Finch Starter Guide
  • Overview
    • We've moved!
    • ✨About Finch
    • 🚀Quick Start Tutorial
    • ❓FAQ / Contact
    • 🌟New Features
  • Fundamentals
    • 🛠️Create an account and Install Plug-ins
    • Upload your first building - Rhino
      • All about Rhino
    • Upload your first building - Revit
      • All about Revit
    • Customize your mass
    • Calculate Data
    • Generate Floor Plate
    • Generate Floor Plate - Custom Core
    • Tools & Commands
    • Iterate with variants
    • Add context geometry
    • Share and Present
    • Export
  • Video Tutorials
  • Product Guides
    • 📎Shortcuts
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • Mirror
  • Smart Rotate
  • Dimensions
  • Walls and Dividers
  • Doors
  • Selection Modes

Was this helpful?

  1. Fundamentals

Tools & Commands

PreviousGenerate Floor Plate - Custom CoreNextIterate with variants

Last updated 1 year ago

Was this helpful?

Mirror

  • Select the walls you would like to mirror.

  • On the context menu, click the mirror icon.

  • Draw a reflection plane and hit enter.

Smart Rotate

  • Select the walls you would like to smart rotate.

  • Drag the walls (hold Alt to copy) from the desired base point to the new base facade.

  • The walls will rotate to remain perpendicular to the facade wall.

The base point must be snapped to either the inside or outside of the facade wall.

Dimensions

  • Toggle dimensions using shortcut (d).

Walls and Dividers

  • Select the wall tool (w) or divider tool (s).

  • Click to make your first point, type in a distance (mm) or drag the cursor to the end point, and click again.

  • Press enter to complete the line.

Hold shift while drawing to align to other points.

Draw on multiple floors at once by selecting them in the HUD.

Doors

  • Select the door tool (t) and place a door.

  • In the context menu, change the door style in the drop down menu.

  • Change the door width by inputting a new value in the text box.

  • Use the arrow keys to flip and rotate the door position.

Selection Modes

Point

  • Select an end point of wall and drag it, inputting a distance to snap to dimensions. The other wall end point will remain in place.

Wall

  • Click once on a wall to select it, holding shift to select multiple. Dragging the selected wall(s) will also move any connecting end points of surrounding walls.

Group

  • Double-click on a wall to select all the connected walls as a group.

Smart rotate combined with copy