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Arranging furniture

Arranging puts pieces already on the plan in order: lined up on an edge, spaced evenly, repeated in a row, copied right beside themselves, turned. Everything here happens in Furnish, on placed pieces, and each action is one step you can undo.

Several pieces: align and distribute

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Select two pieces or more with Select (a click on the first, ⇧Shift + click on the others, or a box dragged on an empty part of the plan). The inspector says how many are selected and offers:

  • Align: Left, Centre, across, Right move them across only; Top, Centre, down, Bottom move them up or down only. They line up on that side, or the middle, of the box round them all.
  • Distribute, with three pieces or more: Equal gaps across, Equal gaps down. The two at the ends stay where they are; the others move so the gaps between them are equal. With two pieces both are greyed out.

Only what stands on the floor or hangs from the ceiling is aligned. A piece hanging on a wall, or standing on another, stays where it is: line up what hangs on a wall in its composition (below).

The same buttons come with Arrange in the dock (YY), which brings the inspector back when the right panel shows something else: see Arrange.

Below them: Group and Save as a set… (Groups and sets), Duplicate, Back to the pieces to place (to the tray) and Delete.

Example: three kitchen cabinets evenly spaced

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On the finished example flat, the kitchen has three tall rustic oak cabinets in a row against its east wall.

  1. In Furnish, click the middle cabinet and press ⇧↓Shift+↓: it moves 10 cm down, out of step.
  2. ⇧Shift + click the cabinet above it, then the one below it. The inspector says 3 elements selected.
  3. In Distribute, click Equal gaps down. The two at the ends stay; the middle one goes back halfway between them (Pieces distributed).
The kitchen's three tall cabinets selected, the middle one 10 cm out of step; the inspector with Align, Distribute, Group, Save as a set…, Duplicate, Back to the pieces to place, Delete

One piece: repeat in a row

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A placed piece’s inspector has Repeat in a row:

  • where the copies go: Left or Right (along the piece’s width, as you see it standing in front of it), or Above (stacked on it);
  • Copies: 1 to 20 (2 to start with);
  • Gap between: the space between one and the next, in your unit of length (0 to start with: touching);
  • Repeat: makes them, in one step (Piece repeated).

On the floor and from the ceiling the row follows the piece’s turn; against a wall the copies go along the wall; on another piece, across it. Above stands each copy on the one under it; a wall piece goes higher up its wall; nothing is stacked under a piece hanging from the ceiling. The copies have the piece’s product, options, name and room.

Example: one more cube shelving unit beside the living room’s

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  1. In Furnish, click the cube shelving unit against the living room’s east wall.
  2. In Repeat in a row, choose Left, take Copies down to 1 with −, leave Gap between at Gap between0.
  3. Click Repeat. A second shelving unit stands against the wall, touching the first, on your left as you face it.
The living room's cube shelving framed, its copy touching it along the wall; the inspector's Repeat in a row on Left, Copies 1

Duplicate beside

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One placed piece selected, these copy it right beside itself, touching, and select the copy, so that pressing again goes on making the row or the stack:

  • ⇧⌘←Ctrl+Shift+←: Duplicate to the left;
  • ⇧⌘→Ctrl+Shift+→: Duplicate to the right;
  • ⇧⌘↑Ctrl+Shift+↑: Duplicate above.

They are also in a piece’s right-click menu. They do what Repeat in a row does with one copy and no gap. With several pieces, or a piece in the tray, they do nothing.

Try it on the same shelving unit: ⇧⌘→Ctrl+Shift+→ twice makes a row of three, and ⇧⌘↑Ctrl+Shift+↑ stands a fourth on the last one.

Duplicate

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⌘DCtrl+D (or Duplicate in the inspector of several pieces, or in the menu) copies everything selected, in one step: the copies land 50 cm to the right and 50 cm down, and are selected, ready to be dragged where they go.

Turn

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  • RR: Turn the pieces 90°;
  • ⇧RShift+R: Turn the pieces 15°.

They work with pieces selected, each piece turning clockwise on itself. A piece against a wall stays square to it: turn it by dragging it to another wall. An exact angle goes in the inspector’s Rotation.

Composing a wall

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What hangs on one wall (pictures, shelves, a TV) is arranged on the wall’s elevation: Compose the wall in a wall piece’s inspector, or Wall in the dock (UU) and a click on the wall’s face. There the pieces are dragged with snapping, lined up, given equal gaps or laid out in a grid: see Compose a wall.

What can go wrong

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  • Align moved nothing: the pieces hang on a wall or stand on another; compose the wall instead.
  • Distribute is greyed out: it needs three pieces or more.
  • Repeat isn’t there: the piece is in the tray; place it first.
  • The copies went the other way: Left and Right are as you see the piece from its front; choose the other, or undo.
  • A copy stands on a neighbour: repeating and duplicating don’t make room; drag or undo it.

Every one of these is one step: ⌘ZCtrl+Z takes it back.

See also

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