basicUpdated May 31, 2026

Wall context menu

The right-click and long-press menu on a wall — Split, Duplicate, Properties, and Delete.

Right-click a wall on desktop, or long-press a wall on mobile, to open the wall context menu. It carries the quick actions that don't have a dedicated toolbar button — splitting a wall into two, duplicating it, opening properties on mobile, and deleting.

How to open the menu

  • Desktop: right-click anywhere on a wall (including its endpoint).
  • Mobile: long-press on the wall. The browser's default right-click menu is suppressed so you get the app menu instead.

If the wall you click on is already part of a multi-selection, the menu preserves the group and leads with Duplicate Selection (N items) before the wall-specific entries. If the wall isn't part of the current selection, clicking it selects just that wall.

Entry What it does
Split Wall Splits the wall into two segments at the click position. The two new walls inherit the original wall's thickness, height, and exterior flag. (The Existing flag is not carried over — both new segments start as "new construction." Re-flag them as Existing on the wall properties if needed.) Use this when you need to put an opening or a fixture rough-in at a point that should also be a wall corner.
Duplicate Wall Drops a copy of the wall nearby. The copy uses the same start/end direction and length and lands offset from the original so you can see both.
Properties (mobile only) Opens the full properties panel for the wall. Desktop already shows it in the right-rail entity panel, so this entry isn't shown on desktop.
Delete Wall Removes the wall from the room. Any openings hosted on the deleted wall are removed with it, and undo brings the wall and its openings back together in one step.

Multi-select behaviour

When the wall you right-click is part of a multi-selection (you've clicked it after holding Ctrl, or it's inside a rect-select group):

  • The menu prepends Duplicate Selection (N items) so you can copy the whole group.
  • Delete removes every entity in the selection as one undo step. Pressing Ctrl+Z once restores the entire group together — you don't have to undo each item individually.

Tips

  • Splitting a wall is the path to placing two openings on a single straight run with different widths or sill heights — split first, place each opening on its respective segment.
  • A split-and-delete-one-side is a fast way to shorten a wall when you know exactly where it should end. Drag works too, but split-then-delete is exact.
  • The Delete-cascades-openings behaviour means you can't accidentally orphan a door or window. If a door looks like it disappeared after a wall delete, it's because the door was hosted on that wall — undo brings both back together.

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