Elevations

Want to double check how the new cabinets you're ordering will fit in on your kitchen wall? Maybe you want to be sure the extra large piece of art will look right between 2 windows? Need to lay out a gallery wall to-scale? Spoak's Elevation tool allows you to use real-life measurements from your space to plan your spaces vertically!

This guide will walk you through the basics of the Elevations Planner

Creating an Elevation

1. Click Create a Vizi > Create Elevation
2. Choose the type of room you're planning
   1. If you're laying out a gallery wall and don't want to specify the room type, choose Other
3. Choose how you want to start your Elevation
   1. Recommended: We've hand picked a few starting canvas sizes depending on the size of the wall you're planning
   2. From scratch: Choose from our 3 basic starting canvas size options
   3. Image: If you already have an image of your wall and just want to add in assets to try different layouts, this option will allow you to upload your existing image and then set the scale according to a single wall measurement! Read more about how to do that here .

Name your design

We suggest starting by naming your elevation! That way if you're cruising through and creating a lot, it's easier to identify what plan you're looking for and stay organized.

By default, the name will be '[Room Type] Elevation'

Click the name at the top of your plan and update the name to whatever you'd like!

Drawing walls

If you want to set a hard border for the elevation you're creating (besides the canvas) Click Draw walls to jump into draw mode- you can tell whether or not you're in draw mode by the brown banner at the top of your plan.

1. Now that you're in draw mode, click anywhere on the canvas to start your wall! (if you're starting at the bottom left corner of your room, click somewhere in the bottom left corner of the canvas.)
2. Drag your mouse in the direction you want the wall to go and then click again when it's the correct dimension.
3. Now drag your mouse in the direction of the next connecting wall to begin your shape!
   1. If you just want one wall to start, click Exit draw mode or hit esc on your keyboard to stop drawing
4. Keep this up until you've completed your whole space!
   1. Once the space is closed in, you'll still be in draw mode, but it won't automatically create your next wall until you click again.

Change the size of your canvas

Maybe the size of your space is a little bigger (or smaller!) than you thought when selecting the canvas size, no worries! You can adjust it either by

1. Click Canvas Size on your canvas and add 5" at a time using the More space & Less space buttons

   

2. Or, click the pencil icon to open the canvas settings and enter specific dimensions for your canvas

   

Adding assets

Now that you've created the wall, it's time to start adding any structural items items you're planning with!

1. Click Assets from the menu on the left
2. Scroll through all of our available options or click the category to filter the list
3. Once you find the item you're looking for, click on it to add it to your plan
4. This will drop the item into the middle of your floor plan where you can then adjust it to your needs!

Editing an asset

With the item selected, an edit bar will appear at the top of your screen, these are all tools to make sure the assets are exactly what you need!

• Dimensions: You can set the object's exact measurements here, decide whether or not you want the dimensions to show, and choose which unit of measurement you want to use- Feet, Inches, or Centimeters
• Fill: Change the color of the asset you added!
  • Select from our available paint selection or pick literally any color using our color picker
• Rotate: Use this to easily rotate exactly 90° in either direction
• Flip: Adding a door but it opens the opposite way? Flip the object's orientation vertically or horizontally!
• Effects: Change the object's brightness or opacity and add a drop shadow
  • Use brightness and opacity to call attention to different objects
  • Add a drop shadow to floor plan items to make things really pop!
• Layers (stack of paper icon): Use this to move things backwards/forward in your plan.
• Lock: Click the lock icon to freeze the item as it is.
  • We suggest locking any structural assets you've added once they're in the right spot!

Measure the space in your plan

Need to check the space between windows? How high should the shelf be hung above the countertop? Meet the Ruler tool! (in the navigation bar on the left)

Click on the Ruler icon and measure any distance in your space by clicking the starting point of your measurement and then dragging your mouse to the end point of your measurement.

Once you have the measurement you need, you can either keep it in your floor plan for reference, or delete it at any time by clicking on the measurement and then hitting delete on your keyboard.

Customize your plan

Last up on our tour around the Elevation tool basics are Text & Shapes

Text

You can add text to identify a space or shape by clicking Text in the navigation bar on the left.

This will add a text box to your plan and open the Text edit bar across the top- you can choose from our font collection, change the font size and color to whatever you'd like!

Shapes

Maybe none of the available assets are exactly what you want- no worries! Use our shapes tool to draw whatever shape you'd like!

Now you have all the tools you need to use Spoak to plan your elevation!