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The toolbar features three sections.

Changes made to a plan are saved automatically. The Status Bar located at the top of the page shows the autosave status.

The canvas is where your traffic plan is created. When you open a new plan, a Google Maps (satellite view) of your worksite location is displayed on the canvas background. Changing the background (Map provider and view) is discussed later in this Chapter.

The main canvas navigation tools are the origin icon, scrolling, zooming, and layer or stage movement.

Open Settings and select the interaction mode that matches your input device: Mouse or Trackpad.

Open Settings to change the order of workspace palettes and choose which palettes are visible.

The History palette contains the list of changes that you have made on the plan. On the top right of the palette, there are two arrows that represent undo and redo operations.

While it is named the Layers palette in light of its core and original use case, the Layers palette has now expanded in function to include 3 sub-menus:

The Main menu contains a number of options to assist plan creation. The image below shows the main tools of the RapidPlan Online menu.

Create pages in the Scratchpad palette to organize reusable objects and other Scratchpad content.

The Palettes are located on the left and right of the canvas. Whole toolbars or specific Palettes can be shown/hidden by toggling the corresponding arrow button as pictured.

The Properties palette displays all the information pertaining to any selected signs, tools, markers or objects. This is where you can change fonts, colors, lane markers, etc - of a selected object.

Before starting to create plans, we recommend getting to know your way around the workspace. It has been designed to be intuitive, easy to follow and to allow you the maximum available working space to create your traffic plan.

RapidPlan can run multiple application windows at the same time.

The Scratchpad is used to store any object that you commonly use or have manually created. This way they are easily accessible and don't need to be created again.

The sign palette is the repository for each of the signs in RapidPlan Online. Aside from the signs themselves, the signs palette has three main components:

The Toolbar, located in the top right corner of the RapidPlan Online workspace, contains a small number of buttons available for quick access.

The Tools palette contains most of the elements required to draw a plan. The tools are separated into three categories, detailed in the Tables below:

The Tools palette contains most of the tools you will use to construct the features of your plan.

For the purpose of this explanation we will be using the New Default Plan in the following section