How to show and hide layers on your plan

Show or hide a layer

1. 1

   Open the Layers panel

   Look at the right panel under Plan. Layers shows how many are visible, for example 12/13. Click the header to fold or unfold it. When something is selected, its settings sit above and Layers folds away until you clear the selection.

   

2. 2

   Click the eye

   Click the eye on a row to hide that layer, and click again to show it. Walls is marked BASE and is always shown.

3. 3

   Know what each layer holds

   Doors & Windows, Furniture & Symbols, Room Labels, Room Areas and Dimensions are what they say. Wall Measure Lines hides the dimension lines but keeps the numbers. Spacing Guides shows gaps between furniture and walls and is off by default. Electrical Wiring, Roof, Adjacent Floor (the faint floor below or above), Reference Image (a traced photo) and Grid complete the list.

   

4. 4

   Show door and window sizes

   With Doors & Windows and Dimensions shown, every door and window shows its width over its height, for example 120 over 150. Under Doors & Windows, show Sill Heights to add the sill height of each window (doors never get one). Type a short Sill label of up to 6 characters, such as SH, to print it before the value. Leave it empty to show just the value.

Select everything on a layer

1. 5

   Use the select all button on a row

   Rows with items, such as Doors & Windows or Furniture & Symbols, show a count button while the layer is visible. Click it to select all of them on this floor. Then move, restyle or delete them together.

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   Or right click the plan

   Right click an item and choose Select all for its kind, for example Select all doors or Select all floors.

Tips

• Hidden items cannot be clicked, so hide furniture when you want to edit walls underneath it.
• Exports have their own checkboxes under Include, so what you hide on screen does not have to match what you print.
• On a phone the Layers list opens from the handle at the bottom of the screen.
• In 3D, Show in 3D in the right panel has its own switches, such as See-through walls and Furniture & symbols.

Common problems

My furniture, doors or dimensions vanished

Their layer is probably hidden. Open Layers on the right and click the eye next to the missing layer.

I cannot select anything under the furniture

Hide Furniture & Symbols in Layers, edit the walls or floor, then show it again.

The dimension numbers are showing but the lines are gone

Wall Measure Lines is hidden. Show it again in Layers. To hide the numbers too, hide Dimensions.