Review Users Guide in Help

[Jack Zimmer]

There is a 'Users Guide' in help,  a PDF file.

Users should go through this start up guide before starting a project or any of the training videos.

[Allan Chesney]

I just printed out the User Guide today - all 330 pages of it!  Looks quite comprehensive.

Allan

[mcpruitt]

You'll be pleasantly surprised that the boxed edition of the program comes with a printed User Guide.  Now we will have a handy reference to use while working with it.

MCP

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Mike,

I must admit I do prefer the boxed version but it takes too long to get here. For example the local agents did not even bring V10 into the country - they said nothing had changed from V9!  Maybe they have got V11 now and will wait for V13 for their next import!!

Is the printed version the same as the PDF in the download? 

Allan

[Nik]

Thanks, MCP, I've copied and referenced your reply to answer my query about printed manual in box.

I like to curl up with a manual, explore the by-ways and appendices, tuck interesting things into the back of my mind: A quorum of cats is optional...

Ah, yes, I appreciate that a PDF may be a later version than dead-tree, and is 'searchable', and I use it as such, but a book is a book...

[mcpruitt]

Hi Mike,

Is the printed version the same as the PDF in the download? 

Allan

Hi Allen,

I haven't yet compared the material in the book to the pdf but it does have the same amount of pages, so I can only surmise that it is the same.  As for being able to receive the boxed version, if you need me to buy it for you and then send it let me know (although I don't know if this is permissable).

MCP

[Allan Chesney]

Mike,

Thanks for the offer - I can't see there would be any problem in sending one over but I have already bought the download version and printed out the Guide (in colour) and bound it, so there is probably no point now. Makes we wonder what the rationale is as to the download price being the same as the 'boxed, CD's, with a printed User Guide version' - surely the latter is much more expensive to produce.

Anyway it works, that is the main thing - problem now is the time to learn all the more unusual things I need to do with it.  It was almost on self pilot with the old version - now I have to think again!!

Allan

[mcpruitt]

Allen,

Glad you were able to get the upgrade.  However I know what you mean about having to re-learn everything.  Fortunatly for me I hadn't worked with Floorplan that much so don't have to un-learn much. 

But I do want to become proficient with this version so that I can expand my business base.  I'll be present here more often, if not to contribute answers, but to look for solutions.  So if you need some one to bounce solutions off of you know I will be the consumate beginner with no pre-concieved idea's "on how things should work."

Regards,
Mike

[levoy]

Users should go through this start up guide before starting a project or any of the training videos.

training videos??

[Jack Zimmer]

The Training Videos for the Architectural and Landscape topics should be ready for purchasing 'shortly'.

They contain a great variety of topics and indexing for fast location of topics / video.

Z