# Put your bookcase in a room

Make a room with a window, put the bookcase from the first tutorial against a wall beside the window, add finishes, walk through and take a snapshot.

In [Your first bookcase](/docs/tutorials/first-bookcase/), you made the bookcase 800 mm wide to fit a gap. In this tutorial, the gap is in a study: 850 mm of wall between the left corner and the window. You make the study, put your bookcase in the gap and see if it fits. Then you give the room colours, walk through it and save a picture of it.

You need about 15 minutes. You need the file `Bookcase.kerf` that you downloaded at the end of [Your first bookcase](/docs/tutorials/first-bookcase/).

This tutorial uses the UK region with sizes in mm.

## Make the room

The room shows the bookcase at its real size beside the walls, the window and the floor.

1. Click **File**.
2. Move the pointer to **New**.
3. Click **Room…**.
4. In **Name**, type `Study`.
5. Keep the default sizes: 4000 mm wide, 3500 mm long, a 2400 mm ceiling and 100 mm walls.
6. Click **Create**.
7. If **Region** in the **Properties** panel does not show **UK**, select **UK**.

![The New project dialog for a room called Study, with the internal width, internal length, ceiling height and wall thickness.](/docs/img/tutorials/room-new-project.jpg)

The 3D view shows a room with four walls. The **Model** panel shows **Study**.

## Add the window

Add the window before the bookcase. The collision check then tells you if the bookcase is in front of it.

1. Click ▸ next to **Study** in the **Model** panel.
2. Click **North wall (back)**.
3. In the **Properties** panel, at **Openings**, click **Door or window…**.
4. At **Kind**, select **Window**.
5. In **Width**, type `1200`.
6. At **From**, select **Left**.
7. In **Distance**, type `850`.
8. Click **Add**.

The back wall now has a window 1200 mm wide. Between the left corner and the window, there is 850 mm of wall. Left and right are as you see the wall from inside the room.

## Insert your bookcase

You do not draw the bookcase again. You insert the file from the first tutorial, with its parameters and its cut list.

1. Click **File**.
2. Click **Insert from file…**.
3. Click the file button and select `Bookcase.kerf`.
4. Read the line below the button. It shows "Bookcase" is inserted into this project.
5. Click **Insert**.

![The Import tab with Bookcase.kerf selected, set to insert into this project.](/docs/img/tutorials/room-insert.jpg)

The **Model** panel shows **Bookcase** below **Study**. The cut list is the same as in the first tutorial. **Top, Bottom** are 764 mm long, and the **Kick board** is 764 × 70 mm.

## Put the bookcase against the wall

The bookcase is 800 mm wide and the space is 850 mm. An offset of 25 mm from the corner leaves 25 mm on each side.

1. Right-click **Bookcase** in the **Model** panel.
2. Click **Place against wall…**.
3. At **Wall**, select **Study · North wall (back) (4000 mm)**.
4. At **From**, select **Left**.
5. In **Offset**, type `25`.
6. Click **Place**.

![The Place against wall form: the north wall, Left, and an offset of 25 mm.](/docs/img/tutorials/room-place-wall.jpg)

The back of the bookcase turns to face the wall. The bookcase stands between the left corner and the window.

Now see if it fits:

1. Right-click **Bookcase** in the **Model** panel.
2. Click **Check collisions…**.
3. Click **Check**.

The form shows that there are no collisions: the bookcase fits. If the bookcase is in front of the window, the form shows "Bookcase stands in front of Window above its sill".

4. Click **Close**.

![The study from above: the bookcase against the back wall, to the left of the window.](/docs/img/tutorials/room-placed.jpg)

## Apply finishes

Finishes show the bookcase against the colours of the room. They do not change the cut list.

1. Click **Study** in the **Model** panel.
2. In **Finishes** in the **Properties** panel, click **Warm off-white (matt)** in the **Walls** row. Hover over a swatch to see its name.
3. Click **Oak boards** in the **Floor** row.
4. Click **Ceiling white (matt)** in the **Ceiling** row.

The walls are off-white, the floor has oak boards and the ceiling is white.

![The study with its finishes. The Properties panel shows the Walls, Floor and Ceiling finishes of the room.](/docs/img/tutorials/room-finishes.jpg)

## Walk through the room

A walk at eye level shows how tall the bookcase is next to the window.

1. Click **Presentation** above the view. The grid and the outlines go away.
2. Click **Scene**. A second row of buttons opens.
3. Click **Walk**.

The room has no door, so you start at the **East wall (right)**, the wall farthest from the bookcase. Your eye height is 1600 mm, and you look at the bookcase.

![A walkthrough at eye level from the east wall, looking at the bookcase beside the window.](/docs/img/tutorials/room-walk.jpg)

W, A, S and D, or the arrow keys, move you. Drag to look around.

## Take a snapshot

A snapshot is a picture that you can show to the person who uses the room.

1. Press Esc to stop the walkthrough.
2. In **Camera…**, select **south-east corner**.
3. Click **Snapshot**.

Your browser downloads a 1920 × 1080 PNG file with a name like `Study-rev6-1920x1080.png`. To change the size, select a different size next to **Snapshot** first.

![The view from the south-east corner: off-white walls, oak boards, and the bookcase beside the window.](/docs/img/tutorials/room-snapshot.jpg)

## Save the project

1. Click **File**.
2. Click **Save…**.
3. Click **Save**.

## What you learned

- A room project starts with walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- **Insert from file…** puts a design from another project into this one, with its cut list.
- **Place against wall…** puts furniture against a wall at an offset from a corner.
- **Check collisions…** tells you if furniture hits a wall, a window or other furniture.
- Finishes change only how the model looks.
- **Scene** has the walkthrough, the camera positions and the snapshot.

Next, build a workbench from timber in [Draw a workbench](/docs/tutorials/draw-a-workbench/).