Objective Trapeze Use Cases

• Trapeze Cloud Administration is used to easily share stamps, presets and settings amongst the team.
• Read Mode provides a simplified view to read and sign documents or complete a fillable PDF form.

Other Trapeze Tricks and Tips are covered in this masterclass webinar or in the Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference Guide accessible in the Help documents of Trapeze.

• General Toolset has tools to view documents i.e. zoom, pan and magnify. If you hold down the Control key on your keyboard you can use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out of a document. Then use the arrow keys on the keyboard to pan around the page.
• Read Mode provides a simplified view to read and sign documents or complete a fillable PDF form.
• Reorder and /or split a PDF document into separate documents, including deleting and adding pages.
• Document Combine Tool and/or other tools can be used to combine multiple files (different file types supported) into one document, e.g. combine a set or architectural and landscaping plans for stamping.
• Rectangle Selection Tool can be used to copy an image or text from a plan to another page within Trapeze (using the Picture Annotation Tool) or another program like Word or Outlook. You can also choose to email the selected area as a PDF attachment The Rectangle Selection Tool can also be used to crop a page by drawing a box around the area, clicking on the rectangle and drag and dropping it into the Thumbnails panel.

• Set Scale Tool or Calibrate Scale Tool are used to set a scale on plan/s before measuring.
• Measurement Annotation Tool or Quick Measurement Tool are used to calculate area e.g. floor area or landscaped area.
• Line Measurement Annotation Tool or Quick Measurement Tool are used to measure distance e.g. for checking setbacks. The Offset Line Annotation Tool is also great for checking compliance with setback requirements.
• Optimise measuring by using the Snap to Point options which can be temporarily toggled off by holding down the Shift key on your key board.
• Measurement Panel Tool is used to review all the measurements you have drawn on a plan and calculate compliance with certain planning controls eg. total floor area.
  

• Document Compare Tool is used to highlight changes between revised sets of plans.
• Light Table Tool is used to overlay 2 documents e.g overlay a survey plan on a floor plan when checking appropriateness of proposed earthworks and finished floor levels. Overlay an aerial photo of a site on a floor plan additional context.
• Cone of Vision Tool can be used to check compliance against planning controls such as privacy and solar access.
• Overlay Tool is used to overlay image/s onto a page e.g. turning circles to assess compliance against parking standards. Our Assessment Add-ons are preconfigured overlays and tools to check compliance against parking standards, overshadowing controls and Clause 54 of the Victorian ResCode.
• Recession Plane Tool can be used to compliance against planning controls such as building envelope for solar access.
  

• Annotate Toolset can be used to markup documents to convey ideas to an applicant or another stakeholder, this may be to reiterate conditions of consent.
  

• Stamp Tool is used to create and apply stamps to page/s e.g. determination stamp, image, custom date, words, signatures or metadata from other systems.
• Smart Stamp Tool can be used to quickly apply stamps to multiple pages.
• Digital Signature can be applied to documents to display a message upon opening, signifying that the digital signing is valid, or warn the user if the document has been modified since it was signed.
• Open As One is used to open multiple PDF files in one go, stamp them using the Smart Stamp Tool and then save them back into their original local files.