Elements: walls, zones, openings, etc

Elements (wall, zones, etc) can be found in the bottom toolbar or triggered via shortcuts.

Wall W

Mode : Alignment, Arc

Arguments : Distance, Angle

• Start by inserting a start point for your wall.

• Then select an end point.

• The wall commands then offers to continue drawing other wall segments; press Done to terminate at any point.

Once drawn, a wall has a few important properties that can easily be tuned...

• The wall thickness, inside the wall style

• The wall alignment, inside the wall properties

Walls can also be redesigned; at any point, the user can click on the wall helper dimensions, and resize a wall length.

Finally, walls can be reshaped, to represent more irregular shapes. Triggering the edit mode on any wall will allow remodeling it.

Openings OP

• First, select a door or window from the "Opening" library.

• Then, place the opening by dragging and dropping, like in the GIF above!

• The final step of the command will allow you to choose the opening direction.

Once drawn, an opening has a few properties that can be edited easily...

• The zone limit: it defines where the zone should stop across the opening hole; at its inner threshold, outer threshold, center, etc

• The offset: distance between door center line and wall spine the opening is hosted in.

Everything about Zones

Zones allow defining room surfaces in a single click; they can be created using the Zone tool, and divided using the Zone Divider. These tools are described here below.

Zones Z

• Click inside a room enclosed by walls. A single click will create a zone, made of a shape and a tag.

• Alternatively, clicking outside of an enclosed room will allow you to create a zone based on its outline.

Once created, a zone with a style using a texture-based or hatch-based fill, will give you access to the zone's Tiling property. Tilling enables you to set the pattern's offset and rotation.

Additionally, a zone can be manually edited. A double click on a zone will give you access to its edit point, like for any regular shape.

Zone Divider DV

Zone divider allows you to split the zone of room into distinct areas.

Mode: Arc.

• Click, preferably on a room's wall, to place the zone divider's first point.

• Place all other points across the room, until you reach another of the room's walls.

For more step-by-step information, watch our tutorial about how to use walls, zones and openings in Rayon:

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