Place asset icons on the map

An asset is a labelled icon pinned to one point on the map. Reach for it whenever the thing you're drawing is a single object, not an area — a forklift, a dock door, a security camera, a fuel pump, a sensor, a checkpoint. Assets are ideal for anything that has a live feed behind it (a battery level, an alert status, a last-seen timestamp) because the side panel shows its linked data in place.

To open the tool: click the Draw button on the left toolbar and pick Add asset, or press M on the keyboard. 4 also opens it. Saved assets are listed under Assets in the side panel. Other parts of the app still use the older name: the toolbar's Layers menu calls the layer Markers and the shortcut sheet lists the tool as Marker.

Screenshot · An asset selected in the Retail Mart Store

The Asset tool is a one-click drop. Unlike the Rack tool, it stays active after each click — so you can drop several assets in a row without switching tools every time.

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   Open the tool

   The cursor turns into a crosshair. A ghost preview of the icon follows the mouse so you can see exactly where the asset will land — including its current colour and size.

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   Adjust the icon before you click (optional)

   While the tool is active the side panel shows the placement settings — icon, colour, size, opacity, elevation, pole, label and tooltip. Change any of them and the next asset you drop uses the new values. Your last-used settings are remembered in this browser. Set them before the first drop: once an asset is placed it is selected, and from then on the panel edits that asset.

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   Click on the map to drop

   A new asset lands at the click point, gets a default name ("Asset"), and is auto-selected so you can edit its properties right away. The tool stays active. If you set a default floor plan, the asset is pinned to it.

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   Drop the next asset — or exit

   Click again to drop another. Press Esc or click Pan on the toolbar to exit the tool. (The "Stop placing" button sits in the Placement section, which only shows until the first asset is placed and selected.)

Every asset carries one icon. The Icon section of the side panel opens with a search box ("Search 1,700+ icons…"), a "Common" strip of 10 icons curated for warehouse and logistics work (shown while the search box is empty), and — under that — a scrollable grid of every icon in the lucide catalogue (~1,700 icons total).

When the icon has direction — a forklift, a truck, an arrow, a camera cone — the Bearing slider spins it. Bearing is in degrees from −180 to +180; 0 shows the icon in its normal upright orientation. It's a property of the asset, not a transform mode, so you edit it directly in the Dimensions section of the side panel.

When exactly one asset is selected, the side panel exposes these sections from top to bottom.

Elevation floats the asset above the ground — useful when the asset is on an upper floor of a multi-storey building, on top of a rack, or on a rooftop. The pole is a thin line drawn from the icon straight down to the ground: a 3D depth cue that shows where the asset is actually anchored.

• Elevation 0 — the asset sits on the ground. The pole is hidden even if a value is set.
• Elevation > 0 with Pole height 0 ("No pole") — the asset floats without a pole. Hard to tell where it is at oblique camera angles.
• Elevation > 0 with pole > 0 — the asset floats with a visible pole from the icon down to the ground. This is the readable default for upper-floor assets.

Every asset can carry a text label that appears next to the icon on the map. Labels are off by default; the moment you type any text into the Label field they turn on and the colour, size and position fields appear. Clear the text and they turn off. There's no separate toggle to remember.

With the Select tool, Shift-click (or ⌘/Ctrl-click) assets on the map, or drag a rectangle with Marquee select (Q), to build a bulk selection. The side panel switches to "N assets selected" with Fit and Delete all buttons, followed by the bulk-edit fields.

• Color, Size, Opacity — under Appearance.
• Elevation, Pole height — under 3D & Altitude.
• Every field shows a "Mixed" badge when the selected assets disagree on the value. Change the field and every selected asset moves to the new value.