Templates

Creating Templates can significantly increase your speed when working with projects.

Geometra has folder templates for both Drive and Estimate respectively. You can access them from either view under the more menu in the toolbar and going to ‘Import Templates’. The top choice named ‘Templates’ will open the dialogue for where you can create and edit them.

Creating a Template

Creating a template is very simple and starts by clicking ‘New Template’. On the left pane, you can see all your templates and can click the … button to bring up your options.

On the right pane, you will see the currently selected template and can add and edit folders. Add a folder to your structure by first selecting which folder you wish to create a subfolder in, then click add. You can re-arrange the folders by using drag ’n’ drop. To edit a folder double click the name and for estimate templates, you can also double click ‘Nr/Tag’.

Inserting a Template

When you wish to insert a template into either Drive or Estimate you must first start by selecting from which folder in the current setup you wish to insert the templates. This makes it possible to use several templates in the same project that can fulfil different roles and you can also import the same template over and over to use for as an example different floors or buildings in your estimate.

Shared across Organisation

Templates for Folders are shared across your organisation, so be careful when making changes or deleting them as you will edit or remove permanently for all your colleagues as well.

Global

Action
Hotkey
Open Feedback
Ctrl + Alt + F
Focus Search
Shift + Space

Projects

Action
Hotkey
New Project
Ctrl + Alt + N
Open Selected Project
Ctrl + O
Delete Selected Project(s)
Delete

Drive

Action
Hotkey
New Folder
Ctrl + Alt + N
Upload File
Ctrl + U
Download selected File(s)
Ctrl + D
Open selected File in Estimate
Ctrl + O
Delete selected File
Delete
Delete selected File without confirmation
Shift + Delete
Set status `Not started` for selected file(s)
Ctrl + Alt + 1
Set status `In progress` for selected file(s)
Ctrl + Alt + 2
Set status `Review` for selected file(s)
Ctrl + Alt + 3
Set status `Complete` for selected file(s)
Ctrl + Alt + 4
Expand all folders
Ctrl + Alt + E
Collapse all folders
Ctrl + Alt + W

Estimate

Action
Hotkey
Select tool `Select`
Ctrl + 1
Select tool `Point`
Ctrl + 2
Select tool `Line`
Ctrl + 3
Select tool `Area`
Ctrl + 4
Select tool `Reduction` (when an Area is selected)
Ctrl + Shift + 4
Select tool `Ellipse`
Ctrl + 5
Select tool `Draw`
Ctrl + 6
Select tool `Comment`
Ctrl + 7
Select tool `Image`
Ctrl + 8
Select tool `Arrow`
Ctrl + 9
Select tool `Scale`
Ctrl + 0
New Folder
Ctrl + Alt + N
Toggle `Snap On`
Ctrl + G
Delete selected Object(s)
Delete
Delete selected Objects(s) without confirmation
Shift + Delete
Undo last placed point
Ctrl + Z
Select all objects
Ctrl + A
Deselect all objects
Ctrl + Shift + A
Toggle `Prevent editing`
Ctrl + Shift + L
Focus `Name` field
F2
Focus `Nr/Tag` field
F3
Focus Fill Colour
F4
Focus Border Colour
F5
Open `Tiles`
F9
Open `Angles`
F10
Copy Object
Ctrl + C
Paste Object
Ctrl + V
Duplicate Object
Ctrl + D
Copy Rows from selected Object(s)
Ctrl + Shift + C
Paste Rows to selected Object(s)
Ctrl + Shift + V
Replace Rows in selected Object(s)
Ctrl + Shift + D
Copy Style from selected Object
Ctrl + Alt + C
Paste Style to selected Object(s)
Ctrl + Alt + V
Copy Properties from selected Object
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + C
Paste Properties to selected Object(s)
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + V
Open Export dialog
Ctrl + E
Save to PDF
Ctrl + P
Set status `Not started` for selected object(s)
Ctrl + Alt + 1
Set status `In progress` for selected object(s)
Ctrl + Alt + 2
Set status `Review` for selected object(s)
Ctrl + Alt + 3
Set status `Complete` for selected object(s)
Ctrl + Alt + 4
Expand all folders
Ctrl + Alt + E
Collapse all folders
Ctrl + Alt + W
Toggle File pane
Alt + Shift + 1
Toggle Rows pane
Alt + Shift + 2
Toggle Properties pane
Alt + Shift + 3

2D / PDF

Action
Hotkey
Select tool `Zoom Selection`
Alt + Z
`Zoom In`
Alt + ArrowUp
`Zoom Out`
Alt + ArrowDown
`Fit to screen`
Alt + 0
`Rotate left`
Alt + ArrowLeft
`Rotate right`
Alt + ArrowRight

3D / IFC

Action
Hotkey
Select tool `3D Navigation`
Alt + 1
Select tool `Move`
Alt + 2
Select tool `Zoom`
Alt + 3
Select tool `First Person`
Alt + 4
Reset view
Alt + 0
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