DISEGNA 2.

0
User Guide

Ver.1.2 - 26/04/2016
Sommario
1- Installation ................................................................................................................................................. 4
System Requirements.................................................................................................................................... 4
Installing your software ................................................................................................................................. 4
Activating and registering your Disegna 2.0 .................................................................................................. 7
2- The user interface ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Application menu .......................................................................................................................................... 9
The Ribbon................................................................................................................................................... 10
Drawing Area ............................................................................................................................................... 11
Model Space and layouts .................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Viewports control ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

The ViewCube Tool ...................................................................................................................................... 12

Toolpalettes ................................................................................................................................................. 12
Navigation Bar ............................................................................................................................................. 13
3- Work with Disegna 2.0 ............................................................................................................................ 14
4- Start and Save Drawing ........................................................................................................................... 15
Open or Save a drawing............................................................................................................................... 15
Repair, Restore, or Recover Drawing Files .................................................................................................. 15
5- Referenced Drawing ................................................................................................................................ 16
Attach Commands ....................................................................................................................................... 16
Attach.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16

Determine the Units of Measurement ........................................................................................................ 17

Scale Attach ................................................................................................................................................. 17
Attach ON – Attach OFF............................................................................................................................... 19
Erase Attach................................................................................................................................................. 19
6- Disegna – Draw a Perimeter Protection .................................................................................................. 20
Draw Perimeter protection ......................................................................................................................... 20
Ortho mode ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Positioning of panels and uprights ...................................................................................................................................................................... 21

Draw doors .................................................................................................................................................. 22

Draw special panels ..................................................................................................................................... 22
Correct Mistakes.......................................................................................................................................... 23
Undo ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Reverse the Effect of Undo: Redo ....................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Delete Line .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Delete All objects ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 24

Copy and Move ............................................................................................................................................ 24

7- Change Views .......................................................................................................................................... 25
Pan or Zoom a View..................................................................................................................................... 25
Appendix .......................................................................................................................................................... 26
Appendix A – Change the color of the cursor.............................................................................................. 26
 1- Installation

System Requirements
 64-bit O.S.
 Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium Microsoft Windows
Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium (SP2 or later)
 AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology, Intel®
Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel
EM64T support and SSE2 technology
 4 GB RAM
 2 GB free space for installation
 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
 Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
 Install from download or DVD
 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater,
Microsoft® Direct3D®-capable workstation-class graphics card

Installing your software

1. Launch the Product Installer by left-click, run as administrator, on the SetupCAD.exe file
2. Click Install

3. Read the License and Services Agreement for your Country or Region, select I Accept and
click Next.
4. Click Install

5. Click Finish to close the installer. When the installation is finished you'll see a list of the software
components that have been installed on your computer.

6. Launch your software for the first time (run as administrator) and follow activation instructions.
See activating and registering your Disegna 2.0 for information and tips for troubleshooting
activation issues.
Activating and registering your Disegna 2.0

To activate and register your software:

1. Launch your Disegna 2.0 by left-clicking and run as administrator on the Disegna 2.0 file, which
may appear on your Desktop and is typically saved under your Programs (Windows).

2. Click on Request by Web/Fax

3. Compile the request form, check Authorization Flag and click on Request Activation Key Via WEB

4. Check if the request have been sended and click OK

5. Wait for Satech e-mail with the activation code. Satech will activate software in 24 hours
6. Receive activation code attached in e-mail, open the file and copy the activation code

7. Run Disegna 2.0 as administrator and click on ACTIVATION

8. Paste the code and click on ACTIVED

9. Restart the program running as administrator to set the environment

10. Enjoy Disegna 2.0

 2- The user interface
Disegna 2.0 offers a modern interface that includes the Ribbon, Toolpalettes and ViewCube

Application
The Ribbon ViewCube
Menù

Toolpalettes Drawing Area Navigation Bar

Application menu

Access common tools to start or publish a file in the application menu.

Click the application button to quickly:
 Create, open or save a file
 Print or publish a file
The Ribbon

The ribbon is a palette that displays task-based tools and controls.

The ribbon is displayed horizontally or vertically. The horizontal ribbon is displayed across the top of the file
window. You can dock the vertical ribbon to the left or right of the file window. The vertical ribbon can also
float in the file window or on a second monitor.

The ribbon is composed of a series of panels, which are organized into tabs labeled by task. Ribbon panels
contain many of the same tools and controls available in toolbars and dialog boxes.

Tab panel

To minimize the ribbon

1- The first button toggles the between the full ribbon state, the default ribbon state, and the
minimize ribbon state.
2- The second drop-down button allows you to select the minimize ribbon state. These are the four
minimize ribbon states:
 Minimize to Tabs: Minimizes the ribbon so that only tab titles are displayed.
 Minimize to Panel Titles: Minimizes the ribbon so that only tab and panel titles are
displayed.
 Minimize to Panel Buttons: Minimizes the ribbon so that only tab titles and panel buttons
are displayed.
 Cycle Through All: Cycles through all four ribbon states in the order, full ribbon, minimize to
panel buttons, minimize to panel titles, minimize to tabs.
Drawing Area

The drawing area is the zone of the software where the user draws the perimetral guards.
In the drawing area, the appearance of the cursor changes depending on what you are doing.
 If you are prompted to specify a point location, the cursor appears as crosshairs
 If you are prompted to select an object, the cursor changes to a small square called a pickbox
 When you are not in a command, the cursor appears as a combination of the crosshairs and
pickbox cursors
 If you are prompted to enter text, the cursor appears as a vertical bar

Model Space and layouts

There are two working environments, or spaces, in which you can work, model space and paper space
layouts.
 Model space is used to create 2D drawings and 3D models
 Paper space is used create layouts for plotting

While you can plot from model space, layouts are more convenient for scaling views, changing the location
of views, and controlling the area and settings used in plotting.
To switch between model space and a layout, click the drop-down near the left side of the status bar

Viewports control
Viewport controls are displayed at the top-left corner of each viewport, and provide a convenient way of
changing views, visual styles, and other settings

The labels display the current viewport settings. For example, the labels might read [+] [Top] [2D
Wireframe]

You can click within each of the three bracketed areas to change the settings.
 Click + to display options for maximizing the viewport, changing the viewport configuration, or
controlling the display of navigation tools.
 Click Top to choose between several standard and custom views.
 Click 2D Wireframe to choose one of several visual styles. Most of the other visual styles are used
for 3D visualization.
The ViewCube Tool

The ViewCube is a handy tool to control the orientation of 3D views.

ViewCube

ViewCube tool provides visual feedback of the current orientation of a model. You can use the ViewCube
tool to adjust the viewpoint of the model.
ViewCube tool is a navigation tool that is displayed when you are working in 2D model space or 3D visual
style.
With ViewCube tool, you can switch between standard and isometric views. The ViewCube tool is a
persistent, clickable and draggable interface that you use to switch between standard and isometric views
of your model. When you display the ViewCube tool, it is shown in one of the corners of the window over
the model in an inactive state. The ViewCube tool provides visual feedback about the current viewpoint of
the model as view changes occur. When the cursor is positioned over the ViewCube tool, it becomes active.
You can drag or click the ViewCube tool, switch to one of the available preset views, roll the current view,
or change to the Home view of the model.

Toolpalettes

In Disegna 2.0, Tool Palettes provides the flexibility to have quick access to Drawings, Tools, and Commands
etc.
These can be docked, undocked, resize and move at different locations in UI.
Tool palettes provide instant access to a complete inventory of Disegna 2.0 tools—such as panels, uprights
and doors in one consistent user interface. Highly visual, tool palettes include previews of styles.

Tools

Group
Tool palettes contain collections of tools and represent the individual tabs of a tool palettes group.
Disegna 2.0 contains:
 BASIC
 STRONG
 HEAVY
 MDF
 GREENFAST
 GF DP
 DOORS
 SPECIAL PANEL

Navigation Bar

You start navigation tools by clicking one of the buttons on the navigation bar or selecting one of the
tools from a list that is displayed when you click the smaller portion of a split button.

The following unified navigation tools are available from the navigation bar:
 ViewCube. Indicates the current orientation of a model and is used to reorient the current view of a
model.
 SteeringWheels. Collection of wheels that offer rapid switching between specialized navigation
tools.
 ShowMotion. User interface element that provides an onscreen display for creating and playing
back cinematic camera animations for design review, presentation, and bookmark-style navigation.
 3Dconnexion. Set of navigation tools used to reorient the current view of a model with a
3Dconnexion 3D mouse.
 Pan. Moves the view parallel to the screen.
 Zoom tools. Set of navigation tools for increasing or decreasing the magnification of the current
view of a model.
 Orbit tools. Set of navigation tools for rotating the current view of a model.
 3- Work with Disegna 2.0
The file extension for drawing files is .dwg, and unless you change the default file format in which drawings
are saved, drawings are saved in the latest drawing file format. This format is optimized for file
compression and for use on a network.
The character limit for a DWG file name (including its path) is 256 characters.
The standard drawing unit is millimeters.

•New Drawing
•Open Drawing
•Save Drawing
Drawing •Repair, Restore, or Recover Drawing Files

•Attach
•Scale Attach
•Attach ON
Referenced •Attach OFF
Drawing •Erase attach

• Draw tool palettes: BASIC, STRONG, HEAVY, etc

• Move, Copy, Delete, Delete All, mirror
• Annotate and view tab
Disegna

•Create layout
•insert cartouche
•Plot drawing
Layouts

•Bill of Material
•Export List to CSV
•Send DWG and CSV to Satech
Export Data
 4- Start and Save Drawing
All drawings start from a default drawing template. Drawing template files store default settings, styles,
and additional data.

Open or Save a drawing

You can use several methods to find and open drawings, even damaged drawings. You can save and backup
drawings automatically.

You open drawings to work on them just as you do with other applications. In addition, you can choose
from several alternative methods.
To open a drawing, you can:
 Use Open on the File menu to display the Select File dialog box.
 Double-click a drawing in Finder to launch Disegna 2.0 and open the drawing. If the program is
already running, the drawing opens in the current session.

You save drawing files for later use just as you do with other applications. You can also set up automatic
saving and backup files and save only selected objects.
When you work on a drawing, you should save it frequently.
Saving protects you from losing work in the event of a power failure or other unexpected event. If you want
to create a new version of a drawing without affecting the original drawing, you can save it under another
name.

Repair, Restore, or Recover Drawing Files

If a drawing file is damaged or if your program terminates unexpectedly, you can recover some or all of the
data by using commands to find and correct errors, or by reverting to a backup file.
A drawing file is marked as damaged if corrupted data is detected, or if you request that the drawing be
saved after a program failure. If the damage is minor, sometimes you can repair the drawing simply by
opening it.
A recovery notification is displayed while opening drawing files that are damaged and need recovery. You
can
 RECOVER. Performs an audit on, and attempts to open, any drawing file.
 AUDIT. Finds and corrects errors in the current drawing.
 RECOVERAUTO. Controls the display of recovery notifications before or after opening a damaged
drawing file.
 5- Referenced Drawing
You can perform several operations on referenced drawing files.

Attach Commands

You can attach an entire drawing file to the current drawing as a referenced drawing.
With Attach, changes made in the referenced drawing are reflected in the current drawing. Attached xrefs
are linked to, but not actually inserted in, another drawing. Therefore, with xrefs you can build drawings
without significantly increasing the drawing file size.

By using referenced drawings, you can

 Coordinate your work with the work of others by referencing other drawings in your drawing to
keep up with the changes being made by other designers. You can also assemble a master drawing
from component drawings that may undergo changes as a project develops.
 Ensure that the most recent version of the referenced drawing is displayed. When you open your
drawing, each referenced drawing is automatically reloaded, so it reflects the latest state of the
referenced drawing file.

Attach
You can insert any drawing file as an external reference or xref in the current drawing. When you attach a
drawing file as an xref, you link that referenced drawing to the current drawing.

 Click The top View on view cube

 The system changes the point of view

 Click on icon “Attach”

 Select the DWG/JPG file using the select dialog

  The result is:

Determine the Units of Measurement

After you attach the referenced drawing file but before you start to draw, you must check and decide what
one drawing unit represents based on what you plan to draw. You can convert a drawing between systems
of measurement by scaling it.
Every object you create is measured in drawing units.
Then you create your drawing at actual size with that convention.
For example, the objects in the illustration might represent one walls that are each 125 feet long, or a
section of a wall that is measured in millimeters.
Disegna 2.0 works in millimeters.
If you start a drawing in one system of measurement (imperial or metric) and then want to switch to the
other system, use SCALE ATTACH to scale the model geometry by the appropriate conversion factor to
obtain correct distances and dimensions.

Scale Attach

You can check that the length of annotation must be length as the annotation you can insert in the
drawing. Use the command Linear in the Tab annotate to check the length.

If the distance is different you must use the scale attach.

You can specify the size of dimensions in your drawing. How
you set dimension size depends on the method you use to
lay out and plot drawings.
Dimension scale affects the size of the dimension geometry relative to the objects in the drawing.
Dimension scale affects sizes, such as text height and arrowhead size, and offsets, such as the extension
line origin offset.
You should set these sizes and offsets to values that represent their actual plotted size.
To do this operation, click on the button “Scale attach”.

1- Click the point where you want to start the annotation

2- Click on the end point of the line

3- Insert the right measure (as the same as you read in the attachment)

4- Input the unit measure you use to set the distance

5-

Now you’re able to draw on your attach using the right scale. If you have some problems to see the color of
the cursor because your attach is all white or black you can easily change the color of the mouse (appendix
A)
Attach ON – Attach OFF

When a referenced drawing (xref) is unloaded from the current drawing, the drawing opens much faster
and uses less memory.
The xref definition is unloaded from the drawing file, but the internal pointer to the referenced drawing
remains. The xref is not displayed, and nongraphical object information does not appear in the drawing.
However, you can restore all the information by reloading the xref.
You should unload a reference file if it is not needed in the current drawing session but may be used later
for plotting. You can maintain a working list of unloaded xrefs in the drawing file that you can load as
needed.

Erase Attach

To completely remove DWG references (xrefs) from your drawing, you need to detach them rather than
erase them.
Erasing xrefs does not remove, for example, layer definitions associated with those xrefs. Using the Erase
option removes the xrefs and all associated information.
 6- Disegna – Draw a Perimeter Protection
Draw Perimeter protection

To draw a perimeter protection, you have to choose through the “toolpalettes” the type of the protection
you want to draw. You can click on the tab and switch between products.

 Select the type of the Assembly. You can choose if you want
captive or non-captive assembly system

 Select the type of the base

 Select the height of the Upright

 Select the colour of the Upright

 CLICK here to insert the perimeter protection

 Select the panel colour

When you click on the panel type, you can move the mouse in the drawing area

1- Click the point where you want to start the perimeter protection

2- When you pick the first point and move the cross-hairs to the location of the second point you will
see a rubber line which shows you where the line will be drawn when the second point is picked or
when you insert via keyboard the length of the line. Line objects have two ends (the first point and
the last point)
 3- You can continue picking points and AutoCAD will draw a straight line between each picked point
and the previous point. Each line segment drawn is a separate object and can be moved or erased
as required

4- To end this command, just hit the ESC KEY on the keyboard

Ortho mode
Ortho is short for orthogonal, which means either vertical or horizontal. Like the other options on the
status bar, Ortho is not really a command, it is a drawing mode which can either be turned on or off. Ortho
mode can be toggled on or off in one of three ways.
The quickest way is just to click on the ORTHO button on the status bar.

Orthogonal button

The appearance of the button tells you whether Ortho is currently turned on or turned off. When Ortho is
turned on, the ORTHO button appears pressed in.

Ortho can also be toggled on and off using the F8 Function key.

Positioning of panels and uprights

Disegna 2.0 automatically calculates the positioning of the panels and uprights in the line.
Based on the distance from the first point clicked by the user and the current point, Disegna 2.0 proposes
the best solution to fit that distance using the panels with standard measure.

The measure of standard panels and the section of the uprights are strictly correlate with the type of the
perimeter protection.
Draw doors

You insert the door through the tab Doors in the toolpalettes

1- Choose the type of the doors selecting the item in the dropdownlist.
2- Single click on the button
3- Move the mouse near the point you want to insert the door
4- Click to confirm the position of the door

Draw special panels

1- Insert the measure of the panels

2- Single click on the button
3- Move the mouse near the point you want to insert the panel
4- Click to confirm the position of the door
Correct Mistakes

You can backtrack your recent actions using one of several methods.

Undo

The simplest method of backtracking is to use the UNDO commands to undo a single action. Many
commands include their own U (undo) option so that you can correct mistakes without leaving the
command.
You use the undo command by clicking the icon:

Undo command

Reverse the Effect of Undo: Redo

You can reverse the effect of a single U or UNDO command by using REDO immediately after using U or
UNDO.
You can also redo several actions at once with the Redo list on the Standard toolbar.
To activate REDO command click the icon:

Redo Command

Delete Line

You can delete a single “line” by clicking the icon in the ribbon:

and clicking the base of the perimeter protection.

Delete All objects

You delete all entities in the drawing by clicking the icon Delete all.

Automatically every object in the drawing will erase.

Copy and Move

You can create duplicates of objects at a specified distance and direction from the originals.
Copy a “line” using the distance and direction specified by a base point followed by a second point.

Select the original perimeter protection to be copied. Automatically Disegna 2.0 specifies the base point for
the move (1) followed by a second point (2). The line is copied the distance and direction of point 1 to point
2.

The move command works like Copy but it moves the line from the first point to the second one.
 7- Change Views
You can magnify the details in your drawing for a closer view or shift the view to a different part of the
drawing. If you save views by name, you can restore them later.

Pan or Zoom a View

You can pan to reposition the view in the drawing area or zoom to change magnification.

With the Realtime option of PAN, you pan dynamically by moving your pointing device.

Like panning with a camera, PAN does not change the location or magnification of objects on your drawing;
it changes only the view. You can change the magnification of a view by zooming in and out, which is similar
to zooming in and out with a camera. ZOOM does not change the absolute size of objects in the drawing; it
changes only the magnification of the view.
When you work with minute parts in your drawing, you may need to zoom out frequently to see an
overview of your work. Use ZOOM Previous to return quickly to the prior view. The options described here
are the options most commonly used

Zoom to Magnify a Specified Rectangular Area

You can quickly zoom on a rectangular area of your drawing by specifying two diagonal corners of the area
you are interested in. The lower-left corner of the area you specify becomes the lower-left corner of the
new display. The shape of the zoom area you specify does not correspond exactly to the new view, which
must fit the shape of the viewport.

Zoom in Real Time

With the Realtime option, you zoom dynamically by moving your pointing device up or down. By right-
clicking, you can display a shortcut menu with additional viewing options.

Zoom to Magnify One or More Objects

ZOOM Objects displays a view with the largest possible magnification that includes all of the objects you
selected.

Zoom to View All Objects in the Drawing

ZOOM Extents displays a view with the largest possible magnification that includes all of the objects in the
drawing. This view includes objects on layers that are turned off but does not include objects on frozen
layers. ZOOM All displays either the user-defined grid limits or the drawing extents, whichever view is
larger.

To pan by dragging

1- Click View Tab -> Navigate Panel -> Pan

2- When the hand cursor is displayed, click and hold your pointing device as you move.
NOTE If you are using a wheel mouse, hold down the wheel button and move the mouse.
3- To exit, press Enter or Esc, or right-click.
Appendix
Appendix A – Change the color of the cursor

1. Digit OPTIONS on the keyboard

2. Select DISPLAY TAB

3. Select CROSSHAIR and the color