Using Edit floor plan

1. Click Build in the Menu bar.
2. Click the Edit floor plan icon in the tool bar.
   
   
   
   
   

A new tab, Floor plan, will now open in the plan window.  From here you will be able click in the plan to draw new walls, and to change and update a selected wall setting in the right-hand panel - the Assistant box.

Once Edit floor plan is open, the cursor will be ready to draw in the plan. 

1. Click at any point inside the plan to place the first part of the wall.  
   If you are starting a wall from an existing wall, hover the cursor over the wall face. By default this is the side of the wall facing inside the room:
   
   
   
   The wall face will become highlighted, and the cursor will show a circle to signify that your new drawn wall will connect to the existing wall. 
   
   
2. Move the mouse and the drawn wall will expand to wherever the cursor hovers. 
   If it is connecting with any wall, the cursor will show the connection with a circle again.
   
   
3. Click to place the end part of the wall.
   
   

 

 

If you change your mind after clicking in the plan to draw, hit backspace on your keyboard, or go to the assistant box to the right-hand side and click Undo record to cancel the current wall drawing.

 

In Edit floor plan, hover over a wall until the whole wall is highlighted, not just the wall face.  Once highlighted, click to select.

You will now be able to access wall editing options for the selected wall in the assistant box:

• Change wall
• Delete wall
• Wall > Starting wall

Changing walls

1. Click a wall you want to edit
2. Click Change wall in the assistant box, or double-click the wall.
   
   In the Wall settings section of the assistant box you will be able to adjust wall lengths, height, and further roof pitch settings by entering values in the relevant boxes.  You will not see changes in the plan until you click Apply at the bottom of wall settings.
   
   
3. Enter all changes and click Apply.

Delete walls

1. Click the wall you want to delete.
2. Click Delete wall in the assistant box, or hit DEL on your keyboard.

Change the starting wall

1. Click the wall you want to be the starting wall.
2. Click Wall - > starting wall in the assistant box.
   
   The order of the walls will reset clockwise to decide the closing wall.

 

 

1. Click a wall you want to edit.
2. Click Change wall in the assistant box.
3. Go to the Wall settings section, click the Wall thickness drop-down and select a suggested width, or double-click in the box and enter your own value.
4. Click Apply in the bottom right.

 

1. Click a wall you want to edit.
2. Click Change wall in the assistant box.
3. In the Wall settings section, the current left/right direction will be selected in the Flip roof pitch direction section.  Click the direction that is not selected.  
4. Click Apply.

 

 

The Insert diagonal function allows specific corner-to-corner measurements to be implemented quickly into the drawn plan.  Once the diagonal measurement has been updated, the floor plan will automatically adjust, changing the wall length and angles of corners accordingly. 

It is important to note that walls will keep their length, apart from the last wall, the wall that closes the room.  The wall that closes the room is highlighted in the plan by being coloured.

1. Click Insert diagonal in the assistant box.
2. Hover over a corner in the plan.  You will be able to click to begin drawing a diagonal if the connect circle appears.
3. Click to begin the diagonal.
4. Hover over a different corner of the room and click to complete the diagonal.  If the room is a box shape, you will only be able to select the opposite corner.
   
   

 

Changing a drawn diagonal's length

1. Hover over the diagonal line's measurement box until it is highlighted and then click.  
2. Select Change diagonal in the assistant box.
3. Enter a new value in the measurement box and hit Enter on your keyboard.

Deleting a drawn diagonal

1. Hover over the diagonal line's measurement box until it is highlighted and then click.  
2. Select Delete diagonal in the assistant box.