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Socket

The Socket tool puts a socket’s plate on a wall: power, Schuko, USB, TV or data network. It works like the Light switch tool; here is what is its own.

Picking it

Section titled “Picking it”
  • Electrics in the dock, then Socket (power, USB, TV, network), or OO.
  • The right click on a wall: Add a socket picks the tool; then click the side where it goes.
  • The search (⌘KCtrl+K): type Socket.

The bar

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The Socket tool's bar: Type TV, Height 30 cm from the house
  • Type: Socket 10/16 A, Schuko, USB, TV or Data network. It starts at Socket 10/16 A and keeps the last one chosen while the project is open.
  • Height: the house’s height for sockets, from the house, 30 cm unless you change it (Sockets in the house’s Electrics). Read only here; a socket of its own height is set in the socket once placed.

Using it

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  1. Pick the tool and choose the Type.
  2. Move onto the wall, on the side the socket goes: its ghost follows the pointer along that face.
  3. Click: the socket is placed in the room that side faces.
A TV socket's ghost under the television, on the living room's side of the north wall

Keys inside it

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  • EscEsc or Done (✓): back to Select.
  • ␣␣ held: move the view; ⌘Ctrl with the wheel: zoom.
  • SS and LL: the other tools of Electrics.

What it snaps to

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As the light switch’s: the nearest wall under the pointer, the face the pointer is on, the point straight across from it, at least 6 cm from the wall’s ends. Nothing else: not openings, not other plates.

What it refuses

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As the light switch’s: a face that looks outside (This side of the wall faces outside: a plate goes inside a room), and railings and separators, which show no ghost.

After

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The socket is selected and its inspector open; the tool stays on for the next one. One step in the history (Plate added). Its inspector is the light switch’s (Switches and sockets).

The TV socket placed and selected: Socket · Living · wall wall-1, 30 cm from the house, 3.10 m from the wall's start

Example: the TV socket

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The television hangs on the living room’s north wall, its middle 3.10 m from the wall’s start (x 3.10).

  1. Press OO. In the bar, choose TV.
  2. Move onto the north wall, on the living room’s side, under the television: the pointer reads about x 3.10 · y 0.12.
  3. Click. The inspector reads Socket · Living · wall wall-1, at 30 cm from the house.
  4. To put it exactly, type From the wall's start3.10.

If something goes wrong

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  • This side of the wall faces outside: click the inside of the wall, in a room.
  • The wrong type: change Type in the inspector; the wrong place: ⌘ZCtrl+Z and click again.

See also

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