Sheets

The Sheets & Maps pane is a canvas where you place your uploaded floor-plan drawings (and, optionally, a site map) to lay out the building level by level. The floor plans you place here are the backdrop you trace spaces onto in the Spaces pane.

Placing Sheets

The Sheets List

The sidebar opens on a Sheets / Maps switcher. On Sheets, every uploaded sheet appears in the Sheets list, and Add Sheets opens the Sheet Library uploader.

Only scaled, floor-plan-type sheets can be placed on the canvas. A sheet you can’t place isn’t draggable, and its Place On Canvas button is disabled. The button’s tooltip names the cause:

• The sheet has no uploaded page yet.
• The sheet is still processing, so it has no type yet.
• The sheet has no type, and it is not processing.
• The sheet has a reference-only type: Section, Detail, Schedule, Cover, or Other.

For the last two cases, set Sheet Type in the Sheet Data panel to a floor plan type. Reference-only sheets in the list also show this reason on hover.

Automatic Placement

HVAKR can place floor plans for you. When a floor plan page finishes processing, HVAKR reads the level from the drawing (for example FIRST FLOOR PLAN or LEVEL 2) and, when it is confident in that reading, places the sheet on that level. A typical-floor sheet that covers a range of levels, such as LEVELS 2-9 TYPICAL, gets a placement on every level in the range.

• The first sheet on a level goes at the canvas origin. Each next sheet goes 10 ft to the right of the level’s rightmost sheet
• HVAKR never adds a second placement of a sheet to a level where that sheet is already placed

Check each level after processing finishes. Move, rotate, or remove any placement that is wrong. The Sheet Data panel shows how many placements a sheet has and on which levels, for example 8 placements on canvas (Levels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).

Placing a Sheet Yourself

Place a sheet that HVAKR did not place in either of two ways:

• Drag the sheet from the list onto the canvas, or
• Click Place On Canvas on the sheet. It places the sheet on the current level, at the center of the view

Remove from Canvas takes every placement of the sheet off the canvas, on all levels. To remove the sheet from one level only, use Remove in its canvas menu. See Adjusting a Placed Sheet. A sheet’s scale is calibrated when you upload it. See Sheet Library for scale calibration.

Maps

Switch the sidebar to Maps for the site map. Click Add Map, then set its options in the Map Data panel:

• Type - Roadmap, Satellite, or Hybrid
• Lock map position - stops the map moving when you drag it on the canvas
• Zoom - map detail level, 16 to 22; every level stays correctly scaled on the canvas
• Offset - moves the center of the map by a latitude/longitude offset, in degrees

Delete removes the map.

Navigation

Move around the canvas with:

• Pan - drag with the middle mouse button
• Zoom - scroll wheel, Cmd/Ctrl + - and Cmd/Ctrl + =, or the zoom buttons in the toolbar
• Center Viewport - press Space, or click the home button in the toolbar

Note

Zoom-on-scroll assumes the default Zoom Mode for Mouse/Trackpad Controls. Switch that setting to Scroll Mode and the wheel pans the canvas instead. Zoom then requires Ctrl/Cmd + scroll, a pinch gesture, or the toolbar buttons.

View Options

The View button in the toolbar toggles Annotations on the canvas. Use Add Sheet Marker and Add Annotation in the toolbar to mark up the drawing.

Adjusting a Placed Sheet

Drag a placed sheet to move it. Select it and a rotation handle appears above it. Drag the handle to rotate the sheet. Rotation snaps to 90° steps; hold Ctrl while you drag for any angle. The handle is hidden while the sheet image is still processing, while you crop, and while the sheet is locked.

Right-click a sheet on the canvas for its menu:

• Lock / Unlock - a locked sheet can’t be dragged or rotated
• Crop - trim the visible area of the sheet
• Rotate 90° CW / Rotate 90° CCW - rotate the placed sheet to align it
• Remove - take this placement off the canvas. Placements of the same sheet on other levels stay. If the sheet is part of a selection, Remove takes off every selected placement

Plan Rotation

The Plan Rotation dial in the toolbar sets the building’s orientation relative to north. Wall and roof azimuths are measured from this bearing, so plan rotation (not sheet rotation) is what drives solar gains and cardinal-direction references in the load calculations.

Multi-Floor Buildings

Sheets are placed per level. Use the level controls in the toolbar to move between floors:

• The Go to Level arrows step down or up a level
• The level button opens a Select Level menu to jump to a specific floor

Each floor’s plan belongs on its own level so that spaces, zones, and the 3D model stack correctly. A typical-floor plan can sit on several levels at once. See Automatic Placement.

Best Practices

1. Verify scale first - check scale accuracy before drawing spaces
2. Set plan rotation - orient the building to north so solar calculations are correct
3. Check each level’s plan - confirm that automatic placement put the right plan on every level, and keep floors aligned for multi-story buildings
4. Center the view - use the home button to recenter when you lose your place