Dioramas Pro is an add-on for ProFantasy Softwares Campaign Cartographer 2 Pro (CC2-Pro).

Use it to create drawings that can be printed, cut out, and glued together to make 3D diorama models of your floorplans and underground areas. Have fun!

License Agreement Use of this software is determined by a license agreement you can view on the CD. Technical Support Support is available from the registered users area of the ProFantasy website profantasy.com

Introduction.......................................................................... 2 Creating a Diorama from Scratch............................... 4 Making Dioramas from an Existing Floorplan ... 12 Complex Dioramas ........................................................ 15 Dioramas Options .......................................................... 21

Credits Dioramas Pro: Mark Fulford, Simon Rogers, Ian Malcomson Programming: Peter Olsson, Mike Riddle The Essentials: Ian Malcomson, Mark Fulford Trade Dress: Peter Gifford Symbol Creation and Examples: Ian Malcomson, Richard Ansell, Steve Sorton ProFantasy Software Ltd Spectrum House Bromells Road London SW4 0BN UK inbox@profantasy.com www.profantasy.com

Introduction
Diorama Definitions Flat - a drawing which contains one or more nets used to produce a model. Net - a group of panels, tabs, and cut and fold lines which form a single component of a model (wall section, chimney, etc.) Panel - a shape (usually a polygon) that will form a flat surface in the model. Tab - any part of a net that will be used to glue the model together. Cut Line - a line that will be cut along when assembling the model. Fold Line - a line that will be folded along when assembling the model.

The Dioramas Pro add-on for CC2-Pro allows you to draw modeling pieces in 2D that can be cut out and glued together to form a 3D diorama. A 2D diorama drawing is called a Flat. You can draw Panels that will be the surfaces of the model when assembled. You can draw Tabs that will be used to glue your model together. You can draw Cut and Fold Lines that will guide you when assembling the model. You can draw a Net for a box section (such as a wall) in a handful of clicks. You can create a series of nets from a floorplan you have already drawn. You can create versatile plug-in geomorphs, so your models never lose their usefulness. You can add a wide variety of symbols.

Using this Manual

The Essentials gets you started, without overwhelming you with details. It combines an overview of all the features with a tutorial that guides you step-by-step. It assumes you have read CC2-Pros Essentials first, and that you have basic familiarity with CC2-Pro. Items underlined in bold text are referring you to the side bar for additional information. Buttons, dialog box items and menu items are shown in bold text like this: Diorama Options . Register Dioramas Pro at the Registered Users Area of profantasy.com to get any updates to this manual or the tutorial files.

Registered Users Area Point your browser at www.profantasy.com then point at the Customer Service menu heading and click Registration.

Getting to Dioramas Pro

Swap from CC2-Pro or any add-on to Dioramas Pro by clicking the Dioramas Pro button on CC2-Pros File toolbar.

Examples
Dioramas Pro comes with a library of examples and blanks - flats that have been completed except for the addition of fill styles and symbols. These range from geomorphic dungeon rooms, corridors, and stairs to buildings - even a spaceship and a set of polyhedral dice. To use these, print them as they are, or use the Dioramas Pro commands to modify them.

The Dioramas Toolbar

The Dioramas toolbar includes almost all the features you need to create your designs. Diorama Options Rectangular Panel Convert to Panel Tab Fold Line Wall Net Change Panel Fill Polygonal Panel Multipoly Panel Geomorph Tab Cut Line Multi-Wall Net

Templates Dioramas templates have eight pages of drawing area. Each page is designed to print on a single piece of card. Each page has print and navigation buttons: Clicking on one of these buttons will print the current page at the miniature scale indicated. Clicking on one of these buttons will navigate to the indicated page (the red button shows the current page). Dioramas 2.fct also has color coded boundary guides for each miniature scale. Miniature Scale Miniature scales are in millimetres (mm). The scale, e.g. 25 mm, is the miniature size of a normal human. For Dioramas purposes it is the size of one 5 square when printed.

Creating a Diorama from Scratch

You create a diorama flat by adding nets comprising panels, cut lines, fold lines, and tabs to the Dioramas template. Each template comprises eight pages. You can use one or more of these pages, as the size and complexity of your diorama requires. Well create a simple dungeon room for a monstrous encounter.

Starting a New Diorama

1. Click New .

CC2-Pro displays a choice of Dioramas templates. 2. Click Dioramas 2.fct CC2-Pro starts a new Dioramas drawing.

Choosing a Miniature Scale

Before starting your diorama, you should choose the miniature scale at which you will print your flats. The miniature scale determines where within the page you can draw. , and click a box around the 3. Click Zoom Window yellow boundary on the current page. The yellow box is for 25 mm scale. CC2-Pro zooms into the area you should use for 25 mm miniatures.

Choosing a style
A style concerns itself with the look and feel of the elements you will draw, including fill styles for panels, styles for cut and fold lines, widths and heights of walls, and so on.

1. Click Dioramas Options

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Dioramas Options This dialog box sets the drawing properties for Dioramas Pro new entities. The only options that you need to change are the Foreground and Background values in the Panels section. Together these define the look of new panels. You can leave all the other settings with their default values (use Reset to restore).

You see the Dioramas Options dialog box. Here you can select styles for the different diorama elements - panels, fold lines, cut lines, and tabs. This dialog box is fully explained on page 21. For now we only need to set the Foreground and Background properties in the Panels section, as these control the look of the diorama.

Panels Panels form the external faces of the 3D model. They comprise overlapping entities, one on each layer specified in the Options dialog box.

2. In the Panels section, choose Paving L Symbol for Foreground, and Slate for Background, then OK.

Panels
Rectangular Panel draws rectangular panels. You click three corners and Dioramas Pro completes the panel using the foreground and background fill styles.

Use symbol fills in the foreground and solid colors or bitmap fills in the background. The background then shows through, with extra texture provided by the foreground.

3. Click Rectangular Panel The prompt reads 1st point:.

4. Follow the prompt to click points for a panel 6 squares by 6 squares (30 feet x 30 feet) in size. On clicking the third point, you see your panel. This will be the floor of our room.

Drawing wall nets

Wall Net draws a group of panels, tabs, cut lines, and fold lines which form a net making a rectangular wall section.

We need four wall nets for our room. To follow our example, load Dioramas 1.FCW from CC2-Pros Tutorials\Dioramas folder. 1. Click to navigate to the second page.

2. Click Dioramas Options and change Panel Foreground to Hollow, and Panel Background to Natural Stone. 3. Click Wall Net then click the first point of a wall.

The prompt reads Other end of wall:. 4. Click the other end 6 squares away from the first (the walls length). The prompt reads Wall height:. 5. Type 10 and press Enter. The wall will be 10 feet high. The prompt reads Wall width:. 6. Type 1 and press Enter. Dioramas Pro creates the net for a wall 30 long, 10 high and 1 thick. 7. Click Move , right click and choose Prior.

Move the wall inside the yellow 25mm boundary box, leaving enough room for a second identical wall net. 6

8. Click Copy

, right click and choose Prior.

Place the copy of the wall net within the same page. 9. Click Copy and select both the wall nets.

We are now going to copy our two walls to another page to complete our rooms four walls. 10. On the View menu, click Zooms, then Named. The prompt reads View name [dialog]:. 11. Right click to take the default [dialog] option and then select Sheet 3 from the list. 12. Place the copy wall nets within the third page.
Geomorph Tabs A geomorph tab is a special kind of net, designed so it can be folded over and glued back on itself to form a plug, onto which you can socket wall sections. This has two main advantages: When using dioramas in a game, you can remove wall sections easily, if a clearer view of a room is needed. You can create several generic floor shapes (with geomorph tabs), and plug-in wall sections (some with doors and other features, some without, etc.). This way, a few generic pieces can be used to create hundreds of different rooms, simply by plugging different pieces in as required.

Geomorph Tabs
With Dioramas Pro you can create geomorph tabs, that walls plug onto without glue, allowing you to remove and reuse walls. To follow our example, load Dioramas 2.FCW 1. Click to go to the page containing the floor. .

2. Click Geomorph Tab

The prompt reads First point (or edge):. 3. Click on one edge of the floor panel. The prompt reads Select side:. 4. Move the mouse so the tabs are outside the floor then click to draw them. 5. Add geomorph tabs to both vertical edges and one horizontal edge. There is not enough room within the 25mm boundary to add Geomorph Tabs to all four edges, so well draw a separate geomorph tab and attach it to the floor when we assemble the model.

6. Click

to go to the fourth dioramas page. then click a start point.

7. Click Geomorph Tab

The prompt reads Second point:. 8. Type @30,0 then press Enter. You see a preview of a 30 long geomorph tab.
Tab draws tabs for gluing when you assemble the model. The default tab depth is set in the Tabs section of the Dioramas Options dialog box. While placing a tab, you can press the + and - keys to increase and decrease the number of tabs used for the edge. Smaller tabs are sometimes easier to handle. Symbols Dioramas Pro comes with its own set of symbols, but many other symbols useful for making dioramas can be found in other packages of the CC2-Pro family, notably Dungeon Designer Pro, City Designer Pro, Character Artist Pro, and Perspectives Pro.

9. Click to complete the geomorph tab.

Adding Tabs
We will add a straight-forward tab to floor that will be glued to the loan Geomorph Tab. 1. Click to return to the page we drew our floor. .

2. Click Tab

The prompt reads First point (or edge):. 3. Click on the remaining edge of the floor panel. The prompt reads Set width [default width] (+, - adjust

tab count):.
4. Click so the tab is outside the panel.

Adding symbols
Dioramas are further enhanced by the addition of symbols. Dioramas Pro has two types of symbols: Wall Features, such as doors and windows. Dioramas Symbols, which are pre-made flats representing furniture and other items.

Dioramas also includes a Castles symbol catalog, which contains wall features especially designed for castles and fortifications (arrow loops and so on). Open the symbol catalog you need by clicking Wall Features , Dioramas Symbols , or Castles .

Wall Symbols
To follow our example, load Dioramas 3.FCW 1. Click Wall Features .

The Wall Features symbol catalog opens. 2. Place symbols from the symbol catalog window and place them into the drawing. The Wall Features symbols are smart symbols. They will rotate to suit an edge they are dragged over. Remember, you can switch pages using and .

Smart Symbols Many Dioramas symbols are smart and automatically align themselves to edges they are passed over. When placing a smart symbol, move the cursor to the edge you want it to align to, then click when the symbol is aligned correctly. The symbol will either be drawn on the edge, or will allow you to click again to place the symbol now that it has aligned itself.

Mirroring Symbols
If you place door or window symbols onto walls, you may want to mirror those symbols on the opposite side of the wall. The Mirrored Copies command does this. 1. Hide the HEX/SQUARE GRID layer. 2. Right click Copy and select Mirrored Copies.

The prompt reads Select entities:. 3. Select any doors and windows you have drawn on one side of a wall section. When your selection is complete, right click and select Do It. The prompt reads Mirror line start:. 4. Click Midpoint and pick the middle of the short (1 foot) edge of the walls top panel.

Orthogonal Locking When the Ortho is button depressed, Ortho mode is enabled. Any points you click are forced to be directly horizontal or vertical from the last point used.

5. Click

to enable Orthogonal Locking.

6. Move the mouse vertically, then click. Mirrored versions of the door and window symbols are copied to the opposite panel of the wall net. 7. Click Ortho
Dioramas Symbols These are pre-drawn nets for common dungeon furniture, such as beds, chests, tables and chairs.

to disable Ortho mode.

Adding Dioramas Symbols

The Dioramas Symbols catalog contains a number of pre-drawn nets representing items of furniture and other trappings. To use them, simply decide which items appear in your room, and place the relevant symbols into a clear space in the drawing. To follow our example, load Dioramas 4.FCW 1. Click Dioramas Symbols .

The Dioramas Symbols catalog opens. 2. Click to go to the fourth page (with free space).

3. Click to choose symbols you wish to use, and click to place them into the drawing within the yellow 25mm boundary box. In Dioramas Complete.FCW , a chest, a bed, a table, and two chairs have been added.

Printing your diorama

Once you have drawn all of the nets and placed all of the symbols you need, print the pages so the diorama can be cut out and assembled. We recommend you use a lightweight card (90-100lb, or 160gsm metric) to print your model. Most printers can handle this weight, and it makes strong models. You can use lighter card or paper, but your models will have to be stored carefully if they are to be kept. 1. Click to go to the first page of your drawing.

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2. Click the 25 mm button to print at that scale, then click Yes to the confirmation prompt. This prints everything within the yellow 25mm boundary box using print scaling for 25mm miniature scale (1 inch to approximately 5 feet). 3. Repeat for each page to print.

Assembling your model

SAFETY WARNING Scissors, knives and glue can cause serious injury and damage the work surface. If you are a minor, get permission and training from an adult before cutting-out and gluing your models. 1. Cut out all nets comprising your model. Scissors can be used, but for best results use a modeling knife and a steel straight edge. Note: For the example model, cut away the bottom panel from each wall net. The walls will socket onto geomorph tabs so they need to be open-bottomed not closed boxes. 2. Score all fold lines. Scoring makes folds more accurate and sharper. The best way to score fold lines is to use a scalpel or modeling knife, and a steel straight edge, pressing down just enough to break the surface of the card but not enough to cut completely through. 3. Fold the nets. 4. Apply glue to tabs and assemble the model. In some cases, it is a good idea to use paperclips or similar to hold glued surfaces together while they dry. It is always better to leave each glued joint to dry before handling it further - patience is a virtue! 5. Sit back and admire your work!

Print Scaling CC2-Pro can print at any specified scale. In order to simplify this in Dioramas Pro, the print buttons on the template do all the necessary calculations for you, and send the scaled output to the printer. Modelling Knives These sharp blades are available at most craft stores. Always make sure you cut on a firm, suitable surface, and cut away from your fingers and body. Steel straight edges A metal rule or any firm, straight edge you can use to cut against helps make your cut and score lines absolutely accurate. Glue We have found that white PVA waterbased glue works very well. You need a glue that is not so thin that it absorbs into the card without a trace.

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Making a Diorama from an Existing Floorplan

Multi-Wall Nets A multi-wall net is a series of wall nets that fit together to create a single wall chain. Multi-Wall Net creates wall nets from an existing top-down floorplan map. To use it, you select a path, provide the walls height and width, and click to place the multi-wall net the command creates. Walls to Paths Multi-Wall Net works on straight paths and polygons. If your walls use other entities (such as lines), you will have to convert them into paths first. To convert a line to a path, right click on , choose Explode Line to Path, select the line, and click. To convert a smooth path or polygon to straight, right click on , choose Explode Smooth to Straight, select the smooth path or polygon, right click, and choose Do It.

You can convert existing floorplans into Dioramas Pro drawings. The process is semi-automatic; some work is required, but the skills you have learned already, coupled with Multi-Wall Net, will make the task easier. The examples assume that you are using standard drawing layers for your floorplan (e.g., walls on the WALLS layer). If you are using other layers, substitute your own layers for those indicated.

Converting floorplan walls to wall nets

To follow our example, load Dragons Teeth 1.FCW from

CC2-Pros Tutorials\Dioramas folder.

1. Click the Layer Indicator .

2. Scroll to WALLS and click the left-most box so a tick appears within it. WALLS is the current layer. 3. Click Hide All, then OK. All layers except for WALLS are hidden. 4. Click Multi-Wall Net .

The prompt reads Pick top view of wall:. 5. Select a wall section from your floorplan. The prompt should read Height of wall [10-0]:. If Multi-Wall Net ends here, it is probably because it only works on walls drawn using paths (not lines). You may need to convert walls to paths. 6. Type 10, and press Enter. The prompt reads Width of wall [6]:.

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7. Type 1, and press Enter. The prompt reads Lower left corner of nets:. 8. Click in the drawing to place the wall nets. Dioramas Pro creates the wall nets at the point you clicked. Convert all the walls in your floorplan.

Copying Wall Nets to a Dioramas Pro template

After converting the walls in the floorplan, you will need to transfer them to a Dioramas Pro template. To follow our example, load Dragons Teeth 2.FCW and choose Copy to Clipboard. 1. Right click Copy Follow the prompt to copy the wall nets to the clipboard. 2. Start a new Dioramas Pro drawing. 3. Right click Copy drawing. , choose Paste, and click in the

Your wall nets appear in the new drawing. 4. Use Move to organize the wall nets within the template pages, keeping the nets inside the boundary boxes of the miniature scale you use.

Changing panel fill styles

It is likely that your original floorplan did not have all of the fill styles available to a Dioramas Pro drawing. This may mean your wall nets appear rather plain and blank. To follow our example, load Dragons Teeth 3.FCW 1. Click Change Panel Fill Style .

Selecting Panels Click the edge of the panel, not a fold line. You should see the whole panel turn grey (3 entities). If you get a dialog box saying You have to select both panel objects click Locked so that it , then reads try again. Click back to afterwards.

The prompt reads Select entities:. 2. Select the wall panels, then right click, Do It. You see the Change Panel Style dialog box.

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3. Choose the foreground and background you want for the wall nets you selected, then OK.

Converting floorplan floors to panels

To follow our example, load Dragons Teeth 4.FCW 1. Save your diorama. 2. Open the floorplan and use Clipboard Copy to copy the floors from the floorplan to the diorama. This process is the same as copying your wall nets across, except you are copying floor entities from the layer BACKGROUND (FLOOR 1). 3. Click Convert to Panel .

The prompt reads Select entities:. 4. Select the floors, then right click, Do It. Dioramas Pro converts the floor sections to panels using the default panel styles you have chosen. 5. Use Move pages. to organize the floor panels within the

Our completed version is Dragons Teeth Complete.FCW

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Complex Dioramas
So far we have created simple diorama models, made of boxes and panels. Dioramas Pro, like CC2-Pro and all its add-ons, is hugely versatile. Using construction lines, geometry, and a little thought, you can make models that include tubes (for pillars and so on), pyramids, cones, crenellations, staircases, slopes, and a plethora of other shapes. To cover all of the possibilities in this manual would be impossible. Instead, here a few examples from which you can build:
Geometry A little geometry can go a long way when inventing dioramas.

a + o = h Sin = o / h Cos = a / h

Tubes
Tubes can be used for columns, pipes, logs, and so on. To follow our example, load Tube.FCW. Each page of the drawing covers different steps. and create a circle with the radius of 1. Click Circle your final tube. The circle will form the end of the tube. The panel that will wrap around to form the tubes body must have a length equal to the circles circumference. 2. Click List on the Info menu, select the circle, then right click and Do It. You see a dialog listing the circles details, including the circumference 31.41593.
2D Circle: color 0 (black) layer 313 (TITLE) line style 0 (Solid) fill style 1 (Solid) line width 0.05000 tag # 19291 pen 0.000 mm 2nd color 0 center at 49.71840,245.51765, radius 5.00000 area 78.53982, circumference 31.41593 diameter 10.00000

Tan = o / a With the mnemonic that I learned at school: Sir Olivers horse came ambling home to Olivers Aunt!

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3. Click Rectangular Panel first point. The prompt reads Next point:.

and click to place the

4. Type @31.42,0 (the circles circumference). The prompt reads Opposite corner:. 5. Click or type the height of the column. The panel is drawn. Now we need to add tabs to allow us to glue it together. 6. Click Tabs .

The prompt reads First point (or edge):. 7. Click a vertical edge of the panel (the height edge). The prompt reads Set width [default width]:. 8. Right click outside the panel to place the tab. The tab is drawn in the default width. 9. Click to repeat the command and this time select the bottom edge of the panel.
Number of Tabs When drawing tabs, the + and keys change the number of tabs along the edge. 10 tabs usually works well for a 5 radius tube.

10. Press + to increase the number of tabs to 10. 11. Right click outside the panel to place the tabs. 12. Click Convert to Panel .

The prompt reads Select entities:. 13. Click to select the circle, then right click and Do It. The circle is converted into a panel. the circle panel If you want a closed tube, Copy and draw tabs on the other horizontal side of the body panel. If you want an open tube, ignore this step.

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Stairs
Stairs are simple to draw. Remember that: The total height of a stairs model is the sum of the heights of all steps. The total depth of a stairs model is the sum of the depths of all stair treads, including any landing.
The Stair Panel

Stairs consist of a stair panel with fold lines for each step and riser, plus stair side panels. In this example, we will draw free-standing stairs,10 wide, with 10 steps, each 2 deep and 1 high. To follow our example, load Stairs.FCW. Each page of the drawing covers the different steps. and select a grid system that 1. Right click Grid snaps every 1, e.g. 5 Grid, 5 Snap. This grid makes it easy to draw precisely, and fits the simple whole numbers of our stair design. You may find it helpful to click the Tracking Indicator until it is in relative (@) mode. 2. Click Rectangular Panel and draw a panel for the steps that is 30 long and 10 wide. 30 = (2 depth + 1 height) x 10 stairs. 3. Click Fold Line .
Stair Side Panels If stairs are freestanding, they will have two side panels. If the stairs are against a wall, they can be supported by the wall alone, or have one external side.

The prompt reads 1st point:. 4. Click a point 2 along the long edge. The prompt reads Next point:. 5. Click a point equally along the opposite edge. This is the fold for the first step. 6. Add another Fold Line 1 further along the stairs. This is the fold for the first riser.

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7. Copy the two fold lines so they are repeated ten times, with a 2 gap between each set. You now have a panel with fold lines for each step and riser. Now onto the side panels

8. Click Polygonal Panel

The prompt reads 1st point:. 9. Click the bottom-left corner of the panel. The prompt reads Next point:. 10. Click to create 10 steps 1 high and 2 deep. 11. next click the bottom-right corner. 12. Right click to complete the panel. 13. Click Tabs .

The prompt reads First point (or edge):. 14. Click the edge of the first riser. The prompt reads Set width [default width]:. 15. Right click outside the panel to place the tab. The tab is drawn in the default width. 16. Click to repeat the Tabs command and add a tab to each 2 length of step. You could also add tabs to the 1 risers, but they would make construction very fiddly.

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17. Right click Copy

, and select Mirrored Copies.

The prompt reads Select entities:. 18. Select the side panel and all of its tabs, then right click and Do It. The prompt reads Mirror line start:. 19. Click a horizontal line, parallel to the panels base. The side panel and tabs are mirror-copied. 20. Use Rectangular Panel to draw a panel that is 10 by 10, and a second panel that is 10 by 20. These panels will form the back (10 by 10) and base (10 by 20) of the staircase model. to add tabs to all four sides of the back 21. Use Tabs panel, and to the two long sides of the base panel.

A roof slope

Slopes
Slopes can be used for ramps, roofs, etc. Like stairs, they are simply panels, perhaps with side-pieces. The only complication is to get the length of the slope. In this example, we will create a roof panel for a house. The steps assume we have drawn the gable end of the house, as shown.
The house is 15 x 40 and the gable height is 5.

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To follow our example, load Slope.FCW. Each page of the drawing covers the different steps. 1. Click Distance from the Info menu. The prompt reads Distance from:. We will measure the unknown (?) length of the slope.
Endpoint For accuracy, use the Grid or the Endpoint modifier to click the point.

2. Click one endpoint of the slope. The prompt reads Distance to:. 3. Click the other end of the slope. You see the Distance dialog box. The length of the example slope is 9.01388 feet.

Distance Dialog Box

4. Use Rectangular Panel 9.5 wide and 40 long.

to draw a panel that is

9.5 allows for a bit of an overhang. 5. Right click Copy , and select Mirrored Copies.

The prompt reads Select entities:. 6. Select the roof panel, right click and choose Do It. The prompt reads Mirror line start:. 7. Click one endpoint of the 40 roof edge. The prompt reads Mirror line end:. 8. Click the other endpoint of the 40 roof edge. The roof panel is copied, both roof panels being joined along their 40 edges.

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Dioramas Options
Dioramas Options opens a dialog box where you can change the default styles for your Dioramas drawing:

Layer: settings control which drawing layer the element in question is drawn on. For example, in the Cut Lines section the layer is set to go on that layer, CUT LINES, which means that all Cut Lines regardless of the current working layer. Clicking a Color: swatch brings up the CC2-Pro Color dialog box, which allows you to choose a set color for the elements in question. Fill style: and Line style: choose the default styles for the elements in question. Fill styles and Line styles work in the same way as they do for CC2-Pro. Styles for panels are defined by Foreground (usually a pattern, or hollow), and Background (usually solid or tiled bitmap). 21

Tabs drawn along straight edges are defined by the percentage of an entitys edge they encompass - % of edge (100% means the entire edge of an entity is used), Tab angle (the sweep angle at the edges of the tab), and Depth (the default width of a tab). Geomorph tabs are defined by their horizontal Width, their Length (the length of the entire plug section of the tab), and Angle. Tabs drawn along curved edges are defined by the Segment angle they are drawn incrementally by (e.g., drawing tabs around a full circle with a segment angle of 15 would produce 24 tabs), Minimum length (this forces the tabs to be at least this wide, regardless of the segment angle used), and a sweep Angle. For multi-wall nets, the Maximum length of wall sections generated can be set. In order for a diorama to print usefully, all nets must be within the template boundary box for the miniature scale you wish to use (e.g., yellow for 25mm scale). Setting a maximum length for multi-wall nets allows you to ensure each wall section net created will fit into your scales boundary.

Further Information
The Essentials covers most of what you need to know to use Per Pro. Other topics covered in the Help and in the full manual include (Help index entries underlined)
Printing Dioramas Constructing Dioramas Adding Geomorph Tabs Multi-wall Nets

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