Fittings: kitchens and bathrooms

To choose a fitting

Open the Fittings row of the tray. Each fitting has a square tile with a small plan of what it builds and its name underneath. Kitchens has six: Single run, Run and island, L-shaped, C-shaped, L-shaped with island and C-shaped with island. Bathrooms has four: Cloakroom, Shower room, Family bathroom and Large bathroom. A line at the head of the row says where a click will put the fitting: Goes against the selected wall, on its inside face. when a suitable wall is selected, and Click one to place it. Select a wall first to put it against that wall. otherwise.

Fittings stand on a floor, so a level has to be open. If none is, a message says Open a level first: a fitting stands on a floor.

Nothing is drawn until the pointer moves over the drawing, in 3D and in plan, so after you click a tile, move the pointer onto the drawing. Click a second tile while one fitting is still on the pointer and the first goes, leaving nothing to undo, and the second is carried in its place.

To put a fitting against a wall

1. 1Select one straight wall on the level you have open.
2. 2Click a tile in the Fittings row.
3. 3The fitting goes against the wall's inside face and is selected. A kitchen or a bathroom put down this way is hosted to that wall alone, which is what lets Fit to wall work on its back run. An L-shaped or C-shaped kitchen needs its side walls hosted too before its legs are fitted: see To host a fitting to its walls.

Linea sets the fitting down in the nearest clear place along the wall. It keeps clear of the wall's doors, of any window it would stand in front of, and of whatever already stands there. A window whose sill is above the worktop leaves the base units alone and takes out only the wall units in front of it, and a message such as The wall has a window: 2 wall units left out where it is. says so. Tall units keep clear of any window whose sill is under 2 m. A leg that runs along a side wall stops clear of a door in that wall; where nothing clears it, the message names what it stands across.

Putting a kitchen down against a wall, or hosting it to one afterwards, sets it out for that wall in the same step: wall units are left out over a window, a leg stops short of a door, and a message says what it still stands across. When that would remove a unit you changed, the kitchen is left as it is and the message reads Hosted. Fitting it to this wall would take away something you changed, so it was left as it is. Use Fit to wall to choose. (on a plain placement it begins at Fitting it to this wall).

When a kitchen will not go at its own length, Linea cuts it to the stretch that is left and tells you: It has been made 3.20 m long to fit between the corner and a door. When it only needs sliding, you read It has been moved along the wall to clear a door. A bathroom keeps its own size. If nothing takes it, it stays where you aimed it and a message names what it stands across, such as It stands across a door. Move it, or pick a longer wall.

If the wall does not say which side is the room, the fitting takes its front face and a message tells you so. Select the kitchen and use Flip to other side if it is on the wrong side.

Select more than one wall, a curved wall or a wall on another level and a message says why that wall is not used (for example That wall is curved, so the fitting is on the pointer for you to place.). The fitting is then on the pointer, as in the next section.

To place a fitting with the pointer

1. 1With no wall selected, click a tile. The fitting rides on the pointer.
2. 2Bring the pointer near a wall, to within about 0.4 m of its face. The fitting turns to face the room, stands with its back on the wall and slides along it with you. A line along the wall's face shows where its back lies.
3. 3Click to put it down, or press Escape to take it away. One undo removes a fitting you have placed. Escape leaves nothing to undo, and anything you had undone is still there to redo.

Along a wall the fitting stops short of doors, of windows it would stand in front of and of other fittings, and does not slide across them. From 0.9 m of the end of a wall, an L-shaped or C-shaped kitchen, or a bathroom, is drawn gradually toward an inside corner. Once it stands flush in the corner it is hosted to both walls. A kitchen goes into the corner its leg turns off and no other, so a kitchen of one run never does. A kitchen or bathroom clicked down against a wall is hosted to it, on whichever face of the wall it stands on. Put one down clear of the walls and it lets go of its wall, unless it still stands on the same face within about 150 mm, so a small nudge keeps it hosted; put it down against the other face of its wall and it is hosted to that face. Hold Shift to carry a fitting free of the walls, and while it is clear of them R and T turn it by 45 degrees.

A fitting cannot land on another fitting, on a run of cabinets or on a piece of furniture. If you click on top of one, a message reads That is on top of and names it, then Move it clear, then click again. The fitting stays on the pointer until you do. The same carrying applies when you pick up a placed kitchen or bathroom with Move, in the plan as well as in 3D.

To host a fitting to its walls

A hosted fitting remembers the wall it stands against, and a kitchen's panel uses that wall for Fit to wall. To host one afterwards, select the fitting, then hold Shift and click the wall or walls to add them to the selection. Parameters then offers a button: Host kitchen to wall for one wall and Host kitchen to walls for more, or Host bathroom to wall and Host bathroom to walls for a bathroom.

• One wall. That is the fitting's back wall, on the side it stands on now.
• An L-shaped kitchen and two walls that meet in a corner. The back wall is the one whose corner is at the end the kitchen's leg turns off, so the kitchen can only go into that corner one way round. It faces into the corner.
• A C-shaped kitchen and three walls. The back wall is the one that meets both of the others, and the kitchen is centred between the two side walls.
• A bathroom and two or three walls. With two it goes into the corner, taking as its back the wall it already faces. With three, the wall that meets both of the others is its back, and the bathroom fills the room between them.

Hosting snaps the fitting onto the wall: it turns to face the room and its back lies on the wall's face. A kitchen keeps its own length and slides only as far as it needs to be within the wall's clear length. When it is hosted, the button reads Unhost kitchen from wall for one wall and Unhost kitchen from walls for more (Unhost bathroom from wall and Unhost bathroom from walls for a bathroom), and a line beneath says Hosted. Select the kitchen on its own and use Fit to wall. Unhosting leaves the fitting where it stands.

When the walls do not suit, the button is dimmed and a line beneath says why. Each shape asks for its own walls: an L-shaped kitchen turns one corner, so choose its back wall and the one wall it turns along; a C-shaped one turns two, so choose its back wall and both side walls; a kitchen of one run takes just itself and one wall. Walls must be straight and on the same level as the fitting, and two walls must meet in a corner the kitchen turns into.

To resize a kitchen

Select the kitchen. Its panel opens with Open cabinet editor at the top, then a Size section. Length is the whole kitchen along the wall it stands against, corners included. An L-shaped or C-shaped kitchen also has Left leg and Right leg, each how far that leg reaches out from the wall. Drag a slider and the kitchen is made again once, when you let go. Each slider stops at the shortest that kitchen can be and at 12 m. A line under them reads, for example, The wall is 4.20 m clear. when the kitchen is hosted, and Not hosted to a wall. when it is not. A kitchen put down away from its wall reads as not hosted, though one nudged by less than about 150 mm keeps its wall. When a resize cannot go ahead, that line gives the reason instead and the sliders are dimmed with it: a locked kitchen or locked part, a read-only drawing, or a kitchen scaled as a whole, which reads It was scaled as a whole, so it can no longer be resized. Put a new one down to resize.

The kitchen also carries arrows at its free ends: a back run has one at each end that does not turn a corner, and each leg has one at its far end. Drag an arrow to move that end and leave the others where they are. In plan the same arrows are drawn, with a dashed outline of the new size while you hold one.

With snapping on, the arrow steps in the same increments as other resize arrows, and when the end you are dragging comes within 50 mm of the clear end of the wall it is hosted to, it takes the wall's end; in plan a guide line appears there. With snapping off the arrow is not snapped.

Fit to wall makes the back run the clear length of the wall the kitchen is hosted to: the wall's length, less the part where a wall meeting it turns into the room. A hosted L-shaped or C-shaped kitchen has each leg fitted to the clear length of its own side wall in the same step, provided it is hosted to the walls the legs run along. A kitchen put against one selected wall from the row is hosted to that wall only, so its back run is fitted and each leg reads The left leg was left as it is: no wall was hosted for it. until you host it to the side walls (see To host a fitting to its walls). A message reads, for example, Fitted the back run to 4.20 m and the left leg to 2.60 m. With a right leg as well it reads Fitted the back run to 4.20 m, the left leg to 2.60 m and the right leg to 1.80 m. A leg whose wall is shorter than the shortest the leg can be is left at that shortest, and the message says so. The button is dimmed with the reason Host it to a wall first until the kitchen is hosted.

How a kitchen is made to a length

Ask for a length and the cupboards and drawer units do the giving. Appliances, the sink and the tall units keep their widths and their order, whole 600 mm units come or go first, and with 300 mm or more left over one more unit is added at 300, 400 or 500 mm, while whatever remains, always under 300 mm, goes into Filler panel units at the free ends of the run, half at each end when there are two. A run that turns a corner at both ends has no free end, so its filler sits beside each corner unit on the inside. Base units carry a wall unit over them and the hob a hood, and tall units have neither; a filler panel beside a base unit that has a wall unit gets a second panel beside the wall unit.

The units that do not give set the shortest length, and a base unit has to stand at each corner. Ask for less and the kitchen stays as it was, and a message gives the shortest: The shortest this kitchen can be is 3.10 m: its appliances and tall units keep their widths. For a leg it says this leg in place of this kitchen.

Resize a hosted kitchen and it still allows for the openings in its wall. Wall units over a window stay out after the resize and come back if the window is removed. A leg whose length you have not set yourself is shortened to stop clear of a door in its side wall; a leg you set with its slider or arrow keeps your length, and the message reads, for example, The left leg stands across a door. Beside another run of cabinets, the kitchen's worktop joins the neighbour's, and the join follows the resize.

To set the depth and height of the base units

Under Size, Base depth and Base carcass height are written to every run of the kitchen: the back run, each leg and the island. They apply to the base units. A wall unit keeps its own depth. Changing either makes the kitchen again, like a length. The carcass height will not go below what the units in the kitchen need.

To add an island or a bar

In the Island & bar section, Add island puts an island in front of the main run, across a 1.1 m aisle, centred on the run. Once there is an island the button reads Remove island. The rest of the section works on the island: Seating overhang, Finished back, Waterfall ends and Bar counter, which brings Bar height and Bar depth. Each control is always there. While one cannot act it is dimmed but still readable, and hovering it or tabbing to it says what to switch on first, such as Add an island first or Turn on Bar counter first. A line beneath says the same, such as Add an island to set these. or Turn on Bar counter to set its height and depth. Waterfall ends is dimmed while the island has no worktop, and says Switch on Show worktop in the island's own panel first.

The panel below that has Plinth & worktop, Construction, Fronts and Handles. They set the look of the whole kitchen, and each change is written to every run. Show plinth and Show worktop are switches; Plinth height is dimmed while the plinth is off, and Worktop thickness and Worktop overhang while the worktop is off, each saying which switch to turn on.

To put a kitchen on the other side of its wall

Select a hosted kitchen and click Flip to other side in the Size section. The kitchen moves to the wall's other face, facing the room behind it, and is made to that face's clear length, in one undo step. A kitchen in a corner stands against more than one wall, so the button is dimmed with It stands in a corner: unhost it and host it again to change side. Unhost it, then host it again from the side you want.

To change things inside a fitting

A click anywhere on a fitting, in plan or in 3D, takes all of it. To work on one unit, click Open cabinet editor (Open bathroom for a bathroom), or double-click the fitting. That enters the group, and every unit inside has its own panel. Groups covers working inside one.

Changes you make inside are kept when you resize the kitchen. A unit you changed (its compartments, fronts, handles, material or name), a unit you added and a run you added all come across. A unit you added is treated as one that cannot be shortened, and the cupboards give round it. The one case that asks is when the new length leaves no room for a unit you had changed. Linea then asks Remove the unit you changed? (or Remove the units you changed?) and names them, with the buttons Remove and Keep as it is. Remove makes the kitchen and Undo brings them back; Keep as it is leaves the kitchen as it was.

A resize also leaves alone what you took away. A wall unit you took off stays off, a leg you deleted stays deleted, and a unit you added keeps its place. A change of length leaves the island's own fronts and handles as they are. When you deepen the base units and a leg has no cupboards to give, it grows to the least it can be and a message says so, such as The left leg is now 2.50 m long: its units have no room to give.

To resize a bathroom

Select the bathroom. Its panel has Open bathroom and a Size section with Width along the back wall and Depth out from it. Each slider stops at the shortest the room can be with its clearances, and at the most that bathroom is made. The largest sizes are 2.4 × 3.0 m for the Cloakroom, 4.0 × 3.0 m for the Shower room, 3.6 × 4.5 m for the Family bathroom and 6.0 × 6.0 m for the Large bathroom, width first. The bathroom has end arrows too, one at each side that is not against a hosted wall and one at the front for the depth. A hosted wall is a hard limit for them: a width arrow stops at the back wall's clear end on its side, and the depth arrow stops at the clear length of the shorter hosted side wall. A kitchen's arrows stop only at the shortest the kitchen can be and at 12 m, and take the wall's end when they come within 50 mm of it. Both show a dashed outline of the new size in plan.

The fixtures are laid out again for the new room, with 200 mm between neighbours where a person stands and 600 mm clear in front of the WC. In a room bigger than the layout needs, the fixtures stay against their walls and the rest is floor. How each fitting reacts:

• Cloakroom. The WC stays hard to the right of the back wall, and the basin stays on the left wall, 1.2 m along from the back wall. A wider room puts more floor between them.
• Shower room. The shower stays hard left and the basin hard right. The WC keeps its place beside the shower until the room is wider than 2.4 m, then moves along by half the extra width. The basin widens one step for every 400 mm of extra width, to 900 mm.
• Family bathroom. The bath lies across the end wall, flush to the left, at the longest of 1500, 1600, 1700 or 1800 mm that the width takes, so it runs wall to wall only at exactly one of those widths. The WC and the basin stand along the right wall, and the basin widens one step for every 400 mm of extra depth, to 900 mm.
• Large bathroom. The bath and the angled shower lie along the back wall, the bath at the left (1700 mm, or 1500 or 1600 mm where the width is short) and the shower at the right. The WC is on the right wall and the double basin on the left wall, and the basin widens one step for every 400 mm of extra depth, to 1600 mm.

Fit to wall and Flip to other side work as they do for a kitchen. Fit to wall makes the width the back wall's clear length and, when the bathroom is hosted to side walls, the depth the shorter of their clear lengths. If a wall is shorter than the bathroom can be made, that dimension stays at its shortest; if it is longer than the most the bathroom is made, it stays at that most and the fixtures stand against their walls. A message says which, such as The wall is only 1.10 m clear, so the bathroom's width was left at 1.40 m, the shortest it can be. (with the wall's and the bathroom's own figures).

What you have done inside a bathroom is carried across a resize. A fixture you swapped, renamed or gave a new material keeps the change. A fixture you moved stays where you put it if it still fits the new room, and the message reads, for example, Kept the WC where you moved it. If it does not fit, it goes back to the layout and the message says The WC was put back in its place and gives the reason. A basin you changed that the new room would widen keeps its own size, and a message names it. One that has to lose its second unit in a narrower room asks first, in the same way a kitchen does.

How a fitting reads in plan

In plan a fitting is one object. Hover any part of it and the whole fitting lights; select it and the whole fitting is drawn with the selection's outline and tint. Once you enter the fitting with Open cabinet editor, Open bathroom or a double-click, its parts are separate again and hover and selection work on one unit at a time.

To ask Corb for a kitchen of your own

Click Ask Corb at the head of the Fittings row to open him, then describe the kitchen you want in your own words. Corb works out the units and lengths from your description and puts the kitchen into the drawing in one edit.

• The units along the wall, left to right as you face it: cupboard, drawers, dishwasher, hob, sink, larder, ovens or fridge. Up to 20 on the wall.
• A leg off either end for an L-shape, or both for a C-shape, listed from the corner outwards. Up to 12 units on a leg.
• An island in front of the run, with up to 12 units, and a bar counter or waterfall ends on it.
• Lengths in metres, up to 12, or wall to wall, which makes the kitchen the clear length of the wall you name. A length out of range is refused to Corb with the reason, and a figure that looks like millimetres comes back with a note to divide by 1000, so he asks you again.
• The other face of the wall, for a new kitchen you want on that side.
• The look: front style (slab, shaker or raised arch) and handles (none, bar, cutout, hole or knob).

Corb reads the walls first and keeps the kitchen clear of doors, windows and other fittings in the way the Fittings row does. He tells you what he did, including anything the kitchen still stands across, and what he chose. A kitchen he builds is a fitting like any other, so you resize it from its panel or by its arrows, host it, and flip it to the other side of the wall with Flip to other side. A kitchen he puts down without a wall is not hosted, so Fit to wall and Flip to other side stay dimmed with Host it to a wall first until you host it. An L-shaped or C-shaped one placed on a single wall has its back run fitted, and its legs are fitted once you host it to the side walls too. To change which units it holds, or to move it to another wall, undo it and ask again with the change.

When Linea asks you to adjust

• A kitchen or leg asked for shorter than its units allow stays as it was, and the message gives the shortest. Ask for that length, or take a tall unit out in the cabinet editor.
• A bathroom slider stops at the shortest the room can be with its clearances. Fit to wall on a wall shorter than that leaves the dimension at its shortest and says so.
• A locked fitting or a locked part inside it stops a resize: the message names the part. Unlock it and try again.
• A fitting you scaled as a whole no longer has standard widths, so it cannot be resized to fit. Put a new one down from the Fittings row.
• A read-only drawing cannot take a resize, and the message says so.
• A copy of a fitting, made with copy and paste or Copy to level, keeps its wall only when that wall is copied with it, and a corner keeps its walls only if every one of them comes along. Otherwise the copy arrives unhosted, and you host it to the wall you want.
• A wall that is curved cannot take a fitting, which runs straight. Pick a straight wall or place it with the pointer.