Visual Interface Guide
This page maps the main parts of FigureLoom before you start clicking around. The drawings use the same structure as the editor and stay readable in light and dark appearance.
The profile button opens account and project gallery controls. The project name is editable. Local save status appears beside it.
Open project tabs sit below the title area. Each tab keeps its × close control directly beside the project title and inside the same tab box. Closing a tab does not silently delete the project.
When an object is selected on Desktop or Tablet, Undo and Redo sit directly beside Delete in the same action group.
Help and Export remain available through their normal top-level controls. The ? button opens a Help menu with the complete manual, quick task guides, the visual guide, and the passive tour.
The normal workflow is organized into Settings, Projects, Home, Add, Illustrations, Arrange, Style, Charts, Check, and Share. Some advanced tools live inside Pro Tools so the main interface does not become overcrowded.
The left side switches pages and controls object order. Use layers when an object is hidden, locked, difficult to select, or needs to move in front of or behind another object.
The white page is the real export area. The surrounding workspace is only for navigation. Zoom changes the view, not the page dimensions. It should never create extra page area.
The right side changes with the selected object. Position, size, color, opacity, text, chart, image, metadata, and accessibility controls appear here when relevant.
Pages, the Hand tool, zoom, 100 percent, Format, and Navigation stay together in one control bar. On supported desktop layouts, drag the complete bar from an empty part of the bar or its grip. The existing collapse control still collapses it.
Open Settings to choose:
- Automatic
- Desktop
- Tablet
- Phone
Desktop is the compact mouse-and-keyboard layout. Tablet keeps the full editor with roomier touch targets. Phone uses the dock and sliding panels.
The project name, Undo, Redo, and Export remain available. Less frequent actions move into More.
The same main tabs remain available in a horizontal row. Scroll the row instead of trying to squeeze every tab into the phone width.
Add opens a large insertion panel for text, shapes, files, images, templates, charts, equations, code windows, and other objects.
- Tools shows the current ribbon controls.
- Pages shows pages and layers.
- Edit opens the selected object's inspector.
- More contains projects, settings, account, templates, Loomy, Pro Tools, Help, sharing, and other less frequent actions.
Drag a selected object with one finger. Pinch with two fingers to zoom. Use the Hand tool or navigator to move around a zoomed page. Zoom never changes the real page bounds.
Open More, then choose Help. The phone sheet closes and the FigureLoom Help menu opens without leaving the current project.
Press ? on Desktop or Tablet, or use More, then Help on a phone to open:
- Search the full manual
- Start here
- Quick task guides
- Visual interface guide
- Passive interface tour
The passive guide has 13 steps:
- Projects and open tabs
- Settings and appearance
- Main workspaces
- Tools for the current task
- The canvas and real page
- Pages and layers
- The canvas control bar
- The inspector
- Pro Tools
- Loomy
- Share and collaboration
- Help and manuals
- Export and backup
The guide only points things out. It does not open panels, move objects, change selections, or scroll the project.
The manual opens in a new tab so the current canvas remains open.
The editor, Help center, and passive guide use the same saved appearance setting. Changing appearance in the manual also updates the FigureLoom appearance preference for the next editor load.
The canvas background can still be white or another project color while the surrounding interface is dark. Interface appearance and exported page color are separate settings.
Use Quick task guides for short instructions, or Complete tutorials for full projects from beginning to export.