How do I…
Draw a shade or drapery
Click one end, then the other. Hold Shift to draw it level, plumb or in 15° steps.
Where to find it: Palette › Equipment › Window treatments
- Click Shade, Double Shade, Drapery or Corner Drapery. The Placing bar at the bottom shows what you are drawing.
- Click on the sheet where one end goes.
- Click where the other end goes. A Corner Drapery takes three clicks: its start, its corner, then its end.
Level, plumb and clean angles
The line goes exactly where you click, at any angle, so a shade can follow a wall that is slightly off.
Hold Shift as you click to put the line on the nearest 15° step, the steps a camera's aim takes: level, plumb, 15°, 30°, 45° and so on all round. When it lands level or plumb, a blue dotted guide runs along it. The length stays where you click; only the angle snaps.
Move an end later
Select the shade and drag one of its square handles: S is its start, E its end, and B a corner drapery's corner. Hold Shift while you drag and the end snaps the same way against the end that stays put, keeping the length you drag it to; a corner snaps against both of its lines, so near level and plumb it makes a square corner. Without Shift the end goes where you drag it. A shade already on the sheet stays exactly as it was drawn until you move one of its ends.
To make it wireless, see set a shade to wireless; to give its sections their own motors, see give each section of a shade its own motor.