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title: Townhome Manual Mode
description: Adjust Townhome placement to maximize your site.
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December 1, 2025

# Townhome Manual Mode

## Adjust Townhome placement to maximize your site.

![](https://support.testfit.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Dec-01-2025-03-45-49-4631-PM.png?width=670&height=520&name=image-png-Dec-01-2025-03-45-49-4631-PM.png)

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### Accessing Manual Mode

There are a couple ways to access Manual Mode.

1. Click on the building you want to edit until you see a grey grip in the corner or click on the Low Density Housing layer in the Navigation Tree:
   
   ![02 Townhomes Manual](https://support.testfit.io/hs-fs/hubfs/02%20Townhomes%20Manual.jpg?width=644&height=403&name=02%20Townhomes%20Manual.jpg)
2. You can now either ***click a building*** you want to edit, or click the ***add item*** button, and ****select Townhouse row.****  
   ![01 Townhomes Manual](https://support.testfit.io/hs-fs/hubfs/01%20Townhomes%20Manual.jpg?width=670&height=536&name=01%20Townhomes%20Manual.jpg)
3. To rotate a row of townhomes: ***right click+hold*** on the handle, rotate to desired orientation 
   
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#### Adding/Modifying Drive Aisles

With the Townhomes layer selected you can perform the following operations:

1. Add new drive aisles: click on the blue spline and draw in your new road. Click+hold on a node to move the drive aisle.  
   ![Townhome manual mode1](https://support.testfit.io/hs-fs/hubfs/Townhome%20manual%20mode1.gif?width=670&height=377&name=Townhome%20manual%20mode1.gif)

 Right click on the spline to remove units from either side of the drive aisle or to manually adjust the aisle type of a single road.  
![Townhome Manual Mode 2](https://support.testfit.io/hs-fs/hubfs/Townhome%20Manual%20Mode%202.gif?width=670&height=377&name=Townhome%20Manual%20Mode%202.gif)

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#### Removing Manual Edits

Once a manual edit has been performed you'll notice a red M in the nav-tree at the end of the respective layer. Click the red M to remove the edits and return  the site to it's original solve.

![](https://support.testfit.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Dec-01-2025-04-41-43-0176-PM.png?width=367&height=156&name=image-png-Dec-01-2025-04-41-43-0176-PM.png)

 

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