You may wish to make your own reusable design template, which will allow you to make one or more designs and reuse them whenever you have to design a system for a similar house plan, greatly increasing your efficiency.
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To use a design as a design template, create your design and save it wherever you will keep your template files. Next time you need to do a similar design, load your template file as normal, and on the Import tab browse to the floor plan image of your new job. On the Design tab, set the scale of the new floorplan as usual, and then simply reposition the components to suit the new plan layout by dragging them into place. If you have connected the parts in your design using snap-to, everything will remain connected as you do the repositioning, and it will only take minutes to complete an entire custom design from start to finish.
Remember that you can also reposition your entire design relative to a floor plan in one action if you first use Edit -> Select All and then do a normal drag. Although only those objects corresponding to the current tool tab will be shown as selected, Select All will select all objects from all tabs in your design. See How do I use an edited plan image? for further details.
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