imPrintX

The workspace, explained

Four regions. Once you know what each one owns, nothing in the app is hidden.

5 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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The imPrintX workspace: a view rail down the left, a project header across the top, the drawing in the middle, the tool pill floating at the bottom, and the properties panel docked on the right.VIEWSPROJECT · COVERAGE · SAVEPropertiesof what youselectedToolslive hereThe drawing — everything else is derived from it
The four regions of the workspace. Nothing else is hidden anywhere else.
This is the real view rail. The strip down the left of the workspace, mounted here from the same component. Top to bottom: Floorplan, Rack View, Solar, Report, Port Schedule, Line Schedule, Item Directory, Design Auditor — then Settings and Help at the foot. Floorplan is highlighted, the way the app opens. Hover any of them in the app and its name appears beside it.

  1. Left rail — the views

    Every drawing this project can produce, stacked as icons. Switching a view never changes the design; it changes which drawing of it you are looking at. Hover any icon for its name.

  2. Top header — the project

    On the left, the project name (double-click to rename) and the button that opens the projects drawer. Multi-page plans get page arrows here. In the middle, the assistant and the coverage pill. On the right, Save and the ⋯ menu.

  3. Bottom pill — the tools

    The drawing tools, in one floating pill: navigate, undo and redo, draw, edit, annotate, measure, the Bill of Materials, and the Add Devices button. Slots with a small corner arrow are families — click the arrow to open the flyout and pick a sibling.

  4. Bottom left — the canvas controls

    Grid, snap, architectural walls on or off, 3D, Fit to screen, the zoom, and — while the sheet has no scale — Set Scale (a 10 ft scale bar once it has one). These affect how the plan is drawn on screen, not what the design contains.

  5. Right side — selection

    Select something and the properties panel docks on the right: what it is, how it is labelled, its specification, and the controls that apply to that kind of object. Select several and the bulk panel replaces it.

  6. 3D — the sheet, or the whole building

    The 3D button opens the plan in 3D. Sheet shows the sheet you are on, as it always has. Building stacks every sheet you have said is a floor, at its stated height, in one model you can orbit, pan and zoom. With no floors set up, 3D opens on the sheet.

  7. Levels — making a building out of sheets

    In Building, Levels lists the sheets. Add a sheet as a floor, name it, and choose its floor-to-floor height — 8′, 9′, 10′, 12′, or type one; nothing is assumed. Then say how it sits on the floor below: Pick a shared point (the same stair corner or riser on both sheets, with a turn if the sheet is drawn rotated), or Sheets line up as printed. A floor missing any of this is listed with the reason and not drawn, and with no drawing scale nothing stacks.

    Tip. Sheets that are details, elevations or a site plan simply stay out of the building.

  8. Looking through the building

    Floors: tick a floor to show or hide it, Isolate one, or Cut above to take away the floors over it. Translucency lets you see through walls and floors; Section cuts the whole building at a height, starting at the 4 ft plan cut; Plans lays each sheet under its own floor; Top, Iso and Fit frame it. Click a device and it names itself — its mark, its label, its floor, and its height with where that height came from. Walk a room is still there from both modes.

  9. Wi-Fi through floors

    Select an access point in Building, then 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz, to paint its coverage on the floors directly above and below. The loss through the floor is the published ITU-R P.1238-13 figure for the floor construction you state under Levels — a house, an apartment or an office; until you state one, nothing is drawn. 6 GHz has no published figure, so it is not drawn through floors.

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