Intro to Montage Studio

Learn your way around Montage Studio

Updated on
April 18, 2025

Montage Studio was built to make designing your own home easy and intuitive. Learning your way around will allow you to focus on exploring all your creative ideas.

You can access Montage Studio from your Portfolio Dashboard by clicking on any design card or the “+ New Design” button in the upper right corner.

Anatomy of Montage Studio

Montage Studio consists of the main Workspace canvas and: 

  • the top bar, which includes menu navigation, the context bar, and designs actions (e.g., design renaming & sharing), notifications, and account menu
  • the left toolbar and panels, which includes tabbed navigation
  • the right panel, which includes design styles, settings, & interactions
  • the bottom toolbar, which provides quick tools for: undo, redo, and zoom
  • the floating toolbar, which provides quick tools for: floor plan view, levels, nodes, 3D view, and interior images

Top bar

Montage logo

When you click the Montage logo icon, you will be redirected to our main website.

Main menu

When you click the Menu icon, a menu appears, from which you can navigate to the Design, View, Preferences, or Help sub menus.

Design 

From the Design sub menu, you can:

  • Save – saves your current design
  • New design – starts a new design
  • View summary – navigates to the Dashboard summary page for your design 
  • Make a copy  – create a copy of the current design
  • Move to – change the location of the saved file for the current design in your Portfolio 
  • Rename  – rename your design
  • Delete  – permanently deletes the current design file
View

From the View sub menu, you can:

  • Show grid – toggle to visibility of the Workspace grid
  • Change the visual style of the Workspace grid
Preferences 

Coming soon!

Help

Opens the Help Center from Montgae’s main website

Context bar

The context bar lets you quickly navigate to your Portfolio Dashboard associated with the current design and edit the file name by click on each item respectively.

Design actions

Design actions let you share your design, view pricing plans, and notfifications. 

When you click the profile avatar a menu appears, from which you can navigate to the Account Settings, Portfolios, Resources, and Log out.

Account Settings

Redirects you to your Dashboard Account settings page, where you can manage and view various information such as Profile settings, Email & notifications, and view your Order history.

Portfolios 

Redirects you to your Portfolio Manager page within the Dashboard.

Resources 

Opens the Help Center from Montgae’s main website.

Log out

Log out from the current user profile.

Left toolbar and panels

Tabbed navigation

The left toolbar provides tabbed navigation to the Design tab, Templates tab, Modules tab, and Bookmarks tab. Each tab has a corresponding icon and expands the associated panel when the icon is clicked.

Design 

Your hub for viewing, organizing, and adjusting the details of your design. Whether you started from scratch or chose one of our professionally designed templates, all the details of your current design can be found here.

Templates 

Jumpstart your creative journey with professionally designed templates. Every template is customizable and allows you to control every aspect of your design. ​

Modules 

The core building blocks for designing your floor plan. Modules, like LEGO® blocks, can be assembled in various ways to create your ideal floor plan. There are 3 main types – Annex, Dwelling, and Lifestyle.

Bookmarks 

Quickly access your favorite modules, templates, and all your designs.

The canvas

The largest area in Montage Studio is the Workspace canvas. This is where you can interact with your design in real-time. You can select modules, move them around, and edit them. There are two floating toolbars within the canvas:

  • The View Toolbar
  • The Quick Tools Toolbar
View Toolbar

The View Toolbar lets you adjust all finish and upgrade options available for your design. You can choose

Floor plan View

The Floor plan View (indicated with a “floor plan” icon) is the default Workspace view and where you can interact with your design in real-time. 

3D View

The 3D View tab (indicated with a “cube” icon) lets you preview a 3D model for your design. 

Interior Images

The Interior Images View (indicated with an “image” icon) lets you preview Interior images provided for the modules in your design. 

Quick Tools Toolbar

The Quick Tools Toolbar provides quick access to the undo, redo, and zoom commands.

Right panel

The right panel contains the style and order panels, which give you more granular control over your design's styles, settings, upgrades, and order Blueprints.

  • Style Panel
  • Order Panel

Style panel

The Style panel lets you adjust all finish and upgrade options available for your design. You can choose these values in their appropriate fields to instantly apply the styles to your modules on the canvas.

Order panel

The Order panel allows you to select and purchase a Blueprint Package and select package upgrades for the current design.