Getting Started with your Draw Pro Plan Pest Control

Welcome to your Draw Pro Plan You are now ready to create your first drawing! Explore the drawing tools, add shapes, and see how ArcSite can streamline your work. Follow the steps below to complete your first drawing, add critical details and share your project with others.

Draw Pro Pest: Creating your First Drawing

Now tap “New Drawing to choose how you’d like to start your drawing.

There are several ways to begin a drawing in ArcSite. For your first time, let’s begin with a blank canvas. Start by tapping “Blank”

Name your Drawing and set your desired precision. You can always adjust this setting later from the canvas. Tap “Create Drawing” when you’re ready to begin drawing.

Draw Pro Pest: Draw Your First Structure

ArcSite arms you with several drawing tools to create, refine, and detail your project. Using the Draw Tool and Wall tool will be core aspects of your drawing in ArcSite.

Let’s begin by selecting the Wall tool.

The Wall tool allows you to define structures on the canvas. There are a number of tools within the Wall tool that allow you to create the structure. We recommend trying each of them to see which works best for you. For this example let’s use the Continuous Lines option. Draw a basic structure like the example below.

Once you’ve created your structure tap on one wall and adjust it by tapping on the displayed measurement. Change this number and tap the green check mark. You can manually adjust the length of a line or wall in ArcSite using the Manual Number Pad.

Once your structure is complete we can begin adding details using shapes.

Draw Pro Pest: Introduction To Shapes

Shapes allow you to add details to a project to highlight the environment, any findings, and recommendations you may want to share. Your account will be preloaded with the shape libraries you chose during signup. However you can add any of our prebuilt shape libraries by tapping “More...” from the top left of the Shapes Menu. You can add as many shapes as you like.

While all the shapes are available to you, you may only need a few to convey the project at hand. Navigate to the Pest Types Category and choose your favorite invasive species to add to the canvas.

In the example below you can see we’ve added a Cockroach to the canvas. Depending on the size of your project you may want to move, or resize the newly added shape. In the example below our shape is a bit smaller than we’d like to see so we’ll modify it.

Place 2 fingers on the canvas and extend them away from each other to zoom in. Once you have a clear view of your Pest Shape tap on the shape and tap and drag one of the squares on the corner of the shape to change its size. You can also move, rotate and even duplicate the shape once you’ve established the size and orientation that works best for your project.

Let’s add one more shape to give this space a label. From the Shapes Menu tap “Custom”. Label this space as the “Garage” so we know what area of the property we’re looking at. Resize and move the label to your desired location.

Draw Pro Pest: Adding Annotations

Now that you’ve added your pests and determined their size, placement and quantities, and labeled the location being addressed, we can add annotations to better convey exactly what we’re looking at.

Tap the Annotate Button on the Tool Bar and select the Text Tool

With the Text Tool selected tap and drag on the canvas where you’d like to create a text box. Type the text you’d like to display in the box.

Once your text box is placed you can move, adjust the size, or extend the boundaries of the textbox to fit your needs. Tapping the textbox again will allow you to edit the textbox as well.

Now that we’ve described the situation let’s add some recommendations using the Callout Tool. Tap on Annotate again but this time select Callout.

With the Callout Tool selected tap and drag to create an arrow and label to call out specific areas of the canvas. Callouts can be moved, resized and even adjusted to lock the arrow while arranging the label placement to keep your drawings clean, professional, and organized.

Draw Pro Pest: Adding Location Based Photos

Location Based Photos allow you to capture important photos of the project site and place them on the ArcSite canvas. You can snap a picture from your device in real time or you can add a photo from your library.

Tap the Photo Tool from the right tool bar and tap on the canvas where you are taking / will take the photo from. This will launch the option to take a live photo or upload an existing photo from your camera roll.

Choose a photo From Photo Library or Take a Photo. You can select a single photo or multiple from your camera roll. In our example we’re using a single photo from our existing photo library.

Tap on the photo to add markups or annotations to the image. You can use any of the tools on the tool bar to markup your Photo. In the example below we’ve used the Draw (Rectangle) tool to highlight a few problem areas. You can also use the Annotate (Text Box) tool to provide some context to the photo.

Once you’ve added your markups to the photo, tap the drawing name / back button in the top left corner of the screen to return to your drawing.

You’ll notice there is now a blue camera icon on the canvas where we initially placed the photo.

This photo icon will appear on the drawing and the photo itself will attach to a second page of your export when sharing this project.

Draw Pro Pest: Publish and Sharing

One of the main goals of ArcSite is to make sharing critical project information easier. In our final step we’ll walk through Publishing your drawing to your environment and sharing your drawing.

Once you’ve completed drawing and detailing your project, tap the Publish button from the top menu. This will save your drawing to the cloud and allows other users in your environment to view your work.

You can add any comments before publishing your drawing.

Once Published you can Share your drawing using the Share Button from the top menu. If you’re sharing the drawing with another ArcSite user you can share Viewable Link. Otherwise you can choose Export as File to share with people outside of ArcSite.

Choose your desired file type from the Export as File menu. Select PDF for this first export.

As a final step you can choose to adjust a number of settings on your export including Paper Size, Orientation, Scale, and more.

Make any adjustments to your export and prepare to send your drawing.

When you're finished tap the Export button to share your drawing using the program of your choice.

Draw Pro Pest: Publish and Sharing

From here you can put your skills to work and create your own project in ArcSite. While this getting started guide is meant to walk you through the essentials there is much more to explore. Like all tools, ArcSite is best mastered with practice and repetition. As a next step consider one of the following.

Grab a stack of old projects and replicate them in ArcSite to hone your skills.

**Pro Tip: Once you’ve created your old projects in ArcSite, send them to any prospects that haven’t closed yet to reignite the conversation.

OR

Jump into another lesson from the options below.

Creating a Title Block in ArcSite

Drawing Modes

Using Color and Pattern Fills

Using the Measure Tool

Adding Doors and Windows

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