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Niches: recesses in a wallA niche is a recess built into one face of a wall. Unlike a window or opening it doesn't go through: some wall is always left behind it. Before you start A wall…
Draw rooms and walls…h exact numbers. New plan? Start with the outside walls — see Outside walls first. Before you start A project open in the editor (2D view). Know whether you'll…
Curved wallsAny wall can be a circular arc. Curved walls are exact: lengths, room areas and door positions are measured along the real curve, not a set of short straight pi…
Draw a floor plan: outside walls first, then rooms…easuring around the outside). 1. Draw the outside walls Press P or choose Perimeter in the tool rail. Pick Rectangle, L-shape or U-shape and drag the footprint.…
Import a blueprint or existing floor plan…n you know for certain, such as the length of one wall. Steps In a project choose Import a plan and upload the image. Crop and straighten it so the plan fills t…
Materials, colours and lighting…r the whole project. Before you start A room with walls (and ideally some furniture). Built-in materials Woods (natural oak, walnut, ash herringbone, pale maple…
Add a roof: gable, hip, shed or flatRoofs are drawn from your walls, so they always fit the building. You choose the shape and pitch; the ridge height, hips, valleys and roof area are worked out e…
IFC (BIM) export…the plan exactly. Before you start A design with walls. Rooms, doors, windows and furniture are included when present. Steps Choose Export → BIM model (IFC4) i…
Multiple floors, stairs and roofs…e, e.g. "Upstairs" or "Basement". Optionally copy walls from an existing floor as a starting point. Copied walls are independent: future edits don't propagate b…
Create your own materials…an angle. Choose Create material. Select a room, wall or item and click your material's swatch. You can also pick it in the inspector (listed as "Yours: …") or…
Doors and windowsDoors and windows are hosted by walls: they move with the wall, cut a clean opening in 2D and 3D, and can't float in space. Before you start At least one wall d…
Elevations and sections…draw and show what you'd see looking one way: cut walls and floors in solid black, everything beyond in lighter lines. Before you start A design with walls. Doo…
Glossary…treline An imaginary line through the middle of a wall's thickness. Gross area is measured to centrelines. Clear (inside) dimension The distance between the inn…
Measure a room by hand…per room. Steps Sketch the room roughly on paper: walls, doors, windows, radiators, built-ins. Measure wall to wall at about waist height, inside faces, for eve…
Your first floor plan in 15 minutes…rag a rectangle on the canvas. Release to finish. Walls, corners and the room's floor area appear instantly. Make it exact. With the room selected, type the wid…
Plan a renovation: existing, proposed and demolition…. Draw the rooms as they are today, including the wall you want to remove. Mark it as existing. Select everything (press Mod+A) and set Phase → Existing in the…
Ceilings: flat, sloped or open…plane that rises from the Low side height at one wall to the High side height at the opposite side. Set the direction it rises toward with the dial (drag it, o…
Dimensions and units…ever changes your plan. Before you start Select a wall, room, opening or item so the inspector shows its dimensions. Formats you can type You type Means 12 ft 6…
Export formats…other 3D tools DXF 2D geometry with named layers (walls, openings, furniture, labels, dimensions) CAD software XLSX Room, door & window and furniture schedules,…
A quick tour of the editor…t view, share and export. Tool rail (left) Rooms, walls, doors, windows, furniture, materials, dimensions and view tools. Canvas (centre) Your plan. Scroll to z…