Every time you access Advanced LayoutEditing, if you have the navigation windows, Wall2D or Estimate open, these will be closed automatically. If you have made any changes to the layer display (locking/unlocking), these will be restored when returning to the Standard Layout environment.
There are several ways to access this environment:
- When you create a new empty project
- Within the same floorplan
- In the case of a project with a group of multiple rooms
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At the end of tracing rooms with artificial intelligence
Advanced Layout Editing from a new empty project
In the new project creation window, by selecting “Empty” and ticking the option “Activate advanced layout editing at startup”, see the image below, you access the new environment directly and can immediately start creating new rooms.
Advanced Layout Editing from Standard Layout
Within the Layout, you have two ways to access the new environment:
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Selecting the right icon on the toolbar located at the top right of the Layout.
- Right-clicking on an empty point in the project and clicking the command “Advanced Layout Editing”:
In both cases, upon entering the new environment, you will find yourself in one of these situations:
- If there are rooms in the Paln, these are converted into CAD entities to allow you to modify their contours with the CAD commands available in the ribbon toolbar. Once the modifications are completed and you confirm the return to the Standard Layout environment, the Layout is fully recreated while retaining information related to finishes and furnishings.
- If the project is empty, you can create your floorplan in the new environment using CAD entities.
- If there are multiple groups of rooms, only those belonging to the “active” room group are converted into CAD entities.
- If you have imported a dwg/dxf, the Layout will be visible but “frozen” (the layer applied to the various entities is frozen) so you can trace the spaces before converting them into rooms.
Advanced Layout Editing on a group of multiple rooms
You can enter Advanced Layout Editing directly from the command in the context menu of the selected room. Right-click inside a room that is part of a group of multiple rooms, and these commands appear:
By selecting the command “Advanced Layout Editing with this group of rooms”, only the group of rooms containing the selected one will be converted into editable CAD entities. All rooms in other unselected groups are “frozen” and visible as locked CAD entities, to remind you they are present but do not overlap with the new CAD entities you will define. (NOTE: when you exit this environment to return to Standard Layout, these rooms are restored without any changes).
If you need to draw a second floorplan within the project (for example, when you have imported a dwg composed of multiple floorplans and therefore need to trace the rooms of the new floorplan), right-click on an empty point on the screen and from the context menu click on the command Advanced Layout Editing with New group of rooms.
In the Advanced Editing environment, the rooms already present are converted into CAD entities and frozen. Using the CAD commands, you can define new rooms and after defining the new floorplan, by returning to the Standard Layout environment via the appropriate procedure, Domus will unfreeze the rooms already present in the project and create the new floorplan.
Advanced Layout Editing after “Import with AI”
When you want to import your apartment’s Layout automatically using Artificial Intelligence, after clicking the specific command in the ribbon toolbar, you automatically access Advanced Layout Editing. In this case, the CAD entities recognised by the AI are converted into rooms and you can continue editing by adding missing rooms or adjusting those recognised by the AI.
This article is valid for version 2026 and later