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Quickest way to create a DIY floor plan? Tried RoomScan and Sketchup.
buglawton
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I am trying Sketchup on laptop and the iPhone app RoomScan Pro.
With Roomscan you place the phone on each wall in turn and it generates a plan.
Sketchup requires learning all the tools before getting good results.
RoomScan does individual rooms rather well but decided to redesign the ground floor when it auto-stitched all the rooms together! I cannot find a way to 'tell' RoomScan how to connect/orientate the rooms.
Any other suggestions?
Having a good pencil drawing I was wondering if there is software that scans a drawing and converts it to a plan where you can enter final corrections.
With Roomscan you place the phone on each wall in turn and it generates a plan.
Sketchup requires learning all the tools before getting good results.
RoomScan does individual rooms rather well but decided to redesign the ground floor when it auto-stitched all the rooms together! I cannot find a way to 'tell' RoomScan how to connect/orientate the rooms.
Any other suggestions?
Having a good pencil drawing I was wondering if there is software that scans a drawing and converts it to a plan where you can enter final corrections.
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We used sketchup when redesigning our kitchen and found it very helpful, but you are right- it is fiddly to get used to0
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Thanks for the ideas. I've been doing more research and am now using Homestyler (linked with the Autocad company). It's free, web based, allows you to import your own drawing as a scaled background to work over and has pick and place objects for home floor plans. So far so good.0
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I used floorplanner to do an entire upstairs and downstairs internal design for a near-complete rebuild. I went through something like 50 different designs using the software. The end result has turned out very well so it worked well for me!
The Homestyler scaled drawing import feature sounds good though.0
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