your new job, you may want to organize them into multiple folders. See Related Articles for more information
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