Draw a wall

Walls are the backbone of every plan. Use the Draw Wall tool whenever you start a new room, extend an existing layout, or add an interior partition. This article walks through the standard click-type-commit flow on desktop and on a tablet or phone.

Before you start

Open a project from the project list. See Create your first project if you haven't made one yet. Every new project starts with one empty room ready for walls.

Steps (desktop)

1. Click the Draw Wall icon in the left toolbar, or press L. The icon is a thin diagonal line on the toolbar.
2. Click on the canvas where the wall should start. A small crosshair marks the start point.
3. Move the mouse in the direction you want the wall to run. As you move, the wall rubber-bands from the start point and the cursor snaps to the nearest cardinal or 45-degree angle when you're close to one.
4. Type the length you want — for example, 8' or 8'6" for imperial, or 2.5m or 2500 for metric. Numbers and unit markers appear in the Length field at the bottom of the canvas as you type.
5. Press Enter to commit. The wall locks at the typed length along the locked angle.
6. The next segment starts automatically from the endpoint you just placed, so you can chain walls click-type-Enter, click-type-Enter around a room.
7. Press Esc when you're done drawing. This cancels the segment in progress. The Wall tool stays active — pick another start point to draw more walls, or switch to Select (S or V) when you're done.

Steps (mobile / tablet)

On phones and tablets, the default sub-mode is Precision — the same one desktop uses. The flow uses an on-screen d-pad so you can place a start point with finger precision.

1. Tap the Draw Wall icon in the left toolbar.
2. Tap roughly where the wall should start. A crosshair appears and the endpoint adjust pad opens with a d-pad and a step-size dial.
3. Nudge the crosshair onto your exact start point with the d-pad. Tap the step dial in the middle to cycle through step sizes (1/16", 1/4", 1", 1 ft, 10 ft on imperial — metric uses 1 mm / 5 mm / 10 mm / 100 mm / 1 m). Tap Set to commit the start.
4. The direction pad opens — pick one of the four arrows (up, down, left, right) to lock the wall angle. Or tap the centre Free button to drag freely with your finger. See Node Mode on mobile for the d-pad in detail.
5. Once the angle is locked, the Length field opens with the on-screen keyboard. Type the length (for example, 8' or 2500) and tap Set.
6. The next segment starts from the endpoint you just placed — pick the next direction on the d-pad and keep going.
7. Tap Done on the d-pad when you're finished drawing.

Tips

• Move the cursor away from a cardinal direction to draw at a non-snap angle. The status hint at the bottom of the canvas tells you whether the angle is currently locked to horizontal, vertical, or a diagonal.
• Hold Ctrl while moving the mouse to bypass all snapping for the next point — useful when an aggressive snap target keeps grabbing your cursor away from where you want.
• If you mistype the length, press Backspace to edit and then Enter. Pressing Esc instead clears the segment and stops the chain.
• Dragging a wall after it's placed counts as one move — Ctrl+Z reverses the whole drag in a single step, not pixel-by-pixel.
• For typed length formats and what the Length field accepts, see Length field (Value Command Bar).
• To snap onto an existing wall endpoint, see Connect mode.