Room Planner controls
Select ? in the corner of the room to see the most common controls in the planner itself.
Drawing walls
Section titled “Drawing walls”Before you select Generate.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Click | Start a wall, or end it. The next wall starts where the last one ended. |
| Type a number, then Enter | End the wall at exactly that many inches, in the direction of the pointer. |
| Backspace | Delete the last digit you typed. |
| Escape | Clear the length you typed. Press again to stop the wall you’re drawing. |
| Hold Shift | Draw at any angle. Walls are otherwise straight across or up and down. |
| Right-drag or middle-drag | Move the view. |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom. Off while you trace over a floor plan. |
Placing and selecting cabinets
Section titled “Placing and selecting cabinets”| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Select a cabinet in Cabinet Library, then click the room | Place the cabinet. |
| Shift+click the room | Place another of the same cabinet, and keep it ready to place again. |
| Click a cabinet | Select it. |
| Shift+click a cabinet | Add it to the selection, or take it out. |
| Shift+drag across empty floor | Select every cabinet the box touches. |
| Drag a cabinet | Move the selected cabinets. In a wall view, only side to side. |
| Right-click a cabinet | Duplicate, Rotate 90°, or Delete. |
| Double-click a cabinet | Open its options. |
| Double-click a wall or its label, in Top | Open Wall Settings for that wall. |
| Click empty floor | Clear the selection. |
Keyboard
Section titled “Keyboard”The keys work when the room has focus: click it first if you’ve been typing in a field.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Nudge the selected cabinets by the Nudge amount. |
| Shift+arrow | Nudge four times as far. |
| Alt+arrow (Option+arrow on a Mac) | Nudge a quarter as far. |
| R | Rotate the selected cabinet 90°. One cabinet only. |
| Delete or Backspace | Remove the selected cabinets. |
| Escape | Cancel a drag, close the right-click menu, or clear the selection. |
| Ctrl+Z (⌘Z) | Undo. The planner remembers the last 25 changes. |
| Ctrl+Y, or Ctrl+Shift+Z (⌘⇧Z) | Redo. |
What the arrow keys do depends on the view. In 3D, Up and Down move a cabinet toward or away from its wall, and Left and Right slide it along the wall. In Top, they follow the screen. In a wall view, Up and Down move it up and down the wall.
| View | Shows |
|---|---|
| 3D | The room in perspective. Drag empty space to turn it. |
| Top | The room from above, with wall and cabinet dimensions. |
| Wall A, Wall B, … | One wall from inside the room, with its cabinets, doors, windows, and dimensions. When there are more than four walls, or the planner is too narrow to show a button for each, they’re listed under Walls instead. Walls shorter than 24 inches don’t have a view. |
To zoom, use the mouse wheel, pinch on a trackpad, or the − and + buttons in the corner. Fit to View, the target button next to them, fits the room on screen, and so does double-clicking empty space. Move the view with a two-finger swipe or a middle-drag; in 3D, hold Shift and swipe with two fingers to turn it.
Panels
Section titled “Panels”The Cabinet Library is on the left. The right-hand side shows one of these:
| Panel | How to open it | What’s in it |
|---|---|---|
| Cabinet options | Select a cabinet | Configuration, Placement, and Nudge (Relative to Wall). |
| Wall Openings | Choose a wall view, or the ⋮ menu | Doors and windows. See Add doors and windows. |
| Wall Settings | The ⋮ menu | Dim Offset (in), which moves a wall’s dimension line away from the wall; and PDF Underlay, which shows or hides a traced floor plan. |
| Bill of Materials | The ⋮ menu | Every cabinet, numbered as on the exported floor plan. Select a row to find that cabinet in the room. |
Use the pin button on a panel to keep it open. Enter Fullscreen, next to Save, gives the planner the whole screen.
Read-only designs
Section titled “Read-only designs”Someone who can open an order but not edit it sees its design read-only. So does everyone, once the order is submitted. They can look at every view and export the drawings, but the Cabinet Library, Save, and editing controls are hidden. For who can edit a design, see Permissions.
Limitations
Section titled “Limitations”- Walls can’t be moved, resized, or redrawn after Generate, and wall height can only be set before it.
- Generated walls aren’t saved until you place a cabinet or add a door or window and select Save. See Save or discard Room Planner changes.
- Only products from the catalog can be placed. There are no appliances, countertops, fillers, or moldings.
- Each cabinet in a design is one line item with a quantity of 1. Its quantity can’t be changed on the Line Items tab.
- For a PDF floor plan, only the first page is used.
- Undo goes back 25 changes at most.
- Changing an order’s presets replaces those options on every cabinet in the design.
- Moving or changing cabinets while previewing preset changes can make Cancel undo the wrong thing. See Change presets on an order with a design.
- If a cabinet fails to load, the planner says “Some cabinets failed to load” and can’t save until you reload the page.