Tour of the layout editor

The layout editor is where a facility takes shape: you place its floor plans on a real-world map and draw areas, racks, walls, doors, stairs, lifts, labels and 3D models on top. Open it from a facility’s card or Edit layout on the Facilities screen.

This tour uses the demo Retail Mart Store: three floors of departments and shelving joined by an escalator core and lifts, 810 shapes in all.

Screenshot · The editor at rest

Five areas surround the map. The rest of this page walks through them in the order you’ll use them.

The rail runs top to bottom in groups. Hover any button for its name and shortcut, for example "Add floor plan (I)".

Both menus open on hover or click and close once you pick something. Keyboard shortcuts pick a tool directly without opening the menu.

• ← Retail Mart Store: the facility you are editing, with its colour. Click it to go back to the Facilities screen.
• Data links (4): how many data links this facility has. Click to add or edit them in the data link manager.
• Saving… / Saved: appears after your first edit. See Autosave, undo and redo.
• Search places…: type an address or place name and the map flies there. Use it to find your building before placing a floor plan.

The side panel changes with what you are doing. Its header always says what it’s showing; the button at the top right folds it away to give the map more room.

A small pulsing dot next to the header means an edit is waiting to save ("Unsaved changes — auto-saving…"). Units at the bottom of the panel sets the display unit for lengths: Meters, Feet, Yards, Kilometers or Miles.

The bar along the bottom of the map shows, from left to right:

• Lat, Lng, Zoom of the map centre (on wide screens).
• A hint for the current tool or selection. It changes as you work, and shows "Shift held" or "Alt held" while a modifier is down.
• A ? button that opens the shortcut cheatsheet.
• Undo and Redo.
• N shapes: click it for "Shapes in this facility", a count per kind.

Press ? at any time (except while typing in a field) to open Keyboard shortcuts; press it again to close. It groups the shortcuts into Tools, Drawing, Transform selected shape, Selection and App. The full list is in Keyboard shortcuts.

Screenshot · Keyboard shortcuts cheatsheet

• Import a PDF or DWG floor plan, then add it to the map.
• Select, move, rotate and scale shapes.
• Multi-select and bulk edit shapes.
• Layers, floors and map styles.
• Autosave, undo and redo.