Room Layout

Room Layout — quick guide

Placing things

  • Pick an item from the Library, or use Custom object to type width × depth × height plus the space you need around it.
  • A table entered as 150 × 75 with 10 cm behind it occupies 150 × 85 cm of floor — the tool keeps both numbers separate and draws the extra space as a hatched zone.
  • Drag to move. Objects snap to walls, to each other, and to each other's clearance edges.
  • R rotates 15°, Shift+R the other way, Shift+drag or click adds to the selection.
  • Ctrl+G groups what you have selected, so it moves, turns and mirrors as one piece. Double-click a member to pick it out on its own; Ctrl+Shift+G ungroups.
  • M mirrors left to right, Shift+M front to back — about the selection's own centre, swapping each item's left and right clearance. Duplicate first if you want to keep the original.
  • Labels in the toolbar (or L) hides every name tag at once. To silence just one, use the A button on its row in the list, or Name tags in its panel — a whole group at a time from the group's row.
  • A name tag shows the name only; sizes live in the list, the panel and the dimension lines (Dims).
  • Settings → Show lengths in switches the whole tool between centimetres and millimetres. Lengths are stored in centimetres either way.

Paths & openings

  • Add path then click along the floor to trace a walkway; Enter finishes, Esc cancels, Backspace removes the last point.
  • Anything standing in a path — or in another object's clearance — is listed under Issues and outlined in the viewport.
  • Doors & windows are placed on a wall by distance along that wall; a door's swing is treated as space that must stay free.
  • A path can be one width at the start and another at the end — an aisle that opens out.

Types & the library

  • Placing something from the Library links it to that library item. Edit the item with — size, clearance and colour — and everything already placed from it changes to match.
  • Editing a linked object does the same thing, from the other end. Unlink this one if you want to change just the one.
  • Custom object can save what you build as a library item, which makes it a type of its own.

Pieces worth knowing

  • Trolley — a movable table: two levels, one just above the castors and one at the height you set. Width, depth, height and colour are all it needs.
  • Office chair on a five-star base, and a garderobe open at the front with a hanging rail.
  • Object flow room — closed on three sides with a roller shutter on the fourth. Point at it and scroll to run the shutter up and down; it stops 10 cm below the top.

Pictures

  • From a picture… makes an object out of a photo. Cut-out stands the photo up at true size, front/top/all wrap it onto the box.
  • Floor plan underlay puts an existing plan on the floor so you can trace over it — set its scale in cm.

Keys

  • 1/2 3D / plan view
  • F fit · G grid · C clearance · L labels · D dims · W walls
  • R rotate · M mirror · Ctrl+D duplicate · Del delete
  • Ctrl+G group · Ctrl+Shift+G ungroup
  • Arrows nudge (Shift = ×10) · Alt while dragging = ignore snapping
  • Ctrl+Z undo · Ctrl+Shift+Z redo · Esc deselect