[Equest-users] Your Basic N00B Problem creating zones

[lawrence Lile]

I am just learning E Quest and am having some very basic issues.

I am trying to enter a very simple building into the Schematic Design
Wizard.  This building has two zones.  I can check the dropdown for "zoning
pattern one per floor" to make it automatically make a zone on the floor.
I'd like to edit this to make a second zone.  I then hit "custom" and start
having pretty much no luck creating any more zones.

When I start out, there is a single active zone, with 9 points same as the
building footprint.  It will need 11 points to be able to add the second
zone.   I can't seem to add any points by clicking on the screen, except for
the very first vertex, so I guessed that is not the way to proceed.  If I
manually type in the numbers for the vertices of the zone, it will not allow
more than 9 vertices to exist in this zone.  If I add one manually, it
automatically deletes one.  If I try to edit the 10th cell, it will not
allow any numbers to be entered.  If I delete the active zone, and then hit
"Create a new zone", then it complains that a zone cannot have less than
three points, preventing a new zone from being created from scratch.  If I
hit "create a new zone" before deleting the first one, it will allow exactly
two vertices to be created, but refuses allow the third and fourth,
generating another "no less than three vertices" error when I finally give
up.  Same with "start from blank slate" - no new zones can be created by
clicking the "create new zone" button.

What is the trick for adding or creating points in a zone?  So far the
program seems determined to prevent any new zones from being added or any
old ones from being edited.

--Lawrence
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