Draw fences and gates
Enclose a plot or divide a space with a fence. Click post to post to lay the run, then add gates and fine-tune it.
1. Lay the fence post by post
Choose Fence from the left rail and click to drop each post. A rail links every post to the last, and the HUD tracks the total length as you go. Click the last post again, or press Enter, to finish.
Want a span to be an exact length? Type a number and press ↵ Enter: the next span locks to that many metres, the same idiom the Draw tool and the Ruler’s tape use. A full stop or a comma both work as the decimal point, and a length stops at 100.99 m. From the second post on, a shaded wedge on the post you just placed reads the angle of the turn in whole degrees, so you can square a corner by watching for 90° instead of eyeballing it. The HUD’s three keycaps relabel themselves as you go, so read them rather than memorising what each key does.
Snap to your beds Posts snap to nearby area edges and corners, so a fence lines up cleanly with a bed or boundary.
2. Adjust the posts you placed
Every corner you clicked is a post, and each one is editable after the fact. Press a post's square handle once, without dragging, and a small Post tray opens above it carrying Delete post.
Deleting a middle post splices it out of the run: the two rails it separated join into one and the fence stays continuous, so you can thin out a line you over-clicked without starting again. An end post instead takes its dangling segment with it, and once only two posts are left the button reads Delete fence, because two is the least a fence can be. Gates re-home onto the joined rail and keep their openings, unless one was hung on the post you removed or the rail it lands on is now too short to hold it.
3. Add a gate
With the fence selected, an Add fence objects bar appears across the top. Pick Pedestrian, Double or Sliding, then click the spot on a fence line where you want it. A snackbar names what you are carrying and both ways out: click the fence to place it, or press esc to cancel. Changed your mind about the type? Click another cell on the bar and the cursor swaps to it, with no need to disarm first.
The gate opens a gap in the rail, and its detail panel on the right sets how it opens. A swing gate has Swing, Hinge side and How far it opens. A sliding one has Slide direction for which end the leaf parks toward, and Track side for whether the track runs Inside or Outside the fence. Entrances then read clearly on the plan.
4. Move a run or a corner
Grab the square handle in the middle of a run and drag to slide that whole run, both of its posts travel with it and stay attached, so the run keeps its length. Or grab a single post and drag to move just that corner, with the rails on either side stretching to keep up. Either way you adjust one panel without redrawing the whole fence.