Layers & styles
Toggle what's drawn, switch canvas and wall styles, and understand the dark-mode policy.
Layers control what is drawn; styles control how it looks. Together they let one drawing serve a clean client view or a full services view.
Layer visibility
Open Menu → Visible layers for a sheet of ten visibility toggles, all on by default, with a Show all reset:
- Grid
- Walls
- Doors
- Windows
- Furniture
- Fixtures
- Lights
- Heat (radiators)
- Measurements
- Annotations
Furniture and fixtures are separate toggles, so you can clear the loose furnishings while keeping the fitted bathroom and kitchen, or the other way round. Hidden furniture and fixtures are also ignored by tap selection, you can’t accidentally select what you can’t see.
The Annotations toggle controls the sheet annotations you add with the Annotation tool - free text, the north arrow, the scale bar and the watermark. Structural voids ride the Walls layer (they’re part of a room’s geometry, not sheet annotations), so the Annotations toggle doesn’t hide them. And the red measurement tape follows the Measurements toggle, alongside the wall-length labels and the area · perimeter readout.
Turn layers off for a clean plan, or leave them on for a full services view, from the same drawing, non-destructively. Layer visibility is a view preference for the editor and isn’t saved into the drawing file. (The overlay engines carry their own per-drawing layer options for their canvases and exports.)
Room names
The same sheet has a Room names section: a Show room names toggle (the same setting as in Settings) and a Text size stepper (8–48 pt). The size is CAD-style, it scales with the plan rather than the screen, so names render the same in the editor and on exports. Each room can additionally scale, rotate or nudge its own label from the Room tool, see Measurements & properties.
Canvas style
Set in Settings:
- Normal, black walls and clear symbols on a paper-white sheet (the default architectural look).
- Blueprint, a deep cyanotype-navy background with white linework and a warm-orange selection highlight.
Wall style
Also in Settings:
- Solid, each wall is one thick centreline stroke (the default).
- Outline, two thin face lines (inner and outer) with clean corner joins, and small jamb caps at each door or window, the classic UK plan convention.
Theming & dark mode
The app’s chrome (palettes, sheets, pills) follows your system light or dark appearance. The plan itself always stays light, a floor plan reads the same on paper either way, and inverting it would wash the symbols out. So a Blueprint canvas in dark mode is a navy plan with dark-grey bubbles floating over it.
Marketing mode
The Marketing engine adds a one-tap “marketing mode” that hides clutter (grid, dimensions, door swings) while showing room names, a scale bar, north and floor area, ideal for a brochure, without changing your working drawing.