Projects, autosave & version history

The dashboard

Your dashboard lists every project you own, sorted by most recently updated. Each card shows the project name, the van variant, and when it was last touched — Open Editor takes you back into the build.

Deleting a project asks for confirmation first, because it cannot be undone — the layout and all of its version snapshots go with it.

Autosave — how it works

The editor watches everything that belongs to your project — the layout, van settings, insulation, budget assumptions, wiring runs, and scene states — and writes it to the cloud about a second after you stop making changes. During continuous editing it still saves at least every few seconds, so you never have more than a moment of work at risk.

The status chip on the right side of the toolbar shows the current state: a green check for Saved, an amber dot for Unsaved, a spinner while Saving…, and Retry save if a write failed (autosave keeps retrying in the background and tells you once if something went wrong).

Closing the tab or switching away flushes any unsaved changes immediately, and leaving the editor back to the dashboard does the same.

Undo and redo

Every layout change — placing, moving, resizing, deleting, even restoring a snapshot — is undoable with Ctrl/⌘ Z (redo with Ctrl/⌘ Shift Z). One drag counts as one undo step, so undoing a move puts the item exactly back where it started. History is kept for your current session, up to 100 steps.

Snapshots — named restore points

A snapshot freezes the current layout under a label of your choice, independent of autosave. Use one before trying a big rearrangement — "bed across the back", "kitchen on the left" — so you can compare directions and jump back.

1. Click Snapshot in the toolbar.
2. Type a label (or leave it empty) and confirm.
3. Find it later under History — the panel lists every snapshot with its date and van variant.

Restoring an older version

Open History in the toolbar and press Revert to this on any snapshot. The snapshot loads into the editor — and because the revert itself is a normal undoable change, Ctrl/⌘ Z takes you straight back to where you were before restoring.

While you're actively editing, VanPlot also drops an automatic checkpoint into History every 10 minutes, labeled Autosave. Only the newest 15 of these are kept; snapshots you named yourself are never pruned.