imPrintX

Your first drawing, start to finish

Plan in, scale set, devices placed, saved, exported — the whole loop in one pass.

4 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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  1. Bring in the plan

    Open the projects drawer with the Open Projects button at the far left of the header, press New Project, and pick a PDF, DXF or DWG — CAD files are converted on the way in. Multi-page PDFs stay multi-page — the page arrows in the header move between sheets, and each sheet keeps its own devices and walls.

    Tip. Do not drop a file onto the drawing itself: the canvas does not take a dropped file, and the browser opens it in place of the app. Dropping PDFs into the projects drawer files them into the open folder without opening them. No plan yet? You can place devices on a blank canvas and put a PDF underneath later with ⋯ → Swap Plan.

  2. Set the scale before you draw

    If the title block prints the sheet's scale, imPrintX reads it when the sheet opens and sets it for you — the bar at the bottom left then shows a 10 ft scale bar. Otherwise that bar shows Set Scale: press it and pick the architectural ratio the sheet was drawn at — 1/4" = 1', 1/8" = 1' and seven others. If the sheet is not to a standard ratio, draw one Measure line along something you know the length of and type that length in.

    Tip. Everything measured comes from this: cable lengths, coverage radii, room areas, the takeoff. A drawing with no scale still draws, but nothing it reports is in real feet. A sheet stamped NTS (not to scale) is left unscaled on purpose.

  3. Place devices

    Press Add Devices in the tool pill and pick from the catalogue — audio, video and control, surveillance, security, access control, lighting, shades and climate, networking, infrastructure and architecture. Click the canvas to drop one. Keep clicking to place more of the same. Solar equipment has its own catalogue in the Solar view.

  4. Check it covers what you promised

    Use the coverage pill in the header: WiFi, Audio, Cameras or Motion. Coverage is computed over the walls on the drawing, so it attenuates through what you actually drew rather than drawing circles on a picture.

  5. Save

    Press ⌘S (Ctrl+S on Windows) or the save icon in the header. The save icon turns green when the project is stored. Projects live in your account, so the same drawing opens on another machine when you sign in.

  6. Hand it over

    The ⋯ menu beside Save carries Export and Share. Export produces the title-blocked plan sheets; Share produces a link to the full client report that a client can open in a browser with nothing to install.

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