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  • Drawing a room
  • Add openings & furnishing
  • Add dimensions
  • Styles & layers
  • A few more things: snapping, zooming, units, etc.
  • We're always available!
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Drawing

Now let’s draw something!

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Last updated 6 months ago

We will keep things simple for now.

In this quick introduction, we will show you how to...

  • Draw a room

  • Add openings & furnishing

  • Add dimensions

  • Change styles and layers

If you prefer to import a file (PNG/JPEG, PDF, DWG, or DXF) instead of starting from scratch, just take a look at the

Drawing a room

Drawing a room is easy! Get started by...

  • Drawing a room outline using the Wall (W) tool.

  • Add a room surface using the Zone (Z) tool.

  • Learn more about !

Add openings & furnishing

Now, let's place openings and furniture in the room:

  • Use the Opening (OP) tool to place doors and windows along the room’s walls.

Add dimensions

Finally, annotate your floor plan using the Dimension (DI) tool, as seen above.

Styles & layers

When you start drawing in a new model, some things are set as active:

  • The active style: Styles are the way things on the canvas look: their color, fill, font, line width, etc. When you draw a new shape, its style will be defined by the current active style.

  • The active layer: layer correspond to the way items are organized in a model, grouped on layers. When you draw a new shape, its layer will be defined by the current active layer.

A few more things: snapping, zooming, units, etc.

A few additional settings are good to know as you get started with Rayon:

  • Units: A model's units can be found both in the bottom right panel and from the main menu button under preferences.

  • Snapping: There are a few snapping options in Rayon, all available in the bottom right panel:

  • Wireframe: Lastly, you can use the wireframe mode, which will show elements drawn either with the applied style (wireframe off) or by their minimal line weight representation (wireframe on).

For more step-by-step information, watch our tutorial about how to draw in Rayon:

We're always available!

Add some furnishing to the interior by dragging and dropping blocks from the .

Once an element exist, its style can always be changed; simply head to the Style section of the Property panel, and edit its style there. More on this on the .

Navigation: Zooming in and out of a model can be done from the bottom right panel or using

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