Floorplans

Scenario: In the Garden room we are going to add a staircase with 2 straight sections, a quarter turn landing and winder. Each section of the staircase is dealt as a separate entity, starting with the standard straight staircase, following with...

Note: All lessons are recorded with manual text entry for any measured values, for stairs the procedure is the same when using a Laser Measurement Device, but please refer to Topic 3a – Lessons 2 and 4 for measurement specific...

The ‘Add Beam’ tool is available for rooms that have been closed/ended and enables the addition of beams from 2 different walls, the beams can be perpendicular to the wall or at an angle. A beam can be extended to...

These are a collection of lessons on useful Floorplans tools that are independent of each other and do not fit into any other category. Lesson 1: Extend to Wall Tool including the Match Bearing tool For information on: Adding Symbols...

First let’s define a regular shaped room, it’s one where all corners of the room are 90°or thereabouts. It could be a square, a rectangle or otherwise. You can start to minimise any errors, by carefully selecting your start point....

Notes: All lessons are recorded with manual text entry for any measured values. For specific information on using a Laser Measurement Device or Total Station refer to the devices specific Device Connections lesson in Topics 3a and 3b. To reduce...

Scenario: We are going to start a new file and survey the Garden Room and two other regular shaped rooms of Soldridge Manor. The starting room will be the garden room from an arbitrary point. From this the internal Hall will be...

Scenario: We are going to open up an existing file of Soldridge Manor and add the following Irregular Shaped Rooms, to it, the Kitchen, conservatory and make a start on the footprint. Each of these will use different tools to enter...

First let’s define an irregular shaped room; it’s one where not all corners of the room are 90°, for example. You can start to minimize any errors, by carefully selecting your start point. When selecting the first wall in an...