# Floor plans

Category: Documenting sites. Updated 2026-11-10.

A property can carry drawn floor plans — floors with rooms, walls, outlets, cameras, access points, devices, and markups — and a room can carry a simpler plan picture with its devices pinned on it.

## Add a floor

1. Open the property and go to its **Floor plan** section.
2. Press **Add floor**. Each floor is a tab across the top, ground-up; press a tab to switch floors.
3. Press **Add site** for one extra sheet of the grounds outside the building.

With a floor selected, the arrow buttons beside the tabs move it earlier or later in the order, and **Remove floor** deletes it.

## Choose a drawing tool

The **Drawing tools** palette holds one button per tool, and a line under it says what to do next:

- **Select**: tap a shape to select it, and drag it to move it.
- **Room** and **Wall**: tap each corner or point, then press **Finish room** or **Finish wall**. Corners snap square and wall ends snap to other walls. You can also drag a room or wall out in one gesture.
- **Outlet**, **Camera**, **Access point**: tap where it goes.
- **Device**: pick an existing device in **Device to place**, or a type in **Or add a new device**, then tap the plan.
- **Punch pin**: tap where the work or fault is, then write it in the panel.
- **Note**, **Freehand line**, **Arrow**, **Revision cloud**: markups that say something about the plan without naming a record.
- **Set scale** and **Place on map**: the two measuring tools below.

**Undo** removes the last shape drawn. `Esc` cancels a half-drawn shape.

## Place a device on the plan

1. Choose **Device**.
2. Choose the device in **Device to place**, or a type in **Or add a new device** to create one.
3. Tap the plan inside the room it belongs to.

A device or outlet placed inside a room outline is filed in that room. Where room outlines overlap, a **Which room?** sheet asks which one. Each device is linked to its page, and the plan draws the runs and links between pinned devices, coloured by cable type with a cable key.

## Change or remove a shape

Choose **Select** and tap the shape. Its panel lets you type its label, link it to a room or a device, open the record it names, take a **Photo** of it, and remove it. On a desktop this panel sits to the right of the drawing.

## Set the scale

1. Choose **Set scale**.
2. Tap the two ends of a distance you know, such as a door or a wall.
3. Type it in **That distance is**, choose the **Unit**, and press **Save scale**.

Once a floor has a scale, a scale bar is drawn, and a run between two pinned devices can offer its straight-line length. See [Cable runs and testing](https://cablefolio.com/help/cable-runs-and-testing/#read-a-run-s-page).

## Place the floor on the map

Choose **Place on map**, tap two places you know the coordinates of, and type the latitude and longitude of each. This is optional.

## Trace over a drawing or photo

Under the drawing, **Underlay image** chooses a plan image filed on the property to show beneath the floor. **Upload image** adds a new one. **Colour rooms by** shades each room by **Devices in the room** or **Ports in use**, with a key.

## Pin devices on a room's plan picture

A room's **Floor plan** section is a simpler surface: a picture with pins.

1. Press **Add a plan** and choose a photo or scan of the floor.
2. Press **Edit pins**, choose a record in **Node to place**, and tap the picture where it is.
3. Drag a pin to move it, or focus it and nudge it with the arrow keys.

Tap a pin to select it: its name and a **Photo** button appear, so you can file a photo on that device while standing in front of it. **New revision** uploads an updated picture and carries the pins over; earlier revisions are listed under it.

> A plan prints in the property's report with numbered markers and a legend. See [Reports and sharing](https://cablefolio.com/help/reports-and-sharing/).

## More help

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