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Every tool in the pill

What each slot does, and which ones act on something instead of drawing it.

6 min read · guided tour

Guided walkthrough

See this in the real app, not a recording

The guided tour opens a real architect’s sheet in the actual workspace and walks you through it — the same buttons you will be pressing, highlighted one at a time. Nothing to install, and you can stop it at any point and keep the drawing.

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This is the real tool pill. Not a picture of it — the same component the workspace mounts, so what you see here is what is on your screen. Select is armed, as it is when you open a project.
The floating tool pill, grouped: navigate, draw, edit, annotate, measure, and the one labelled button — Add Devices.NavigateSelect · PanDrawCable · WallEditOffset · TrimAnnotateZone · ArrowMeasureand clientMaterialsthe BOMAdd DevicesA slot with an arrow is a family — open the flyout for its siblings.Hold Space and drag to pan without leaving the tool you are in.
The pill, grouped. Six slots and one labelled button.

  1. Select (V) and Pan (H)

    Select picks things up; drag on empty canvas to marquee a group. Pan moves the sheet. You can pan from any tool by holding Space and dragging, which saves switching back and forth.

  2. Cable, Conduit, Wire

    One family, three names. They draw identically — same geometry, same bends, same measured length — and differ in what they are called and totalled as on the schedules.

  3. Feather

    In the same flyout because it is the last thing you do to a run: pick it, click a run, and it is flagged for the takeoff.

  4. Wall and Obstacle

    Wall draws a real wall with a material. Obstacle is anything else coverage has to get through that is not a wall.

  5. Zone and Mask

    Zone marks an area — a room, a coverage requirement, a scope boundary. Mask hides part of the underlay you do not want on the drawing.

  6. Arrow, Rectangle, Circle

    Annotation. They mark up the sheet; they are not part of the system model and never reach a schedule.

  7. Measure

    Measures a distance on the plan, and is how you calibrate a sheet that is not at a standard ratio.

  8. Virtual Client

    Drops a pretend device on the plan and reports what it would actually see from there — the honest answer to "will it work in that corner?". Also reachable from the header while WiFi coverage is on.

  9. Add Devices

    The one labelled button. Opens the catalogue, grouped by system, with search. Pick an item, then click the canvas to place it.

  10. Bill of Materials

    The clipboard icon at the end of the pill. Everything placed, counted, with the specification each line carries. This is its only entry point.

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