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Drawing
The Drawing tab is the canvas where you sketch the work and communicate visually with the customer and the install crew. Tools, layers, products on layers, and drawing presets all live here.
Tools
The drawing tools place shapes on the canvas — points, lines, polygons, areas, scribbled traces, typed labels. Each tool has its own gesture and its own use, but they all share two important traits worth understanding before you read the tool-by-tool articles.
The drawing represents the work; it does not measure it. Nothing on the canvas is to scale, and nothing about the shapes you draw drives a calculation. A rectangle that's twice as wide as another rectangle on screen doesn't represent twice the area on the option card. A line you stretch with the Select tool doesn't lengthen the product quantity tied to it. The shape communicates what the work is and where it goes; the measurements that drive pricing come from the measurement inputs on the layer (and from the questions the product asks at the layer level), not from the canvas geometry. Treat the drawing as illustrative throughout — it's the picture the customer and the install crew look at, not a CAD calculation.
Each tool can play two roles. On a general or custom layer, a shape you draw is a free annotation — communication, no price. On a product layer whose product is configured to draw with that tool, the same shape is the on-canvas representation of an instance of that product, and the install crew sees it labeled with the product's name on the contract. Layer choice is what makes the difference; the gesture is the same.
Drawing presets, layer inclusion, and snap-to-grid behave the same across all tools — those topics are covered in the related articles rather than repeated in each tool's page.
Adding products to a layer Pending verification
Attach products to a drawing layer so the layer's measurements drive product quantities.
Drawing overview Pending verification
How the drawing canvas works and why it's the keystone of every estimate.
Drawing presets Pending verification
Save a configured layer setup so the next similar job starts pre-loaded.
Layer setup, drop zones, and inspection questions Pending verification
Configure how a layer behaves — drop zones for products and the inspection questions it surfaces.
Layers and the layer sidebar Pending verification
Organise the drawing into layers — one for the slab, one for landscaping, one for utilities.
Using the Arrow tool Pending verification
Drop arrows on the drawing — either as free annotations or as the on-canvas representation of a product that's drawn as an arrow.
Using the Circle tool Pending verification
Draw a circle in one drag — either as a free annotation or as the on-canvas representation of a product that's drawn as a circle.
Using the Eraser tool Pending verification
Remove the topmost shape at the point you tap. Targeted, one shape per tap, and undoable.
Using the Line tool Pending verification
Draw a single straight segment — either as a free annotation or as the on-canvas representation of a product that's drawn as a line.
Using the Pan tool Pending verification
Move and zoom around the canvas without changing any shapes.
Using the Polygon tool Pending verification
Draw a multi-sided shape vertex by vertex — closed for an area or finished open as a polyline — either as a free annotation or as the on-canvas representation of a product that's drawn as a polygon.
Using the Rectangle tool Pending verification
Draw an axis-aligned rectangle — either as a free annotation or as the on-canvas representation of a product that's drawn as a rectangle.
Using the Scribble tool Pending verification
Trace any shape with your finger or an Apple Pencil — either as a free annotation, as on-canvas handwriting, or as the on-canvas representation of a product that's drawn as a scribble.
Using the Selection tool Pending verification
Pick a shape on the canvas to translate it, reshape it via its handles, or open it up to deletion with the Eraser.
Using the Text tool Pending verification
Place a typed label or note directly on the canvas — text content, font size, alignment, and box colors set in a small modal.
Using the Triangle tool Pending verification
Draw a right triangle in one drag — either as a free annotation or as the on-canvas representation of a product that's drawn as a triangle.