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

    Drag a PDF, DXF or DWG onto the canvas, or use the upload control on the empty canvas. 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. No plan yet? You can place devices on a blank canvas and add the drawing underneath later. Nothing you place is lost when the plan arrives.

  2. Set the scale before you draw

    Press Set Scale at the bottom of the canvas 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.

  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, architecture and solar. Click the canvas to drop one. Keep clicking to place more of the same.

  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 PDF set; Share produces a link a client can open in a browser with nothing to install.

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