Electrical, lighting and daylight

Click View at the top right and flip the switch of Electrical, Lighting or Daylight. A layer your plan lacks shows PRO.

The card says the layers are not in your plan. A guest is asked to sign in first.

Click See plans to compare plans, or sign in if the card asks you to. A project that already has circuits opens and saves as before, with its devices drawn as plain symbols.

Click View at the top right of the editor. The Plan layers section lists Electrical, Lighting and Daylight.

Flip its switch, or press ⇧E for Electrical and ⇧L for Lighting. The layers only change what the plan shows, never the plan itself, and stay on in this browser until you turn them off.

With Electrical on, its chips choose Wiring arcs, Circuits (tags and outlets on no circuit), Outlet hints and Dim furniture. Circuits under them opens the Electrical panel.

In the Circuits tab click New circuit. Type a Name, pick the Breaker and Voltage, turn on GFCI protection or AFCI protection if it has them, pick a Colour and click Save.

Select outlets, switches or lights on the plan, then click Assign selection and pick the circuit. With the Electrical layer on, the selection’s Circuit menu does the same.

Each circuit shows its load in VA against its breaker. The bar turns amber above 80% of the breaker and red over it. A line counts the outlets and lights on no circuit; Select picks them.

Select an outlet or a light on the plan, click All properties and find its Electrical section. Circuit shows which circuit it is on.

Type your own figure in Load (VA). The circuit’s load bar follows it.

With the Electrical layer on, select a wall switch and click Link lights above it. A bar at the top says which switch you are linking.

Dashed rings mark what the switch can work: click each light, or tap it on a phone, and click it again to take it out. For lights worked from two places, also click a second 3-way switch. Without a mouse, open Lights in the bar and tick each light or switch.

Press Enter or click Done. The link is one undo step, and an arc now runs from the switch to each light. Esc or Cancel leaves it unchanged; Unlink removes it later.

Switch on Lighting in View options, press ⇧L, or right-click a room and choose Show light level. The floor is coloured by light level on a desk-high work plane.

Each room has a badge, such as 126 lx · target 150. Light from a lamp stays in its room, or in an open-plan space, and walls stop it.

The legend at the bottom right shows the scale of the colours.

Right-click a room and choose Auto-place lights here, or click Auto-place lights in the Circuits tab for the selected room, or the first room below its target.

Ghost lights show where recessed cans would go, sized so the room meets its target, and a switch that works them: one the room has, or a new one by the door. The card beside the room shows the light level before and after.

Click Add 4 lights (the count varies) to add them as one undo step, or Cancel (Esc). Lights already in the room count and stay where they are.

Switch on Daylight in View options. A time bar sits above the tool dock.

Pick the Month and the Hour of day from 6 am to 8 pm, or click Play the day. They are the same month and hour as the sun in the 3D view, so changing one changes the other.

Sunny shows patches of direct sun and sky light through the windows. Overcast shows the daylight factor, the share of an overcast sky’s light that reaches the floor, with a badge per room. Close daylight turns the layer off.

In the Electrical panel open the Schedule tab and click Download CSV.

In Export, open Print set. Electrical sheet (E1.0), a page per floor with devices, arcs, circuit tags, a legend and the schedules, and the Electrical schedule are on; turn one off to leave it out. See Export a print set.