imPrintXPlacing and editing devices
The catalogue, the properties panel, and changing your mind about a product.
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Pick from the catalogue
Add Devices opens it. On the floor plan, ten system groups — Audio, Video & Control, Surveillance, Security, Access Control, Lighting, Shades & Climate, Networking, Infrastructure and Architecture — each colour-coded, so a glance at the plan tells you which system a symbol belongs to. Solar is the eleventh, and it only appears in the Solar view.
Place, then keep placing
Click the canvas to drop the selected item. The tool stays armed, so a run of twelve downlights is twelve clicks, not twelve trips to the catalogue.
Select it to see what it is
Click a placed device and the properties panel docks on the right: its label and how the label is drawn, the circuit or ID it carries, its product and specification, its rotation, and the rough-in box size where that applies.
Replace without redrawing
The properties panel offers a Replace picker narrowed to genuinely comparable products rather than the whole catalogue, so swapping a 6.5" in-ceiling for a different 6.5" in-ceiling is two clicks and keeps the position, the designator and the run.
Edit several at once
Marquee-select or shift-click a group and the bulk panel replaces the properties panel. What it offers is what genuinely applies to everything you picked.
Designators
Devices are marked per system automatically from what they are, and the same mark appears on the plan's run flags, the cable tags, the exported sheets and the report's plan plates. The mark comes from the device type, not from the label you type, so relabelling a device in the properties panel does not renumber it.