Place a fixture

The Fixtures tool opens the catalogue of items you can drop onto a plan — bathroom and kitchen fittings, appliances, cabinetry, furniture, plumbing rough-ins, electrical symbols, and a generic Custom box. Pick one and it lands on the canvas at the centre of your current view, ready to be dragged into final position.

Before you start

Fixtures don't need walls — you can drop them onto an empty canvas. But most fixtures behave better with at least a room outline in place: cabinets and appliances auto-orient and snap when you drag them near a wall, and rough-ins lock to walls for the wall-locked types. See Draw a wall if you haven't laid out walls yet.

Steps (desktop)

1. Click the Fixtures button in the left toolbar (the armchair icon). The Fixtures panel slides out from the left edge.
2. The panel shows a search box at the top and a list of collapsible categories below it: Bathroom, Kitchen, Laundry, Living Room, Bedroom, Office / Dining, Rough-Ins, Electrical, and General. On desktop, Bathroom and Kitchen open by default so the two most-used categories save a couple of clicks. The rest are collapsed — click a header to expand.
3. Either scroll to the item you want, or type in the search box to filter the whole catalogue by name. While searching, the category headers disappear and the panel shows a flat list of matches.
4. Click the item. The fixture lands on the canvas at the centre of your current view, gets selected, and the panel closes.
5. Drag the fixture into final position. When you drag it near a wall, it snaps to the wall and (for most fixture types) rotates to face into the room. See Auto-orient and lock to wall for the toggles that control that behaviour per fixture.

The Electrical category behaves a bit differently — picking an electrical symbol enters a hover-preview mode where a ghost outline follows your cursor, and you click on the canvas to commit. That's covered in the Electrical category of the help library, not here.

Steps (mobile / tablet)

1. Tap the Fixtures button in the left toolbar.
2. The Fixtures panel slides up. On mobile the panel is narrower (220 wide vs 320 on desktop) and category headers are all collapsed by default — tap a header to expand it.
3. Tap the search box to filter, or expand a category and tap the item you want.
4. The fixture drops at the centre of the current view. The panel closes.
5. To move the fixture, switch to the Move tool in the toolbar and drag it. (On mobile, single-finger drag in Select mode pans the canvas, not the fixture — Move is the dedicated drag tool on touch devices.)

Searching the catalogue

The search box matches against the item label only — so typing 30 finds Base Cabinet (30"), Stove / Range (30"), and Upper Cabinet (30"), and typing pantry finds the Pantry (36") preset. Clearing the search restores the category view with whatever collapse / expand state you had before.

Closing the panel

The panel closes automatically when you place a fixture. To dismiss it without placing anything:

• Desktop: click anywhere outside the panel (on the canvas, on the toolbar, on the right rail).
• Mobile: tap outside the panel.

Dismissing the panel also switches you back to the Select tool, so the next canvas tap selects an entity instead of trying to drop another fixture.

Tip: nudge a placed fixture with arrow keys

Once a fixture is selected, the keyboard arrow keys nudge it:

• Arrow keys — move the fixture by 0.1" per press, in the direction of the arrow.
• Shift + arrow keys — move by 1" per press.

Nudge works on the currently-selected fixture only — not on a multi-selection. Continuous holding repeats the nudge at the OS key-repeat rate, so you can hold down an arrow to inch a cabinet across a wall and let go when it lands.

Heads-up — arrow nudges aren't in the undo stack. Ctrl+Z won't reverse an arrow-key nudge in v1 — undo jumps back past the entire nudge sequence to the most recent drag or property change. If you've moved a fixture more than you wanted with the arrows, drag it back into place, or open the entity panel and set the X / Y position fields directly.

Arrow nudge also bypasses the wall snap — it'll happily nudge a fixture 0.1" off a wall. To re-snap a wall-locked rough-in after nudging, drag it the rest of the way to the wall and the snap engine takes back over. See Auto-orient and lock to wall for the wall-lock behaviour.

Tips

• The Fixtures button is the same button whether you're picking a vanity, a stove, a corner cabinet, or a plumbing rough-in. The categories inside the panel are how you narrow down — there's no separate "Plumbing tool" or "Cabinetry tool" in the toolbar.
• The catalogue uses standard residential dimensions (a 36" base cabinet is 914 mm wide × 610 mm deep, a queen bed is 1524 × 2032 mm, etc.). You can resize any fixture after placement through the entity panel.
• If you drop a fixture and it lands somewhere awkward, drag it where it should go — fixtures aren't pinned to the drop location and there's no commit dialog to dismiss.
• The Stackable W/D preset under Laundry sets loadType: front and a stackable flag automatically, so the appliance icon renders as the stacked variant. Cabinet presets with "Tall" or "Pantry" in the name set the tall flag for the 3D viewer.
• For the rough-ins category specifically, drop behaviour and dimension lines are different from regular fixtures — see Plumbing rough-ins.
• After placement, right-click (desktop) or long-press (mobile) the fixture for quick actions like Rotate 90° and Duplicate — see Fixture context menu.