Show the floor plan flat, in 2D

There is no second, flat kind of map to make. A floor is drawn flat once, and what changes is how a surface shows it — in perspective, or straight down from above. A signage screen is where that choice is made.

You already drew it flat

The map editor is a flat drawing tool: rectangles, ellipses and furniture seen from above. The 3D map is what comes out of giving each of those shapes a height — see What an Offision map is made of. If no floor is drawn yet, that is the job to do first: Create a map for a floor.

So “make a 2D floor plan” is never a drawing decision. Nothing below changes the plan; it changes what one screen does with it.

Turn a screen’s map flat

The setting lives on the Booking status - Map widget, on the signage design the screen plays.

1. Go to Signage › Content and open the design.
2. Click the map in the preview. Its settings open in the rail beside it.
3. Open Map view. The first card is View mode, showing two pictures of the same plan: 3D and 2D top-down.
4. Choose 2D top-down. The preview rebuilds the map flat.
5. Save.

A design with no stored answer plays in 3D, which is what every screen did before the choice existed. Switching costs nothing and throws nothing away — the framing you had in 3D is still there if you switch back.

Turn it to match the wall

A flat map has no camera to orbit, so Map view offers turns instead of angles: Turn left and Turn right move it a quarter turn at a time, and Recenter re-fits the whole plan in the frame. The hint on the card says what they are for — “Turn the map to match how the panel is mounted.”

That is the real use for a flat map. A plan drawn with the entrance at the bottom reads upside down on a screen hung on the opposite wall, and a quarter turn puts the door where the person standing in front of it expects it.

The turn is one answer for the whole widget, not one per floor, because the thing being corrected is how the panel is bolted up — a property of the screen, not of the building. Lock map view, below the card, then holds it there so nobody nudges it.

What still draws in 3D

The choice is per widget, and only one widget has it. Everywhere else the floor is drawn in perspective:

• The app, on a phone or in a browser — see Find a desk on the floor plan.
• The map editor’s 3D preview, and the opening angle saved there — see Frame the default 3D view.
• The Occupancy sensor data - Map widget, which colours by what the sensors see rather than by bookings.

What this does not control

• The plan itself. Shapes, heights and which room is which are all the map editor’s, and identical in both views.
• The colours. Free, busy, short-available and the rest come from the widget’s Resource status group either way — see The Booking status - Map widget.
• Whether the map draws at all. A screen whose graphics engine cannot render a floor shows Map unavailable, and 2D does not rescue it — see The screen says “Map unavailable”.