Spaces & Whiteboard
Layers
Stack your Space in layers — trace over a locked photo, keep furniture apart from notes, or hide the options you're comparing.
Steps
- Hide, lock or fade parts of your board. Touch and hold a layer for more.
- Tap Layers in the toolbar to open the panel. On iPhone, choose Layers in the More menu (⋯).
- Tap + to add a layer. Touch and hold + for New Group and, with items selected, New Layer from Selection.
- Tap a layer to add new items to it. On iPad, the chip beside the zoom button shows that layer — touch and hold the chip to pick another.
- Tap the eye to hide a layer, or the lock to keep it from changing. To fade a layer, touch and hold it and choose Opacity.
- Show Only This Layer hides the rest; Show All Layers in the ⋯ menu brings them back.
- Double-tap a layer to rename it. To reorder, touch and hold it, then drag it up or down.
- Merge Down combines a layer with the one below it; Show Items lists what's on a layer.
- Delete Layer… lets you delete its items too, or keep them on another layer. The Base layer always stays.
- To trace over a photo or plan, select it and choose More › Use as Underlay. It moves to a faded, locked layer at the bottom.
- Walls on different layers still form rooms together, and a wall welded to a locked layer keeps that corner fixed.
- Select items and choose More › Move to Layer to put them on another layer — or New Layer from Selection to give them one of their own.
- To group layers, touch and hold a layer and choose Add to New Group. Drag a layer onto a group to put it inside.
- Tap a group to collapse or expand it. Its eye and lock hide or lock every layer inside. To fade them all, touch and hold the group and choose Opacity.
- In a group's menu, New Layer in Group adds a layer to it, and Ungroup removes the group but keeps its layers.
- Delete Group… lets you delete the group with its items, or keep its layers.
- Groups can hold other groups, up to three levels deep.
- Choose Organize with Design Partner… in the ⋯ menu, or ask it: “Put all the furniture on its own layer and lock it.” It won't change hidden or locked layers unless you let it.
- To cut a photo into parts on their own layers, select it and choose More › Split into Layers… — see Split into Layers.
- Press ⌘I to show or hide the Layers panel.
- Press ⇧⌘N to add a layer, or ⌥⇧⌘N to add a group with a new layer inside.
- Press ⇧⌘H to hide or show the layer you're adding to, and ⌥⌘L to lock or unlock it.
- Double-click a layer to rename it, or right-click it for its menu.
- To reorder, click and hold a layer, then drag it up or down.
- ⌘G groups items selected on the board. To group layers, use Add to New Group in the panel.
Keyboard shortcuts
- Layers Panel
- ⌘I
- New Layer
- ⇧⌘N
- New Layer Group
- ⌥⇧⌘N
- Hide or Show Layer
- ⇧⌘H
- Lock or Unlock Layer
- ⌥⌘L
Try it in uMake.
uMake is free to download for iPad, iPhone and Mac.