With the layout open and the background displayed, you can begin to lay down fixtures and merchandising spaces. A floating Layout Toolbar will be displayed containing the commands you will need.

The Layout Toolbar provides users with all the tools to view, enquire, annotate and design the layout. The toolbar contains the shaded Home, Annotation, Design and Background tabs. Clicking on one of the shaded tabs will open corresponding unshaded commands.
Tabs:
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Pan/Zoom Mode
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Design Mode
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Annotation Mode
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Background Mode
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Tools common to all modes:
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Zoom Extents
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Measure Distance
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Zoom Window
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Check Point
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Layers
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Export
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Show Compass
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Design Mode

The Design Tab contains all the tools needed for designing a proposed store layout, such as selecting, copying, deleting and modifying intelligent objects. Intelligent objects are entities used to populate the proposed store layout – Fixtures, Spaces and Zones. They are stored in the database and can be used for reporting.
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Move
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Snap Mode
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Rotate
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Crosshair Cursor
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Copy
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Grid
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Delete
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Save
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Undo
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Select and Place
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Redo
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Stretch Space
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Undo list
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Fixture Number Mode
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Refresh Entity Order
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Automation Mode
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Ortho Mode
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Aisles
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Additional tools available when a space is selected:
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Flip
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Move Right
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Back
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Swap
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Move Left
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A command bar is available at the bottom of the screen to aid with the placement of intelligent objects.
Clicking the blue question mark will display a list of commands which can be used in the command bar and keyboard shortcuts.
The keyboard shortcuts are configurable in the settings.
Layer Visibility Toggles
If additional merchandisable fixture layers have been defined in Layer Manager, buttons to easily toggle the visibility of these layers will show at the top of the layout.
See Layer Manager for more information on configuring additional layers.
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View Selection
If different views for the layout have been configured, select the required view from the drop down.
See Layout Views for more information on configuring views.
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Properties Panel
Opening the right side panel displays the Properties panel. This shows details of the layout and any intelligent objects which are currently selected.
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