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- Measure a room by handAccurate plans start with good measurements. This method avoids the most common mistakes. Before you start A tape measure or laser distance meter, paper and pen…
- Room scanning and device support…present a camera-only estimate as a survey-grade measurement. Steps: capture an existing room today Measure the room with a tape or laser measure — see Measure…
- Dimensions and unitsType measurements the way you think about them. We store every length exactly, so switching units, saving and exporting never changes your plan. Before you star…
- Your first floor plan in 15 minutesBy the end of this tutorial you will have a real, measured room with a door, a window and a sofa, and you will have walked around it in 3D. No CAD experience ne…
- Curved walls…exact: lengths, room areas and door positions are measured along the real curve, not a set of short straight pieces. Before you start A wall drawn on the plan (…
- Draw rooms and walls…open in the editor (2D view). Know whether you'll measure in feet & inches or metric — you can switch later without changing any geometry. Draw a room Press R o…
- Glossary…bration ruler A printed scale bar on PDF exports. Measure it with a real ruler to confirm the sheet printed to scale. Centreline An imaginary line through the m…
- Print a PDF to scalePrint a plan you can measure with a ruler — for the contractor, the kitchen showroom or the fridge door. Before you start A project open in the editor. A printe…
- Ceilings: flat, sloped or open…s the room's volume in m³ or ft³, with how it was measured: Flat: net floor area (inside the walls) × ceiling height. Sloped: worked out exactly for the slope (…
- Drawing sets: vector PDF plans, elevations, sections and schedules…ck the calibration ruler on any sheet with a tape measure. On every drawing sheet A title block with the project, design, sheet title, scale, units, date and re…
- Plan a renovation: existing, proposed and demolition…communicate that change clearly. Before you start Measurements of the existing rooms (see Measure a room by hand). About 30 minutes. Steps Draw the existing lay…
- Elevations and sectionsElevations show the outside of your home from the north, east, south and west. Sections slice through the building along a line you draw and show what you'd see…
- Import a blueprint or existing floor plan…know and type it, e.g. 12'6". Everything else is measured from this. Choose how to convert it: Detect walls automatically (AI) — part of the subscription. The…
- Open to below: stairwells and double-height spaces…floor below. The downstairs room's volume is then measured up to the ceiling of the floor above.
- Site boundary, slopes and spot elevations…heights from a survey or a site plan. Heights are measured from project zero, the level of the ground floor's elevation of 0. Create the site Open Roof & site i…