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Building Your Room

Get your walls, doors, windows, stairs, and ceiling heights exactly right — including custom shapes and multi-room plans.

Adding doors: hinged, sliding, and French

Place hinged, French, or sliding doors on any wall — width, position, hinge side, and swing direction.

Video3 min read

Adding and positioning windows

Place and size windows on walls; they appear in 2D and 3D.

Adding interior walls — and laying out a real apartment

The full set of interior-wall techniques — perpendicular, free-angle, extend, move — applied to a real 1BR apartment.

Video5 min read

Adding stairs: anatomy, shapes, and setup

The full breakdown: rise, riser, tread, width — and the three shapes (straight, L-left/L-right, U). Walk it in 3D.

Video6 min read

Adding columns, radiators, and other obstacles

Add columns, radiators, and other fixed obstacles your layout has to work around.

Setting wall and ceiling heights

Per-wall and per-vertex heights for vaulted ceilings and sloped roofs.

Auto room detection and naming

Room Sketch 3D detects each enclosed room in a multi-room plan and suggests names.

Adding fireplaces and wall openings

Add fireplaces and doorless wall openings (cased openings, passthroughs).

Editing room size, walls, and vertices

Resize the room, drag walls and corners, and set exact dimensions in the inspector.

Adding pocket and barn doors

Place pocket and barn doors — zero swing arc.

3 min read

Adding bay and corner bay windows

Bay and corner bay windows — placement and sizing.

3 min read

Adding balconies

Balcony placement — rectangular and L-shape.

2 min read

Sloped and vaulted ceilings

Per-vertex ceiling heights for sloped roofs.

2 min read

Yard mode and outdoor zones

Lay out outdoor floors with zone tools.

2 min read

Put it into practice

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Open Room Sketch 3D

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