Tool Guide

Living

Use Living to arrange sofas, chairs, tables, rugs and lamps as one object. Change the overall layout or adjust individual pieces without placing each furniture item separately.

At a glance

  • Choose the furniture and the overall seating arrangement.
  • Resize the layout while retaining the furniture’s proportions.
  • Adjust individual pieces or generate a different arrangement.
Living arrangement in 3DAn adjustable furniture arrangement, including seating, tables, lighting and a rug.
Layout and furniture selectionUse Layout for the arrangement and Pieces for the furniture.

Width and Depth define the overall area used to arrange the furniture. Chair arrangement, count, orientation and rug choices determine the composition within that area.

Use Pieces to select the furniture items. Resizing the layout moves the arrangement rather than stretching every piece to fill the new dimensions.

Pieces settingsThe relevant controls shown in Archicad.
Individual adjustments and new arrangementsUse the hotspots to refine the generated layout.

Adjust individual positions and rotations with the available hotspots. Pieces can overlap or sit outside the layout area, so the boundary is not a constraint that prevents all collisions.

Changing a product retains its offsets where supported. Reset, or a successful Randomise, returns the individual adjustments to the generated arrangement. All the pieces remain within one object rather than becoming separate placed furniture objects.