Rooms — MEP Tools

Create and dimension the room boundary your equipment sits inside.

A room is the bounded floor area you lay equipment into. Every project has a room; its walls define the boundary that equipment must stay inside and the envelope the validator checks clearances against.

Creating a room

Press R (or pick the room tool) and draw the room outline, then drag the edge handles to match your architectural shell. Snapping to the grid keeps edges aligned — toggle grid snap with G and grid visibility with Shift+G.

Setting dimensions

Select an edge or the room and type exact internal dimensions in the inspector. Values are in millimetres, measured from the coordinate origin at the bottom-left corner (see the coordinate system).

Width:  8400 mm
Depth:  6200 mm
Origin: 0,0 (bottom-left)

Walls, doors, and columns

• Walls have a thickness and form the room body. Wall-mounted equipment is checked so it does not overlap the wall body.
• Doors sit in a wall and are checked for clearance against equipment passing through them.
• Columns are obstructions inside the room. Equipment footprints and clearance zones are validated against columns just as they are against walls and other equipment.

Rooms and validation

• Equipment must sit fully inside the room boundary — anything extending outside is flagged as an error.
• Clearance zones that intersect a wall or column raise a warning.

See Clearance validation for the full rule list.