Blank Canvas: Drawing Walls, Doors & Windows

Not every job comes with a drawing. On a residential sales walkthrough or a small site with no plan set, you don't have a PDF to upload. You just need to sketch the space and show where devices go.

That's what the blank canvas is for. Instead of uploading a file, you start on an empty page and draw a simple building outline yourself, then place devices on it exactly like you would on a real plan.

From your dashboard, click New project, then on the upload step choose Blank Canvas. You'll get an empty page (11×17 landscape by default) with a light grid to help you keep things straight.

Open the Plan / Structure tools in the toolbar and choose Wall. Click to set the start of a wall, then click again at each corner to chain segments. The wall follows your clicks like connecting dots. Press Enter to finish the current wall run, or Escape to cancel it.

Walls snap to clean angles as you draw, so it's easy to lay out a rectangular room or a simple footprint without it looking crooked.

Once you have walls, cut openings into them. From the same Plan / Structure menu, pick Door, Window, or Overhead door, then click on a wall where the opening goes. The opening is drawn into the wall at the point you click: a door gets a swing, a window a break in the wall line.

These are the openings that matter for a security walkthrough: doors get readers and contacts, overhead doors get sensors, windows get glass-breaks.

Once the building outline is drawn, everything else works exactly like a normal markup. Open the icon picker and drop cameras (with FOV cones), readers, motion sensors, and any other device right onto your sketch. The bill of materials, device schedule, and export all behave the same as they would on an uploaded plan.