Drawing Blocks and Queueing Configurations

Blocks (rows of houses or galerij apartment buildings) are drawn in the project's 3D Viewer. Once placed, you queue a block configuration or option-sales run from the BNR overview table.

You can also queue a configuration without drawing first — drawing just makes the block exist so the queue has something to act on.

Where to find it

1. Open the project in Construction → Projects → [project].
2. In the top control, switch the editor to Design.
3. In the Design view there is a sub-toggle:
   • Viewer — the 3D scene where blocks are drawn.
   • Table — the BNR overview, where queue buttons live on each block row.

Drawing a block (row of houses)

In Design → Viewer:

1. In the right toolbar click Draw Blocks.
2. Pick a type in the popover. You can filter by concept first to narrow the list.
3. If the type exposes a beukmaat option, pick the code. House width is derived from beukmaat — preview houses use that width.
4. The cursor switches to drawing mode. The bottom overlay reads Click to set block position.
5. First click sets the block's start point (a green START marker appears).
6. Move the mouse — a dashed green line shows direction, ghost houses preview how many fit, and a badge reports the count.
7. Second click sets the direction. The block is created with auto-generated name Block N and houses laid out along the line at the type's beukmaat width.

Snapping helps placement:

Press ESC at any time to cancel drawing.

Nudging a house (position offset)

By default each house sits directly against the previous one: its X position is the previous house's position plus that house's width. To shift a house off this automatic layout — for example to open a gap, step a house forward, or drop it down — give it a position offset.

Select a house (BNR) in Design → Viewer, open the Position offset section in the house sidebar, and set the X, Y, or Z value (in millimetres).

The offset propagates: shifting one house moves that house and every house after it in the block by the same amount, so the rest of the row stays connected. Set the values back to 0 to return to the automatic layout. For galerij blocks the offset shifts only the selected unit, since those are positioned on a per-floor/unit grid rather than in a row.

Drawing a galerij (apartment block)

Same toolbar, Draw Galerij button. The flow is identical, except:

• No type or beukmaat is required — houses are added later in the sidebar.
• The preview is a single building box with floor lines (default 4 floors × 3 m).
• On the second click, an empty galerij block is created.

Drawing a block plot (land plot around a block)

The cyan Draw Block Plot button lets you draw a polygon outline that defines a block's land plot.

1. Click Draw Block Plot.
2. Click to place vertices, one at a time. A dashed closing line previews the polygon.
3. Backspace removes the last vertex. ESC cancels.
4. With ≥3 vertices placed, press Enter to close the polygon.
5. The plot is auto-linked to whichever block's geometric center falls inside the polygon. The name is auto-generated as Plot N.

Queueing a configuration from the BNR overview

Switch the sub-toggle to Table (BNR overview). Each block has its own panel with the block name, house count, and a row of action buttons.

Queue config

Opens the Queue block configuration modal pre-locked to that project and block.

Submitting creates a block-configuration job for the queue.

You can also open this modal without going via a block — it's the same modal, just without the project/block pre-filled. Drawing blocks first means the project & block are already selected and locked.

Block presets

Just like a type has option-sales presets per house, a block can have presets: named snapshots of the choices of every house in the block. A preset can later be rendered as a block configuration — even after the houses' live configuration has changed — and the resulting configuration always shows which block and preset it came from.

Manage presets in Design → Viewer, in the block sidebar (select a block to open it):

• Save current state as preset — snapshots the current effective choices of every house in the block (base configuration + plan options, overridden by per-house choices) under a name and optional description.
• Each preset row offers Queue config with this preset (opens the queue modal with mode Preset preselected), Edit (rename / change description; the captured choices stay as-is), and Delete.

Typical use: configure the block's houses one way (e.g. all standard), save it as preset Standaard; change options (e.g. add dakkapellen), save Met dakkapel. Each preset can then be queued as its own block configuration, and the configurations list shows PRESET · <name> next to the block so the runs stay distinguishable.

Preset names must be unique within a block. Renaming a preset later is safe: queued configurations remember the name they were created with, and the list shows the preset's current name while it still exists.

Queue option sales

The grey Queue option sales button next to Queue config fires immediately (no modal). It enqueues option-sales variants for every house in the block based on the types' presets.

If you want to queue per-house instead of per-block, open the house in the right-hand BNR sidebar and use Queue from type presets / Queue missing presets in the option-sales section.

Typical flow

1. Design → Viewer: draw the block(s) with Draw Blocks (pick type + beukmaat) or Draw Galerij.
2. (Optional) Draw a Block Plot around each block to set its land footprint.
3. Design → Table: on the new block's panel, click Queue config → choose Base or Assigned, set priority, submit.
4. Click Queue option sales on the same row to enqueue option-sales variants for every house.

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