4) Move your mouse to the opposite corner so the room covers all rooms sharing this angled wall. Now we can draw a secon
Floorplanner tricks
Floorplanner tricks
Drawing angled floorplans
Drawing angled floorplans
Most floorplans are composed of rectangular rooms. Floorplanner is a very quick tool for these, but there are also rooms that have angled walls. We’ll teach you some tricks how to draw these easily as well.
1) Prepare a background image
If you have a drawing of the plan, it helps a lot to upload this one first. If not, you can skip this step. NB: Is your file is a .pdf or .dwg format? Then you’ll first have to export it to a .png or .jpg image file with maximum width and height of 3000x3000 pixels.
1) open this menu with the last construction icon
2) scale it after it’s uploaded. (follow the instructions) 3) rotate it so most of the walls are either horizontal or vertical.
example blueprint
4) click save and you’re ready to start.
we’ll show you how to draw this type of plan using the blueprint
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Floorplanner tricks
Floorplanner tricks
Drawing angled floorplans
Drawing angled floorplans 5) Drag the bottom left wall corner to the right to form the angled exterior wall. Then release it.
First we’ll draw the biggest angled exterior wall. 1) Click the 1st construction. 2) Type the right wall thickness followed by Enter. 3) Click & release where this angled wall begins 4) Move your mouse to the opposite corner so the room covers all rooms sharing this angled wall.
6) Split the angled wall where there are other walls meeting this wall.
Now we can draw a second room. 7) Click the 1st construction. 8) Set the interior wall thickness by typing (for instance) 0.1 followed by Enter. 9) Click & release on the split point you just made 10) Move your mouse to the opposite corner and click & release to finish this room.
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Floorplanner tricks
Floorplanner tricks
Drawing angled floorplans
Drawing angled floorplans
11) Delete the redundant walls.
First we’ll draw the biggest angled exterior wall. 1) Click the 1st construction. 2) Type the right wall thickness followed by Enter. 3) Click & release where this angled wall begins 4) Move your mouse to the opposite corner so the room covers all rooms sharing this angled wall.
There you go! That’s the first angled wall. There are of course different methods to come to this result, but this method of splitting, drawing rooms and removing redundant walls is one of the quickest and has little margin for error.
5) Drag the bottom right wall corner to form the angled exterior wall & release it.
Let’s do the other side to get the hang of it.
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Floorplanner tricks
Floorplanner tricks
Drawing angled floorplans
Drawing angled floorplans 6) Split the angled wall where there are other walls meeting this wall. (see all the white dots).
Click & release on the split point you just made in step 6 10) Move your mouse to the corner from step 7 and click & release to finish this room. 11) Repeat these steps for all these rooms.
7) On the bottom wall we also have to split the wall to have a location to end the first room.
12) Delete the redundant walls.
Now we can draw the interior rooms. 8) Click the 1st construction. 9) Set the interior wall thickness by typing (for instance) 0.1 followed by Enter.
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Floorplanner tricks
Floorplanner tricks
Drawing angled floorplans
Drawing angled floorplans
Some of the interior walls were not alligned to each other. This is easily fixed by dragging the walls
Now you could hide the background drawing in the drawing menu. Just to see the result clearly. (you can better unhide it for adding windows and such). So here’s your plan with angled walls:
Now here’s how you can quickly finish the last walls by drawing 2 rooms.
