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Walls, slabs, and roofs cover most of a building, but not the shapes that don’t fit those categories — a plinth, a bench, a sculpted canopy, a massing study. Block is Pascal’s general-purpose solid: you place one, then reshape it by moving its actual vertices, edges, and faces. A block is real topology, not a box with width and height sliders. Points you move stay moved, faces you extrude stay extruded, and the shape is saved with the project like any other element.

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Place a block

Pick Block in the Build tab — it sits after Column — then click in the scene to place it. Esc cancels before you commit. A new block arrives as a simple solid at the level you’re working on. Everything after that happens in mesh edit mode.

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Edit its geometry

Select the block and press Tab. The block enters mesh edit mode: its vertices, edges, and faces become selectable, and a toolbar appears above it. Press Tab again to leave. Pick what you want to work on with the number keys: Click a component to select it, and Cmd/Ctrl + click or Shift + click to add more to the selection. The toolbar shows what’s currently selected, for example 1 EDGE.
These shortcuts only apply inside mesh edit mode. Outside it, 1, 2, and 3 switch between the Site, Structure, and Furnish phases as usual — see Keyboard shortcuts.

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Move, rotate, and scale

With something selected, G moves it, R rotates it, and S scales it. Move the mouse to adjust and click to confirm. The gizmo in the canvas does the same thing by dragging.

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Reshape it

The toolbar’s Operations menu holds the mesh operations, each with a keyboard shortcut: Each operation is a single undo step, so Cmd/Ctrl + Z takes back the whole extrude rather than unpicking it.
Loop cut needs a connected ring of four-sided faces to run along. If the editor reports that it can’t find one, the geometry around your edge has been cut into triangles or n-gons — add the loop somewhere cleaner, or extrude first and cut after.

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A material per face

A block carries material slots rather than one material for the whole solid. Paint a face with the Painting tool and it takes that material on its own, so a single block can be concrete on one side and timber on another.

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Working with the rest of the scene

  • Items sit on block faces. Place furniture or fixtures onto a block the same way you place them on a floor — see Placing and arranging.
  • Blocks appear in 2D. A block contributes its footprint to the floorplan, so it reads correctly in plan view and in exported floorplan PDFs.
  • Blocks export. They’re part of GLB, STL, and OBJ exports like any other geometry.

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Delete a block

Select it — outside mesh edit mode — and press Delete or Backspace, or use the Delete action in its properties panel.