How to Add Flooring to Your 3D Floor Plan
As you create your 3D floor plan, it's important to showcase every detail in your design to better bring your vision to life. Adding flooring is an important step — it's a key design element that helps showcase the ideas you have for your client's space.
This tutorial will guide you through the simple steps to customise your flooring within the 3D Floor Planner.
Adding Floors in the 3D Floor Planner
To start, you will need to open an existing 3D floor plan or create a new floor plan. Read How to Create a 3D Floor Plan to learn more about getting started.
Regardless of how you create your floor plan, it's important that the walls in your design are all fully connected. You are not able to add flooring to a room unless the room is fully enclosed — be sure to check for any wall gaps if you are having trouble.
Once your room is created, simply click on the floor in the space. A new menu on the right side of your screen will appear with room details. Click Select Flooring.
You will then be able to browse our Flooring Library in the right menu. Select the relevant tab to find wood, tile and carpet options. You can also use the search bar to search by keyword.
Once you make a selection, it will automatically update in your floor plan design. Make sure to view the flooring in Dollhouse and Walkthrough mode to get a better idea of how it will look visually in your design.
If you already have flooring selected — either from a template or your own design — you can easily adjust the flooring if needed. Just click on the flooring, and select the current flooring selection from the right menu. The Flooring Library will appear so you can make your changes.
When you adjust the flooring, you will need to select another material from the library — you are not able to go back to a No Flooring option.
Adding Multiple Floor Types in One Room
If you have an open concept floor plan that will use multiple flooring materials within one space, you can split the room and adjust the flooring within your 3D floor plan. This feature can also be useful for smaller flooring accents, like tile in front of a fireplace or a floor border in a bathroom.
To start, click the Draw Room Split icon in your 3D floor plan toolbar. Here, you will be prompted to select the room you want to split.
Once you click on the room, you will need to draw the line to split the room. When you hover over the wall to start your line, a blue dot will appear. Click on the blue dot where you want the division to start, then drag the line to the other wall across the room. Click again on that wall, and another blue dot will appear to complete the line.
You will now see a black line dividing your two spaces. From here, you can adjust the flooring by clicking on the floor in the space and adjusting the flooring material in the right menu. Since the open concept space is split, the new flooring material will only show up in the room you designated.
To delete the split room line, just hover over the line until it is highlighted in blue, then click the line and select the delete button on your computer keyboard.
Add Room Labels
In the right menu, you can also adjust the room label name. When you split a room, you will be able to label specific spaces within an open concept floor plan. You can do this even if the flooring material is the same throughout the space.
In the example below, there is one label for Kitchen, and one label for Living Room, and the annotation appears directly on the floor plan. Even though the flooring material is the same, dividing up the space and adding room labels is an easy way to show clients where one space ends and another begins.
Square Footage Calculations
When you split a room, the square footage calculations will also be split, as shown below. You will need to add together the measurements for all the different spaces to get accurate square metre-age calculations for an entire open concept room.