Groundplan offers a range of tools for drawing as-built Plans, which are used in the electrical, fire and HVAC industries.

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Important to Note: Groundplan is not designed to produce scaled engineering plans.

Creating an Asbuilt within a New or Existing Project

Using a Stage and the Measurement tools provides more flexibilty over the placement and editing of items. They do not necessarily need to be used for Quantities.

Example - Adding circuit labels

Create a Stage called Drawing
Set the Plan Scale
Enable the Grid Tool
To line up circuits and for text spacing
Click +Length named drawing, then populate on the Plan, used to create circuits
Click Text Tool to add circuit details

The below GIF uses the Grid tool to line up Text and the Select and Duplicate Tools to simplify the process.

Additional Tools that are frequently used:

Requirement	Usage examples	Best tool to use
Select groups of items	- Duplicate - Flip - Rotate - Delete	Select Tool
Remove	- Remove points / cable	Eraser Tool
Add additional symbols	- power points - data points	Count Tool
Screenshots	- Screenshot points that have been re-located	External screenshot Tool (see GIF below)
Images	- Paste screenshots back onto the plan - Circuit board - Company logo	Image Tool - Edit Size and location
Labelling	- Label cable lines - Mains - NBN / Cat 6	Length Labelling - Edit Size and Style - Change Frequency
Text	- Notate circuits - Pipe details	Text Tool - Edit Size and Style - Change location
Arrows	- To notations	Arrow Tool - Edit Line thickness and Styles - Change location
Draw attention to items	- Distribution board	Cloud Tool - Edit Line thickness and Styles Eraser Tool - Use with a Colour and low Opacity to highlight an area

Copying symbols when you need extra

The below GIF demonstrates copying a symbol using an external screenshot tool, Pasting the Image back onto the plan using using CTRL / Command ⌘ and press V then using the Duplicate Tool for multiple instances on the Plan.

💡It is recommended to save your Stage as a Take-off Template to use for future Projects.

Copying a Plan with a Stage present

Easily copy an existing Plan from the Project to create an As-built onto.

While in Tile view, hover over the Plan then click Copy,
Rename the Plan then, click Copy Plan
Duplicating the Plan and any Stages on that Plan
Click into the Plan
Click Actions then click Unlink from Plan

⚠️Warning:

Caution: Ensure to use Unlink from Plan.

Delete from Project - will remove the Stage permanently from all Plans across the entire Project.

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Drawing as-built plans for electrical projects