Documentation

Everything you need to ship a facility.

The whole journey, in order — sign up, build your facility, bring data in, put it on the map, share it and report on it. Every guide is written against the real app, with screenshots of the demo warehouse, supermarket and store.

  1. 01Get started3 guides · starts with Get started with Spatial Map
  2. 02Workspace & team5 guides · starts with Workspaces: switch, create and manage
  3. 03Build a facility24 guides · starts with Create and manage facilities
  4. 04Data5 guides · starts with Connect data with Integrations
  5. 05Data links9 guides · starts with Data links: put live data on the map
  6. 06Viewer & sharing15 guides · starts with The Viewer: a read-only facility map
  7. 07Reports5 guides · starts with View and share live reports
  8. 08Reference3 guides · starts with Keyboard shortcuts

All topics

69 guides, in order from sign-up to a shared report.

Updated Oct 2026

Workspace & team

Build a facility

Build a facility
Create and manage facilities
Add a facility with a name, address and colour, then open, preview, share, duplicate, configure or delete it from the Facilities screen in Spatial Map.
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Tour of the layout editor
A guided tour of the Spatial Map layout editor: the tool rail with its Draw and Data menus, the top pills, the side panel and the status bar.
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Import a PDF or DWG floor plan
Turn a PDF drawing sheet or an AutoCAD DWG file into a true-to-scale floor plan image: pick the sheet or layers, confirm scale or units, then place it.
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Add a floor plan to the map
Place a floor plan image, PDF sheet or DWG drawing on the map, resize, rotate and crop it, reuse earlier uploads and stack several floors by elevation.
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Draw rooms and zones with the Area tool
Trace rooms, offices and zones on a floor plan with the Area tool (P). Give each area a role, extrude it in 3D and reshape it with Edit vertices.
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Generate walls from areas with Magic walls
Turn drawn rooms into walled enclosures in one click: Magic walls (W) traces a 3D wall around every area you pick, using your Aisle tool wall settings.
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Draw aisles and 3D walls with the Aisle tool
Draw aisles, lane markings and 3D walls click by click with the Aisle tool (L). Set wall height and thickness, dash style, labels and snap hints.
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Add doors to walls with the Door tool
Place single, double, sliding or revolving doors with the Door tool (D). Doors snap to walls, cut an opening and let indoor wayfinding routes through.
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Draw racks and shelving with the Rack tool
Draw racks, shelving and storage grids in two clicks with Draw rack (G). Set cell size and levels, edit each bin and link bins to live stock data.
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Draw circles and circle grids
Draw single circles or a regular grid of circles with the Circle tool (C): tanks, pillars, seating or sensor arrays, with roles, 3D height and labels.
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Place asset icons on the map
Drop asset icons on your indoor map with Add asset (M): pick from 1,700+ icons, point them with Bearing, raise them on a pole and attach linked data.
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Add text labels to a floor plan
Label rooms, departments and bays with Add text (T). Choose a preset, make labels face the camera or lie flat, and control size, halo and occlusion.
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Draw 3D stairs with the stairs & lifts tool
Draw straight, L-shape and U-shape 3D staircases with Add stairs & lifts (S). Set steps, riser and tread depth, and check the live building-code badge.
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Add lifts and escalators between floors
Place elevators and escalators with the Add stairs & lifts tool (S): link them to floors, set direction, stops and status, and see them as 3D models.
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Place 3D models on your indoor map
Add forklifts, trucks, shelving and your own .glb models with Add 3D model (B). Rotate on three axes, scale, tint, animate and fade building shells.
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Place images as 3D signs and posters
Stand an image up as a sign, poster or billboard with Add image plane (F). Upload a PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP, then tilt, spin and raise it in 3D.
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Draw evacuation and forklift routes
Draw walking, driving, emergency, forklift, accessible and service routes with Add route (Y): typed colours, direction arrows and junction snapping.
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Indoor wayfinding and turn-by-turn directions
Walking routes between two points on one floor, with distance, walking time and turn-by-turn steps: Route from A to B (N) in the editor, Navigate in the viewer.
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Select, move, rotate and scale shapes
Select shapes in the Spatial Map editor by click, Shift-click or marquee, then move, rotate, scale and raise them with the mouse or the keyboard.
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Multi-select and bulk edit shapes
Select many shapes at once in the Spatial Map editor, then recolour, raise, hide, move to another floor or delete them all together in one step.
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Layers, floors and map styles
Show or hide shape layers, set their drawing order, choose the floor new shapes land on, switch between 8 map styles and tune graphics quality in the editor.
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Autosave, undo and redo
How the Spatial Map editor saves every change automatically, what Saving…, Saved and Offline mean, which edits undo covers, and how teammates see your changes.
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Manage facilities from the editor
Use the Facilities list in the layout editor’s all-facilities view to add a facility, delete one, and move shapes between facilities with Assign selection.
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AI Map (coming soon)
AI Map, a tool to detect a layout from your floor plan automatically, is coming soon to Spatial Map. See where it appears and how to map a facility today.
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Data

Data links

Data links
Data links: put live data on the map
A data link turns rows from a table, REST API or file into markers, tinted shapes, badges or heatmaps on a facility map. Learn the modes and the editor.
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Data links
Manage a facility's data links
Open the Data links list for a facility to search, switch on or off, edit and delete every data link — and find the shortcuts from the toolbar and shapes.
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Data links
Pick a data source and display mode
The first three sections of a data link: name it, pick the table, REST API or file it reads, and choose one of nine display modes for the map.
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Attach data link records to shapes and floors
Match each data-link record to a shape by name, role or external code, or pin a link to one shape, then choose which floors of the facility the layer shows on.
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Data links
Publish saved filters for a data link
Saved filters are named slices of a data link, like "Rooms in use" or "Needs attention", that viewers pick with one click. Build conditions and see live counts.
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Connect fields: coordinates, labels and elevation
Tell a data link which fields hold longitude, latitude, label, value and elevation — so staff, equipment and sensor markers land in the right place and floor.
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Style a data link layer
Set a data link's base look — icon, colours, marker size, fill opacity, clustering, heatmap radius — and tick which facility style rules may recolour it.
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Style rules: colour shapes and markers by data
Write a facility's style rules once — conditions, fill colour, opacity, label, priority — and let data links and rack cells repaint by status. First match wins.
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Map tooltip and detail drawer for data links
Choose which fields a data link shows when people hover or click it on the map: tooltip trigger, click action, field order, templates and the detail drawer.
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Viewer & sharing

Viewer & sharing
The Viewer: a read-only facility map
Open a facility read-only in the Viewer: floors, layers, live data links, a detail drawer and indoor directions, for teammates on /view and guests on /share.
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Viewer & sharing
Show and hide layers in the Viewer
Use the Viewer's Layers panel to hide shape kinds, list and zoom to items, and switch data-link layers off for your visit or turn them off for everyone.
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Viewer & sharing
Switch floors in the Viewer
Show one floor, several or all of them in the Viewer's floor switcher, see how share links lock a floor, and set a building shell to Auto, Shell or Interior.
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Filter live data in the Viewer
The Viewer's Filters pill lets anyone pick a saved filter per data link and fill in runtime values, then Apply. It appears once a link has saved filters.
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Viewer & sharing
Change map style and graphics quality in the Viewer
Switch between eight map styles and turn 3D shadows, ambient occlusion and "Hide items under floors" on or off in the Viewer, remembered in your browser.
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Viewer & sharing
Inspect a shape's data in the Viewer
Click a marker, an area or a live data point in the Viewer to open a detail drawer with its photo, fields, links and change history, or a list for a cluster.
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Viewer & sharing
Row history and the History player
See every change to a table row in the Viewer's detail drawer, and replay a table's changes on the map with the History player for Historical movement layers.
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Viewer & sharing
Preview a facility before you share it
Use the editor's Preview button or a facility card's Preview to open the read-only Viewer, check what teammates will see, then go back to editing in one click.
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Viewer & sharing
Share a facility with a link
Create share links that open a facility read-only for anyone, with no account. Set expiry, a view cap, a floor lock, branding and which controls guests see.
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Viewer & sharing
Set a share link's label, expiry and view cap
On the Share dialog's General tab, name a link, make it expire after 1 hour to 1 year, on a custom date or never, cap how often it opens and keep private notes.
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Brand a share link: map style, theme and watermark
On the Share dialog's Appearance tab, set a share link's map style, light or dark mode and one of 46 accent colours, and add a watermark like CONFIDENTIAL.
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Viewer & sharing
Lock a share link to one floor and hide layers
On the Share dialog's Layout tab, open a link on all floors or lock guests to one floor, and switch off kinds of shapes such as markers, doors or live data.
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Viewer & sharing
Choose which data links a share link shows
On the Share dialog's Data links tab, choose which data-link layers a share link's guests start with, one switch per layer, and how this differs from Live data.
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Viewer & sharing
Hide viewer controls on a share link (kiosk mode)
On the Share dialog's Viewer chrome tab, hide the floor, layers, filter, map style and quality controls from guests, or lock pan and zoom for a kiosk display.
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Copy, edit, revoke and delete share links
The Manage links tab lists every share link for a facility with its status, views and expiry. Copy or open the URL, edit settings, revoke a link or delete it.
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Reports

Examples gallery

16 step-by-step recipes, each one built on a real demo facility. See the 13 finished demo facilities in the Showcase →

Updated Oct 2026
New to Spatial Map?
Start with Getting started — you'll be signed in, on your dashboard, and ready to draw a facility in under five minutes.
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Keyboard first
Every editor tool has a single-letter shortcut and every dialog closes with Esc. Press?anywhere in the editor for the full cheatsheet.