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Calculator use, counted without cookies

A calculator counts your first valid result with changed input once per page. From 1,000 uses, a small line below its result shows a total rounded down, with an explanation.

The home page says in one paragraph what Squaremetry is

Under the strip with the facts, every home page now has a short paragraph: what Squaremetry does, without an account, with the area of every room by the measuring standard of your country, in 3D and as a PDF. Below it are links to the floor plan maker, the calculator and the measuring rules in your language.

The help centre and the About page link to the changelog

What changed lately is now one click away: the help centre and the About page link to this changelog.

Systems drawings from the editor: room names stay readable

In the export of a plan with lights, sockets and pipes (SVG, PNG, JPG, WebP and PDF), on the sheets per trade, on the lighting plan and on the underfloor heating plan, the name and area of a room are now drawn on top of the symbols and the lines. In a small hall with a ceiling light in the middle, the name was under the light. The editor now draws this the same way as the drawings on the site.

Escape plans and shared plans: room names on top of the symbols

In every export, in the report and in a shared view link, the name and area of a room are now drawn on top of symbols such as an exit, a fire extinguisher or an alarm. On an escape plan with an exit sign on the name of a small hall, the name was under the sign. Only the drawing order changed; the place of every label stays the same.

Text on a room name stays on top

A note, a callout, text in a house style, the stair word UP, the height of a sloped ceiling and the height of an installation stay on top of a room name, in every export and on the drawing canvas. Room names only go on top of symbols and lines. On the canvas, a callout and text in a house style were under the name of a room, while the export had them on top; now both look the same.

A choice under File closes More on a phone too

On a phone, Download the open file, Open a file, the imports and the other rows under More › File now close the More sheet, as More does on a large screen. Open a file waits until you have picked the file. Before, the sheet stayed open and the next key only closed it. Start from an example keeps More open while its window is open; picking an example closes More, and Close or Esc brings you back to More.

Measurement sheet: the note about the rule set is behind the (i)

Next to Rule set at the top of the measurement sheet there is now an (i). It holds the sentence about the version and that every plan uses these rules, also an older plan. The panel itself only shows the rule set.

A link to furnish or edit a plan opens faster

Behind a link from an office to furnish a home, or a link to edit a plan, the editor now first fetches what opens that plan and the bar at the top. The rest of the editor loads after that. On a busy phone the plan used to wait seconds behind it. Furniture (F) right away opens the picker, also while the rest is still loading.

The bar at a chosen wall stays after you type a length

When the small bar above a chosen wall only just touched the card on the right, it could disappear after you typed a new length, so the field you typed in was gone. It now moves along the wall until it fits, also by less than a pixel.

In a tab that only views, Edit here is never covered

When the plan is open in another tab, the bar at the top with Edit here now always stays in view. Type rooms as a list opens below it, also on a phone, so you can tap Edit here as soon as the message asks you to. What you typed stays in the window.

Roof, Versions and More also stay below Edit here

In a tab that only views, the roof window, Versions and the other windows at the top now open below the bar with Edit here, and on a phone the More sheet ends below it. Versions is then not a blocking window, so you can click Edit here right after it says so. Close it with Esc or ×. In 3D on a phone, the buttons of 3D now sit below the bar too.

3D on a phone: the house sits below the buttons

In Bird's-eye and Top view on a phone, the house is now drawn in the part below the camera buttons and Show what is above. A tap on a ceiling light at the back opens its card again, instead of switching Show what is above. The title of the view moved below that switch.

3D on a phone: moving the view follows your fingers

In Bird's-eye and Top on a phone, moving the house with two fingers now goes exactly as far as your fingers. It used to lag behind, because the view sits below the buttons at the top. When the bar at the top moves down, the view moves down with it.

Two tabs: a change in the first tab stays in your account

You add a room in one tab and right away open another house in a second tab. The room now stays in the first house in your account. Before, the second tab could send the older copy from this browser to the first house before its own plan was back, and the room was only in Versions.

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Offline: your change goes to your account when you are back online

A change to a house in your account while the connection is gone now shows Offline · kept on this device, and goes to your account as soon as you are online again. Before, the first save without a connection could stay on Saving to your account, and the change did not go along later.

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AI help: Esc closes the explanation first

With an explanation behind (i) open in the AI help, Esc closes only that explanation. The AI help stays open and the answer that is coming keeps going. A second Esc closes the AI help.

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Open another house: your last change goes along first

You change a house in your account and right away open another one from My homes. The change now goes to the first house before the other house opens. Before, the other house could open first, and the change was not in your account.

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Gallery: an opening to the floor below says it does not count

In the room table of a gallery plan, the part of an upper floor that is open to the floor below again says Open to below, not counted, also under a sloped roof. The total was already right; only the line for that room said Finished, counts.

Electrical drawings on the site: room names stay readable

In the floor plans with lights, outlets and cables on the panel schedule, electrical plan and plumbing pages, the name of a room is now drawn on top of the symbols and the cables. On the panel schedule the word HALL was under the ceiling light.

For contractors: every column of the area table has a name

The table with the area before and after on the page for contractors now names its first column Area, so a screen reader announces each column.

Old addresses of the quantities guides lead to the closest guide

The guides for a quote from the quantities and for the quantities of the work went with Quantities and costs. Their addresses, in every language and also the older ones, now lead to the guide for the contractor pack or for the renovation drawing in the same language, instead of a page that does not exist.

Wallpaper with 10 cm to trim, boxes without rounding noise

Each strip of wallpaper now counts 10 cm (about 4 in) to trim, half at the ceiling and half at the floor, the usual advice, in the editor and on every wallpaper calculator. An 8 ft wall now fits 3 strips on a 33 ft roll. Boxes of tiles and packs of laminate are counted on the area rounded to 0.01 m², so a few square centimeters of rounding never add a whole box.

The editor says where your rooms came from

A room from a calculator on the website now opens with its own message, such as "Your room is ready: 20 m² inside the walls, the same as on the website", in the singular for one room. Only a link from your AI assistant mentions the assistant. Before, every calculator said "1 rooms are ready with the sizes from your assistant". The room card on a room size page, such as bedrooms or kitchens, now opens that kind of room, not a living room.

Shape calculators work the other way round

Above the fields of a shape calculator a switch now reads Sizes or Area. Type the area and the calculator gives the size that goes with it: the diameter and radius of a circle, the other side of a rectangle (or the side of a square when you leave the width empty), the height of a triangle, trapezoid or parallelogram, and the other diagonal of a rhombus, with the perimeter. The sizes you typed stay when you switch back. In every language with shape pages, including German.

Error messages with an example that fits

When a calculator cannot read a size, its message now gives an example that fits that field: under the diameter of a circle a diameter, under a size on paper a size on paper, in the unit of the page. Before, many calculators suggested a body height (170 cm or 5′ 7″). A long dash typed in front of a number, as a phone or word processor types it, now says the size must be more than 0, the same as a minus sign.

Shape calculators read numbers in your language

The shape calculators (circle, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, triangle, L-shape and irregular rooms) now read a size the way the language of the page writes it, like every other calculator: 1,250 ft on an English page is one thousand two hundred and fifty feet, and 1.200 cm on a Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese page is 12 metres. A very small shape shows its digits instead of 0 m².

Material calculators count like the editor

Wallpaper now adds 2 in (5 cm) per strip to trim, as the editor and the Dutch wallpaper calculator do: a wall of 8′ 3″ fits 3 strips on a 33 ft roll, not 4. Boxes of tiles and packs of laminate are counted from the exact area, so the boxes always hold the tiles the calculator names. Extra for cuts is added to the exact area before anything is rounded, and feet and inches read as everywhere on the site: 8′ 11⅝″, never 8′ 12″.

The perimeter under every shape

Every shape calculator now shows the perimeter as the second line, right under the area, in every language: rectangle, circle, rhombus, L-shape and irregular rooms. For a triangle from its base and height, or a trapezoid from its two sides and height, those sizes do not fix the perimeter. There the line says to add up the sides, instead of a number for a shape you may not have.

The calculator right under the answer, also on a phone

On every calculator page the calculator now sits right under the short answer at the top, so on a phone its first field is on the first screen. It loads straight away instead of when you scroll to it, and it shows an example with its result before it has loaded. Where you can type feet and inches, a phone opens the full keyboard, so 14′ 6″ can be typed; fields for a percentage or a price keep the number pad.

Every calculator opens the editor with what you typed

The room calculator on the English, German and Spanish pages no longer says that the editor opens at the launch: its button opens the editor with your rooms, in every language. The material calculators, the room card on the room size pages and the German balcony calculator do the same with your room. A balcony opens as a balcony, not as a room, so it counts as the standard says, and a winter garden opens as a winter garden.

Room pages and the paint calculator give the same answer

The pages for a room size, such as 12 x 14, now work out paint, flooring and tiles with the same sum as the material calculators, with the assumptions they name: 8 ft walls, about 60 sq ft for a door and a window, two coats and 350 sq ft per gallon, always rounded up. A 12 x 14 room now says 3 gallons, as the paint calculator does, instead of 2. Flooring for a 10 x 10 room is 110 sq ft with 10% extra, no longer 111.

One clear message per field in every calculator

A size that cannot be used now gets one message, under the field, once you leave the field or press Enter, not while you are still typing. The result then shows one calm sentence instead of 0 m² or the same message a second time. A minus sign or 0 says the size must be more than 0. In a list of rooms a wrong row stays in place with its message, and the total says how many rooms it counts, such as 2 of 3 rooms counted.

Thousands and small sizes the way your language writes them

Every calculator now reads numbers the way the language of the page writes them: 10,000 acres is ten thousand acres (it used to become 10), a price of 1,250 is 1,250 dollars, 1,250 x 10 in the room calculator is 12,500 sq ft, and in French 10 000 m² is one hectare. A very small length such as 0.01 cm now shows 0.0039 in instead of 0 in. When a number is unclear you get a message, never a different number.

Feet and inches from a phone keyboard

An iPhone types ’ and ” instead of ' and " for feet and inches. Every calculator on the site, and the room list in the editor, now reads 12’ 6” exactly like 12' 6", also 12'6'' with two apostrophes. Before, such a size gave a message on every calculator in feet.

Distance to the boundary: corners and neighbouring plots measured right

If a U- or L-shaped building touches a neighbouring plot at a corner, only the side where it reaches in says 0 m, on the boundary; the other side is measured as usual from the part of the building that faces it. Each building measures only the boundary it faces, at right angles and through open air, never diagonally to the end of a boundary: a garage diagonally beside the corner of a neighbouring plot no longer shortens the distance of the house. Within 1 cm (5 cm for a plot from the land registry map) counts as on the boundary. A turned plan gives the same distances and dimension lines as the same plan straight. A neighbouring plot wholly under the building gives one message instead of two sides on the boundary, and a building outside the plot is named in its message, like Garage lies entirely outside the plot.

An open list or menu keeps its keys

While any list or menu is open, Delete, Backspace, Esc and letters no longer reach the drawing, wherever the focus is: nothing is deleted behind it and no tool changes. That holds for every menu and list, such as More in the toolbar, the More sheet on a phone, the workspace menu, Help, Dimensions, Together, Account, Layers, the right-click menu, the width of a door, the floor picker on the drawing and the floor list in the Plan panel. Delete, Backspace and Esc close the menu, and so does a letter the menu does not use itself. Esc closes the list first: a panel such as Heights stays open. Keys with ⌘ or Ctrl still work: ⌘K opens search and ⌘Z undoes, and the menu closes. A click or tap next to a menu closes it too, even while it is still loading, so the next key goes to the drawing again. A key pressed while a menu is still loading belongs to the menu as well. In 3D an open menu also comes first: P closes it instead of switching to the plan.

The USDZ file for AR on iPhone and iPad is about half the size

Walls, doors, windows, the stairs and the roof are now closed shapes with their front facing out, so every face is in the USDZ file once instead of twice. The file for the example house goes from 5.4 MB to 2.7 MB. In AR nothing falls away and nothing shows inside out. Floors, furniture from the library, your own models and free shapes from Model keep both sides, so you still see them from below and from behind.

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Roof card: no area on a roof part of an outbuilding the standard does not measure by height

On a roof part of an outbuilding, Changes live in the Roof window now shows an area only when the measurement has one for that building, just as with a normal roof. A shed under ANSI Z765 and a carport under the Dutch measuring instruction are not measured by height, so the card no longer shows an area lower than the limit under such a roof part. A closed shed in the Netherlands still shows the part lower than 1.50 m under its roof part.

Turn off also removes the link field

After Turn off, the link field and Copy link now disappear too, and for a view link the embed code for your site: in Share (View, Edit and Review), in Present and in Measure for the occupant. Before, they stayed on screen looking usable while the link itself was already dead. Was the link already turned off elsewhere, for example in another tab or by a colleague, then it goes away as well and the message says it is off. If turning off does not work, the link keeps working, stays on screen and the message says so, everywhere including Present. Is the link not in the workspace you have open now, for example because another tab switched workspace, then it is not turned off: the message says so and the list asks you to reload the page.

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Signs such as ≥, ≠ and → show on the flyer

On the flyer and the social images, ≥ ≤ ≠ ≈ → and ∅ in the title, the line below it and the names of the floors were an empty box, and so were letters such as Ł, Ж and α. They now show, in the same letters as the images of your plan. ⌀ (diameter) shows as ∅, as in the PDF.

The title under an elevation names the wall it shows

An elevation frame saved as Front in a plan with north kept the title Front elevation under the frame, while the drawing and its card said East. The title now names the same wall as the drawing, also when you export the sheet.

An assistant gets the elevation it asks for

Asking render_plan of the MCP for the north elevation of a plan without north gave the front elevation, whatever side was asked. It now draws the asked wall: north, east, south and west as well as front, back, left and right, in the names of the plan or the other names for the same wall, and the answer says which side it drew. A side without an elevation, such as a wall shared with the neighbours, gives a sentence with the sides that have one. get_plan with sheets names each elevation frame as the sheet shows it.

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A locked group in Model: Show lock, and steps on the whole plan take it along

A step that would change a locked group in Model now gets one message with Show lock, which opens Overview at the lock of that group. This also holds for Undo and Redo in an open group, Flatten under shape, deleting a layer, and deleting a floor, building or variant with a locked group on it (also for connected AI tools). Turning or mirroring the plan, moving a building or aligning a floor takes a locked group along, still locked. A locked component follows its other copies; make it unique first if one copy should stay as it is. In Overview, the icon shows an open or a closed lock.

Dormers on a roof part follow the slopes of that roof part

In the Roof window of a roof part, Add dormer puts the dormer on a slope of that roof part, in the middle of its eave, never on a gable end. Faces and Pitch per side grey out the gable ends of that roof part, just as on the main roof. add_dormer in the AI help puts the dormer on the main roof, on the part of the level that the roof parts leave free.

A roof part on the walls stays on the walls when you change the height

Changing the wall height of a level in Review, Heights (or with set_floor in the AI help) now treats every roof part like the main roof: a roof part that starts on the walls stays on the walls, one that starts lower stays where it is, and none starts higher than the walls.

Deleting a floor keeps the roof of the floor below

Delete a floor and only that floor goes, with its rooms, shapes, stairs and its own roof. The floor directly below it keeps its own roof exactly as it was. If that floor has no roof yet, or only a roof that lay completely under a floor, the roof of the deleted floor comes down onto it and stays on its walls. The floor above stays at its height. The message says what happened to the roof and has an Undo button, also when you delete from This floor. One undo brings everything back. Were you on the deleted floor, you go to the floor below it in the same building, and Undo takes you back to the floor that returns; deleting another floor from the list keeps you where you were. The assistant says the same.

Eye level in 3D stays on the floor you are on

With a garage, canopy or summerhouse at the same height as the ground floor, 3D at eye level could switch the floor to that building while you stood in the living room, also when you opened a saved view. The floor you chose now stays. Walk up or down a stair and 3D picks the floor you reach, in the same building first.

Sources and licenses on their own page

The open data behind the 3D surroundings (aerial photo, plot lines and buildings through PDOK, 3D BAG), the CBS figures on Dutch home sizes, the free 3D models and textures, and the FML format now have their own page, Sources and licenses, with the license of each. You find it under Legal at the bottom of every page, in every language.

Distance to the boundary: one rule, at right angles

On each side the distance now runs from the outside of the building, at right angles, to the boundary the building faces on that side; a neighbouring plot inside the plot or cut into it counts the same. The far edge of a neighbouring plot and a boundary diagonally beside the building no longer count. If the building touches or crosses the boundary, that side says 0 m, on the boundary, with a message and no dimension line. Each building counts on its own, walls and rooms together: a boundary that runs through the house between its walls touches the house, a house and a garage on either side of a neighbouring plot do not touch the boundary, and a building wholly outside the plot or inside a neighbouring plot does not count, with a message. A plot from the land registry map is rounded to 0.1 m. On an irregular plot some distances can therefore differ from before.

Opening a plan file keeps the home you work in

File › Open a file… now puts the plan into the home that is open, and that home keeps saving to your account. If the file belongs to another home in your account, you are asked first: put it in this home as a copy, or open that home. Before, the home quietly lost its link to your account.

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Compare with the BAG follows a new address

When a home gets another address, the Measurement sheet compares with the BAG of the new address, without reloading. Before, it kept showing the area of the old address until you reloaded the page.

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Start from address: a guess is called a guess

If the 3D BAG roof data does not answer, the house still comes, but the number of floors and the heights are marked as assumed. Such a house is no longer kept for thirty days: the next time, the open data is asked again.

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Address search: the list matches what you typed

In My homes › Address and in Start from address, a slow answer to an earlier search no longer replaces the list. Enter only picks from the list that belongs to the text in the field.

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A plot with another plot inside it

Get it from the land registry now also brings the inner boundary of a plot that has another plot inside it. That part does not count in the plot area, it shows as a boundary on the plan, in 3D and in the site plan, and the distances to the boundary include it.

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Your floor plan is ready never shares by itself

Without a view link for this home, the window now asks Do you want to share it?: choose how long the link works and click Make a link. It no longer makes a public link on its own, also not after an export or after you turned a link off.

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Your own preview is not a visit

The live preview in Your floor plan is ready no longer counts as a visit in the statistics of the view link. Only real visitors count.

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A DXF without a unit: one room comes out the right size

A metric drawing without a unit, like a bathroom of 3500 by 3000, is now read in millimeters (3.5 by 3 m), no longer in centimeters (35 by 30 m). If another unit also gives a sensible size, a button under the size names it, like Not right? Choose centimeters (15 m by 10 m).

A detached carport is an assumption, a detached terrace is referred for a check

A detached carport, canopy or porch is listed as an assumption in the measurement sheet and the report; only a detached terrace, balcony or roof terrace is referred for a check. The explanation of a detached outdoor space no longer gives an open carport as its example.

The roof card shows the same number as the measurement sheet, for every standard

Under Changes live, the area lower than the limit on this level now comes from the measurement itself: the same number as the row Under 1.50 m in the measurement sheet, also with a 1.50 m line you moved by hand (the card then says so, as under the sheet). The sentence and the limit follow the standard of the plan: 5 ft from a raised floor under ANSI Z765, 1.00 m and the half from 1.00 to 2.00 m under the WoFlV, 1.80 m under the loi Carrez and loi Boutin, 1.52 m in a metric plan under the RMS of Alberta, 1.50 m under Spanish and Italian rules. Without a standard the block is gone.

A new balcony or terrace follows the drawing

Against, on or attached to the house now starts as you drew it: on if the shape touches the house on its level (at most 0.10 m between them), off otherwise, so a detached terrace is referred for a check instead of counting as outdoor space of the home. A tick you set yourself stays, for example for a roof terrace on an extension; the card says how far the shape stands from the house and when your choice overrides the drawing. The same goes for Make outdoor space on a room and for the API and MCP (add_outdoor without attached). Existing plans do not change.

The building card says how the building counts now

Under the ticks of an outbuilding the card now shows how it counts, with its area: the same line as in the measurement sheet, also when you tick Fully fit to live in or move the building. Before, it always said Measured apart: not in the usable area of the house, also when the building counted as living area. Under another standard than the Dutch measuring instruction the card no longer shows ticks that do nothing there.

A building that does not touch the house: a shared wall does not count

Shares a wall with the house and Reachable from inside the house now only count when the outbuilding touches the house (at most 0.10 m between them). Farther away those ticks are off and the card says how far the building stands from the house. A tick that was already set stays visible in red and does not count; the measurement sheet and the report state this as an assumption. The server measures the same way, also through the API. A carport or canopy whose roof is fixed to the facade still counts with its tick, wherever its posts stand; the card then says how far it stands from the house.

A room in a building fit to live in measures with its own ceiling

In an outbuilding you tick as fully fit to live in, a room now uses the same heights as in the house: its own sloped ceiling, a ceiling shape (tray or vault), a wall that starts above the floor and the 1.50 m and 2.00 m lines you moved. The part lower than 1.50 m no longer counts, also of an inner wall that is that low on both sides, and the 4 m² rule above 2.00 m applies as in the house. Before, only the roof of the building counted.

My defaults keep doors and windows under the ceiling

Settings, My defaults no longer saves a door that is taller than the ceiling, or a window whose top (sill plus height) is above it. One line names both sizes, and nothing is saved, with the button or with Enter. A field you leave empty counts as Basic, so a ceiling of 2.00 m with the Basic door of 2.10 m says so too. With Units on Basic, the sizes count in the units of your language, and the line uses them. The Height in the card of Wall and Room, which becomes your ceiling there, follows the same rule, and saving to your account never gets stuck on an old ceiling that does not fit: one line says why it was left out. A size you do not change keeps its exact value when you save, also in feet and inches. What is already in your account never blocks another change, such as your own set of room types, and when your account refuses something, one line says so. A door exactly as high as the ceiling still fits. The server checks the same, also for the assistant.

A wall cannot go lower than its door or window

Wall height on the Room card, Height of this wall on the Wall card and the wall height of a level in Review, Heights now refuse a height below a door or window in that wall, with one line that names the limit, such as A door here is 2.10 m high. Typing, Enter, scrolling, the arrow keys and dragging in the sketch all stop there, and nothing changes. The same height as the door, or higher, works as before.

The plan stays in view when the window gets smaller just after opening

If you made the window narrow or turned your tablet just after opening a plan, the drawing could stay where it was, partly or fully off the screen, so your first clicks landed next to it. The plan now fits the new size again, as long as you have not moved or zoomed it yourself.

The wall bar never covers the wall card

On a busy computer the small bar above a chosen wall could appear before the card on the right was ready, then jump aside and cover the edge of the card, so a click on Duplicate could land on the bar. The bar now waits for the card and keeps the same size wherever it stands.

A clean file only with every number in its own place

Our server now also checks where each number stands: the main figure is the main figure of your home, the figure per floor is that of the floor, the table and the lines below it are those of the measurement, and every room in the list, the presentation or the flyer is a room of your home, at most once. A sheet only belongs to this home when its floor plan view is really visible on the paper: at least 1 cm in size, not covered and not white or see-through.

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Elevations as SVG and image keep their dimensions

The SVG, PNG, JPG and WebP of the elevations now show the number on every dimension line, also for a large house such as 24.30 m under the front. The elevations are drawn at the size of the file.

≥, ≤ and arrows also in images

A PNG, JPG or WebP of a plan or a sheet now shows ≥, ≤, ≠, ≈, →, ∅, ∞, √, ⇒ and ∑, for example in a room name or a note. Before, they disappeared from the image. The diameter sign ⌀ becomes ∅, as in the PDF.

Your projects on this device stay yours

In the app, projects on this device that belong to your account stay hidden for anyone else who signs in here or opens it without an account: they cannot see, open or delete them, and their plan never goes into yours. You get them back as soon as you sign in again. And if someone else signs in in another tab, a tab that still showed your plan stops showing it right away.

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An AI proposal on a locked layer says what happened

With Construction locked, accepting an AI proposal used to say "Change made" and close the window, while nothing changed and the proposal was gone. Now the window stays open with the proposal and says that Construction is locked. One button unlocks it (its own undo step), and Accept proposal then works without asking AI again. A fixed size that stops a change also gets its own line.

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A reviewer in an office makes no AI proposals

A reviewer only looks. AI proposals (plan from a description or a sketch, change the plan with a sentence) and the listing text come out of the office's monthly AI proposals, so our server now refuses them for a reviewer, also when the editor is skipped. The editor says so at once instead of showing the form. Ask the norm and the AI help stay open to a reviewer.

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Images from 3D count like any other export

Before a PNG from 3D, the sheet with all floors, a still, a 360° image, a video or a PNG of the section, the editor now asks our server first. A clean image counts the home toward your new homes this month, once, like a 2D export. Past the limit the file carries the free watermark, and the message says why. For a team member without the right to export and pay these buttons are off, with the reason, and our server refuses such a file too. A plan that is not a home in your account, also right after you switch to another workspace or sign out, always gives the free image with the watermark. The watermark itself is still drawn in your browser.

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The section SVG comes from our server

Download SVG on the section now asks our server for the file, like every other paid drawing: it checks that the drawing belongs to this home, decides the mark and writes the SVG. Without an unlocked home or Pro the server refuses it too, not only the button.

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Dragging a dimension snaps to the wall face

Drag the end of a kept dimension onto a wall and it lands on the wall face, like the tape measure, never on the centre line. A dimension of 3.80 m from wall to wall stays 3.80 m instead of becoming 3.85 m.

Dimensions outside the house are in the export

A dimension you kept outside the house, for example 5 m to the plot boundary, was on the screen but silently left out of the SVG and PDF. The export now frames the house together with your kept dimensions, so every one of them is in the file.

Elevations of a one-storey home show their size

Under each elevation of a home with one floor, the dimension line now shows its number, such as 10.30 m, also with one elevation shown large. Before, only the line with arrows was there because the number touched the name of the elevation.

A locked group in Model stays as it is

Delete, Ungroup, the eraser, paint, moving with one click and opening a group with a double click no longer get past a lock in Model, also not a lock on a group inside a group. If what you chose holds a locked group, a message names it and nothing changes, as with Join. Ctrl+A and the rectangle on the plan leave a group with a locked group inside out. Connected AI tools (MCP) follow the same rule.

Unlock a group inside a group in the overview

In Model, every row in the overview now has its own eye and lock, also a group inside a group. So "Unlock it in Overview first" is always possible, and a hidden group inside a group can be shown again there. Locking the group you are working in closes it.

A new plan starts with the fine grid again

A new, empty plan opened a little too far zoomed out on laptops and landscape tablets, so the graph paper showed squares of 1 m or 5 ft. On a large screen it now starts with squares of 25 cm again, and in feet with squares of 1 ft. The card on the right no longer makes the first view smaller.

An opened plan file fits the screen

After you open a plan file, the plan is fitted to the screen next to the panels, just like an example or an import.

Sheets and drawing set: the elevations of a detached building

A detached building, such as a garden shed, already had its own four elevations in Elevations, but they could not go on paper. Now the drawing set has an elevations sheet for each detached building, also in the PDF, and the card of an elevation view on a sheet has Building: the house or that building. An attached garage or veranda stays part of the elevations of the house. A template you save finds the detached building in the same place in another home.

Mirroring is a true mirror image, also for turned furniture and escape arrows

Mirror plan and Mirror left to right now flip every angle: a sofa at 120° becomes a mirrored sofa at 240°, not 300°. A sofa at 90° flips left to right on screen, not top to bottom. Escape route and exit arrows point the other way after Mirror plan. Two or more pieces of furniture mirror as one group and swap places.

Mirror and Rotate on several things take everything along

With several things picked, Mirror and Rotate in the card now turn the whole selection as one: walls, doors, furniture, symbols, text, lines, outdoor areas and shapes from Model. Before, the furniture and the terrace stayed where they were.

A duplicated room lands in a free spot

Duplicate (⌘D or the right-click menu) on a room now puts the copy beside the house, past any room in the way. Before, the copy could land across the room next door and cut it into nameless pieces.

Box select only draws boxes

With Box select (A), a drag that starts next to a wall now draws a new rectangle instead of grabbing that wall. You still drag what you picked by pressing on it, and a click still picks what is under the pointer.

Construction locked also holds for whole floors and variants

With Construction locked under Layers, deleting a floor, Copy this floor, duplicating a variant and deleting a variant no longer go through; you see why. Switching variants still works. The same lock holds for changes through the API.

Roofs: give part of a floor its own roof

A floor can now have more than one roof, for example a flat extension of 1 × 4 m next to a gable roof over 3 × 4 m. In the Roof window, under Roof parts, click Add roof part, then click a room or drag a rectangle over the part. A new roof part is flat; choose its shape, pitch, ridge, overhang, Roof starts at, dormers and covering just as for the main roof, and remove it with Remove roof part. Every roof counts on its own part of the floor: under a flat roof part nothing is lower than 1.50 m, and the gross volume counts all roofs. The plan, 3D, the section, the elevations, the exports and the measurement report show every roof. A roof on a floor that lies partly under a higher floor is now drawn only on the free part, in the plan, 3D, the elevations and the exports; the measurement already did so. Plans without roof parts measure exactly as before.

3D: Show what is above is easy to find

In 3D in the editor, the Show what is above switch (floors, roof) now sits at the top: on a large screen right under the title, on a phone on its own line under the buttons. It is no longer tucked away in Options.

All seven languages are open

Squaremetry is in English, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, and all seven are open from the first day: you can draw, measure and buy in each of them, and each has its own pages for search engines, linked to the same page in the other languages.

Review page: an honest message, not “try again”

Does someone turn off a review link while the client already has the page open, does a level already hold its 200 comments, or is the level no longer in the plan? Placing a comment or approving the plan now says exactly which of these it is, instead of a message that trying again never fixes. On a full level, Add a comment says so at once.

The question to the office always has a way to close it

The window “Ask the office a question” behind a view link now has a close button in the corner, also before you send the question, and after sending a button back to the floor plan. Every way of closing it puts you back on the button you started from. Before, nothing but Esc closed it once the message was sent, which left a visitor on a phone stuck.

A view link set to “Always” really keeps working

A view link with “Always” now keeps working until you turn it off yourself, instead of quietly stopping after about 13 months. The list says so in words, instead of showing an end date that “Always” never promised.

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Leaving a team asks first, and never claims success on a failure

The “Leave this team” button now asks you to confirm first, since coming back needs a new invitation. If the server refuses, the message now says leaving did not work, instead of claiming you left while you are still a member.

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A building fit to live in counts room by room, and is on the list of areas

In an outbuilding you tick as fully fit to live in, each room now counts as it would in the house. A storage attic (no fixed stair or less than 0.5 m² of glass), a storage room you made yourself or a room that is too low no longer counts as living area: in a detached building it counts like storage and is referred for a check, with a shared wall it is other indoor space. The garage or storage room the building got when you added it still counts as living area with the tick. The list of areas (the measurement certificate) now shows such a building with its living area or other indoor space, and the total with the outbuildings, the same number as in the explanation.

Rule set 0.1.5: more of the measuring instruction, in every Dutch plan

Every Dutch plan now measures with rule set 0.1.5, also an older plan with 0.1.4 or the proposal 0.2.0. A bathroom, toilet, understairs cupboard, built-in cupboard or meter cupboard lower than 2.0 m, or with less than 4 m² above 2.0 m, stays living area, and so does a small room that is higher than 2.0 m everywhere, such as a landing under the ridge. An outbuilding you tick as fully fit to live in (guest house, garden office) now counts as living area if it is higher than 2.0 m; a detached one counts in the GO but not in NEN 2580 or the BAG comparison, and the measurement report says so; one that shares a wall with the house but is too low counts as other indoor space. A detached carport, canopy or veranda is no longer referred for a check: the report states as an assumption that it does not count. For a carport the question is now Fixed to the house or directly against it (at most 0.10 m). Rule set is no longer a list, because there is nothing to choose. A PDF you already made stays as it is.

Your own sheet template keeps its level, also with a basement

A template of your own remembered a level by its place in the list of the plan. In a home with a basement, which stands first in that list, a template with the ground floor showed the basement. A template now keeps the level itself: the ground floor stays the ground floor, the first floor the first floor. Templates you saved before count from the ground floor up.

Save as template says when the browser is full

Templates with images fill the storage of the browser quickly. With three such templates, Save as template said you had 30 templates of your own, so you removed templates for nothing. It now says the browser has no room left and that nothing was saved, and what you can do. A browser that saves nothing at all, such as a private window, says that too. You only read about 30 templates when you have 30.

A long table stops above the title block and says how many rows are on the sheet

A table from a CSV file with 60 rows ran over the title block and off the paper, and the rows below were missing from the PDF, PNG and DXF without a word. A table now stops above the title block. Its last line says how many rows are on the sheet, its card says what you can do, and choosing the file says it straight away. The same goes for a long table of rooms or circuits.

At 100 sheets, choosing a template says why nothing happens

With 100 sheets, the most for one home, choosing a template seemed to do nothing: the message stood behind the template window. The window now says it at the top, and choosing a template closes it so you read the message.

A group of more than 40 items says so before you save

Save as favourite keeps a group of at most 40 items. Choose more and the card says so as soon as you open it, with how many you chose, and nothing is saved, also not with Enter. Before, the group quietly kept the first 40 items with the frame of all of them, so it landed in the wrong place. Exactly 40 items are all kept.

Check names a stair that goes nowhere

A stair up with no floor above it, or down with no floor below it, now shows in Check and in the check of the export window as This stair goes nowhere. Behind (i): add the floor, or turn the stair the other way. It stays in the list until the stair has somewhere to go, and it is not a chip on the drawing, since you often draw the stair before the floor.

Deleting a wall says what went with it

Delete a wall with the Delete key, the button on the card or the right-click menu, and one line now says the same in all three: what went along and what happened to the rooms, for example Wall deleted, with 1 door. Slaapkamer is now part of Woonkamer. Before, the Delete key and the menu said nothing. One undo still brings it all back.

Remove an object from My objects, and see the ones in your account

In the library, My objects now has Remove next to Place. After one question it takes the object out of the list in this browser; where it already stands in a plan, it stays, and the file stays in your account. To get it back, load the file again. Signed in, My objects now also lists the models in your account that you loaded on another device, as the tab already promised.

Names and sizes are readable in PNG, JPG and WebP

Images from our server showed a white blot over room names, areas and dimensions. The white edge now lies under the letters, as in the SVG. This also fixes the images per floor, the flyer, the listing and Funda packs and sheets as PNG.

The escape plan shows its symbols

The Escape plan preset in Export now also turns on Symbols under On the drawing. The exit, the fire extinguisher and the alarm are on the plan, next to the legend. Before, only the legend had them.

Elevations as PDF show their dimensions

The PDF of the elevations, also the elevations sheet in the drawing set, now has the number on every dimension line, such as 8.60 m under the front. The elevations are drawn at the scale of the sheet, so the name below no longer hides the number. SVG, PNG and DXF stay as they were.

The export language counts straight away

Choose another language in Export and press Download straight away: the file is in that language. Before, a quick click could still give an English file, and the list jumped back for a moment.

≥, ≤ and arrows stay in the PDF

A text like "Clear height ≥ 2.10 m" on a sheet or in a report now keeps ≥, ≤, ≠, ≈, → and ∅ in the PDF; the diameter sign ⌀ becomes ∅. Before, they became a question mark, so a requirement looked like a question.

A clean report or presentation only with the numbers of your home

Our server now checks every number in a clean report and presentation against the saved home: the table, the area per rule, the rule set and its status, and per room the area, the sizes and the ceiling, plus the total on the front. A made-up number gets no clean file.

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Export sheets names a sheet that gets the free mark

A sheet without a floor plan view of this home, but with lines, shapes or images on it, gets the free mark. Export sheets now names that sheet before you download, so the mark is no surprise in the file.

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Single sign-on: whoever proves the domain gets it

If another office entered the e-mail domain of your office for single sign-on without proving it, you could not set it up yourself. Now a claim without proof keeps nobody out. The office that adds the TXT record and proves the domain gets it; claims without proof by other offices are removed, and signing in with an address of the domain goes to your identity provider. After the proof no other office can claim the domain.

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An approval sees every change to the measurement

After your client approved a plan, "The plan changed after the approval." now also shows when you choose another rule set, add a balcony or another outdoor space, change an outbuilding or the foundation, or in Italy the plot (the garden counts there). Your client can then approve again, and the earlier approval stays in the history. Filling in the client, the address or the assignment does not count as a change.

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A reviewer reads the leads, and only reads

In an office with Team, a Reviewer sees the leads but can no longer mark them as done or download them as CSV with names and email addresses. The buttons are gone for a Reviewer, and the server refuses it too. An Owner, Admin or Drafter works with the leads as before.

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Typed text is never lost

The answer to a comment, the fields of an assignment and the notes in the checklist are saved while you type. Closing the card, reloading or closing the tab no longer loses them. In these fields and in the name of a floor, Esc first undoes what is not saved yet and keeps the card open; a second Esc closes it. A floor name you cancel with Esc is not saved by the next Tab.

Sheets as PNG follow the 4K limit

Without Pro, a sheet exported as PNG is at most 3840 pixels (4K) on its long side, like an image of the floor plan. The export window says so before you download. Pro keeps the full sharpness. Paper goes up to the largest sheet in the editor (A0).

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A guest never replaces your work without a version

When a guest saved through an edit link on top of a state you had just saved, your work was replaced without a copy if that link had already kept a version in the last 30 minutes. Now your state always goes to Versions first, with the reason.

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Replacing a home in your account keeps a version

Start from an example, open a plan file, a room template, rooms from a link or the house from open data in a home in your account: the state from before is now always in Versions, also after a reload, as the window promises. Work that was not saved yet goes to your account first.

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History box says when the oldest steps are gone

The history keeps 200 changes. After more, the bottom line of the history box and of the whole list said As it opened, but it went back to the oldest kept step. It now says Oldest kept state (the history keeps 200 changes), also after you go back there and make a new change.

Someone else signing in here never gets your unsaved changes

If your changes could not reach your account and this browser could not keep them apart either, and someone else then signs in on this computer, they see nothing of your plan: no drawing, no plan name in the tab, no shortcuts. Their window only lets them try again or sign out, and after they sign out your plan stays hidden in this browser until you sign in here. Opening one of their own homes from My homes, starting from an address or a link with rooms from an AI assistant does not replace your changes either. Before, it also offered to download your plan or remove your changes, and after signing out your plan was in view again. Your changes stay here, and you get them back as soon as you sign in again.

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The section draws a barrel vault and a dropped edge on the inside

A section through a room with a barrel vault drew the curve from the middle of the walls, so at the wall it stood about 5 cm too high (2.15 m instead of 2.10 m with a 50 cm drop). A dropped edge of 60 cm was only 45 cm wide in the section. The section now uses the inside of the room, like the measurement and 3D.

Elevations show what is in front

From the high side of a shed roof, the elevation drew the roof plane behind the wall over that wall, so you saw grey instead of brick and its windows. An extension behind the house covered the window in the front elevation. Walls and roofs of every floor and building are now drawn by depth: what is nearer covers what is behind. On the sheet, in Elevations and in every export.

The flyer shows the floors that matter

The flyer has room for three drawings and ten rooms. It used to take the site plan, the basement and the ground floor, and the first ten rooms, so the bedrooms could be missing without a word. It now shows the floors from the ground floor up, then a basement, then an outbuilding, with the largest rooms of those floors, and the window says what does not fit before you save. The picture of a pasted view link follows the same choice.

Reading PDF pages as floors keeps your own picture

If a floor already had a picture you were tracing, with its scale, reading the pages of a PDF as floors threw it away, also when the pages went to new floors. That picture now stays under its floor with its scale. When a page goes to that floor, the window says the page replaces it before you read the pages.

A dimension you kept shows every part

Measure three points 0.50 m and 3.50 m apart and keep it as a dimension: both parts now show their number, also after reloading and in the export. Only dimensions made with Make dimensions editable still leave wall pieces under 1 m (3 ft) without a number, like the automatic ones.

The tape measure snaps to the wall you are near

A free point in a room no longer jumps to a thin wall 0.40 m away because a thick garden wall stands somewhere else in the plan. Near a wall it snaps at the normal distance on screen, a bit wider with a finger, and always within 5 cm (2 in) of a wall face, also when you zoom in far. A click inside a wall still lands on the nearest face of that wall, never on the centre line.

Stair rotation in tenths of a degree

The Rotation field of a stair showed whole degrees, while a stair along an angled wall can sit at any angle. Typing 0.4 turned the stair, but the field then showed 0. Now the field shows and takes tenths of a degree, such as 37.3, with the decimal sign of your language. Typing the angle that is already there changes nothing and adds no step to undo.

The sentence when you enter Model, Sheets or Present stays long enough

When you open Model, Sheets or Present, a sentence says where you are and how to go back. It disappeared after 4 seconds, counted from the moment you switched, so on a slow computer it was gone before Model was on screen. Now the time starts when the sentence is on screen, and it stays 8 seconds.

Model: subtracting three equal blocks leaves nothing

Subtract with three equal blocks on the same spot gave a new block that was inside out, with the outside facing in. Now it says nothing is left, because the other shapes cover the first one completely, and your blocks stay as they were. Overlap of three shapes where the first two do not touch also says nothing is left, instead of giving the third shape.

⌘D with a door and furniture chosen

With a door or window and furniture chosen together, ⌘D now duplicates the furniture, as the Duplicate button in the card does and as ⌘C already copied it. The door or window stays: it is copied with its wall. Before, ⌘D did nothing and your browser added a bookmark.

⌘D, ⌘C and ⌘V only work in Plan

In Model, Sheets and Present, ⌘D, ⌘C and ⌘V no longer act on what you chose in Plan. Before, ⌘D there could duplicate a chosen wall or room out of sight, ⌘V pasted into the plan and ⌘C copied your choice in Plan. They now only work in Plan.

North: the explanation stays, an error goes

After North from the address, the explanation (turn in steps of 90° until the arrow is right) disappeared as soon as you only went through the angle field. Now it stays until you type another angle yourself. An error under North now goes away as soon as north is right again, also when you set it with the compass, Turn 90° or Reset.

Angle fields show what is saved

The turn field of a text and of the underlay sometimes kept what you typed, such as 360 or 0.2, while 0 was saved. North in the 3D options showed 370 while 10 was saved, rounded a north with tenths to whole degrees, and did not follow a north you changed elsewhere. Now each of these fields shows what is saved.

Your listing text stays after Cancel or an error

If you cancel while a new listing text is being written, or the AI cannot write it, your own text stays in the window. Write again still asks first if you edited it. Closing the window with text you changed and did not copy asks first. If your session expires, your text stays so you can copy it.

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Select all takes cables and pipes, and only what you see

In Systems, Select all now takes the cables and pipes too, so Delete, Copy and Paste no longer leave them behind. A trade you switched off under Layers stays out of Select all, Box select and a click, and outside Systems, Select all leaves the installation alone. In Model, a hidden group or a group on a hidden layer stays out of Select all, like a locked group.

A cable moves along with its symbol

Drag a socket or light, or move it with the arrow keys, and the end of each cable or pipe that belongs to it (within 30 cm) comes along. The lengths in the card, the panel schedule, the CSV and the layout stay right. One undo puts both back.

Floor heating only where there is floor

A void, stairwell, lift, shaft, column or setback in a room no longer gets floor heating pipe. The pipe length, the circuits, the layout PDF and the CSV leave that area out: a 5.18 m² room with a void of 2 m² now has 21.2 m of pipe at 15 cm, not 34.5 m.

The library finds every tile by its own name

An x between words is no longer read as a size, so Faux plafond, Box gutter, Saltbox roof and about forty other names are found again, in every language. Sizes like 160 x 200 still work, and a full name with sizes in it, like Wood frame wall, 2×4 or 2×6, finds itself.

A group with your own 3D model is saved in your account

Save as favourite with your own 3D model in the selection now works when you are signed in. Before, the server refused the group and only this browser kept it.

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More of your own 3D models load

A large OBJ (its faces after the first 64 KB), an OBJ with relative face numbers and a GLB packed with meshopt are now read. A GLB packed with Draco or Basis says so, instead of calling the file damaged.

+ Basement also sets the foundation to Basement

Adding a basement with + Basement in the level list now also sets the foundation of that building to Basement, in the same step. Before, the foundation stayed on Not chosen, and the measuring report used the standard floor construction. Undo removes the basement and the foundation together.

A roof on the walls stays on the walls when you change the height

In Review, Heights, dragging the wall height of a level whose sloped roof starts on the walls now keeps the roof on the walls: Roof starts at follows the new height. Before, it stayed at the old height, so the roof began above or below the walls, which the Roof window itself does not allow. A roof that starts lower keeps its place, but never ends up higher than the walls. The same holds when the assistant sets a floor height.

Align levels also moves the sections from Model

Align levels in Review, Heights now moves the sections you made in Model on that level along with its walls and shapes. Before, a section stayed where it was and cut the model 1 m beside the house. Moving or turning an outbuilding takes its sections along too.

Heights shows a flat own ceiling under a sloped roof

In Review, Heights, a room under a sloped roof with its own flat ceiling, like an attic room with Lowered ceiling at 1.40 m, now shows as its own row under the floor: Attic room, ceiling at 1.40 m. The measurement already counted that ceiling, so an attic that counts 0 m² now shows why. Before, only a sloped or shaped ceiling showed there.

The room list and the label say what counts under a sloped ceiling

In the list of rooms, a room of which part does not count, such as the strip under 1.50 m below a sloped ceiling, now shows both: 17.4 m² floor, 11.96 m² counts. So the list adds up to Rooms added up under Area. The label of the room on the drawing says the same under its name, as soon as it fits at your zoom. Before, the row and the label showed only the floor, and the list came to more than the total.

A dormer moved to another side lands in the middle of that side

In the Roof window, choosing another side under Faces now puts the dormer in the middle of that side, at the same distance from the wall, so it counts at once. On an L, T or U shaped home that is the middle of the longest stretch of eave on that side where the roof really slopes, for example on the side wing, not on the gable end or under the higher main roof. Where that side has two eaves, as on an L with a hip roof, it is the middle of the longer one, not of both together. Before, it kept its old place, fell partly off the roof slope and showed the wrong advice. A side without a roof slope, such as the gable end of a gable roof, says (no slope) and cannot be chosen, and a new dormer always goes on a slope. The assistant follows the same rule.

Pitch per side is grey where there is no roof slope

In the Roof window, under Pitch per side, a side without a roof slope, such as the gable end of a gable roof or the high side of a shed roof, is now grey, with one line that says why. Before, you could type a pitch there; it was saved and did nothing.

Drawing set: the whole PDF in the language of the export

With another Language of the export, the drawing set translated only part of the PDF: the date, the sizes and the elevation names followed the export, but Drawing set, Cover, the sheet titles, Scale and Sheet 1 of 5 stayed in the language of the editor. Now the whole set is in the language you choose, and the list of sheets in the preview shows the titles as they come in the PDF.

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One damaged favourite no longer locks the library

If a single line of your saved favourites, groups or favourite settings in this browser is damaged, for example by an old version or an extension, the library, My groups and the Dimensions menu now open anyway and skip that line. Before, the library stayed empty on every reload until the browser storage was cleared.

WebP in Recent exports, and a sentence when an export is not kept

A WebP export (also as a ZIP of all floors) now appears in Recent exports, like PNG and JPG. And when an export cannot be kept there, because the file is over 16 MB, you made many exports this hour, or something else went wrong, the export window now says so in one sentence, and a short message shows right after the download. The download itself always worked.

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Flyer and sheets: the line at a locked file no longer promises a free PNG

Without an unlocked home or Pro, saving the flyer and exporting sheets is off, but the line beside the button also said Free: a small PNG with a watermark. These windows have no such file. Now the line says only what you need. The flyer window also no longer says it is made in your browser: the preview is drawn there, the file is made by our server.

Cards of a column, chimney, shaft and outdoor space: the explanation is in your language at once

In the English app the line under How it counts on these cards could stay in Dutch the first time, because the translation of the rule arrived a moment after the card was drawn. Now the card draws again as soon as the translation is there, and when you change the language.

Presentation link: a clear sentence when your role may not export

In a team role without the right to export, making a presentation link with the download box ticked said That did not work, and trying again changed nothing. Now the box is off from the start with the reason, as in Share, and if the server refuses anyway the sentence says why and that you can turn the download off. The server still decides.

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Example page (/demo): the line on opening no longer promises Undo

On the example page the line said Undo brings your previous plan back, but the example page never brings your own plan back: Undo gave an empty plan and it looked as if your plan was gone. Your own plan was always safe on the normal page. Now the line says that, and points to Start your own plan.

Splitting a wall: the typed number now shows its unit

Typing a plain number while splitting a wall counts as metres, the same as when you draw a wall, but the field only echoed what you typed, with no unit next to it. A door or window field already showed cm there. Someone who placed a door at 100 (cm) and then typed the same number at a wall got an error with no explanation. The field now shows how the editor reads your number, such as 100 m, right next to what you typed.

Questions appear in the editor, in your language

Write again for a listing text you edited, and Make sheets from the drawing set when the plan already has sheets, now ask in a window of the editor itself instead of a browser pop-up. The question is in the language of the editor. Cancel and Esc keep everything as it was.

The rail on the left shows that there is more

On a lower screen, such as a 13-inch laptop or an iPad held sideways, the rail on the left fades out at the bottom, with a small arrow, while there are more buttons below, such as Export. Click or tap the fade to scroll the rail to the end; it never opens the button underneath. Help always stays at the bottom.

Setting north keeps the elevations on your sheet

An Elevations sheet made before you set north showed four empty frames afterwards, and so did the export. Each frame now keeps the same wall and takes its compass name: Front becomes East when north points to the right. Clearing north turns them back. Undo does both.

Smaller paper keeps everything on the sheet

Going from A3 landscape to A4 portrait left the frames where they were: a view could lie next to the paper, invisible and missing from the PDF, PNG and DXF. What no longer fits now moves onto the paper, smaller only when it is larger than the paper, and a message says how many. Undo puts them back.

Join, Subtract and Overlap keep what you set

In Model, a loose object stays a loose object after Join, Subtract or Overlap, and the new group keeps the layer and the name of the first group you chose. A locked group is no longer combined away: you get a message and nothing changes. A group with groups inside now combines with everything in it.

3x only repeats the copy you just made

In Model, typing 3x or /3 after another step, or after undoing the copy, no longer undoes that other step. A sentence says that a row only works straight after a copy. A row too big for the plan keeps your copy.

Deleted groups leave nothing behind

Deleting or erasing groups in Model, also a group with groups inside or a whole floor, now removes them from the plan completely. Before, every deleted copy stayed hidden in the file and slowly filled the plan up to its limit of 500 groups.

Adding another drawing set asks first

If your plan already has sheets, making sheets from the drawing set asks before adding more alongside them. Cancel keeps the existing sheets. Undo removes the added set in one step.

Admin forms explain what needs attention

Unlimited invitations support all seven languages. Invalid dates, reasons and organisation names are explained at the field. Failed admin lists have a retry button, and partner or cancellation actions show a reason when they fail.

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AI help names the guide in your language

The guide below an AI answer uses the title of the actual guide in your language. If you edit a listing text, Write again asks before replacing your changes. Cancel keeps your text and sends no AI request.

Angle fields show the angle that was saved

Turning furniture through a full turn shows 0° in its field. A valid north angle clears an earlier input error, including when you enter the current angle again.

Clearer replies to invalid changes

Changing the address of a missing or deleted home returns a missing-home reply. An admin note containing a control character is rejected as invalid input instead of reporting a server error. Existing data stays intact.

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Buttons stay readable and reachable on small screens

Help stays at the bottom of the side rail while its tools scroll. Line and Freehand have distinct icons on the phone. Presentation buttons have room for a finger, and the button for making sheets shows its whole label.

New levels get a free name above the existing levels

A basement does not raise the number in a new upper level’s name. Removing a level or using a standard level name yourself no longer gives two levels the same default name.

Balkonkamer no longer triggers an outdoor-space warning

The name check looks at how a word ends: Achterbalkon, Dachterrasse, Balconies and Terrazze are outdoor names, also with a direction or number. Names such as Balkonkamer and Terraskamer no longer raise an outdoor-space warning. The measurement does not change.

An export server error is not an internet failure

If the export server replies with an error, the export window says that the server could not make the file or is temporarily unavailable. A lost connection keeps its own message. You can retry from the same window.

Footprint sides accept decimal commas

The footprint for appraisers accepts lengths such as R 32,5. Separate sides with a semicolon, a new line or a comma before the next direction. Decimal points work as before.

US and Canada: the same plan always gives the same rooms

Under ANSI Z765 and the Alberta RMS, where two rooms meet at a corner, a T or a crossing on the exterior wall, the order in which the walls were drawn no longer decides which room gets that bit of wall. Finished space always gets what it shares with a garage or unfinished space; otherwise the nearest room gets it, split at 45° in a corner. Mirroring, rotating or redrawing a plan gives exactly the same GLA, garage and area per room. The differences were small, up to 0.1 sq ft per room.

US and Canada: no bit of wall counted in two rooms

Where a slanted interior wall meets a straight one, a small corner of wall could stay in a room that had just lost it to its neighbour, so both rooms counted it (up to about 0.006 sq ft). Whether that happened depended on how the plan was drawn, mirrored or rotated, so the GLA could move by 0.01 sq ft. Each bit of wall now counts in one room only.

US and Canada: rotating a plan with a slanted wall keeps the exact GLA

With a slanted interior wall next to a garage, a quarter turn could leave a strip of 0.2 mm along the garage side of that wall, so the GLA and the garage moved by up to 0.002 sq ft. The walls are now always shared out in the same position of the plan, whichever way it is turned or mirrored, so every quarter turn and every mirror image gives exactly the same numbers.

The same rules for everyone from the start

From the start everyone gets the same rules. Drawing, every area and a small PNG with a watermark are free, and your first home is free for 30 days, without a card. After that you pay $5 per home or take Pro for $24 a month, the normal price for everyone.

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Take Pro right in Export

Without Pro or an unlocked home, Export now shows Pro with its price in the window itself: tick the box and order. After payment you come back to your home and the export you chose starts by itself. If the payment confirmation takes a moment, Export says so and waits. A canceled or failed payment charges nothing.

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Feedback is always in view

The Feedback button sits at the top of the editor, on a computer and on a phone. One tap opens the window to send us a message, with a picture if you like.

Rooms from a list: three sizes or a minus sign give a message

A line like "Room 4 x 3 x 2.6" (with the height) or "Bath -3 x 4" no longer quietly becomes a different room. The line stays with a message: type two sizes, or a size must be more than 0.

The room type from its name is right more often

An attic bedroom (Zolderkamer), a child’s room and a guest room are bedrooms and count as living area, not as attic. A utility room (Bijkeuken) is a utility room, not a kitchen, and a business room is no longer a bedroom. Rooms from a list and from an IFC file use the same rule.

A typed room without the pointer on the drawing lands beside it

Choose Room in the bar and type "4 x 3" straight away: the room now comes beside the drawing, in view, with a sentence that says so. It never lands across the house any more. With the pointer on the drawing it still comes at the pointer.

Dragging a room shows the room you get

While you drag, the width, depth and area are the inside of the room, wall face to wall face, and the walls show around it. Before, the preview measured to the middle of the walls and the room came out about 13% smaller.

Splitting a curved wall splits it where you say

Split on a curved wall now uses the distance you type or the spot you click, measured along the curve. Both parts keep the same curve. Before, it always split in the middle.

Duplicating or copying a room takes only its own walls

A room that shares a long facade with the room next to it now copies with only its own piece of that facade, with the doors and windows in it. No more loose wall pieces beside the copy, and the floor area grows by exactly the room.

Fixed size keeps the inside size

A wall or room with Fixed size now keeps the size the card shows, wall face to wall face. Making a neighbouring facade thicker no longer shrinks the fixed size or tilts the room.

Doors and windows stay put when the wall next to them changes

Make a facade thicker, change a wall type or drag a whole wall, and a door or window in the wall beside it stays where it was in the room. That also holds for a door in an inner wall that joins the facade partway along, and in a wall at an angle. It used to slide along with the corner, depending on the way the wall was once drawn, sometimes into the thicker wall. A wall moved along its own line through the assistant keeps its windows.

No door or window across a joining wall

Where another wall joins a wall partway along, a door or window cannot go. Placing one there puts it right beside the join, dragging stops beside it, and typing a position across it gives one line below the field. The same rule holds when you change the width, use the arrow keys or add one through the assistant. The other way round too: a wall drawn or moved so that it would join where a door or window sits is not made, also through the assistant, and one line says why. The assistant now keeps the same distance from thick side walls as the editor, and changing only the height of an existing window is never refused.

Mirroring keeps doors opening into the same room

Mirror plan and Mirror on a selection now give a true mirror image: a door that opened into the room still opens into it, with the hinge on the mirrored side. Before, it swung out into the garden. Wall finishes per side go along on a mirrored selection too. A door drawn without a swing stays without one.

Straightening a curved wall keeps its windows apart

When a curved wall gets straight (or its curve changes), its doors and windows stay where they are if they still fit. Otherwise they move up just enough, in the same order, clear of each other and of the corners, and one line says how many moved. If they no longer fit at all, the wall stays as it was and the line says why. A door in a wall that joins the curve stays put too. No door or window disappears without a word.

Check finds an outbuilding drawn exactly over the house

Check now uses the real overlap of the floors, the same as the measurement report. An outbuilding drawn exactly on the house, or 1 cm into its wall, is reported on both floors. Floors are compared by their level height, not by their number.

Renovation: the Area panel follows Existing too

With Existing chosen, the Area panel shows the existing state as well, the same numbers as the block above it.

A stair copied to another home has no target

Copying a floor to another home makes its linked stairs manual, with their own height. The stairwell no longer ends up in the stair's own floor.

A storey made in Model takes the roof along

Make part of the house in Model puts the roof of the floor below on the new top storey, as + Floor does. Deleting a top floor while the floor below has its own roof now says that its roof went with it.

Above and below count per building, by level height

A stair in a garage gets the height of the garage storey, not of the house. "Nothing underneath" and "Headroom" look at the floor of the same building. A split level no longer counts as the storey above, and the floor list follows the level heights.

The roof stays on top of the building

Adding or copying a floor above the floor with the roof moves the roof to the new top floor. Deleting the top floor puts the roof on the floor that is now on top, and the message says where it is.

Level 0 stays on the ground floor

Making a basement taller or deeper moves the basement down. The ground floor stays at 0.00 m and the floors above stay where they are.

A pasted stair has no target

Copying a linked stair and pasting it on another floor makes it a manual stair with its own height. Its stairwell goes in the floor above, not in its own floor.

Undo after adding a floor returns you to your floor

After + Floor or Copy this floor, undo takes you back to the floor you were on. The heading and where you draw are always the same floor.

Heights sketch: the line you grab is the line that moves

Dragging near a level line moves that level, also when the ceiling of the floor below is close by. You grab a ceiling at its height line on the right.

Renovation: This floor follows Existing

With Existing chosen, This floor shows the existing state as well, from the same calculation as Whole home.

An outbuilding over the house counts once

If an outbuilding is drawn over the house, the shared floor counts once, with the house (NL rules 0.1.4). The measurement report waits until the outbuilding is moved, also on the server.

Copy to another home lands on the house

A floor copied to another home becomes the new top floor of that house, one storey above its top floor, not above a garage. A floor from an outbuilding becomes a floor of the house.

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Approving at the same moment as someone else

When two people approve through the same review link at the same moment, the second person no longer sees "This did not work. Please try again." with the form still open. The page loads the plan again and shows the approval that is already there, with a short note. If the plan is busy for a moment while you send a comment or an approval, it is tried again instead of failing.

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One approval per version of the plan

When two people approved through the same review link at the same moment, both got a confirmation and the second replaced the first, without keeping it in the history. Now the first approval stays and the second is refused; nothing changes. Two comments sent at the same moment no longer remove each other.

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A copied stair opening keeps its own shape

When you copy a floor with a stair opening whose stair stands on another floor, with Copy this floor or with Copy to another home, the opening on the copy is now a separate opening with its own shape. Before, it stayed linked to that stair: making the stair larger also made the opening on the copy larger, so the copy could measure too little, and turning the stair round could take the opening off the copy. A plan that was copied that way before is put right when you open it. A stair that is copied along becomes a manual stair and keeps its own opening on the copy.

Changes kept apart never come back over a newer plan

When changes that were kept apart in this browser come back and you keep working, the older copy now makes way for the newer one, and it is removed once your account has the work. Before, an old copy could come back by itself after a later sign-in and replace the newer plan in your account. While changes of a previous account are waiting here, nothing is sent to that home or asked from it with the session of the person now signed in. Sign out next to This device in Settings, Security now works like Sign out in the Account menu, and no copy kept apart is dropped to make room for a new one.

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Signing out never removes changes that are not safe

If your latest changes cannot reach your account and this browser cannot keep them apart either (its storage is full or blocked), you stay signed in and nothing is removed. A window says so and lets you try again, download the file, stay signed in, or sign out anyway after a second, clear question. The same happens when someone else signs in here while changes of the previous account are still waiting. Changes kept apart stay in this browser until they are really in your account.

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The measurement in Germany, France, Spain and Italy follows the standard more closely

A roof that lies under a higher floor is no longer taken as a ceiling: there is a flat ceiling with a floor above, so the whole floor counts. Under the WoFlV, the loi Carrez and the loi Boutin the stair itself is now deducted on the floor where it stands, the stairwell on the floor above: a stair of 0.9 × 3.0 m takes 2.7 m² off the ground floor too. A stair or stairwell drawn partly in a wall only counts inside the walls, and a stair over the stairwell of the stair below goes off once. A roof that lies under only part of a higher floor gives low strips only on the free part, also under the Dutch rules and ANSI Z765. In Spain a covered terrace or porch closed on three of its four sides counts in full in the built area, no longer for half; a low side wall, a railing or a wall with an open passage does not close a side. A side wall of a porch in line with a façade no longer takes a corner off the home. In Italy walls, inside walls too, count up to 50 cm thick and shared walls up to 25 cm, and for a villino or villa the garden counts only above five times the main rooms; choose the type of home in Check. The rule sets are WoFlV 0.3.0, Carrez and Boutin 0.2.0, Spain 0.2.0 and Italy 0.2.0, the only ones left.

A room type for a conservatory or closed veranda

Pick Conservatory or closed veranda in the list of room types. Without Heatable in its room card it counts for half under the WoFlV, as other indoor space under the Dutch rules, and not in the GLA or the Alberta RMS; with Heatable it counts in full. Only Heatable decides, so Finished is not in its room card; in the GLA and the RMS the façade in front of the wall to the home now goes to the right side. The loi Carrez counts it, the loi Boutin does not. A conservatory from the UK calculator opens in the editor with this type.

A plan without walls on the ground floor is no longer treated as empty

Work on an upper floor only, a block in Model, a sheet, or extra floors now always count as your plan. Switching units keeps it, opening a home from My homes asks first, signing in offers Add to my account, offline work reaches your account, and a block in Model is back after reloading.

Restoring a version never drops unsaved work

If your latest changes are not in your account yet, Versions saves them first. If that is not possible, nothing is restored and the window says why.

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Edit links keep a visitor’s work

Changes a visitor makes without a connection stay in their browser, come back after a reload and are saved in the owner’s plan as soon as possible. A server error is called a server error, not offline, and saving tries again by itself.

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Working together: the visitor saves when the saver leaves

If the person who saves stops working together or closes the tab, the next person saves what was waiting. The bar no longer says Saved while nothing reached the plan.

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Comments survive two people saving at once

Team comments made by the owner stay when a visitor saves at the same time, and a comment you removed does not come back.

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Signing out on a shared computer

After signing out, the next person no longer sees your home. Your plan stays in your account; changes that could not reach it yet are kept apart and come back when you sign in here again.

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Favourites and groups are never lost when signing in

Favourites and your own groups from this device stay here until your account has taken them, and go along again next time.

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Sheet templates from a newer version are kept

Removing or saving a sheet template no longer throws away templates this version cannot read.

Accepting an AI change keeps what someone else drew

An AI change to your plan only changes what it proposed. If someone changed the same part meanwhile, nothing changes and the message says so.

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Copy this floor takes everything on the floor

The copy now has the voids and openings in the floor, the room borders without a wall, stairs, furniture, symbols, pipes and cables, raised areas, balconies, photo points and the shapes from Model, so it measures exactly like the original. Before, a void or a room border was left out and the copy measured up to 29.6 m² too much. A stair to another floor becomes a manual stair on the copy. If you copy the top floor, the roof with its dormers moves to the copy on top. Comments stay on the original, and the message says so.

Moving or turning an outbuilding takes its dormer and zones along

Move and Turn on the building card now take everything of the building along: the dormer, the zones under 1.50 m you set by hand, pipes, photo points, comments and the shapes from Model. Before, the dormer and the zones stayed behind. Turning or mirroring the whole plan and aligning floors use the same list, so the anchor for aligning now turns with the plan too.

Moving a room with the arrow keys leaves other rooms alone

When you move a room with Move and the arrow keys across another room, the other room keeps its shape and the total stays right. Before, a corner that passed over a corner of the other room stuck to it and pulled that room askew. Done and Cancel now stay in view until you choose one of them or press Esc.

The running tape measure on a phone counts only what you tapped

Tapping points with a finger no longer adds a part back to the first point while you measure. Three taps across a room show two parts and the right total.

"Same as page 1" keeps the real scale for pages of another size

When you read PDF pages as floors, a page set to Same as page 1 now has the same scale in reality, also when it is larger, such as an A0 next to an A4. Before, it came out 29% too small. This also holds when you set the scale on page 1 later with two points.

An image that would be too large gets a clear message

An image export that would become larger than our server makes (7,680 pixels wide, 16,384 high, 118 million pixels in total) is refused with a sentence that names the size, before anything is sent. Before, one such request could stop the export server for everyone.

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Measuring always uses the newest, improved rules

Every Dutch plan now measures with rule set 0.1.4, also an older plan without a version or with 0.1.0 to 0.1.3. You do not need to update anything: the note about improved measuring rules and its Update button are gone, and Rule set lists only 0.1.4 and the proposal 0.2.0. What you may see change in an older plan: parts under a drawn roof lower than 1.50 m no longer count towards GO or the Ag, an attached garage counts in every GO variant, a low room next to a curved interior wall only takes its own part of that wall out, and the other 0.1.4 improvements of today. A PDF you already made stays as it is.

The measurement in the US, Canada and Germany follows the standard more closely

Every US plan now uses ANSI Z765 rule set 0.3.0, the only one left. Under a sloped roof the part lower than 5 ft no longer counts in the GLA, also in a room without a sloped ceiling of its own: the Cape Cod from the standard, 28 × 42 ft, measures 2,117 instead of 2,352 sq ft. A roof that lies under a higher floor is not a ceiling. The report and the export name version 0.3.0. Canada uses RMS rule set 0.2.0 with the roof as a ceiling too, and a plan in meters uses 2.13 m and 1.52 m, a plan in feet 7 ft and 5 ft. Germany uses only WoFlV 0.2.0; no German number changes.

US: the wall to the garage counts with the home

Under ANSI Z765 the finished area runs to the garage side of the wall between the home and a garage or unfinished space, so that whole wall counts in the GLA. A home with a two-car garage behind a 6 in wall of 22 ft gains 5.7 sq ft: 1,305 instead of 1,299 sq ft. A garage from an FML file, which has no Finished box, now stays out of the GLA as well; the room card shows it unfinished. Tick Finished for a converted garage and it counts.

Mirroring or rotating a plan no longer changes the measurement

Mirror or rotate a plan and the totals stay exactly the same. We check this on every example plan (Dutch and US standards, and every US plan under the Alberta RMS) and on a plan with curved walls under the Dutch, German and US standards. A wall with an odd thickness, such as 4½ in (114.3 mm), now lies the same distance from its centre line on both sides; in every standard it is measured 0.1 mm thicker, 114.4 mm. Where an interior wall meets the exterior wall, the piece of exterior wall in front of it is split on the centre line; before, it went to the room that was measured first. Under ANSI Z765 the finished area runs to the unfinished side of every wall to a garage or unfinished space, with square corners, and never takes part of the garage's own exterior wall or floor. A US home with a garage, basement or attic storage now matches the hand calculation; before, up to 0.25 sq ft could end up on the wrong side.

Pro in an office is for the person who pays

In an office without Team, Pro now covers only the homes made by the person who took Pro out. A colleague sees in Export that Pro covers only those homes, and can ask an admin for Team, which covers everyone in the office. An office that already had Pro keeps it for everyone until that Pro ends.

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The limits of a plan hold everywhere, with one sentence

Pasting, duplicating with ⌘D, a saved group, Place, laying pipes or cables automatically, linking lamps to a switch, a series of copies in Model, moving far away, dragging on a sheet: whatever would go past a limit of the plan (300 symbols or 2,000 pieces of furniture on a level, 1 km from the start point, 10 m for wall tiles) is not done, and one sentence names the limit. Before, such a plan was saved and did not open after a reload. Aligning on a sheet now lands on whole positions, a tall narrow image fits on the sheet, a presentation takes up to 200 rooms, and a 3D model of your own can be up to 10 m high.

A plan past the limits opens with what can be read

A plan saved in this browser with too many texts, an unreadable sheet or a piece of furniture of 10,000 km no longer opens empty. It opens with everything that fits, and a message says what was left out or limited. The original stays as a copy in this browser: File › Restore the kept copy puts it back as one step that Undo reverses. A plan this version cannot open at all shows Restore copy, which downloads the copy as a file. A plan file past the limits, or without any level, is called damaged, and your plan stays.

Prices with cents and north from an address save to your account

A quote with a price like 12.50, or north from a real address such as 320.3°, made every save to your account fail while the bar said Offline. Such a plan now saves normally. A plan past the limits is refused by the server with the reason, never with a server error.

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Sign in from Settings

In Settings without an account, Sign in at the top right did nothing. It now opens the sign-in window, and after signing in, with the code or with the link from the email, you are back on the tab you chose, such as API.

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DXF and IFC belong to a paid home

DXF and IFC need an unlocked home (Pro, Team, Education or a home you bought), also through the server; the trial is not a right. "Image or PDF to DXF" of another plan is part of Pro. With one paid home, add the found walls to that home first and export the home. A sheet without a floor plan view of this home but with drawn lines gets the watermark, and the main figure on a report or flyer must come from the saved plan.

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Every link gives only what it is for

A view link shows the floor plan, sizes and rooms, never the assignment, quote, approval, signature or team comments. A review link adds the comments and the approval, without the signature. Through an edit or measure link only the drawing is saved: the approval, "checked by the professional", the assignment, the quote, the checklist signature and team comments stay as they are. A review link, or the old edit link of a handed over home, can no longer join drawing together.

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A new approval after a change

On the review page your client can approve again once the plan changed after the approval. The earlier approval is kept in the history of the plan. On an unchanged plan a second approval is not possible.

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Webhooks pause when Pro ends

When Pro or Team ends, nothing is sent anymore and the webhooks show as paused in Settings › API. You can still switch them off or remove them; they work again when Pro or Team is back. An address in a private network is also refused in its IPv6 form, and checked again at the moment of sending.

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Measuring rules 0.1.4 for new plans

A new plan uses rule set 0.1.4, a proposal with the measuring corrections below. A plan made with 0.1.3 or older keeps its rule set, so its numbers do not change by themselves. Its Measurement sheet says that improved measuring rules are available, with what changes behind the (i) and an Update button. Undo switches it back.

Overlapping voids count once

Two voids or stairwells that overlap are taken off once: the shared part no longer counts twice, also against the 4.0 m² limit. Only openings whose shapes touch form one opening; two separate voids whose corners merely line up stay apart. In US plans, overlapping openings to below count once as well.

Outdoor space stops at the facade

With the Dutch measuring instruction a balcony or terrace counts only outside the facade, and the part two outdoor spaces share counts once. When you draw outdoor space against the facade, it now starts at the outside of the wall instead of its centre line. Outdoor space drawn inside a room counts as part of the room.

An attached garage counts in every GO

A garage that shares a wall with the home counts as other indoor space, and now also in every GO variant of the panel and in the totals of the Measurement sheet. The panel and the sheet give the same number.

Outbuildings: attic under 1.50 m and carport footprint

The attic of a shed or garage under a sloping roof no longer counts where it is lower than 1.50 m, just like the attic of the home. A carport or canopy with walls all round follows the outside of its walls, so an L-shaped carport keeps its corner. Free-standing posts still use the outline around them.

A thin wall on the outside is a facade

Rooms from a list, or an extension drawn with interior walls, stand against the outside with thin walls. Those walls now count as facade, not as floor of the home: two listed rooms of 4 × 3 and 3 × 3 m give 21 m² GO, not 23.68 m².

Chimney or shaft in a wall

A chimney, shaft or column that lies partly in a wall counts only with the part inside the room. That part decides the 0.5 m² limit, and the card and the area give the same number.

Stairwell of a U-shaped stair

The opening above a U-shaped stair now covers both flights and the gap between them, so the right area comes off. A stairwell you made earlier changes when you edit or move the stair, or make the opening again.

Check: an outbuilding over the home

If an outbuilding lies over the home or over another building, the same floor would count twice. Check now says so on both levels, also after a reload, until the outbuilding stands next to the home.

Search addresses in more countries

The address of a home can now be looked up in Belgium (Flanders and Brussels), France, Spain, parts of Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt), parts of Italy (Piedmont, Sardinia, Friuli Venezia Giulia), Lisbon, the United Kingdom (by postcode), the United States, Canada and Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland), not only in the Netherlands. The search uses the country of the home, or of its measuring standard, and you can pick another country above the search. The public register is named under the results. For a country or region without an open address register, such as Wallonia or Ireland for now, you type the address yourself. North from the address works wherever the register has the outline of the building. Our server asks the register, never your browser.

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Guides in German and Spanish from the editor

In the German and Spanish editor, the Help menu, the ? next to each tool and the guides in ⌘K opened the English guide, while the site has every guide in German and Spanish. They now open the guide in your language, with its own title in ⌘K, like in French, Italian and Portuguese.

The listing text also checks numbers written as words

The check of Listing text from your measurements only looked at digits, so "three bedrooms" in a home with one bedroom stayed in the text. Numbers written as words, in each of the seven languages of the editor, are now checked like digits: from one to nine hundred and ninety-nine, such as "three", "twenty-five" and "one hundred and twenty", and ordinals up to the hundredth, such as "second floor", like "2nd floor". Next to a room, a floor or an area the number must be what you measured, and on its own it must be one of your measured numbers. That also goes for "four beds", "two baths", "three-story" and joined words such as "four-bedroom". If a number is not right, that sentence goes, and the window says how many parts it left out. "A bright kitchen", "one bedroom" in a home with one bedroom, "the first floor", "a second-hand kitchen" and "one of two rooms" stay. A word that also means something else, such as "one" in "one of a kind", only counts next to a room, a floor or an area.

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AI help shows right away when your questions are used up

With all questions of the month used, the AI help window used to open with an active question field, and only after a refused question did it offer 100 more questions. It now says so as soon as you open it, with the button for 100 more questions in place of the question field. The count comes from the same place as the limit on our server.

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A repeated question follows the same rules

Asking the AI help the same question again gives the saved answer for free. That still needs AI help on your plan: with your free questions used up, or while the AI help is paused, a repeated question now gets the same message as a new one.

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AI texts in the language of your editor

In German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, Listing text from your measurements, Plan from a description and Change the plan with a sentence asked the AI in English, so you got an English text and English room names. They now ask in the language of your editor. The check of the listing text also drops exaggerating words in those languages. Feedback and wishes now arrive with your language, so our team answers in it.

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AI help answers in Portuguese

In the Portuguese editor, the AI help asked for an English answer. Your question now goes out in Portuguese, and the answer comes back in Portuguese, like in the other six languages of the editor.

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A clear message when you were removed from a team

If you were removed from a team while that team was still your workspace, the AI windows, Ask the norm and the AI help only said that something went wrong. They now say that you were removed from this team, and that you can switch to My workspace in the Account menu or sign in again. The Account menu now also shows that choice when your own workspace is the only one left. Nothing goes to the AI and nothing is counted.

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Privacy statement: every event in your account

The privacy statement now names every kind of event our server records in your account, also a new account, a day on which you use Squaremetry (one line per day) and a plan our team grants by hand. The retention table names the same list, in every language.

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Single-key shortcuts off means off everywhere

With Single-key shortcuts set to Off in My defaults, no single key does anything any more: also U for the underlay, and in 3D P, ?, W A S D, Q, E, R, + and −. Esc, Delete and the arrow keys keep working, in Model too. Alt with a letter no longer picks a tool: your browser keeps that key (on Windows it opens the menu).

Width… and Side colour… in the right-click menu

Width… on a door or window puts the focus on the width list in the card, so the arrow keys open it. Side colour… on a wall puts it on the first side to choose, not on the (i). Also from the sheet on a phone.

Turning a room says how

Q, ⌘← or ⌘→ on a chosen room now says that a room turns with Move in its panel. Before, it spoke of moving it.

⌘D and ⌘C on a door or window

⌘D or ⌘C with a door or window chosen now says that it is copied with its wall, so you choose the wall. With nothing chosen, ⌘D says to choose something first and no longer adds a bookmark in your browser, and ⌘← and ⌘→ no longer take you back a page: they say what can turn.

1 result, not 1 results

Search (⌘K) now counts with the right singular in all seven languages: 1 result, 1 resultaat, 1 Ergebnis, 1 résultat, 1 resultado, 1 risultato.

The ? key in Model and Sheets

In Model and Sheets, ? now opens Keyboard shortcuts on the tab of that workspace, as it does in Plan. With Single-key shortcuts off it does nothing, like every single key.

Search actions say why nothing happened

In search (⌘K), Flip door or window with no door or window chosen, Fit the selection with nothing chosen (⇧2 too), and One level up or down when there is no level there, now say why in one sentence. F on a window that does not swing says so as well.

Search works better with a screen reader

The list of results in search (⌘K) has its own id, so a screen reader no longer mixes it up with the action Room list.

Search and Where is what follow your bar

With the tool bar at the top, left or right (Customize bar), search (⌘K) and Where is what now say Bar at the top, Bar on the left or Bar on the right, not Bar at the bottom.

Right-click on a chosen group

The right-click menu of a chosen furniture group now has the same rows as a group that is not chosen: Turn 90°, Mirror, Duplicate, Ungroup, Save group as favourite… and Delete.

The Library keeps its name

Depending on what you opened before, such as Export or Settings, the furniture library could be called Passkeys, and after Settings the section view could be called Security. Each text now has one meaning, in every language, and a check stops two texts from sharing a name again.

Export closes from the top

On a phone the only way to close Export was a cross four screens down. The cross now stays at the top while you scroll, and a tap on the dark edge next to the window closes it too. Esc still works.

Hints stay on screen

On a phone the hint next to your finger could run off the screen, for example with Stair or after you dragged a room to the right edge. Every hint now stays next to your finger or pointer, inside the free part of the drawing around it, also below a panel, and goes on two lines if needed. On a phone, Room only says to drag: there is no keyboard to type a size.

The section title sits below the top bar

On a phone the title Section A-A lay under the buttons of the top bar. The section and the elevations now start below the top bar, also with two or more floors.

The tool bar and the panels never overlap

On an upright iPad the rail lay over Select in the tool bar, the library lay over More tools, and with the bar at the top the card on the right covered its end. Now the rail, the panels and the library end above a bar at the bottom, the rail, panels and library start below a bar at the top, the library moves aside for a bar on the right, and the bar itself moves next to anything that still reaches it.

Fit all and your choice stay clear of the panels

On an upright tablet a chosen stair lay under its own card, and Fit all put the house in a narrow strip half under the panel of Systems while a large area below the panels stayed empty. Fit all now uses the largest free part of the screen, also right after you open an example, and a chosen stair, opening in the floor, outdoor space or symbol moves next to its card, also when the card comes later on a slow tablet. A tap that opens a card under your finger no longer lands in that card.

No shortcut hint on a touch screen

On a phone the feedback window showed ⌘ Enter next to Send, a key a phone does not have. On a touch screen that hint is gone now. With a mouse it says Ctrl Enter on Windows and Linux, and ⌘ Enter on a Mac.

Dimension lines are easier to hit with a finger

On a phone or tablet, a tap just next to a dimension line now chooses it, and a handle of a chosen dimension can be grabbed from a finger width away. A wall right under your finger still goes first, and dragging next to a dimension still moves the view. With a mouse or pen it stays as precise as before.

Dimension choices say when they do nothing

After Make dimensions editable, a choice in the menu Dimensions that changes nothing on the plan is grey, with one line why. Before, Sides and How much lit up on that level but changed nothing. Show and Inside as still change the text under the room names, Show also the inside dimensions in 3D, and every choice still applies to a level you did not convert. Show the dimensions of this room in the card of a room works the same way. Clear dimension lines or undo brings the automatic dimension lines back.

A turned text turns along with the plan

Turn plan 90° and Mirror plan now also turn a text at an angle, so it stays along its wall; turning a room or a building, and turning or mirroring a selection, do the same. A standing text lies flat after a quarter turn and stands up again after the next one, with its wall. The text stays readable and never ends up upside down. A straight text stays straight.

Place furniture, text and openings without a mouse

With a piece of furniture ready to place, or with Text or Opening in floor chosen, press Enter: it goes in the middle of the view and is selected, so the arrow keys and the fields in the card fine-tune it. This also works right after choosing the tool with Enter on its button. An opening placed this way is a square of 1 × 1 m (3 × 3 ft). Enter on any other button still belongs to that button. On a tablet the tips say tap and do not mention Enter.

Select a text in one click

With a piece of furniture, a wall or an opening selected, a click on a text now selects that text at once. Before, the first click let go of everything and only a second click picked the text.

Facade and roof for the house leave outbuildings alone

Finishes, Facade and Roof set the exterior walls and the roofs of the house. A garage or shed now keeps its own facade and its own roof; before, its wooden facade went back to brick and its metal roof got roof tiles.

Wall colour for one room stays in that room

Under Finishes, Walls for one room now colours only the walls of that room. A wall that runs on into the next room is split where that room starts, so the room next door keeps its walls as they were. The area does not change, and a label or a dimension on a sheet tied to that wall still shows its whole length. With Lock size on that wall, both pieces keep the lock and together keep its length. Text and lines locked under Layers does not stop the colour either. A tile from the library on a room, Do it for me in the AI help and the assistant (MCP) do the same. One undo takes it all back. The AI help only says Done when the change is in; if a lock or another tab stops it, you see why. A plan that colours two rooms next to each other, or colours a room and then renames it, now works in one go.

A kitchen run stops at a door

Add a kitchen run along a wall with a door: the run now takes the free part of the wall where you click, up to the door, and the message says so. Before, the cabinets stood in front of the door. A window does not stop the run.

No second symbol of the same kind in one spot

Clicking twice in the same spot with a socket, a light or an exit sign used to stack the symbols without a word, and each one counted in the circuit, the materials list and the CSV. Now a spot that already has a symbol of the same kind at the same height gets no second one, and one sentence says so. This holds for every way there: Systems, Place, accepting a proposal again, copy and paste, moving with the mouse or the arrow keys, typing a height (a typed 0.3 m is the usual 0.3 m), Use the usual height and another kind. Pasting again on the same level puts each copy one step further, so copies no longer lie on top of each other. For two sockets side by side, pick Double socket; for one above the other, give the first its own height first. Two that already lay in one spot in an older plan still move and turn with the rest, for example with Turn plan 90° or Select all and the arrow keys. This also holds for the AI help and the API.

Negative numbers in a CSV are numbers

A CSV put an apostrophe before a plain negative number, like a photo point left of or above the walls (-1.50), so a spreadsheet read it as text. Now a plain negative number stays a number you can calculate with. Anything that could be a formula, such as =, +, @ or -2+3 at the start, still gets the apostrophe. This holds for every CSV.

Hot water and return run at right angles beside the other pipe

Water pipes automatically, Heating pipes automatically and Ducts and lines automatically laid hot water beside cold, return beside flow and extract beside supply with a slanting last part, and at the corner it crossed the other pipe. Now every part runs at right angles, 8 cm beside the other pipe and always on the same side of it: inside the bend or outside it, it no longer crosses the other pipe at the corner, in any direction. The lengths in the materials list change by a few centimetres.

Water pipes only go to a kitchen with a sink

Water pipes automatically and Drains automatically now lay a pipe to a straight, L-shaped, U-shaped or galley kitchen, which has a sink, and no longer to a tall cabinet wall, a kitchen island or a peninsula. Those have no tap, so their pipes no longer count in the lengths, the CSV or the materials list.

CSV in feet: cables and circuits in feet too

In a plan in feet, the CSV now gives the pipes and cables and the circuit overview in ft, like the rooms and the measurement sources. Before, those two parts were in metres. A plan in metres stays in m.

Only choices that change the drawing set

With Drawing set on, also after Panel schedule as PDF, Export no longer shows the choices for a single drawing: Drawing style, On the drawing, the Systems ticks, Isometric view, Elevations, Room walls and Renovation sheets. They never changed the set: each sheet of the set has its own fixed drawing. Escape plan and the drawing set now exclude each other, as in the download: Escape plan turns the set off, and turning the set on turns Escape plan off. Panel schedule as PDF also opens without a preset. For a plain PDF, PNG or DXF the choices are there and work as before.

Another kind of symbol drops what no longer fits

When you change the kind of a symbol to one of another trade, for example a socket into a tap, its circuit and its own mounting height go, and a switch that becomes something else no longer switches lights. A light that is no longer a light leaves the list of its switch. One sentence says so, and undo brings it all back. A kind of the same trade, like a socket into a double socket, keeps everything. This also holds for the AI help and the API.

Length of a freehand line is the length as drawn

Choose a freehand line and its Length now shows the length of the line as drawn, along all its bends, not the straight distance from start to end. Type a length and the whole line grows or shrinks from its start point in the same shape; before, only the end point moved. A straight line still grows from its start in the same direction. One undo step.

Deleting a saved 3D view removes only that view

A double click or two quick taps on the x next to a saved view in 3D now removes that one view. Before, the list moved up after the first click and the second click removed the next view too. An x for a view that is already gone does nothing. Undo still brings a deleted view back.

Switching floors during a photo tour stays put

On a view link, picking another floor while the photo tour card is open now keeps that floor. The card jumps to the first photo point there, or closes when that floor has none. Next and Previous still take the plan to the floor of the photo. The same goes for the tour through the rooms in 3D, and on a phone the list of floors now opens above the card.

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The house in 3D in a presentation opens on the ground floor

In the presentation (File, Presentation) and on the presentation link for your client, Show the house in 3D now opens on the ground floor, like the plan and Sheets. Before, it opened on the first floor in the list, often the basement. The other floors are one click away.

A 3D view named with only spaces gets the next number

Saving a view in 3D with only spaces as its name now works like an empty name: the view gets the next number, View 2, then View 3. Before, every such view was called View 1, also in the flight past all views and in stills and videos.

The end of Hide walls above shows all walls

In 3D, Options, the far end of the Hide walls above slider now always means Nothing hidden, also when the wall height is not a whole number of steps, such as 2.455 m or 9 ft 7 in. Before, the end left a cut of a few millimetres, which was also kept in a saved view. In the lifted plan the end is the full wall height. This works with the mouse, a tap and the End key.

The plan fits the screen after Section or 3D

Open Section or 3D right after opening your plan, and Back to the plan now shows the whole house. Before, the plan could stay at the starting zoom with the house partly off screen. Fit all asked while the plan is hidden now also happens as soon as the plan is back, with its real size. If you zoomed or moved the plan yourself, your view stays.

The 3D model reports the same number of triangles in every format

GLB, USDZ and OBJ of the same plan now report the same number of triangles in the message after saving, and the hint about AR on a phone uses that number. Before, USDZ reported twice as many, because every face also has a back side for AR on iPhone and iPad.

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Upload a plan and walk through it starts only with the plan you chose there

In 3D without walls, Upload a plan and walk through it now starts only once the plan you chose there lies under your drawing. Cancelling, a file that cannot be read or a PDF with more pages leaves it off. Remove, or a new image from another upload, turns it off again. A later upload for tracing is then a normal one: you set the scale and choose Detect walls yourself. Before, the editor could still find and place walls by itself and open 3D. Straightening a photo of your plan keeps the route on.

Model on a tablet: tap, then tap again

Extrude, Move, Rotate, Scale and Offset now work with taps, like click, move and click with a mouse: tap the face, then tap where the top goes. Before, the second tap used the place of the previous one, so Extrude said Distance 0 and Move did nothing.

Choosing an address that cannot be fetched says why

In My homes, when the address you chose from the list could not be fetched, nothing happened. Now a sentence says why: no connection, the address register is not answering, the address is no longer in the register, or too many lookups. The list stays, so you can choose again or type the address yourself.

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Plot from the land registry: a clear sentence when it goes wrong

Get it from the land registry said Sign in to someone who was signed in when the land registry map did not answer, and showed codes like site.down or site.noAddress for other problems. Now each case has its own sentence: the map did not answer, there is no plot at this address, the home has no Dutch address yet, no connection, or the open data could not be reached. A failed lookup is no longer kept for a day, so trying again really asks again.

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Model: Subtract says when nothing is left

Subtracting a shape that covers the first one completely said these shapes do not overlap, while they overlap fully. Now it says the second shape covers the first one completely, or the other shapes when you chose more than two. Overlap of shapes that do not touch still says they do not overlap.

Model: the line on arrival says how to go back

When you opened Model, the line at the bottom said Back: Esc or Alt 1, but Esc in Model only lets go of what you chose. Now it says Back to Plan: Alt 1, or choose Plan in the Workspace menu. Sheets and Present still name Esc, because there Esc does take you back to Plan.

Heights from the AHN sit where they were measured

Get heights from the AHN put the 31 by 31 heights every 2 m, while the height map gave them every 1.94 m. Points near the edge of the square were up to 1 m from where they were measured, and a slope looked 3% less steep. Now the height map is asked for squares of exactly 2 m, so each height is on its spot.

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North from a Dutch address is true north

North from the address, the house from the address, the plot, the neighbours, the aerial photo and the heights from the AHN used north of the Dutch map grid. In Zeeland and Twente that is up to 1.4 degrees from true north, so the north arrow and the shadows in the sun study were slightly off. Now everything from a Dutch address points to true north, like the sun.

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A dimension point dropped on its neighbour

Drag a point of a dimension line onto the next point and you no longer get a dimension of zero length. A dimension with two points stays as it was, with one line why. In a chain the point goes away and the two parts become one: that is how you remove a point from a chain. Undo brings it back.

Copies of a dimension land next to it

Duplicate, or copy and paste, a dimension line and the copy lies parallel to it, 1 m (3 ft) away, instead of metres to the side and out of view. Each next paste moves one step further. The card of a dimension now has Duplicate, Copy and Paste, like everything else.

Chains once in the menu Dimensions

Chains was in the menu twice, under Show and under How much. Show is now Outside, Inside, Both or None, and you choose chains under How much. A plan that showed the old chains shows Outside with chains, and How much works there straight away.

The middle handle stays off the number

On a small phone, or zoomed out, the middle handle of a chosen dimension lay over its number. It now moves further along the line, or next to it when the part is short, on the side away from the bold total of a chain, and you grab it where you see it.

Type sizes the way you write them

A size field now also reads 3m50 and 3 m 50 (metres and centimetres) and, in feet, 12-8 and 12'-8" (feet and inches). Before, they were turned down with an example. Something that is not a size is still turned down.

Paste twice, get two copies side by side

Paste the same thing twice and each copy now lands one step further, next to the one before, instead of exactly on top of it. This works with Paste in the card, with the shortcut and on another level: there the first copy still lands in the same place as on the level you copied from, and the next one goes next to it. After Undo, the next paste takes the spot that came free. Duplicate on the original, with a copy already next to it, also places the new copy elsewhere, for furniture too.

Angle fields read and round the same way

The turn fields of furniture, text and the underlay, and North in the 3D options, now read an angle the same way: with a comma or a point, with or without °. Each field then shows the angle that is saved. North in the 3D options no longer changes a north in tenths of a degree, such as one from the address, when you only go through the field. The width and depth of furniture also show the saved size after Enter, even when it stays the same: 90cm becomes 0.9 m.

The distances and buttons next to a door stay readable

With a door or window chosen, the distances to the corners no longer overlap, also on a phone and when you zoom out. A number that does not fit between its arrows sits past the corner, or else past the door. The tab with Flip in/out and Flip hinge stays next to its door and fully on the screen, clear of the numbers, the panels and the sheet. A door under the sheet or the card scrolls into view when you choose it.

A long room name no longer hides the size

With a room chosen, the label on the plan shows the name and the inside size. A long name is now shortened there with "…", so the size stays fully on the screen, next to the card on a computer and above the sheet on a phone. The full name stays in the card and in your plan.

Done and Keep as dimension stay on the screen

When you measure up to the edge of the screen, Done and Keep as dimension move to the other side of the last point, so they stay fully on the screen and never cover a number, the total, the sheet or a panel. Keep as dimension still saves exactly the measure you took.

The phone total names your measuring standard

On a phone, the short name next to the total follows the measuring standard of your plan, not the unit: GO for the Dutch measuring instruction, also in feet, and GLA for ANSI, also in metres. Germany shows WoFlV, France Carrez or Boutin, Alberta RMS. Without a national standard only the number shows.

The field to type a dimension stays on the screen

Double tap or double click a dimension to type it. The small field with its anchor buttons now always stays fully on the screen, also for a dimension at the edge of a phone, and never under the sheet, the bar or the card.

One place for what you selected

With several things selected, the card on the right is now the only place for Duplicate, Copy, Paste, Delete and Group; on a phone, the sheet at the bottom. The small menu over the plan is gone, so it no longer covers the furniture you chose, and on a phone your selection moves into view above the sheet. On a computer, the small bar at a chosen wall no longer lies over the buttons of the wall card.

Your own dimensions keep their numbers

A dimension you kept now keeps its number when it would touch a room label: it first moves along its line, then sits just beside it, and the automatic inside size gives way to it, on screen and in exports. Click it to see every part in teal and a chain also its total; the card lists the parts, such as 3 m + 4 m = 7 m. If a number still does not fit at this zoom, the card says so.

Type X and Y to place furniture freely

The card of a piece of furniture has X and Y for its middle, also on a phone, where there is no Alt. A typed position is always free, also close to or in a wall; the next drag stops against the wall again.

Furniture stops against the wall

Drag or place a piece close to a wall and it stops against the wall face instead of sinking into the wall, also when it is turned, in a corner, as a group, dropped from the library and after turning it. A teal line with Against wall shows where. Hold Alt (Option) to place it freely.

Edit here takes the home of the other tab

Open another home in a second tab and go straight back to the first tab: Edit here now first lets the other tab save, and then opens the home it had open. Before, a quick click could bring back the previous home.

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The assistant sets the renovation phase

Through the assistant (MCP), a wall, door or window can now get the phase existing, new or demolish, like in Renovation in the editor.

The measurement report is the same every time

The floor plans in the measurement report always show floors in their colour. Before, a floor sometimes appeared as a picture of its material, depending on an export made just before, so the same plan could give a different file.

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The explanation of ADU can be reached

In the export window, the (i) of ADU now sits next to the heading instead of inside it, so the keyboard and a screen reader reach it.

A sloped roof on a one-storey home starts on the walls

Add a sloped roof to a home with only a ground floor and the roof now starts on top of the walls (Roof starts at is the floor height). The ground floor keeps its full height and counts in full, instead of measuring as if it were under the roof. No floor is added. A roof can still start lower, for example on the first floor of a home with two storeys: type it in Roof starts at. Removing the roof only removes the roof.

AI help points the way on your phone too

On a phone, AI help now points at the buttons you can actually tap: first Rooms to open the list, then the floor field, Roof and Add dormer. While it points, the help window moves to the top so the buttons stay free.

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Listing text checks every number against what it describes

A listing text may only say 3 bedrooms when you measured 3 bedrooms, not because the home has 3 rooms. A standard number such as 2580 only counts right after NEN. Anything else is left out, with a note.

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Listing text: clear words when writing fails

While it writes, the window says it is writing a text from your measurements. When writing fails, it says so in words about the text, keeps your measured facts and your earlier text, and offers Try again.

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Ask the norm finds sources for questions in five more languages

A plain question in German, French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, such as whether a garage counts, now finds our sources instead of saying it is outside them. The answer stays in English for now, as the short line says. An unknown topic is still honestly outside our sources.

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Subscription means subscription

Where AI is part of Pro, the window now says your subscription, because plan means your drawing. What you can use for free stays the same.

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Cancel means cancel

Cancelling an AI proposal now also holds when the answer had just arrived: the window says Cancelled and no proposal appears afterwards.

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The AI help no longer repeats an answer from before an update

The same question about the same plan within 24 hours gets the saved answer for free. That saved answer now belongs to what the AI help knew at the time. After an update with new knowledge, such as a new route to a button, the question gets a fresh answer. Before, it could get the old route for up to 24 hours.

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Escape clears a typed distance first and keeps the wall tool

If you type a distance with the wall tool and then move the mouse off the wall, Escape now clears only the number you typed. A second Escape leaves the wall tool. Before, the first Escape also left the tool.

Tab no longer traps the focus at the wall tool

With the wall tool on a wall, Tab switches between the distances (and the length) once. After the last one, Tab moves the focus on as usual, and Shift+Tab goes back. Before, Tab kept switching as long as the mouse rested on a wall, so you could not reach the rest of the page with the keyboard.

Reviewers and handed-over homes show only what is allowed

A reviewer in an office no longer sees Restore in Versions from My homes; downloading a version still works. A home handed over to another workspace no longer offers a choice of office profile. The copy the new owner receives now carries its own home in the plan, so saving it always works.

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Try again after a broken AI answer is free

When an answer of the AI help breaks off halfway (it was not finished, took too long or went wrong after the first words), Try again asks the same question again without costing an extra question. The answer that broke off no longer counts. This works once per question, within 15 minutes; our server checks it.

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Escape closes an explanation first, not a running AI answer

With the AI help open, Escape to close an (i) explanation, a menu or another window used to close the AI help as well, and stopped the answer it was writing. Escape now closes that explanation or menu first, and the answer keeps coming. Press Escape again to close the AI help.

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A complete AI help answer no longer says it was not finished

When something went wrong on our side right at the end of an answer, the AI help could call a complete answer "not finished" and offer Try again, which cost a second question. A complete answer now counts as done, and there is no Try again for it.

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A patio stays open and does not count

A patio, an empty ring of facade walls inside the house, is outside, like the garden. It has no roof above it, as 3D already showed, and the roof plan draws the roof edge around it. It is not a room on the plan or in the room list and counts on no floor: not in the floor area and not in the gross floor area, in every measuring standard. The patio walls still belong to the house.

A house inside garden walls keeps its facades

With full-height garden walls around the house, or a patio with facade walls inside it, the walls of the house and the patio count as the outside again. A room you draw against the house then gets exterior walls, and + Basement takes over the walls of the house. Before, those became interior walls of 10 cm, and the basement only took over the garden walls. A room or closet in the middle of the house, with interior walls only, still gets interior walls.

An example, FML or IFC file starts with the newest measuring rules

A new plan measures with rule set 0.1.3. A plan you start from an example, an FML file or an IFC file is a new plan too, and now also starts on 0.1.3. Before, it got the older version 0.1.2. Of the examples, only the lifelong home changes: the inner wall between the two storage rooms upstairs no longer counts as living area, so 120.03 m² instead of 120.22 m².

Saving with a room over 300 m says why, and an older plan with a large hall saves again

A room is at most 300 m long and wide. When a plan has a larger room that was not that large in your account, the editor now says so with that limit, and the plan stays in this browser. Before, it only said that saving failed. An older plan that already had such a hall now also saves after you change a wall of that hall, as long as the hall does not get larger.

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Sheets turn along with the plan

Turn plan 90° and Mirror plan now also update your sheets. A floor plan frame keeps showing the same part of the house, a 3D view keeps looking from the same corner, an elevation without a north keeps showing the same facade, and dimensions, angles and labels on a sheet keep reading the same place. A 3D view or elevation you had moved inside its frame shows its middle again. Before, a frame showed another part of the house after turning.

An L- or U-shaped room gets its name back after turning the plan

A room that opens because you remove a wall remembers its name, type and other details, and gets them back when you close it again in nearly the same place. That now also works for an L- or U-shaped room after you turn or mirror the plan. Before, such a room stayed nameless.

Opening in another language saves nothing

Open a home from your account with the editor in another language and the editor shows "My house" and the first floor in that language, but saves nothing: no new version, and the plan in your account keeps its names. Change something and only that change is saved. A name you typed yourself always stays as it is. What you save on another device still comes in.

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Picking up changes no longer resets your work

When a comment or approval from your client comes in while the editor is open, it is added to the plan you are working on: you stay on the same floor and Undo still works. When someone else saved a newer drawing while you were working, the editor asks first, once you finish what you are drawing, and opens it only when you choose Open it. If you keep working, your next save keeps the other version in Versions, and the message has a Versions button. A tab that is only for looking asks nothing. When a save fails for a moment, through an edit link, after switching projects on this device or after Edit here, your drawing still goes to your account and the other version stays in Versions.

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The assistant no longer moves a room onto a door it cannot keep

When the AI assistant moves a room against another room, walls that land on each other become one. If a door or window would then land on the end of a wall or on another opening, the assistant now says so and changes nothing, just like the editor. Before, it reported the room as moved while the two walls stayed on top of each other. In a series of changes, nothing is applied if one of them is refused.

A curved wall stops before it touches another wall

Bending a wall inward, with the height, the radius, Other side or the handle, now stops just before the curve would touch or cross another wall, and one line says the height it got. The card shows that real height and radius. Before, a curve could run through the corners of the room: the card then showed only part of the wall, and the next value quietly split the wall in two. Typing the same value again changes nothing and adds no undo step.

A typed wall stays when you press Esc right after Enter

Typing the length of a wall and pressing Enter now places the wall at once. Pressing Esc straight after, on a busy phone or computer, used to drop that wall and leave a loose start point; now the wall stays and Esc only ends the chain.

Doors stay in a shared wall

Move a room against another so their walls become one, and a door, window or opening in the wall that disappears now sits in the wall that stays, in the same place and swinging the same way. If it would land on the end of a wall or on another opening, the room stays where it was and the editor says why.

Linked text follows more wall edits

Text linked to a room keeps showing its area after moving only part of a wall, when the parts become one wall again and after adding a bay window, for the rooms on both sides. Draw a wall through a room and the text goes with the name to the larger part; remove a wall and the text shows the joined room.

A locked size says what it does

Locking a size says that walls joined to it move along, also at an angle, and the card shows one grey line under Length. When another change makes joined walls move along to keep the locked size, one sentence says how many, with Show lock, and those walls glow briefly. Undo puts them back.

Dragging the end of a moved dimension keeps its direction

When a kept dimension sits away from what it measures, dragging its end now moves the measured point under the grip. The dimension keeps its direction and the length you see, instead of turning and growing.

A curved wall shows the radius it really got

When a radius or bulge is too small or too large and the wall keeps its limit, the field shows the real value again, also when you type the same value twice.

Raising the sill can no longer push a window above the ceiling

The sill of a window can go up only as far as its height still fits under the ceiling, the same limit as for the top. A higher value is refused with the real limit, and the field shows the real sill again.

From the left and From the right read a bare number as centimeters

In the Position fields of a door or window, a bare number is centimeters, as the field shows: 5 is 5 cm, not 5 m. Typing a unit (5 cm, 0.05 m, 2 in) still works.

A refused room size shows the real size again

When a width or depth of a room cannot be applied (the size is locked, or a door or window would not fit), the field shows the real size again, not the number you typed.

A wider door or window type stays clear of a thick side wall

Choosing a wider type (for example Double) or a wider width moves the door or window just far enough to stay between the wall faces, also next to a thick side wall. If it does not fit next to another door or window, the width stays and one sentence says why.

A shorter wall or room no longer pushes doors and windows over each other

A typed wall length or room size that would push a door over a window (or two doors over each other) no longer goes through: nothing changes and one sentence says why. A plan that already had an overlap stays editable.

A shorter wall never silently removes a door or window

A typed wall length or room size that would remove a door or window no longer goes through: nothing changes and one sentence says why. Move or remove the door or window first. Dragging a corner or a wall can still make a wall shorter than its door or window; it is then removed with one sentence, and Undo puts it back. The same rule holds for the assistant (MCP).

A wall length is the inside length

The Length of a chosen wall is now the inside length, wall face to wall face on the side of the room: in the card, in the bar next to the wall, with the arrow keys and when you double-click the size on the plan. Type 5 m and the room is 5 m inside. The size next to a chosen wall shows the inside and the outside length.

Splitting a wall keeps linked text

Split a wall, or move a room against another so their walls become one, and text linked to a room still shows its area, also after undo, redo and reopening. The room keeps its name and type, also when a wall meets only one half. Presentations, documents and sheet views of that room come along.

A stair stands against the wall and turns like furniture

Click on the face of a wall and a new stair stands against it instead of halfway into the wall; in a corner its side stays clear of the other wall. A stair you placed now turns with Rotate in its card, Q, Cmd or Ctrl with the arrow keys, or an angle in Rotation; the opening above turns with it.

A cut-off ceiling shows in the room card

When a lower level cut off a sloped or vaulted ceiling, the room card says so in one line: the slope or arch runs on to its old height and the ceiling is flat from Ceiling at. Correcting the lowest point, the low side or the sides keeps the measured area right. Straighten the slope or Lower the arch makes it an ordinary slope or arch; Undo brings it back.

Stair, opening and levels stay together

Pick another level under Goes to and the stairwell moves along. Type your own Floor to floor or pick the other direction and the stair keeps your height, and says so. Delete a stair or a level and nothing points to it any more: the opening stays as a loose opening. Move a linked opening yourself and it stays where you put it.

Levels and heights within bounds

Changing the height or level of the house no longer moves a separate garage. No level goes above +20 m, also not one that moves along, so every level field stays editable. A lower floor height cuts off the ceilings of the rooms under another floor at the new height: everything under it stays exactly as it was, also the low part of a sloped or vaulted ceiling and the edge of a tray, so the measured area stays right. A ceiling shape that was entirely above the new height is removed, with a message.

Fields in the stair card

A width that is refused now shows the real width again, and Esc puts back what was there without saving.

Copy a floor keeps linked text

Text linked to a wall, door, window or room now shows its size on the copied floor too, also for a room without a name, and follows the copied object.

A turned text no longer stops your plan from opening

A text turned to -630° now turns to 90°, and a plan saved with such a turn opens again with all its walls. A plan this browser cannot open stays here as a copy and is not overwritten by what you do next. A plan with only text, lines or furniture comes back after a reload.

Fields do what you expect

Esc cancels a room name or text turn you were typing. An empty turn field keeps the turn, a room name of only spaces or invisible characters shows the default name right away, and a furniture height past the limit shows the limit. ⌘Z also works while a checkbox or a list has focus. Tying a text to a window: the choice is called Door or window and the card says window.

Nothing lost while your plan opens

On a busy phone or tablet your plan can take a few seconds to come back. A change in that moment used to vanish when the plan appeared. Now the editor says your plan is still opening, and a list of rooms you typed stays so you can add it a moment later.

Remove or blur photos and notes a plan already has

Plan › More › Photos and notes shows the room photos, field notes and photo points a plan already has, per floor and room. View, blur or remove a photo, remove a note, or open a photo point. Removing takes it out of the plan, the view link and the report; Undo brings it back. The row only shows when there is something to show. New photos and notes still cannot be added.

Attic with roof windows and 0 m² of glass

Older plans saved 0 m² of glass for an attic when only the stair was chosen, so an attic with roof windows counted as other indoor space. The numbers of such a plan do not change by themselves. The Measurement sheet now says so, with an Update button that lets the roof windows count for the glass. Undo puts it back.

Ceiling heights always fit together

Leaving Wall height empty now really goes back to the height of the level; a ceiling that hung higher comes down with it, and Lowered ceiling stays on. When the walls or the ceiling go lower, the lowest point of a sloped ceiling and the edge of a tray or vaulted ceiling come along, so they stay below the ceiling and above the floor; a tray edge that would end below the floor is refused. A size that does not fit, or an empty roof window size, now stays in the field with one line below it saying why, instead of a message that disappears; Esc puts the current size back. Turning a lowered ceiling back on remembers the height per level, not across levels. The server checks the same rules.

Turn and Mirror say why they cannot

When the selection is joined to walls you did not pick, Turn and Mirror in the panel are grey and the tip says why. A tap still shows the reason. In 3D, an internal wall that meets a facade split at that point no longer flickers on the wall top.

More for professionals opens again on a phone

A tap on the row More for professionals in Check opens it again; the (i) now sits at the end of the row. The same goes for the ADU row and Compare. The (i) next to the dataset checkbox no longer covers the checkbox. On a phone the sheet at the bottom shows the short name (GLA, GO) again, on one line, so the plan keeps more room. A room you draw inside the home without touching its walls gets interior walls.

Names follow the language you switch to

After switching the language, the tabs My groups and My objects in the library, the floor of a new outbuilding and a floor read from a scan file now show in that language. A Portuguese default plan name follows too, and so does the name in Welcome back. Names you typed yourself stay as they are.

Contractor pack for a renovation plan

With walls to demolish or new walls, the contractor pack said the drawing did not match the home in your account. It now comes with the existing situation, the demolition and new work, and the new situation.

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Text stays inside the card

A long word or a long standard name in the card on the right (Check, a wall, a room) now wraps inside the card instead of running over the edge, also in German and on a phone.

Sizes stay whole on a small phone

On a 320 px phone a size such as "2.3 m" no longer breaks between the number and the unit. In French, a long tool name in the bar at the bottom ends in "…" instead of running over the next button, and a long floor name stays inside the sheet.

Ask the norm answers in the language it says

The answer now always comes in the language shown above it: your own language when our guides have it, otherwise English, also when you ask in another language.

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Ask the norm says when an answer is in English

Our measuring guides behind Ask the norm are in English and Dutch for now. In German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese the answer and its sources come in English, and a short line in your own language now says so. Screen readers read the English answer in English.

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AI help quotes only what is on sale, and guides show every message

The AI help no longer mentions a price for the survey for energy advisers, which is not on sale. The French, Italian and Portuguese guides now list the same messages as the English ones, word for word as the editor shows them, also in the AI help guide. In French, the button for the plan and 3D next to each other is now called Côte à côte.

Closing an AI window stops the question

Close Ask the norm, an AI proposal or the AI help with × or Escape while it is still working, and the question stops, just like Cancel. A late answer no longer lands anywhere. The Pro explanation now says what is free: Ask the norm finds the matching parts of our guides with a free account; Pro adds the AI answer.

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AI help says when an answer was cut off

If an answer from the AI help stops halfway, it no longer looks finished. The text so far stays, greyed out, with "The answer was not finished." and a Try again button that asks the same question again.

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Turning a wall no longer breaks a room open

Turn 90° and Mirror on a wall or selection that is joined to other walls are greyed out in the right-click menu, with the reason. The buttons on the card say the same. A loose wall or a free-standing room still turns in place. To turn the whole home, use Turn plan 90° at the level.

Room sides on the outside are exterior walls

A room you draw next to the house gets exterior walls on the sides that face outside and interior walls inside. Dragging a corner keeps the kind and thickness of each wall. Add basement now follows the whole outline of the floor above, also in plans drawn earlier.

Turn plan 90° keeps every number

Turning or mirroring the plan now also turns the height zones under a sloped roof, the plot, the terrain, the section line, the shapes on the plot and the north arrow. The usable area stays the same: the Villa with garden stays 225.29 m² after each quarter turn.

A handed over home really stays as it was

After you hand a home over to another workspace, the original in your list can only be viewed, downloaded, exported, duplicated or moved to the trash. Its address, folder, status, labels and versions can no longer change, and its edit links no longer save. Our server refuses it too, so it also holds outside the app.

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Edit links and open tabs keep up with comments

When someone saves through an edit link while the plan changed in the meantime (you saved, or your client left a comment or an approval through the review link), nothing is overwritten anymore. The comments and the approval are added to their version and the other version is kept in Versions. An open editor now picks up a new comment or approval when you come back to the tab, without opening the plan again.

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No new photo points, photos or notes

Add photo point here is gone from the menu on the plan, a photo point card no longer adds a photo or a note, and Photo points as tags only downloads a CSV. Photo points that a plan already has stay: you can open, move, turn and remove them, and their photos still go in a view link and in the photo appendix of the report.

Calmer cards: no more "How it works" lines, no photos in the room card

An explanation now sits behind a small (i) right next to the heading it belongs to, and it stays inside the card, also on a phone. The room card no longer has Photos and note; photos go on a photo point on the plan. Photos and notes that a plan already has stay in it and in the photo appendix of the report. Wall elevations is now under Size.

See and type the distance to the next wall

When the start or end of a new wall rests on an existing wall, two dimensions along that wall show the free space to the next wall on each side, wall face to wall face. Type a number to put the point at exactly that distance; Tab switches side.

Measurement sheet: "Remaining area (balancing item)"

The balancing line on the Measurement sheet, in the report and on the floor area drawing has a new name: Remaining area (balancing item). The (i) next to it gives the exact sum: gross floor area minus usable living area, other indoor space, the area under 1.50 m, stairwells with their void and what is not counted. It is not the NEN 2580 tare. The numbers stay the same.

The tape measure measures from wall face to wall face

Near a wall, Measure now snaps to the face of the wall, inside or outside, never to its centre line. A room of 10 m centre to centre with 30 cm walls now measures 9.70 m inside, and the label says wall to wall. A slightly slanted click still gives the straight size. Hold Alt to measure freely.

A room is at most 300 m long and wide

Type rooms as a list no longer places a room like Hall 999 x 999. A room is at most 300 m (984 ft) long and wide; a larger line stays in the window with one sentence that says so. Saving to your account checks the same limit, so a plan cannot get such a room another way. Plans that already had one keep opening and saving.

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Wall build-up no longer moves other walls

Choosing a build-up or thickness for a wall keeps the internal walls that join the neighbouring walls straight and in place, so no room merges into another. Switching back gives exactly the same plan and the same floor area, also after undo, redo, another floor or reloading. A facade split at a junction no longer counts a small wedge of facade as internal wall.

New plans use the improved measuring rules

A new plan uses rule set 0.1.3: parts under the roof lower than 1.50 m no longer count towards GO. An existing plan keeps the rule set it was made with, so its numbers do not change. Its Measurement sheet says that improved measuring rules are available, with an explanation behind the (i) and an Update button. Undo switches it back. Report, PDF and CSV follow the rule set of the plan.

Curved walls and reclosed rooms

Proposal 0.1.3 now also judges a long curved interior wall per neighbouring room, like a straight one: a low room at one end only takes its own part out of the usable area. Older rule sets measure exactly as before. A room you open by removing a wall and close again in almost the same place gets its name, kind and room details back, also after a reload or another floor.

Measurement corrections available for review

Rule set 0.1.3 is available as a proposal on the Measurement sheet: roof height zones, long walls next to different rooms, and a dwelling closing sum without external storage or outdoor space. The default stays 0.1.2. A separate shed stays outside dwelling gross volume. Enter measured clear glass and confirm the fixed stair for an attic. Room explanations name other indoor space and partial counting; CSV and PDF room lists use the same status.

Rooms and separate buildings keep their own numbers

An exterior wall drawn inside the home counts as an internal wall; a stray wall outside adds no floor area. This floor shows a separate building’s own area and category. Sheet room tables state their basis: inside walls, before measuring deductions. A bay cannot remove a connecting wall or room divider. Reclosing a room recovers its name and kind.

Comments and approvals from a review link stay

Opening the editor no longer saves your plan by itself. When your client left a comment or an approval through the review link, or someone changed the plan through an edit link, the editor now opens that newer version and Share › Review shows the approval. Did you also change the plan on this device in the meantime, then the comments and the approval are added to your version and the other version is kept in Versions.

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Building from Model next to the house is its own outbuilding

In Model, Make part of the house as… Building on a block next to a house that is already there now makes a separate outbuilding with its own storey and name (Outbuilding 1), measured apart and not in the usable area of the house. The house keeps its walls and wall height, so its rooms no longer get Ceiling higher than the wall height. A block in or over the house or another building says so and changes nothing. One undo takes it all back.

Delete a floor, the basement, a roof or an outbuilding right from the level list

Each row in the list under the floor field now has ⋯, and the same choices under the right mouse button: delete that floor, the basement, the roof or the whole outbuilding. No question first: the message has Undo, and one undo brings everything back. The only floor of a building stays, and the house itself stays; the menu says why.

Saved groups keep their angle, and the free image shows the dimension note

A group you save under My groups now keeps furniture that stands at an angle: place it in another home and every piece has the same angle, size and spacing. Groups you saved earlier still place as before. The free image (800 × 450 with the watermark) now also carries the note under the drawing that says the total is measured outside and the rooms inside, in your language.

Wall height and lowered ceiling in the room card

Ceiling and height in the room card now starts with Wall height: from the floor to the top of the walls of that room, by default the height of the level. On the top level a higher wall height lifts the walls and the flat roof of that room, a step you see in 3D, the section and the elevations; lower takes them down. Under another level the wall height is fixed, and the card says why in one line, with Heights to change the level. Lowered ceiling is a switch below it: on, you type Ceiling at, never above the wall height, and pick the shape: Flat, Sloped, Tray or Vaulted. The area table always uses the ceiling. A wrong value shows one line under the field and changes nothing; the server checks the same rules.

Heights and the flat roof name the wall height

Heights now lists a room with only its own wall height, as "wall height 3.00 m", and with a lowered ceiling as well in one line: "wall height 3.00 m · ceiling at 2.70 m". Ceilings use the words of the room card: ceiling at, sloped, tray, vaulted. The roof window of a flat roof names each step: "Sits at the wall height: 2.60 m, Studio 3.00 m".

Roof: say where the roof starts

In the Roof window, right under the pitch, Roof starts at says how high above the floor the roof begins: 0.00 m (on the floor) unless you type another value, such as 1.50 m. The (i) explains how to measure it at the eaves, and eaves height or eaves finds it in search (⌘K). Higher than the walls is not possible: one clear line, and the old value stays. A flat roof shows the wall height it sits at instead of a field. The section shows the eaves next to the gutter, and the room card shows the same value with two decimals. Existing plans measure and look exactly as before.

Heights: one clear list per floor

Review › Heights now opens with a list: each floor from top to bottom with its level and its wall height, always with two decimals. Click a number to type a new one, like 2.8 or 260 cm, and press Enter; a value out of range shows one short line next to the field. Under a sloped roof the row says Follows the roof with the eaves and the ridge, like the room card. Rooms that differ, such as a lowered ceiling or a sloped ceiling, show indented under their floor; click one to open its card. The sketch below no longer has labels on top of each other, and on a phone it sits behind Sketch.

A lowered ceiling now shows in 3D and in the section

Give a room a lower Ceiling height and 3D puts its ceiling at that height, while the walls run on up to the level, just as the area table already counted it. The 2D section draws the lowered ceiling with its own height next to the height of the level. The room card says it in one line below the field; a ceiling higher than its level under another level is allowed, but the card and Check say so.

The typing field for a wall says which length it means

When a wall starts or ends partway along another wall, the field at the mouse now says Inside length, because the size counts from the wall face. In open space or from a corner it still says Length centre to centre.

Drawing a wall between walls shows the inner size

When you draw a wall from one wall to another, the live size now shows the free space between the wall faces instead of the centre line. A size you type counts from the wall face as well, so 1.50 leaves exactly 1.50 m free. A wall drawn in open space keeps its own length.

My homes: a tidier page on wide screens

The side bar no longer overlaps the page title, the buttons and fields for new folders and labels fit in full, the area shows without the abbreviation, the two ways to start a new home sit in one tile, and the explanations in the right panel sit behind a small (i) next to each heading.

A cleaner section: lines only under a sloping roof, no roof under a floor, opens in 3D

The 1.50 m and 2.00 m lines now appear only under a sloping roof and stop at every wall, never under a flat ceiling. A roof that lies partly under a higher floor is drawn only where nothing is above it, so the walls and height dimensions of each floor run from floor to ceiling. Levels are written like on the elevations and sit to the right of the house, clear of the walls. The section screen now opens in 3D; switch to 2D for paper and export.

Elevations of a detached garden shed

Choose a detached outbuilding, such as a garden shed, and open Elevations: you now see its own four elevations, with its own width, ridge and datum, in the same style as the house. Switch back to the house and you see the house again. The PNG and PDF export follow the building you chose.

A shorter right-click menu on a room, and the dimension note in PNG and SVG

The right-click menu on a room now holds Rename and Kind; you choose the floor and the ceiling shape in the room card. Choosing a kind from the menu keeps a name you typed yourself, just like the card. The note under the drawing that says the total is measured outside and the rooms inside now also appears in PNG, JPG, WebP and SVG exports, not only in the PDF.

Add a basement from the level list, at the stair, and move it

Click + Basement at the bottom of the level list. With a stair down already drawn, the basement comes around the foot of that stair and the stair runs into it; otherwise it lies under the whole house. In the basement you see the level above as a light shadow. Move basement in the room card moves it with the mouse or the arrow keys, one undo brings it back. It stays under the building, Check tells you when the stair no longer ends in the basement, and the section shows it where you put it.

Floor sits on and the Build-up view are gone

The choice "Floor sits on" in the room card and the Build-up view under More in Heights are gone. They only served the energy input, which left the editor earlier. Areas, the drawing and the measurement report stay the same, and plans that have this choice open as before.

One choice fewer in My defaults

The choice "Exterior wall stays in place" is gone from My defaults. It only served the energy input, which left the editor earlier. When you make a wall thicker, the standard side stays in place: the outside face in feet, the inside face in metric. Plans and settings you already have open as before.

Find the 1.50 m line from any floor, and room names that stay put

Search (⌘K) for the 1.50 m line now opens the floor with the sloping roof or ceiling, even when you are on the ground floor. Switching floors while the plan was still being worked out could give a room on the other floor the name and sloping ceiling of its neighbour; that no longer happens.

A bigger floor overview, a tidy floor list and the roof at the top

The colour overview of the floor now sits right under the area figure, across the full width of the Plan panel and larger, with the floor name in the corner and Variants as a small button inside it. The floors no longer stand loose next to the Plan panel: the floor field at the top stays closed until you click it, and picking a floor closes it again. In 3D and when the panel is closed, the picker on the drawing is one button too. On a screen narrower than 1440 px the left panel folds away when you pick something on the drawing, so the card on the right has room; the rail stays, and Esc or a click on the rail brings the panel back. A Roof row now sits at the top of every floor list: it shows the roof shape and pitch, or Not yet, and takes you to the floor that carries the roof with the roof window open. A room under another floor says which floor its roof is under, with a link to go there.

Clearer words in the room card and the right-click menu

The right-click menu on a room now uses the same words as the card: Kind and Ceiling shape. A pantry is listed as a Provisiekast in Dutch, and garage and bike storage sit under the utility group instead of Outside. The note under Floor sits on now says what it is for, the energy calculation, and the info next to Height lines explains the 1.50 m line again.

No roof under a floor in plan, section or elevations, and a clear Back button on a phone

A roof that lies completely under a higher floor (an older plan) is no longer drawn in the floor plan, the section or the elevations, just as 3D and the measurement already left it out. On a phone, the floor button no longer covers Back to the plan in the elevations, and the More menu of the plan keeps the item you move to with the arrow keys.

Elevations: one size per side and calm levels

Each elevation now shows one size: the outside width of the house, the same number as the total on the plan. The half chain along doors and windows and the height chain on the left are gone. Levels read like the other sizes: no pill, a small triangle and the text above the line, always two decimals (+5.90 m), in normal capitals, with the datum line once. A detached shed or summerhouse no longer appears in the elevation of the house; an attached garage still does.

The roof shows the same everywhere

The card of a room and of an outbuilding now shows its roof, with shape and pitch and a button to edit it, or No roof with Add roof. Under a pitched roof the ceiling says Follows the roof, with the eaves and ridge height, instead of a flat ceiling height that did nothing. A level with another level above it no longer offers a roof, the 3D view leaves out a flat ceiling under a pitched roof, and Check reports a roof from an older plan that lies under a floor, with Remove. The villa example no longer has a roof inside the house. "Counts" and "Does not count" in the room card name the main number behind (i).

Section A-A: choose 2D or 3D on the same screen

The section screen now has a clear 2D | 3D switch at the front of the bar. Choosing 3D shows the same section A-A as a cut 3D model, right on this screen; turning the line 90° or putting it through the middle updates the 3D cut too. The title is now the heading of the screen, so it no longer covers the first buttons, and the note next to a locked SVG button is one short line with the explanation behind (i).

Calmer dimension lines around the plan

The chain now sits 1.20 m from the walls and the total 0.60 m further out, never closer than a few text heights on screen. Lines are thin and light grey with a smaller arrow, and the numbers sit in the line with a light halo instead of a white pill. The total is the only bold number, without the word outside: the PDF says in one line at the bottom that the total is measured outside and the rooms inside. Dimensions no longer run across a pond, path, tree, hedge or garden house, only the house gets them automatically, and a phone starts with the totals. Technical style uses the slash of a construction drawing instead of the arrow.

Floors stacked like the building, the same in 2D and 3D

The floor picker now lists the floors under each other on the left of the drawing, top floor at the top and basement at the bottom, with full names and bigger buttons. In 3D you can now do what you can do in 2D: pick a floor, switch to an outbuilding such as the garage, and add a floor. The list in the panel uses the same order. On a phone, one button with the current floor opens the list. The share link, the embed and Review use the same picker.

A calmer Survey: rent points and energy label input are gone

Survey no longer shows rent points (WWS), the energy label input with Ag per level, the loss areas or the survey for energy advisers, and the room card no longer has the meter and fixed stair ticks for rent points. Plans that already hold that data open as before and keep it. The area, the measurement sheet and the measurement report stay as they are. The WWS calculator on our website stays too.

Turning in 3D stays calm, and the X-ray house puts every roof in one layer

When you turn the lifted plan, the house now keeps the same size at every angle, a step with the turn buttons glides instead of jumping, and dark leaves no longer flicker with white specks. The dashed roof outline only shows on the cut floor itself, and the title has its own background so it stays readable. In the X-ray house pulled apart, each roof belongs to exactly one layer, outbuildings rise with the floor they stand on, installations stay with their floor, and labels no longer overlap.

Four places instead of six: Survey and Remodel are part of Plan

The Workspace menu now always shows Plan, Model, Sheets and Present, in the order of Alt 1 to Alt 4. Review in the rail holds Check (one list of points to check), Measurement sheet and Heights; Section and Elevations are under the three dots next to the views. Interior opens from Objects, and Systems and remodel mode are under More in the Plan panel. Remodel mode shows Existing and After next to the area, with what the remodel adds, and Existing, New and Demolish now also work for a whole room. Old links to Survey or Remodel land in the right place in Plan, with one message, and switching to another place says in one line where you are.

Click the garage, the grass or the paving to choose it; dragging no longer moves it by accident

A garage, veranda or shed, grass, paving, a driveway, gravel, a pond and a terrace now work like a room: a click chooses it and opens its card on the right, on the plan and in the overview in the Plan panel. Dragging on it moves the view instead of the surface, so the garden no longer slides away. Move one on purpose with the arrow keys, a corner point or Move in the card of a building. Chairs, tables, trees and plants on top still drag as before. Furniture can now also stand outside the rooms, in the garden or under a pergola, and the overview in the Plan panel is bigger.

A calmer wall card: paint, wallpaper and wall art are gone

Each side of a wall had tabs for paint with litres, wallpaper with rolls and wall art. They were only stored and never drawn, so they are gone. You choose the colour or finish of a side with Change, and Tiles in bands still works below each side, in 2D and 3D. Plans that used them open exactly as before.

Colour and material only where a piece has that part

A sofa or bed shows Base and Upholstery, a table or chair a Base and a cupboard a Cabinet, each with a plain Colour row. A tree, lamp, toilet or other piece without parts no longer shows Colour and material at all, and the plan and 3D follow the same rule. Older plans with colours on such a piece open without errors; the colours stay in the file but are not drawn.

A shorter furniture card

The card of a piece of furniture no longer has Price and link, Back to the wall or Swap for something similar, and the right-click menu no longer has the last two. To put another piece in its place, choose it in the library. The Furniture list shows name, kind, size and count per room and for the whole home, and so does its CSV. Prices in older plans stay in the file.

A calmer room card, and one Furniture list

The card of a room no longer has the Furniture group with Does it fit?, Products and Room template, and the right-click menu of a room no longer has Does it fit?. The list of furniture per room and for the whole home, with size, count and CSV, is now called Furniture list and has one place: at the top of the Furniture library. Room templates still open as a new plan from the start screen or a link. Plans with furniture you placed before look exactly the same.

Clearer message when the BAG comparison has no connection

Without a connection to Squaremetry, the BAG comparison now says so ("No connection to Squaremetry, so the BAG cannot be looked up") with a Try again button, instead of claiming the BAG itself is down.

Window heights: Bottom and Top

The two window height fields are now called Bottom and Top in every language (Top was Head), and the message for a wrong height uses the same words.

Wall card: no more "Stays in place"

The wall card no longer asks which face stays in place. When you change the thickness, the wall keeps its sensible side: in metric the inside stays so rooms keep their size, in feet and inches the outside stays.

One way to choose a floor

The Floor group in a room card is now one row: a swatch, the name of the floor and Change. Change opens the library on the left, with your own photo as its last group. The floor finish swatches, Material and amount, the tile plan, color suggestions and the mood for the whole house are gone, so a choice for one room never changes another room. Older plans keep their floor and look the same.

Quantities and costs removed

The Quantities and costs window is gone, with its entries in Finishes, File, Interior, the search and Help, the page in the PDF report, the quote and the floor build-up. The contractor pack now holds the drawing set, DXF and a view link. The furniture list with sizes and its CSV stays under Furniture.

Furniture turned to any angle now looks turned

Turn a piece of furniture to 50° and the picture on the plan turns with it, not just the dashed outline. That works for every angle, with the Rotation field, with ⌘ or Ctrl and an arrow key, and with Q, in the editor, in PNG, SVG and PDF exports and in your view link. The selection outline stays exactly around the piece after every turn, also while you drag it. The short note next to Rotation is gone.

A calmer card for doors and windows: one color, one threshold button

The Frame, Glass, Lintel and Sill spots are gone from the card of a window and from the library: they never changed the plan, the 3D view or an export. A door now has one + Threshold button under More: it puts a threshold on at once, and Remove takes it off. The six colors under Model are the one color choice for a door or window, with On all windows or On all doors to use it everywhere in one step. Sill height is now called Bottom, next to Head. Older plans open and look exactly the same.

Keyboard shortcuts, sorted by when a key works

The Keyboard shortcuts window is laid out again: by situation (Tools, Always, Drawing, Selection, View, Open, Workspace), with a search box and a list per workspace (Plan, Model, Sheets). Every key is its own keycap, explanations sit behind the (i), and it fits on a 1280 × 800 screen without scrolling. On an iPad the finger gestures come first. The list tool is now called Room list everywhere.

Calmer 3D: the Realistic switch is gone

3D now always shows the clear model in our drawing style. The Realistic switch, its options (sun, furnishing empty rooms) and photo quality when you stand still are gone from 3D and from the view link. A plan saved with Realistic on opens as normal 3D, without errors. Video, the flyer, walking through and AR work as before.

A download that fails always says so

If a download in Export does not work, for example when our server cannot be reached, a message shows right above the download button with Try again. It never sits far below the options or behind another message. Without Pro or an unlocked home, Image for the listing (and JPG or WebP) now downloads the free PNG with the mark; the line under the button says so, with Without the mark: sign in. A button that is off always has the reason next to it.

Search the library by the start of a word

Searching for bed now shows Bed first and bunk beds right after it; roofing and floors that only contain the letters come last. The same for sofa, table and the other furniture, in every language.

Drag furniture onto the drawing

Every piece of furniture in the library, and every size in its list, can be dragged straight onto a room. Place in plan stays visible at the bottom of the list, also with many sizes.

Plan › More stays on screen; 3D on a phone without drawing tools

The More menu of the Plan panel is no longer cut off at the edge of the panel. On a phone, 3D shows no drawing tools in the bar, and Back is no longer under the editor picker and the saved label.

Calmer 3D and one place for the library

In 3D the buttons sit in one row at the bottom: Back, the five views, Reset view and Options. Show what is above is now in Options, and the Dimensions button is gone in 3D, where it did nothing. The 3D title says only which floor and at what height it is cut, in plain letters. Objects in the rail now opens the library on the right, the same place as the Furniture tool, so the panel on the left no longer jumps away. Measure is no longer in the rail: it is the Measure tool in the toolbar.

Back to Plan, and calmer cards

Back in Present and Sheets is now called Back to Plan and always takes you to Plan, also when you came from Survey; Esc does the same. In the room card each group has one explanation (i) and no loose question marks; the card keeps its own help at the top. Save as favourite for a selection of furniture is no longer a yellow main button: yellow is for Export.

One word for each thing

The Dutch editor now uses one word per idea: Weghalen to remove, Verdieping for a level, Ruimte for a room, Binnenmuur and Buitenmuur on the drawing and in the measurement sheet, Kettingmaten for chains of dimensions, Draaien for rotation, and 2D for the plan view. A selection says “177 gekozen” with its parts. What counts no longer shows a raw code where a room does not count. The 3D title says the level and the cut height in plain words. Centimetres in fields have no thousands separator. The furniture card has no More inside More: that group is now called Colour, material and price, and AR sits in it.

Wall thickness with a build-up

The thickness buttons of a wall with a build-up now work too. The difference goes into one layer: insulation, then the cavity, then rigid insulation, never the load-bearing layer or the finish. A notice says what changed, with Undo. If that layer would get thinner than 1 cm or thicker than 30 cm, nothing changes and the card says why, with Edit build-up. Under the buttons one line shows the layers, with Edit.

Every pointer is a button

A sentence that sends you elsewhere now has the button that takes you there. Finishes, Roof without a roof: Add roof opens the roof of the top level. Share without an account: Sign in, after which the home goes into your account and Share opens again. The Build-up colours in Survey: Go to Remodel. A stair without a level above: Add a level above, and then the opening. A section that is not in this workspace: Go to Plan in the notice.

The dimension card shows only this dimension

When you select a dimension, the card shows its length and Put back if you moved it, which lays it back onto the wall or room it measures. The style no longer sits in this card, because it applies to all dimensions: one line says so, with a button that opens Dimensions at Style. Duplicate and Paste are gone from this card; Delete stays.

OBJ export with your door and window models, and buttons that stay on screen

The OBJ export and the X-ray view now include the door and window models you chose, so you get what you see in 3D. On a phone, the top bar no longer covers the read-only and save bars, and with text at 200% on a small screen the buttons in a card wrap to a new line instead of falling off the screen.

Choose the model of a door or window

The card of a door or window has a Model row: a small picture, the name, Change and six colors. Change opens the models that fit its type on the left, such as panel doors, glass doors and front doors, and a model that does not fit the size is gray. Your choice shows in 3D and on the facade at once, and Undo takes it off; on the plan it stays the symbol. Before you place, the card of the Door or Window tool has the same row, so every door of that type you place next gets that model, and it stays your default. A door or window in the library now sets the tool, the type and the model. The door leaf is no longer a separate part in the card: it comes with the model.

Text: type right away

After you place a text, its field always has the focus with Text selected, so what you type replaces it and letters never switch tools. Enter is done; Esc on a text you did not change takes it away again. Under More drawing tools in the Draw section you now see exactly the list from More in the toolbar, and the letters in the toolbar are at least 12 px.

The card of your tool on the right

Choose Room, Wall, Door, Window or Stair and its card opens on the right, where the card of a chosen wall or door also stands. Door and Window show the type as rows, with the width for each type; Wall and Room show thickness and height; Stair shows the shape (Straight, L-shaped, U-shaped or Spiral), the width and Up or Down, and on the top floor it goes down by itself. What you set there is what you place next, and the type, the stair shape and the width stay your default, also after reloading. The small list above the toolbar and the card at the top of Draw are gone. On a phone, Door, Window and Stair open a sheet at the bottom that closes after a choice.

Every tool with its name in the toolbar

The toolbar now shows the name of every tool next to its icon, not only of the tool you chose. On a screen of 1440 px or wider the key stands small and grey next to the name, and the tip always says it, such as Door · D · click a wall to place it. More, at the end, starts with Box select, then Building parts with Stair at the top, then Draw; its tip says what is in it. In Customize bar you can still choose the name only at the chosen tool, or Compact: icons and keys.

Esc one step at a time, and a tool lets go of what you chose

Esc does one thing at a time. What you were drawing goes first, such as half a wall, a measurement or the preview of a door on a wall; the next Esc takes you back to Select, and with Select Esc lets go of what you chose. Esc never switches editor. Choosing a tool, with its button, its key, the rail, More, search or the library, now lets go of what you had chosen, so the card of a wall no longer stays open while you place a door. Select and Box select keep your choice, and F still flips a chosen door or window.

Sheets: the right level, and a level choice on every sheet

A new floor plan sheet now shows the level you had open in Floor plan, or else the ground floor; a basement no longer slips in first. The sheet card has a Level choice: one click per level, from the bottom up, and the sheet name and title block follow (a name of your own stays). The drawing set makes one sheet per level from basement to attic, each with the level in its title, also when the levels sit in another order in your plan. Is the level of a sheet deleted, the sheet says so and one click puts it right. The PDF shows exactly what the screen shows. Opening a plan or adding a basement keeps you on the ground floor.

Doors and windows in 3D from our own library

Every door and window in 3D is now a model from our own library of 44 doors and 21 windows, built to the exact size of the opening: frame, leaf or sash, glass with glazing beads, handles and hinges, and under a window the sill outside and the window board inside. Panel doors, glass doors, 1930s doors with leaded glass, pivot doors, sliding patio doors, bifold doors, garage doors, tilt and turn windows, sash windows, French casements and roof windows, in six colours and woods. Interior doors stand open in 3D, just as on the plan. Existing plans keep the door or window they had.

Survey for energy advisers cheaper with Pro or Team

With a running Pro or Team subscription one survey for energy advisers now costs $10 instead of $12.50. The survey panel shows your price before you buy; the server checks your subscription when you pay. When the subscription has ended, the survey costs $12.50 again.

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Survey for energy advisers

For a plan by the Dutch measuring instruction, More for professionals now holds a survey: per surface the construction, per window the glass and frame, per door whether it is insulated, each with its source (measured, assumed or standard value) and a photo as proof. What is unknown blocks the package; a standard value asks for a confirmation. One survey ($12.50 per home) gives one zip from the server: the project file (.epa) with a construction per answer, the measurement report, the FML and a check list with the ISSO 82.1 paragraph per check. Energy fields from an FML of another package are read for you to confirm. It is input, not a label: you check it. In the Dutch and English editor.

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Change a floor or a wall side from its card

Select a room and click + Floor or Change under Material and color; select a wall and do the same for a side. The library opens on the left with only floors or wall finishes, under a heading such as Floor for Living room. Your pick goes on at once, and Undo takes it off again. A colour alone is fine. Each wall side is now named after the room it faces (Kitchen side, Outside) instead of left or right, and its colour shows as a line on that side of the plan at every zoom, and in 3D.

Your last paid version stays downloadable without the mark

After Pro or Team ends, or after the 30 days of a single home, the last version you exported without the mark stays downloadable without it, in PNG, PDF, SVG, DXF and IFC, for as long as your account exists. As long as you do not change the plan, every export of it stays clean. After a change, Export and My homes show Download the last paid version (as of the date) next to the normal export, and say that the new version needs a right again. A purchase you withdrew with money back no longer counts as paid.

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The measurement report is easy to find

Export now has a row Measurement report (PDF) at the top, Plan › Area has Make the measurement report, and ⌘K finds it with measurement report, measurement sheet or NEN 2580. All three open the same report button. Under the row it says beforehand what you get: the indicative report free with “Made with Squaremetry”, the professional report with a home with measurement report.

Export shows exactly what the free download is

Without Pro or an unlocked home, the preview in Export is the free image itself: 800 × 450 pixels with the mark, and the dimensions now always fall inside the picture. One line above the download button says the price of a clean, large file. The preset is called Image for the listing, and MLS listing only in English for the US. The contractor pack, Funda, the flyer and the listing text sit behind one row, Packages.

Place a window or door to the centimetre

Select a window or door and type From the left or From the right under Position in its card: the distance inside the room, from the corner to the frame. The other side follows, and Middle puts it in the middle of the wall. The plan now shows the distances on both sides, inside and outside, while it is selected and while you drag. A click on a window, door, text or line only selects it and never moves it; it slides once you drag. Each change is one undo.

Add or change a frame, glass or door leaf from the window card

Select a window or door: under Parts in its card, each empty spot has a small button, like + Frame, + Glass, + Lintel and + Sill, or + Door leaf and + Threshold on a door. A spot that has a part shows Change and Remove. The library opens on the left with only what fits that spot, under a heading such as Frame for Window 3′ 0″. Your pick goes on at once and one Undo takes it off. Back or Esc changes nothing. The server checks the same rule: a door leaf never goes on a window.

Split a wall, or add a corner, arc or bay, exactly where you want

In the small bar next to a selected wall, first choose Split, or Corner or bay (Corner, and under More: Arc, Square bay and Angled bay). A dashed line then follows the mouse along the wall, with the distance to both ends. It catches the middle, the ends, the thirds and the line of corners, doors and windows nearby. Type a distance from the underlined side, Tab switches sides and then width and depth, Enter or a click places it and Esc stops. A spot on an end, past the end or on a door gets one sentence why, and nothing changes. On a touch screen you drag along the wall and tap Place. One undo takes it away. The two arrows next to the length are now two anchors: press both and the wall grows or shrinks on both sides.

Limits shown before you click

A view link with downloads now needs the right to export in your team; without it, the download option is off and says why. The editor also tells you up front when a plan has 40 levels, when all API keys are in use, when all team seats are taken (open invitations count too), and when your organisation sets the house style centrally.

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3D models, energy files, quotes, presentations, flyers and reports also come from our server

GLB, USDZ and OBJ (also for AR behind a view link), the loss-area sheet, table and project file, the quote, the presentation list, the flyer, the ANSI footprint sheet, the indicative measurement report and the CSV are now written by our server, with the same rules as every export: your right, the mark, a limit and the saved version. Before you click, the button says what you get, for example “With Made with Squaremetry at the bottom”. Without an account you can still make the quote, the presentation, the ANSI sheet and the indicative report, always with that mark; your plan is only read for the file and not kept. The free image now follows the drawing style you chose. The download of all your data has a PDF of each home again, made by our server. Without a connection you get a sentence and no file.

Every export file now comes from our server

PNG, JPG and WebP up to 8K, SVG, DXF, the PDF report, the drawing set, sheets and IFC: Squaremetry sends your drawing as you see it, and our server writes the file with the same drawing, styles, textures and house style, after checking that it belongs to the saved home. Without an account you get the free image of 800 × 450 pixels; your plan is only read for that image and not kept. Without a connection Export says so and makes no file. Images, 360° views and videos from 3D are still made in your browser. The download of all your data no longer contains a PDF; the .sqm file and the CSV hold all your data.

The free image of a home in your account comes from our server

For a home in your account, our server now makes the free image of 800 × 450 pixels with the watermark, from the plan as it is saved; Export saves your latest change first. Without a connection Export says so and makes no file. Without an account the free image is still made in your browser.

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3D on a phone: the buttons at the top work again

On a phone, the bar at the top (the editor, Feedback and Saved) lay over Back to the plan and the camera views in 3D, so a tap opened the editor menu instead. The 3D buttons now sit below that bar, also when it is taller with large text.

3D shows your house again after you drag a corner

When two walls of a different thickness were almost in line after you dragged a corner, a wall in 3D could run on for hundreds of metres and your house shrank to a dot in the middle. 3D now ends those walls where they end on the plan.

Calmer dimensions on the plan

A new plan shows the outside dimensions on the left and at the bottom, so each total stands once; a plan with all four sides keeps them. The total says outside, because it runs to the outside of the walls; the chain and the inside sizes run from the inside of one wall to the next. In the Illustrated style, walls and steps in the facade shorter than 1 m (3 ft) are open parts of the chain without a number; Technical still shows them. A slanted wall has its size in the same row as the chain. Two numbers never overlap and are never cut off: what does not fit waits until you zoom in, and the total always stays. With Also inside, a room only gets its inside size when the chain does not already show it. Every size on the plan has two decimals in the notation of your language (6,80 m in Dutch, 6.80 m in English), also right after you switch, drag a wall or undo, and in every export.

No more long thin wall after dragging a corner

Two walls of a different thickness that are almost in line after you drag a corner or a wall now meet with a clean step, and a very sharp point stops at the end of its wall. Before, the side of a wall could run on for metres past the plan, like a long thin wall that was not there.

A corner dropped on a junction stays where you put it

Drag a corner exactly onto the point where another wall meets it in a T, and the corner now stays there and that wall joins it. Before, the corner moved on with the junction, sometimes metres past the pointer.

One list for the kind of a room, and the kind becomes its name

A room has one Kind list. At the top you filter by set (House, Apartment, Office, Shop, My set); below, the kinds stand in groups Living, Utility and storage, Outside and Other, and every kind stays in the list. Picking a kind fills the name when it is empty or still the previous kind, so Kitchen shows on the plan and in the export; a name you typed yourself stays. A name is never doubled, like KitchenKitchen. Add your own kinds in Settings, My defaults.

The typing field says what it expects

While you draw, the field at the mouse says Inside size w × d for a room and Length centre to centre for a wall, and the tip at the top says the same. So you know which size you type.

A room opens in the card, like a wall or a door

Click a room and its card opens on the other side of the panel with the lists, with the same head, row of icons and groups as a wall, door or item. The panel on the left keeps the rooms and the area. The tip says on which side the card stands, also when you moved the panel. Another floor takes the panel back to the overview, and Esc goes back one step. The check is calmer: red only from two rooms, and Ready to export only when every room has a name and a door is in an outside wall. Ask the norm says it is a question with AI help and an account, and the standard in What counts has its own row.

What counts shows the part that does not count

A room under a sloped roof now says Counts in part in What counts, and each reason shows its own m², so "lower than 1.5 m: does not count" always comes with the area. The legend under the plan adds what does not count at all (lower than 1.5 m, a stairwell that is taken off) to Not counted, instead of 0 m².

A separate shed counts as external storage

A room of type Storage, Bike storage or Garage that stands apart from the home on the plan now counts as external storage under the Dutch measuring standard, with the reason. Checks says so, with a button It belongs to the home. A room with the name Balcony, Terrace or Loggia inside the walls gets a check with Make it outdoor space or It is indoor space. A room apart from the home that is not storage gets a check with It is outside the home.

Stairwell measured inside the walls, one number

A stairwell, void or lift shaft drawn up to the centre of a wall is now cut to the room: 2.00 × 2.00 m between the walls is 4.00 m², not 4.41. The card of the opening shows the same m² as what is taken off.

A bay window belongs to its room

A new bay window is now part of the room behind it: one room, its name and type, and the bay m² count with it. Tick Own room for a room boundary on the old wall line, as before.

Start screen: Continue always in view, cards stay put

On an iPad (upright and sideways) and on a phone the buttons Skip and Continue stay at the bottom of the start screen while the middle scrolls. The cards keep their place when you pick a work profile; extra cards take the place of the ones you do not need. Tap Trace a floor plan and the file chooser opens at once. If you cancel it, the panel Trace a floor plan stays open with Choose image.

Tracing: your image stays visible

While you trace, floors are shown lighter, so the image no longer disappears under a floor once the outer wall is closed. In the panel Trace a floor plan you choose Under the drawing or Over the drawing right below the steps. Hide brings the floors back in full colour. Exports are not affected.

Put a sill, lintel or frame from the library on a window

In the library, a sill, lintel, frame, glazing, door leaf or threshold now has a button. With a window or door selected: Put on the selected window, and the part shows under Parts in its card, where Remove takes it off. With nothing selected: Place a window with this sill, and the Window or Door tool starts with that part. A door part does not go on a window; one sentence says so. One Undo takes it off again.

Library: every building part has a button

A wall, floor, ceiling, roof, foundation, finish or material in the library no longer ends with a sentence about which tool to use. It has a button: Put on the selected wall (or room, window, door, roof) when it fits what you selected, with one step to undo; Set for the home for a foundation; otherwise Choose the Wall tool (or the tool it belongs to) or Open Finishes.

What counts: one short line for every standard

The block of text about the German WoFlV is gone. Every measuring standard now shows the same short line with its name, the version of the rule set and its status, such as WoFlV 0.2.0 · proposal. The rules in our own words are behind the (i) next to it.

Only buttons that work

The row of icons at the top of the panel now only shows what works for what you selected. A dimension no longer shows Rotate and Mirror in grey, a fixed window no longer shows Rotate, Copy or Lock. Grey stays only for a plan you can only view.

Tips stay on the screen

The tip of an icon at the top of the panel (such as Duplicate) was cut off at the edge of the panel, and the tip of a tool at the end of the toolbar could fall off the screen. Tips and the Mirror menu now stay fully visible, on a phone and on a large screen.

Small panel fixes

Sill and Head of a window now say Not set in the same way. A piece with one size says so once instead of under width and depth. Similar pieces show their whole name. The two fields of wall height line up. A selected symbol gets its own tip instead of the tip of a door. Under Layers each description shows in full.

Check turns grey when there is nothing to check

In the rail on the left, Check under Review now turns grey when your plan has no points to look at, so you see at a glance that everything counts. With points it stays dark with the number on it. You can still click it to see the list.

Converters, shape calculators and a concrete calculator per market

Thirty-eight new pages, not yet in search engines: feet to metres, metres to feet and acres to square metres, the area of a rectangle, a rhombus and a trapezium, and a concrete calculator for slabs and post holes, in metres. French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German get the converters and shapes their countries search for, such as inches to cm, area of a triangle, hectares to square metres and the height of an outlet. Every calculator opens the shape in the editor.

German, Spanish and no-standard plans save to your account

A plan that measures with the German WoFlV, with the Spanish superficie útil and construida, or without a national standard can now be added to your account, opened again on another device and exported. Before, saving such a plan to your account failed and it stayed in your browser. This also works through the assistant (MCP).

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Gross internal area calculator for UK homes

A UK calculator for the gross internal area (GIA), room by room and floor by floor, in sq ft and sq m. It shows the net sales area next to it, puts the garage, the conservatory and space under 1.5 m headroom on their own lines, estimates the EPC floor area, and writes the text for under a floor plan. The rule set is a proposal, awaiting review by a UK surveyor.

UK pages for estate agents, EPC assessors, photographers and surveyors

Eight British English pages under /uk/: a floor plan creator, gross internal area, EPC floor area, sq ft to sq m with room sizes and price per area, and pages for estate agents, EPC assessors, property photographers and surveyors. Prices in pounds, including VAT.

Squaremetry in Portuguese, with a square metre calculator per room

The site now has Portuguese pages under /pt/, written for Brazil: a home page for drawing a house plan, a page that explains what a floor plan is and how to draw one online, with the symbols next to an apartment drawn by the editor, a square metre calculator per room (also L-shaped) with worked examples for a 3 × 3 m room, a 20 × 10 m lot and a wall, a page for estate agents, prices (in dollars, in euros for Portugal), the example, the floor plan on your own website, checking a report and cancelling without signing in. Areas are the floor inside the walls, without a national measuring standard.

The editor in Portuguese, and 23 Portuguese guides with a calculator

Choose Português in the editor: every panel, the measuring explanation and the report text are in Brazilian Portuguese, and areas are the floor inside the walls per room, without a national measuring standard. Payment, the consent text and the mails about your purchase are in Portuguese too; in Brazil you get everything back if you withdraw within 7 days. New Portuguese pages, each with its own calculator and a button that opens the editor: converting feet, inches, hectares and alqueires, the area of a square, rectangle, circle, triangle and trapezoid, how many m² a football pitch has, flooring with waste and boxes, área útil, privativa and construída, an apartment plan, the furnished floor plan, plan scales, and room sizes for the bathroom, bedroom and kitchen.

Squaremetry in Italian, with the superficie commerciale

The editor speaks Italian, and a plan in Italian measures the superficie commerciale: walls included, cellars and lofts at 50 or 25 percent, balconies and terraces at 30 percent up to 25 m², the garden at 10 percent, and nothing under 1.50 m, with the net floor area (superficie calpestabile) next to it. The site has Italian pages under /it/: a home page for a house plan, a page for drawing a floor plan online, a square metre calculator, guides to the superficie commerciale and calpestabile with a calculator room by room, the minimum room sizes with a check, areas of shapes, unit converters, a page for estate agents, prices in euros including VAT, cancelling without signing in, and the legal pages. Paying works in Italian, with the confirmation and withdrawal emails. The Italian rules are our own reading of DPR 138/1998 and are still being reviewed.

Squaremetry in French, with a Carrez and living area calculator

The site now has French pages under /fr/: a home page for drawing a house plan, a step by step page for making a floor plan online, a square metre calculator per room, a guide to the loi Carrez and one to the surface habitable (loi Boutin), each with a calculator room by room that leaves out parts lower than 1.80 m and warns about a lot under 8 m², pages for diagnostiqueurs and estate agents, prices in euros including VAT, the example and cancelling without signing in, in three clicks. The French rules are our own reading and are still being reviewed.

Alberta RMS as a measuring standard

Choose RMS · Alberta under Measure › Check, then the property form: detached, semi-detached or row house measure along the outside of the exterior walls, an apartment inside its perimeter walls. Only levels entirely above grade count; the garage, the basement and unfinished space are shown apart, each with the reason. It is our reading of the Residential Measurement Standard, a proposal under review.

Calculators for Canada and Australia

An RMS area calculator for Alberta that checks a listed size against the 2 % margin, a square footage calculator for Canada with sq ft and m² and the basement apart, and a squares to m² converter for Australia. Each opens the editor with the same rooms.

Pages for realtors in Canada and agents in Australia

Floor plans for listings in Canada, with the RMS area in Alberta and prices in Canadian dollars, and in Australia, in m² and squares with prices in Australian dollars including GST.

Drawing together keeps every change

When two people draw together, a change made just after the second person joined is no longer undone by the other screen. Turning off a view link right after making it now says that the link is off, not that the preview could not be saved.

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Toolbar and explanations on a medium screen

On a screen between 768 and 1023 px wide the toolbar no longer runs under the buttons at the bottom right. In Export, the explanation of the escape plan, the isometric view and the QR code sits below the choice, so a screen reader reads each choice once. The checkbox for sharing traced plans says again why it is off.

FML: rooms start at the same corner

An FML export now starts every room at its top corner, so the same plan always gives the same file.

German pages with calculators, and twelve guides in German

Under /de/ there are now German calculators for shapes, unit conversions, scale, paint, wallpaper, tiles, laminate and drywall, the room sizes with plans drawn to scale, balcony and basement by the Wohnflächenverordnung, a glossary, a room planner, 3D and tracing pages, pages for agents, appraisers, landlords and architects, and a help center at /de/hilfe/ with the twelve most used guides in German, each with screenshots of the German editor. Every number comes from the same engine as the editor.

Example plans: a fixed stair to the attic

The mid-terrace house and both Dutch notary-style houses among the example plans now have a fixed stair from the first floor to the attic, drawn right above the main stair, with its stairwell in the attic floor. Like a real home, the rent points (WWS) no longer take 5 points off for the attic. In the notary-style houses the landing is 40 cm deeper for the foot of the stair and the bathroom 40 cm shorter.

Fixed stair to the attic: read from the drawing

Whether an attic has a fixed stair now follows your drawing: a stair that arrives on the floor of the attic counts, for the rent points (WWS) and the measuring instruction alike. The tick in the room panel shows it ("Yes, seen in the drawing" or "No, no stair to this floor in the drawing"). Is the drawn stair a folding ladder, untick it; Follow the drawing undoes your choice. Plans where you already chose keep that choice.

Rent points (WWS): attic, carport and meter as the Huurcommissie counts them

Rule set 0.1.3 for the area parts of the Dutch rent points: an attic without a fixed stair is another space with 5 points off (never more than the attic itself gives), a carport or parking space in your own garden counts as private outdoor space, and a gas or electricity meter in a room takes 0.18 m² off. In the room panel, under Settings, you mark a meter in the room and a fixed stair to the attic, each with an (i). The floor area under the measuring instruction does not change.

Room layouts, offices and restaurants, ready to open

New pages for a room layout maker, a blueprint maker, office floor plans and restaurant floor plans. Each shows layouts drawn by the editor, with the area of every room, the seats or workstations they hold and the free space each piece of furniture needs; one click opens the layout in the editor, furniture and all. The drawings on the remodel pages show their fixtures again.

FML file: furniture, stairs, attic and garden

The FML file now carries kitchen, bathroom and laundry fittings that have a standard model in the FML format, such as the counter, fridge, toilet, basin, bath, washing machine and boiler. Beds, sofas, tables and plants have no such model and stay out. Stairs are drawn with their treads, also in the stairwell above. In an attic the part lower than 1.50 m is marked and the room shows our usable area instead of the full floor. The garden, terrace, drive, hedge and fence come along as coloured areas, rooms get a floor colour by type, and outbuildings sit on the ground floor. Opening such a file in the editor brings the furniture and garden areas back.

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Doors and windows in the FML file

Every door, window and opening in the FML file now names a standard model in the FML format, so they no longer disappear on import. Double, sliding and pocket doors, the garage door and the front door each get their own model. A very small room, such as a meter cupboard, shows only its name.

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Bedroom, studio and living room layouts you can open

Ten new rooms drawn to scale with their furniture: four bedrooms, three studios and three living rooms, each with the free space around the bed or the sofa measured in the drawing. Open any of them in the editor with one click and change it to fit your room.

Plywood and baseboard calculators

Two new calculators: plywood sheets for a floor, wall or roof (4 × 8 ft is the standard panel), and baseboard in linear feet minus the doors, in whole pieces of 8, 12 or 16 ft. Both with a drawing of the example room and your own prices.

How big is 200 or 300 square feet, and an acre

New pages show 200 and 300 square feet as a studio drawn to scale, and one acre as a lot of four quarter-acre parcels with houses on them, next to a football field. Six overview pages bring the shapes, converters, materials, square footage rules, research and professional pages together.

Dutch calculators: volume, triangle, football pitch and flooring

Four new Dutch pages with a calculator under the heading: volume in m³ and litres (box, m² times height, cylinder), the area of a triangle, how many m² a football pitch is, and flooring with planks, packs, rolls and skirting. Each opens the editor with the same room.

NEN 2580, rent points and how we calculate, in Dutch

A Dutch guide to NEN 2580 with the difference from the measuring instruction and an example from the engine; the area part of the Dutch rent points system (WWS) with a calculator per room that uses the editor's own rules; and a Dutch hub with every rule set, its version and status.

Pages for appraisers, surveyors and landlords in the Netherlands

Three Dutch pages on what Squaremetry does for appraisers (area and volume from one survey), measuring firms (the professional report with a check code) and landlords (WWS points for area and a plan for the listing).

German guides with calculators, and a page for photographers

Five new German pages: living area under a sloped roof, with a calculator that takes the knee wall and roof pitch and shows a cross-section; the Wohnflächenverordnung section by section; DIN 277 explained on a drawn floor; a floor area calculator for rectangles, L-shapes, triangles, circles and trapezoids; and an about page. Every number comes from the same calculation as the editor. In English: a guide to floor plan dimensions with a plan drawn by the editor, and a page for real estate photographers with the partner programme.

The site says what is free

The questions on price, credits and the AI assistant page now say what is free: drawing, every area, 3D, a small PNG with a watermark and your first home. The 3D page explains the Model editor: a whole house that is measured, or loose objects that never count. The guides show the editor as it is now, without the old floating map panel.

Check code on the professional report

Every page of the professional measurement report now carries a check code and a QR code. Anyone who receives the report can look it up at squaremetry.com/controle without an account: the date, the rule set, the totals, the office and whether a newer report exists. You can also compare the PDF; only its fingerprint is sent.

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Watermark on the indicative report

The free indicative report now carries a large, light diagonal watermark INDICATIEF · ZELF GEMETEN on every page, next to the red band. The numbers stay easy to read.

Withdraw until the end of the 14th day

You can now withdraw from Pro, Team or an unlocked home until the end of the 14th day after the day you paid, Netherlands time, not just 14 times 24 hours. The end of summer time no longer moves that day. Settings shows the last day, such as until the end of 3 November.

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Fast in Firefox and on a slow connection

In Firefox the example villa reacted only after many seconds per zoom step or click; it now follows at once, as in Chrome. On a slow mobile connection the parts of the editor around the drawing area now load all at once instead of one after another, so the buttons appear seconds sooner.

Works on older iPhones and iPads

On iOS 16 the explanation buttons (i) no longer break Export, Share and the size sheet of the library, and tracing over a PDF works on Safari before 17.4 too.

Large text and the keyboard

With large text the wall card keeps everything inside its frame and the toolbar moves above the corner buttons. On a phone with large text the library header scrolls along, the example bar folds to one line and the first-step hint stays above the toolbar. The space bar now presses a button that has keyboard focus, Interior wall and Exterior wall follow the arrow keys, and on a phone you choose the wall type above the toolbar while drawing.

Library and example villa in German and Spanish

The German and Spanish editor now show the categories and the objects of the library in their own language, and the example villa names its floors and rooms in the language of the editor.

Receipt date in Dutch time

The payment receipt and the list of payments now both show the date in Dutch time, the clock of the seller. A payment just after midnight on the first of the month belongs to that month on both, in every time zone.

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Saving keeps going when the server is briefly away

When our server is briefly unavailable (for example during an update) while you are online, the app says Offline, keeps your changes on this device and saves them to your account as soon as the server is back, without reloading. You also stay signed in. A change you just made in one tab is saved to your account first when another tab opens a different home. Signing in with the email link in another tab now signs in this tab too.

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Tracing, passkeys and buying a home

Reloading while you set the scale of a traced plan keeps the scale tool, so two clicks set the scale instead of drawing a wall. A double click on Add a passkey or Sign in with a passkey now works. Choosing a home and a home with the measurement report at the same time in two tabs always gives one checkout for the product it says. An extra home is no longer offered when it still fits in your plan this month. Without an account, the export window says that your first home is free with an account.

Prices and numbers with a decimal comma in German and Spanish

In the German and Spanish editor, 12,50 in Quantities and costs, the quote and the known total is now 12.50, not 1250. Something like 1e3 or letters now gives a message instead of a silently wrong number. The CSV uses semicolons wherever the comma is the decimal sign. And a wall length above 1 km in the panel says the size is too large, as the wall tool does.

Local prices on every pricing page

The Spanish pricing page and the German and Spanish homepage now show visitors outside the euro area the fixed price in their own currency, as the English and Dutch pages already did. The site header no longer breaks words on a laptop in German, Spanish or Dutch, and price cards and search fields fit on a small phone at 200% zoom.

Area report in German and Spanish via the API

The area report from the public API and the assistant now comes in German and Spanish too, and the Dutch report is Dutch throughout, including the main figure and the explanation per room. A cut-off DXF or IFC file gives a clear reason instead of an empty home, and an FML file with a byte order mark is read as usual.

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Cancel with a confirmation, and undo it

Cancel Pro (or Cancel Team) now first shows when your plan stops. Changed your mind before that date? Click Undo cancellation and your plan simply continues. A full refund of a subscription payment stops Pro right away; your plans stay.

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Safer saving across tabs and offline

A plan now carries the id of its home. Taking over in an older tab with Edit here never saves one home over another, and the account refuses it as well. Opened the app without a connection while signed in? It now says Offline instead of Sign in, and your changes go to your account as soon as the connection is back. Reloading the page while entering your sign-in code brings you back to the code, and the code from the email still works.

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Guides for the new rail and Plan panel

The guides now follow the rail with Make, Review and Deliver and the Plan panel with More at the top: where This floor, Duplicate variant and Delete this variant are now, the points to check with Show, Check and Measure in the rail, and the small block with the area of the whole home. With new pictures in English and Dutch, and the German and Spanish guides updated too.

The last full exports now need an unlocked home too

The sheet with all floors from 3D, the CSV files of the energy label input, of Quantities and costs and of the product list, the sales flyer and social images, and Sheets with Only what is chosen now come with an unlocked home, Pro or Team, like PDF. Without it the button is off and says why before you click; the tables, lists and the flyer preview stay free. Sheets now also says why before you click, instead of after. Video and GIF with the small mark, and the indicative measurement report, stay free.

Free exports say up front what is included

Without an unlocked home, Pro or Team, Export now opens on the free PNG, and tells you when something you ticked (elevations, all floors, the drawing set) is not in it. The SVG of the section, the elevations, the room walls and the sun map, the contractor pack and the professional measurement report from an FML file show why they need an unlocked home before you click, with the same sentence as PDF. The listing pack is called by its name in that sentence. 8K as WebP now needs Pro or Team, like PNG and JPG. On a phone the seven formats sit in two rows, so none runs over the edge.

Box select: choose many things at once and delete them in one step

Press A, or choose Box select under More in the toolbar, and drag over the plan. Drag to the right for what lies fully inside the box; drag to the left for everything it touches, with a dashed amber frame. Walls, doors, windows, furniture, whole rooms, text, lines, dimensions, symbols, stairs, outdoor areas and shapes from Model all count. Shift adds, Alt or Option takes away; with Select, Shift and drag works too. A small menu above the selection counts what you chose, such as 4 walls, 2 doors, 6 pieces of furniture, with Delete, Duplicate, Copy and Group. Delete removes it all in one undo step, and the message has Undo. Drag one of the chosen things or use the arrow keys to move them together. Copy and paste now also take furniture and other parts along. On a phone, press and hold an empty spot and tap Box select.

Something overlaps: now it says where

When an opening in the floor lies over a wall or outside the facade, the list under the totals says which one and how much, like Void reaches 3.7 m² outside the facade or Stairwell lies 0.25 m² over a wall. The spot is hatched red on the drawing, only on screen and never in an export. Show zooms in and selects it, and Trim to the facade cuts the opening back to the inside of the facade in one undo step. A plan with slanted or curved walls no longer gets a false Something overlaps from rounding.

Every size looks like what its name says

In the library, on the plan and in 3D, each size now has its own model: a 2-seat sofa has two seats and a 4-seat sofa four, the sleeper sofa shows its folded mattress, the modular sofa its separate modules. A single bed has one pillow and a double bed two, a dining table for 8 has eight chairs, a bistro set two, the outdoor bar set a high table with stools. The bench desk for 4 has four workplaces, the corner tub and corner sink are a quarter circle, the neo-angle shower has its cut corner, the pickup an open bed and the shop shelving shelves on both sides. "Choose a size" shows the matching top view for every size, and the names say the same number in English, Dutch, German, Spanish and French.

Calmer panels, explanations behind (i)

Panels and dialogs now show a short label with a small (i) instead of paragraphs of explanation. Click or tap the (i), or press Enter, to read it; Esc or a click elsewhere closes it. In the library, an item with several sizes shows "Choose a size" in one column, with full names, a top view and width × depth × height for each size; the standard size comes first and the large picture follows your choice. Library tiles show furniture from above as it looks on the plan.

A calmer plan: hover changes nothing, a click shows the room

Moving the mouse over the plan now only changes the cursor; nothing lights up. Click a room and a teal edge follows its real shape, also a slanted or L-shaped room, and the floor texture stays visible. The floating Map at the top left is gone: the overview in colour at the top of the panel does the same. The button with your variants shows a small picture of the plan in room colours with dark walls, and so does the list of variants.

Problems in one calm list

The list under the totals shows every problem in full, without cut-off text: errors first, then warnings, then tips. The same problem is one group, like 3 rooms without a name, with Name it for each room. The explanation is behind (i), once. A room without a name is now a soft tip. A facade with a gap shows Room not closed, with Close the facade to add the missing piece of wall; an open side like a carport gets no warning.

The overview in the panel in colour, with the garden

The overview of the floor at the top of the plan panel is no longer grey. It is the same picture as the small one on the variants button and in the list of variants: each room in the colour of its type, dark walls at their real thickness, doors as a gap and windows as glass. On the ground floor the plot, lawn, terrace, paving, gravel, borders and hedges, trees, fences, a pond, the garage, the garden shed and a carport show in the colour of their material, and the house stays in the middle. Upper floors show only their own rooms and balconies. A click on a room still opens it, and while you drag the picture follows without slowing the plan down.

More in the side rail, and a calmer Plan panel

The rail next to the panel now runs the full height. Under Make you find Plan, Draw, Objects and Finishes; under Review, Check (with the number of points to check) and Measure; under Deliver, 3D and Export; Help sits at the bottom. In the Plan panel the points to check are at the top, the area of the whole home is in a small teal block with this floor next to it when there are more floors, and Duplicate variant, This floor and Delete this variant are under More. Deleting a variant now asks first, and Undo brings it back.

Default names follow your language

A plan started in English kept My house and Floor 1, also after switching the editor to Dutch, German, Spanish, French or Italian. The default names now follow the language: Mijn woning and Begane grond in Dutch, Mein Haus and Erdgeschoss in German, Mi casa and Planta baja in Spanish, Ma maison and Rez-de-chaussée in French, La mia casa and Piano terra in Italian. A floor you add is named 1e verdieping, 1. Obergeschoss, 1.ª planta or Étage 1. A name you typed yourself stays as it is. The browser tab shows the name of your home.

Pasting walls says what it does

After copying walls, the panel showed Paste 1 walls on this level. It now says Paste the copied wall on Floor 1, or Paste 3 copied walls on Floor 1, with the name of the floor you are on, and the notices after copying and pasting use the singular for one wall.

Scrolling on a wall handle goes step by step

Put the mouse on the thickness arrow of a selected wall and scroll: each click of the mouse wheel is 1 cm (½ in), with Shift 10 cm (5 in), and a normal trackpad swipe is a few centimeters instead of shooting away. The handle in the middle of the wall moves the wall in the same steps, and a focused size field such as Height does too. A run of scrolling is one undo step, and the totals update after a short pause, so it stays smooth. Anywhere else on the plan, scrolling zooms or moves the view as before.

Scrolling on a wall handle is calmer still

A free-spinning or smooth-scrolling mouse wheel now counts at most about 8 steps a second, and the coasting after you let go of the wheel no longer counts. A trackpad swipe is three times slower than before, so a normal swipe is a few centimeters, and the glide after you lift your fingers is ignored. Shift still makes each step 10 cm (5 in).

The panel of a selection fits without scrolling

Every selection, from a wall to a door, a piece of furniture or several things at once, now has the same panel: the name at the top with one row of icons (Duplicate, Rotate, Mirror, Copy, Paste when something is copied, Lock size and Delete in red), the main fields right below, and the rest in groups you open with one click. The panel remembers which groups you keep open, and the top stays in place when the panel scrolls on a small screen. Explanations sit behind an (i) next to the field.

A small toolbar at a selected wall

Select one wall and a small bar appears next to it, never over its size or label: Split here (click the spot on the wall), Add a corner, the length with two arrows to keep the left or the right end in place (or neither, so the middle stays), and Delete. Arrow keys change the length by 1 cm, with Shift by 10 cm; Esc puts it back. The bar steps aside while you drag, pan or zoom. On a phone it sits in the panel at the bottom.

Curve a wall with a handle or a number

Under Shape, Curve puts a clear handle on the middle of the wall that says Pull me, and shows the field Arc. Pull the handle or type how far the middle bulges out: a positive number bends away from the room, a negative one bends inwards, 0 makes the wall straight. The handle and the field always show the same number. Esc or another click on Curve removes the handle without bending.

Click a lock to see what is locked

The small lock next to a room name or a wall size now opens Locked: the fixed sizes there and the four layers, with that lock on top and lit up on the plan. Unlock it right there, or click Unlock all, one undo step. Layers now also shows Fixed sizes, with Show and Release all. Under Selection one switch, Fixed sizes, shows if they are on, off or only some. When something can not change because it is locked, the message has a Show lock button.

The library counts what you see, and stairs no longer vanish

With a room chosen on the plan, the filter "Fits in" hid every stair, door and window, while the list still said Stairs (19). That filter now only judges furniture. The number behind each category is what you see with your filters, with the total next to it when a filter hides something, like Stairs (0 of 19). Every active filter shows as a chip you remove with one click, and when a filter hides everything the library says so, with Clear filter as the first button. Clicking a stair in the library starts the stair tool with that shape: straight, L-shaped, U-shaped or spiral.

A house from Model measures like a house from the plan

The first block on an empty floor becomes a building with outer walls, the outside on your shape, so the usable area is smaller than the gross area as it should be. Make part of the house as… has Building as its first choice. A thin block inside the house becomes an inner wall that joins the walls it touches and divides the room. A door may now start up to 15 cm above the floor. A room drawn inside another room no longer counts twice, also in the plan.

Loose objects: your choice per shape, visible everywhere

Every shape in Model is part of the house or a loose object, like a garden shed or furniture. You see and change it in Properties; House and Free at the top now only set what new shapes become. A loose object never counts and never turns into walls by itself. Outside Model you see them too: a line under the area in the plan and in Survey, Loose on the plan, a legend on the export and an own DXF layer LOOSE-OBJECTS. Older plans that were set to Free keep their shapes loose.

Model asks first and goes back where you came from

Make free shape on a wall first tells you what goes with it, such as a door and two rooms, and what the area becomes, before anything changes. Duplicating a variant takes the shapes from Model along. Deleting a floor says how many shapes went with it. A message from Model no longer stays in other editors, Back returns to the editor you came from, and a wall you were dragging when you switched editors goes back to where it was. The part Stair is now called Stair shape, because it is not a stair that counts.

Dimensions like an architect draws them

Every side of the plan now has two rows outside the walls: the total, and closer in a chain with a part for every step in the facade, every wall and every room, so the parts add up to the total. Right and bottom get the chain too. Inside every room you see its free width and length between the walls, placed clear of the room name, furniture and doors; where nothing fits, the width × length stands under the name. Zoomed out you see only the totals. In the menu Dimensions, How much chooses Totals only, With chains or Also inside (the default). The export and the report show the same dimensions.

Every guide in French, Italian and Portuguese

All 173 guides now exist in French under /fr/aide/, in Italian under /it/guida/ and in Brazilian Portuguese under /pt/ajuda/, with the button names and messages exactly as the editor shows them in that language and the area rules of that country (loi Carrez and surface habitable, superficie calpestabile and commerciale, área útil). In the editor in those languages, every ? and the search open the guide in your own language. The pages open for search engines together with the rest of each language.

Brick only on the outside of a facade in 3D

The facade material now shows only on the outside of an exterior wall; the inside of the room stays white or gets the finish you chose. This also holds for a terraced house or apartment where party walls close the outline, for a wall between two rooms drawn as an exterior wall, after splitting a room and after mirroring the plan. Every 3D view, the elevations and the 3D export follow the same rule. A finish you set for one side of a wall now stays on that side in 3D.

Spanish converters, shape calculators, room sizes and 12 guides

The Spanish site has 40 new pages, not yet in search engines: converters for feet, inches, square feet and hectares, area calculators for triangles, circles, trapezoids and irregular lots, room sizes for bathrooms, kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms drawn to scale, guides to apartment floor plans (with the usable and built area of an example apartment, calculated by Squaremetry), architectural plans and their scale, plan symbols and a glossary, pages for real estate agencies, architects and appraisers, and a help center with 12 guides in Spanish with pictures of the Spanish editor. Every calculator opens the Spanish editor with the size you typed.

AI help: the month starts at midnight Dutch time

Your AI help questions and a pack of 100 extra questions now count per calendar month from midnight on the 1st, Dutch time, like your API keys and homes. A question asked just after midnight on the 1st counts for the new month. A question counts once the answer starts; if no answer came, it does not count.

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A click selects the part of the wall you click

When other walls join a wall partway along, a click now selects just the part between the joins where you click. Whole wall selects the full straight wall, This part only goes back to the part you clicked. The outline, the label, the length, the thickness arrows, the corner points and the panel all follow what is selected, so you can make one part thicker, change its kind or type its length, and the joins and rooms stay whole. A click right on a join, or on a wall without joins, selects the whole wall.

Furniture only goes along when it still fits

Move a room or a selection and the furniture inside goes along, as before. Move a wall and a sofa against it goes along only if it still fits in the room afterwards; otherwise it stays exactly where it was, never squeezed. Furniture in the middle of the room stays. With the Furniture layer locked, nothing moves along and one short message says how many items stayed.

AI help knows Model

The AI help now knows how Model works: House or Free, a whole house from a block, inner walls, What this is in Properties and Make free shape. It also knows the five editors with their keys, interior and exterior walls, what is free and what is paid, the check code on the report and the standards per country, and its mouse can point at the buttons of Model. Where we test without the real AI, the help window says Test mode: no real AI.

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See what is left of your AI help

The AI help window now shows how many questions are left this month, and how many complex questions: 10 a month with Pro and 50 with Team go to our strongest model, 10 more with each pack. After that our fast model answers them. The same question about the same plan again within a day is free. The window now also speaks French and Italian.

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Free stays fair

The free first home and the free AI help questions are meant for one person. On one device they go to at most 2 accounts in 30 days, and an address from a disposable email service gets neither; the account itself works as normal and the editor explains why. Signing in with your existing account is never affected.

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Guides with new pictures

Every picture in the guides now shows the app as it is today, in English and in Dutch: floors and gardens with their textures, 3D with facades and roofs, the new panels, and new pictures for My objects, the facade, the 1.50 m line, the keyboard shortcuts and cancelling Pro.

New prices for Pro and Team, and five more homes at once

Pro is now $24 a month or $179 a year, with 15 new homes a month. Team stays $69 a month or $399 a year for 5 people, now with 75 new homes a month plus 15 for each extra person. One more home is $4, and five more in one go are $15, for the month you buy them. Unused homes do not carry over to the next month. In the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand you pay a fixed price in your own currency. If you already pay for Pro or Team, you keep your price and your number of homes for as long as your subscription runs.

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Free export: a small image with a watermark

Drawing, every measurement, the area under the standard and 3D stay free. Without an unlocked home, Pro or Team, an export is now a PNG of 800 × 450 pixels with the Squaremetry logo and a light watermark in the drawing, also for 3D and section images. PDF, SVG, JPG, CSV, DXF, HD and 4K come with an unlocked home, Pro or Team, and those exports carry no mark at all. For 4K and 8K there is now WebP, which looks the same as PNG and is far smaller to upload.

Your first home is free, and money back on your first payment

Once per account and per email address, you can unlock one home for free for 30 days, without the measurement report and without a card: in Export, click Unlock this home for free. Within 14 days of your first payment you can ask for all of it back, no questions asked. And if Squaremetry applies a measuring rule wrong, report it: if it is our fault, you get that home back and we fix the rule.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Your floor plan is ready: share it in one window

When a plan looks finished (named rooms on at least one floor), the first export opens a calm window with the view link, a live preview of the plan as it looks on a website, the code for your website, a QR code and links to send it by WhatsApp or email. It comes once per plan; find it again under Share and with ⌘K, or with Ready? Share your floor plan at the top. Without an account it says that sharing needs a free account and signs you in in one step.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

The shared and embedded plan in the new look

A view link and an embedded plan now draw the same as the editor: floor textures, furniture, roofs of other buildings and the garden. Point at or tap a room to see its name and its area by the standard, with the name of the standard. Pinch, drag and the zoom buttons move the plan; on someone else’s website the mouse wheel only zooms with Ctrl, so the page keeps scrolling. There is a full screen button, the plan opens on the ground floor, and 3D still loads only when someone picks it. The code for your website now fits the width of the page (16:10, or 4:3 or square), and a link that stopped shows a calm card.

An example of a floor plan on a website

A new page shows the example villa embedded on a listing page of a home that does not exist, with the three steps to put a plan on your own site. It is linked from the pricing page and the example page.

Privacy statement: events in your account

The privacy statement now says what our server records when you have an account: signing in, a new home, the kind of an export, unlocking, paying, a subscription, an AI action and a shared link. Only the id of your account, never your email address or IP address, without cookies. It is in your download in Settings, kept 25 months, and gone at once when you delete your account.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Enterprise for chains and franchises

One organisation with a workspace per branch: people of one branch never see the homes of another. A central admin sees the use per branch per month in Settings, Office, Organisation, chooses one house style for every branch, accepts the data processing agreement and sees the log and the monthly invoice. Squaremetry switches it on after a demo.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

The API per home, with scopes and sandbox keys

Make a home from FML, IFC, DXF, .sqm or a RoomPlan scan through the API, measure it under any standard and export PNG, SVG, PDF, DXF, IFC, FML or the report. A home counts once a month, on its first clean export or report. API keys now have scopes, can be rotated (the old key works 24 more hours), and a free sandbox key puts a mark on every drawing. New webhook: home.ready.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

White label on your own domain

With white label, view links of an organisation open on its own domain (a CNAME to us), in its colours and with its logo, without our name. The measurement report then has no Squaremetry heading either.

Pages for chains and for the API

New pages for real estate chains (/enterprise/) and for the floor plan API (/floor-plan-api/), in English, Dutch, German and Spanish, with a form to plan a demo.

Help by looking along

When you ask us for help, we can look along in your plan. You get a question in the editor first and choose Allow or Decline; we see only that plan and the editor, never the rest of your screen. Our pointer shows with a name, and a click puts a pulsing dot where something is. We only change something if you allow that as well, and you can undo every step. A small chat is there too. Stop at any time; it stops by itself after 60 minutes. Nothing of your plan is stored.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Fast with large plans

Panning and zooming now move the drawing as one picture and redraw it sharp the moment you stop, so they stay smooth even with a hotel of six floors and hundreds of rooms. Dragging a wall, undo and switching floors only redo what changed, the room layout of a large floor is worked out in the background, and opening such a plan takes under two seconds. Measuring a very large plan through the API is also many times faster. Nothing looks different at a normal zoom level.

A wall through a room makes two rooms

Draw a wall from one wall to the opposite wall and the room becomes two rooms, each with its own area, in one step: the larger part keeps the name and type, the smaller part gets its own name, and undo or deleting the wall makes it one room again. A click in or just next to a wall lands on its middle line, and the new wall stays square so the sizes on both sides match; hold Shift to draw at an angle on purpose. The overview in the panel shows every wall right away, the labels sit in the middle of each room, and Area shows how the total adds up: the rooms plus what the walls add when the standard counts them.

Interior wall or exterior wall stays your choice

The Wall card has two small buttons, Interior wall and Exterior wall. The kind you pick stays until you switch, also after a reload, and the editor never switches by itself; an empty plan starts with Exterior wall. The panel of a chosen wall has the same two buttons, with the other kinds under More wall types.

A wall that does not connect says so

A wall that stops a few centimeters short of another wall now shows one warning on the plan, like Wall does not connect · 4 cm short, with a button Connect. Until it connects, Area says that a room is not closed and does not count yet. A plan that closes everywhere shows no warning. Tips no longer stack: one at a time, inside the window.

Invite someone, both get a month of Pro

Settings, Plan and billing now has your personal invitation link, and the card after a download can copy it. When someone makes an account through your link and pays for Pro, Team or a home, you both get one month of Pro, 14 days after that payment. Already on Pro or Team? Then the month comes off your next bill. You see how many people came through your link and how many months you earned, never who they are. At most 12 months a year; inviting yourself does not count.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Partners earn on every customer they bring

Photographers, energy advisors, appraisers and creators can now apply as a partner. You get a personal link and a dashboard with clicks, accounts, paying customers and your commission: 25% of the net revenue of every customer you bring, for 12 months. No cookies: the code travels in the link.

Square metres in Dutch, and a page about our floor plan software

A Dutch page to work out the square metres of a room, an L-shaped room or a whole home, with the calculator at the top and a button that opens the rooms in the editor. And a page that explains what our floor plan software does, with prices and a comparison.

Squaremetry in Spanish, with the usable and built area of Spain

The site and the editor now speak Spanish: a home page, a page for drawing floor plans online, a guide to calculating square meters and a price page in euros including VAT, with Spanish terms, privacy policy, withdrawal policy with the model form and a Spanish checkout. A new plan in Spanish measures the way buyers in Spain expect: the usable area (superficie útil) inside the walls and the built area (superficie construida) with the walls, side by side, with an optional share of common areas. The rules are our own reading and are still being reviewed. Guides stay in English for now.

Verandas you can see through, in 2D and 3D

The lounge set under a veranda with a clear roof now shows on the plan, under the half-clear polycarbonate. Under a closed roof (tiles, slate, a flat roof) you see the roof, not the furniture. In 3D the veranda roof is the same clear polycarbonate with aluminium bars as on the plan, so you see the terrace underneath; in Realistic it is glass. Windows and doors in 3D no longer show the lines of the room behind the glass. A sloping lawn or path now has its texture in 3D too, laid along the slope.

Fit to screen and a calmer view link

Fit to screen now also keeps clear of the panel on the right, such as Installations, so the drawing never lies under it. In Model, Fit all is there once (a screen reader no longer hears it twice). A view link shows 3D as calm as the editor: outside dimensions only, and Options to turn on part dimensions, levels and room dimensions.

Sloping walls measured outside

A sloping wall is now measured outside the house, parallel to the wall with short extension lines, also with dimension chains; no dimension runs diagonally across the floor. The card of a room with a sloping wall shows its area instead of a width and length it does not have. A new text that you leave without typing no longer stays on the drawing as a loose "Text". A loose line in Model without a surface is a help line: it stays in Model and no longer shows as a brown line on the plan.

Offline, AR and furniture colours fixed

Without a connection you can select a wall or room again after reloading, and floors keep their texture once you have seen them. A sofa or chair with its own frame or cover colour now shows those colours on the floor plan, just like in 3D. View in your room (AR) on an iPhone now gets the piece of furniture itself, also when it has one colour.

Small fixes on tablets and small screens

On an iPad in landscape, an empty plan now starts below the tip at the top, so your first tap draws a corner. The card with wall thickness and height no longer slides under the panel on the left. The bar that says this browser may not keep your plan no longer lies under the room map, so its download button always works. In Export, the contractor pack fits a narrow phone with large text. The units in the wall card and the line under door and window types are 12 pixels, like all other text. The start screen names the measuring rule your plan really uses; Change only switches between feet and meters.

Move the 1.50 m line yourself

Under a sloping roof or ceiling, the 1.50 m line now follows the inside finish when you say so. Choose the room and drag the handle on the dashed line, or type the distance to the wall under Settings. Back to computed puts it back, and undo works. The area that does not count, the survey sheet, the section and the report follow the line, and the report says it was moved by hand. Dutch measuring rules only.

Cancel without signing in

Every page of the website and the app now has a button "Cancel your subscription here". It opens a short form: who you are, which workspace, an ordinary or extraordinary cancellation, as soon as possible or on a date. Press "Cancel now" and you see a confirmation right away, with the date and time we received it, and you get it by email with the end date.

Unlimited, given by Squaremetry

Squaremetry can give an account Unlimited: everything of Pro and as many homes as you need, without the badge and without a counter. Settings, Plan and billing then says "Unlimited, given by Squaremetry" with the end date, or "no end date", and shows no buy buttons. A subscription you already have keeps running; nothing is charged twice for homes. Invited by email? Sign in with that address and it is on your account.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

My objects: load a scan from your phone

In the library, the tab My objects keeps every 3D model you loaded, with a picture, for every home. Load takes a GLB, OBJ or USDZ file, so you can scan a piece with a phone app that makes USDZ and load it here; Make opens Model. Your browser makes a picture from above and one at an angle when you load it.

Our own 3D library: every piece is a real model

More than 200 pieces now have their own 3D model at real Dutch sizes: sofas, armchairs, tables, cupboards, beds and wardrobes, kitchens with worktop, sink, tap and hob, bathrooms with toilet, vanity, shower and bath, and appliances. A wider wardrobe or kitchen gets more doors instead of stretched ones, and the colours you pick for frame and cover show on the model. The models load only when you open 3D.

A garden full of new pieces

Under Outdoor: deciduous trees, conifers and fruit trees in three sizes, shrubs, hedges and borders, a veranda with a glass or polycarbonate roof (also with glass sliding walls), a conservatory and an orangery, pergolas in wood or with louvres, a carport, sheds, a log cabin, an outdoor kitchen, a lounge set and garden sets, a pool, a play tower, a pond, garden lights, fences and a gate.

Your AI assistant: address, DXF, eye level, sharing and settings

An assistant can now start a plan from a Dutch address (the house from open data, with the plot and north) or from a DXF drawing, look around at eye level, give the house its facade and roof tiles, place the new outdoor, kitchen and bathroom models, and turn a shape from Model into part of the house. With a separate permission it can make or end a view link (only after you say yes and it names the plan), change My defaults and your favourite settings, and send feedback or vote on the wishlist in your name after you confirm. A repeated call is never done twice, also on a busy server.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Your AI assistant can now draw and change everything

An assistant connected to your plans can do what the editor does: walls and rooms, doors and windows, stairs, a roof, furniture, finishes, Model and Sheets. It finds the action, runs one or a short series as a new revision, looks at the result as a picture from above, in 3D, as an elevation or a section, and can take its last change back. The same rules and rights as in the editor.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Prices in the currency of your country

You now see and pay in the currency of the country you buy from, whatever language you use: pounds in the UK, euros in the euro area, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars there, and US dollars elsewhere. Each currency has its own fixed price, not a daily exchange rate. Prices in the UK, the EU, Australia and New Zealand include VAT or GST; in the US and Canada tax is added at checkout. The price page, the editor and the checkout all show the same amount.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Square metre and floor area calculators

Two new pages in metres: a square metre calculator that adds up your rooms in m² (with sq ft beside it), and a floor area calculator for a whole home, floor by floor, with what counts and what stays apart.

Squaremetry in German, now for sale

The German pages are now in search engines, with a German price page in euros including VAT, German terms, privacy policy, withdrawal policy with the model withdrawal form, and a German checkout: the box you tick, the order button and the confirmation email are in German. The German editor calculates under the German living space ordinance (WoFlV); the Dutch measurement sheet, WWS points and heat-loss areas stay for homes in the Netherlands, and the editor says so. Guides stay in English for now.

More AI help when you need it

Pro includes 50 AI help questions a month and Team 250 for the whole team. Used them all? The window offers 100 more questions for $5, only for that month: what is left lapses on the 1st, nothing renews. A new account without Pro can try the AI help with 3 free questions, once.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Clear limits for your AI assistant

Signed in, your assistant can make 20 calls a minute on the free plan, 30 with Pro and 60 with Team, and heavy actions like PDF exports and reports have their own daily count. Above a limit it hears when to try again.

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AI help with an AI mouse, also at night

Pro and Team can ask in plain words how something works, like How do I make a dormer? A visible AI mouse points at the right button, step by step, and you click yourself. Do it for me first shows what will change and the area before and after; Apply puts it in your plan as one step and Undo takes it back. It never buys, shares or deletes a plan. Not sure? It says so, shows the guide and lets you ask our team to look along later. 200 questions a month with Pro, 1,000 with Team. Open it with the mouse button at the bottom right, under ? or with ⌘K.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Garages, sheds and verandas show their roof

Other buildings on the plot no longer show as a flat beige shape: you see their roof from above, as in 3D. Roof tiles in the colour you chose, slate, standing seam, a flat roof or green roof, with the ridge and the slopes in soft light. A veranda or carport with a near-flat metal roof shows as clear sheets with profiles, so the terrace underneath stays visible. Kitchen worktops now look like stone.

Kitchens, bathrooms and the garden from above

Kitchen runs, islands, bathroom fittings, washing machines, dining sets, garden sets, lounge sets, raised beds, pergolas and other garden items now show on the plan as the same model you see in 3D, from straight above: the worktop with its sink and hob, the toilet and basin, a table with as many chairs as you chose. The terrace with its furniture is part of the ground floor export, and dimensions run outside the terrace instead of across it.

Real floors, paving and garden on the plan

In colour, floors now look like the real thing, at true size: oak planks, herringbone, laminate, vinyl, tiles, quarry tiles, natural stone, concrete, resin, terrazzo, cork and carpet. Outside: concrete and clay pavers (also in herringbone), paving slabs, bluestone, gravel, decking, lawn and planting. Every room gets a sensible floor by its type until you choose one; your choice in the room panel shows a real swatch. The same look is in PNG, SVG and PDF. Line style stays black and white.

Furniture, plants and trees seen from above

Sofas, armchairs, beds, dining sets, tables, cabinets, bathroom fittings, plants and trees are now drawn as a view from straight above of our own 3D models, with soft light from the top left and a soft shadow. Hedges, ponds and borders in the garden look like planting. Everything stays at its true size and is the same in the export.

A calmer drawing

Electrical and other installation symbols now show in Installations and are off in a normal plan export (one tick brings them back). Help lines from drawing, like a room boundary without a wall or a roof edge, show only while you edit. Room names and areas are in one clear font and never sit on top of each other or across a door; in a small room the name stays. An export of one floor is framed tightly around the house; other buildings on the plot show as a calm shape with their name.

No false warning for posts

The posts of a carport, veranda or canopy are short loose walls. The export window and the problem list no longer call each one a room that is not closed.

The villa garden with the new outdoor pieces

The trees, fruit trees, conifers, shrubs, borders, hedge, fence and gate, the pergola, the glass orangery, the pond and the garden lights of the villa with garden are now the same pieces you find under Outdoor. Select one to move it, resize it or swap it. The orangery is a glass garden room, so it no longer counts as external storage; the garden shed still does.

Try it right away at /demo

squaremetry.com/demo opens the villa with garden in the editor, without an account. Click through the floors, 3D, the section and Measure. A calm bar says it is an example: what you change is not kept, and your own plan in this browser stays as it was. Start your own plan with one click; keeping the example as your own plan asks you to sign in. On the home page: See an example, and Example in the menu.

A PDF always fits the page

When the plan does not fit on the page at the scale you chose, the PDF now fits it to the page and says so next to the button, for example: Does not fit at 1:100, fitted to the page. Before, the button stayed off until you chose another scale or paper.

A new example: Villa with garden

The start screen and File now open with a detached villa at the top of the examples: a basement, an L-shaped ground floor with a bay window and an open kitchen with an island, three bedrooms and two bathrooms upstairs, and a studio under a hip roof with two dormers and a skylight. The garage has a mansard roof, the veranda a lean-to roof and the living room a flat roof with a roof terrace. Every room is furnished, with floors, colours and tiles, an electrical plan and radiators, and the plot has a terrace, lawn, driveway, hedge, trees, a pond and a garden shed. It measures with the Dutch measuring instruction and works in 3D, the section and every export.

Doors, windows and floors in 3D as in the plan

In 3D every door and window is a model at the size of its opening, with frame, glass and handle; make it wider and the model follows. Floors, terraces, paths and lawns show the same texture as the floor plan, at the same size and direction. Corners get a soft shadow and the 3D view a calm sky.

Facade materials for the outside

Under Finishes, the row Facade sets the outside of the whole house in one click: brick, render, wood, vinyl cladding, facade panels, natural stone, concrete or metal, each in a few colours and finishes, with a plinth at the bottom if you like. Brick follows the wall: a cavity wall gets stretcher bond, a solid one-brick wall English cross bond, and you can pick the bond yourself. One wall of its own: Outside on the card of that wall. A new plan, and an older plan without a facade, start in a warm red-brown brick. One undo takes a choice back.

A nicer outside in 3D

In 3D the facade shows its material at true size: bricks of 21 by 5 cm with joints, boards, seams and stone, with depth in the light and a little variation, the same around corners and in window reveals. Roofs get roof tiles in rows with a ridge and a gutter (red, anthracite or orange under Finishes, Roof); a flat roof is black EPDM. The loose dark dots that could appear all over the 3D picture are gone. The elevations show each material as a calm hatch; the floor plan stays calm.

Move and turn with the keyboard

Select a wall, a door or window, furniture, a symbol or text, and the arrow keys move it 1 cm or ¼ in at a time; with Shift 10 cm or 1 in. A wall moves at a right angle and the walls joined to it follow, with the furniture against it, just like dragging. A door or window slides along its wall. Command or Ctrl with the left or right arrow turns furniture, symbols and text 5°, with Shift 15°, and Q turns them a quarter. On a door or window, Q turns the swing a quarter further each time. A room you are moving with Move turns the same way, with everything inside. Taps in a row are one step in the history, with a name like Furniture moved 3 cm, so one Undo puts them all back. Page Up and Page Down, or Alt with the up and down arrows, go one floor up or down, with a short message naming the floor. Typing in a field never moves anything, and Q follows the setting for single-key shortcuts.

One clear look for every dimension, with arrows

Every dimension on the plan now looks the same: a thin line with a small arrow at each end, short lines to the points it measures, and the number in the line, readable on any floor colour. When a part is too short, the arrows sit outside the line and point in. The same look is in the PDF, SVG, PNG and DXF; in DXF with a normal filled CAD arrow. Feet and inches read neatly, like 42′ 6″.

The size of a wall you choose, drag or draw stays clear

Choose, drag or draw a wall and its length shows in teal at a fixed distance from the thin dotted outline, never on top of it. The number moves away from room names, other numbers and the handles, and is never cut off. Double-click it to type the length, just like the other dimensions. The same at every zoom, and on a phone.

Outside: the rooms along each side and one total

With Outside, the chain on each side now shows the inside size of every room along that side, from wall to wall, with the walls as open gaps. Further out is the total outside size, once for each direction: at the bottom and on the right. A room with a slanted wall is measured along the axis.

Terms, privacy and refunds, also in the editor

The terms, the privacy notice and the refund policy are now one click away in the editor too: a small line at the bottom of the payment page, the unlock and buy windows, the start screen and Settings › Plan and billing, and a Legal group in the ? menu. Each opens in a new tab, in your language.

Refund policy on its own page

The refund rules from the terms of service now also have their own page, linked in the footer: who gets what back when withdrawing within 14 days, cancelling, business customers, how to ask for a refund and how long it takes. The rules themselves have not changed.

A more compact room panel, less scrolling

When you pick a room, the panel on the left now shows the room, its area and every basic row at once on a laptop screen, without scrolling. The name of the home and the floor are one short line each. The shape of the room is a small tile next to its area, with inside the walls and the perimeter below. Move is an icon next to the help and the lock, with the tip Move this room; the handle next to the room name on the plan still works too. Show dimensions is one short switch, with the explanation in its tip. Rows are a little lower, and on a low screen the colour overview of the floor is half as tall. Nothing moved and nothing was removed. On a tablet every target is still at least 44 px.

Tables from the German editor open cleanly in a spreadsheet

CSV tables from the editor in German now use a semicolon, like in Dutch, because the comma is the decimal sign there. In English nothing changes.

A narrow rail next to the panel

Next to the panel on the left is now a narrow rail with four sections, each an icon with its word: Plan (floors, rooms and the area), Draw (wall, room, door, window and stair with thickness and height, the rest one click deeper), Objects (the library, right in the panel) and Finishes (the floor of the whole floor and the walls of a room or the whole floor, each in one step). Click the section you are in again to fold the panel away and keep only the rail. Your last section stays chosen, also in your account. In Customize bar you can hide the rail; it goes left or right with the panel. On a phone the sections are a row of words at the top of the Rooms sheet.

Where is what, and search says where

Under the question mark at the bottom right is Where is what: 25 common tasks, each with the place where you find it. Pick one and you are there. Search (Cmd K) now finds the same tasks, such as Heights, Layers, Add floor, Room type, Flooring and the measurement report, and shows where each one is, like Plan › Heights.

The AI where you need it, and the rail in Model

Plan from a description, Plan from a sketch or photo and Change the plan with a sentence are now under Draw in the rail. The listing text is in Export, and Ask the norm is next to What counts under Plan › Area. On the start screen, Sketch or photo (AI) sits next to Describe it (AI). File keeps them too, with the same words. Model has the same rail: Plan opens its Overview, Objects its Parts and Finishes its Colours and materials.

Model builds onto the house

At the top of Model you choose House or Free. With House, a block on the ground beside the house becomes an extension, a block on top of the walls a storey, a block on a sloped roof a dormer, and a rectangle on a wall a door or window. It is part of the plan at once: it counts, shows in the plan and the dimensions, and one Undo takes it back, in Model and in the plan alike. New walls take their thickness and height from the card of Wall and Room. What the house does not recognise, such as a chimney or a block half inside the house, stays free with a Does not count label and one sentence why; Make part of the house as… lets you choose. Free models freely and never changes the plan. The choice is kept with the plan.

Model: a card when 3D cannot start, and free shapes leave with their floor

If 3D cannot start or stops in this browser, Model now shows the same card as the 3D view, with the setting to turn on, Try again and Back to the plan, instead of an empty screen. Deleting a floor in the plan also removes the free shapes you modelled on it, and a storey above stays at its height; Undo brings both back.

Every small change is a step with a clear name

The history box now names each step in your language, with the values: Wall thickness 22 cm → 27 cm, Room renamed: Hall, Room type: Kitchen, Length 6 m → 6.5 m, Layer locked: Dimensions, Favourite applied, Model: block pulled 2.6 m, with the editor where you made it. A wall has − and + for its thickness; clicking them quickly on the same wall is one step, after a second it is a new one. Zooming and opening panels are not steps.

Zoom like you expect, also in Safari

Scroll to zoom in and out around the mouse, smoothly, with a mouse wheel, two fingers on a trackpad or a Magic Mouse. Pinch to zoom on a Mac trackpad, also in Safari: only the plan zooms, never the whole page. Shift or Alt with scroll moves the plan. Prefer scrolling to move the plan? Choose Scrolling: Move the plan in Settings, My defaults; it is also in favourites. The zoom has no fixed steps and no percentage any more: − and + zoom in small smooth steps, the scale bar says how big things are, from a few millimetres to a whole plot, and the button Fit all between − and + puts the whole plan on the screen, as do Shift+1 and a double click on the scale bar. Shift+2 puts what you chose on the screen. On a narrow screen, zoom and Fit are in search (⌘K). Single-key shortcuts can be turned off in My defaults.

Drag to move the view, click a room to see it

With Select, drag on an empty spot or inside a room and the view moves with the mouse, straight away. A room no longer moves by accident. Click a room without dragging and its panel opens on the left. To move a room on purpose, click Move in that panel and drag it or use the arrow keys (Enter keeps it, Esc puts it back), or drag the small handle next to its name. Furniture and everything inside goes along. Dragging a wall, a piece of furniture or a symbol still moves it. Shift and drag on an empty spot draws a selection box. On a phone, one finger moves the view and two fingers zoom.

Drag a corner with a clear handle

With Select, a round handle shows on the corner under the mouse, also on a slanted wall or a curve. Drag it to move the corner: the walls on it and the rooms follow, and furniture against those walls goes along. It snaps to the grid and to other corners; hold Shift to keep a wall at 0, 45 or 90 degrees. One Undo puts it back.

The German WoFlV, and plans without a national standard

The editor now also measures to the German living area ordinance (WoFlV): full from 2 m high, half from 1 m to 2 m, a balcony for a quarter, no basement or garage. A plan in any other language uses no national standard: the floor area inside the walls of each room, without height rules and without promising a standard, in meters or feet. A new plan takes the standard of your language and country; you change it in Survey or in My defaults. A German plan that used the Dutch rules asks you once whether to switch.

Team per year is cheaper

Team per year is now $399 for 5 people, down from $690. Each extra person per year is $69, down from $120, up to 20 people. Team per month stays $69, with $12 a month for each extra person. A team that already pays per year keeps the price it signed up for.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Systems in the same calm panel as Plan

In Remodel, Systems now has the same kind of panel as Plan. At the top the title and a short line, then one row per trade (Electrical, Water and drains, Heating, Ventilation and air conditioning, Camera and doorbell) with the colour of its layer and how many there are on this floor. A row opens the trade in the same panel: its symbols as a list, More symbols one click deeper, and Pipes, Fuse box and Propose as rows where they belong to that trade. Layers is one row at the bottom. Every part has Back and its own help, and Esc goes back. Nothing was removed: every symbol, pipe and setting is still there.

Lists instead of rows of buttons

The width of a door or window, the kind of floor material and the material of a furniture part are now one short list each, like the kind of a room: "Width: 2′ 8″" opens the sizes and Custom. Standard and None take a choice off again. On a phone the list of your phone opens.

One place for a room

A room you pick opens in the panel on the left, and the floating card on the right no longer shows the same things again. The name is the title of that panel: click it and type. A lock next to the help locks the size. The area is large, with inside the walls and the perimeter below it. First the basics: Type (one list, with the kinds of an outbuilding on top), Size, a switch to show the dimensions of this room, Floor and Settings; More opens Walls and ceiling, Items in this room, Photos and note, and Copy, turn, mirror. Delete room is at the bottom. Back closes the room. In 3D, with the panel turned off and on a phone the card is still there.

Squaremetry on the iPad and other tablets

On an iPad or another tablet you now get the full editor, upright and on its side, also on an iPad mini. Every button is at least 44 points, big enough for a finger. Two fingers zoom and move the drawing, never the whole page. Hold a finger still to open the menu of what is under it. The panel on the left can be collapsed for more room to draw. In Split View or Stage Manager the editor adjusts as the window gets narrower or wider, without losing anything; below 700 points wide it switches to the phone layout.

Draw with the Apple Pencil, your hand can rest on the screen

A pen draws exactly where it touches, like a mouse. While the pen is on or just above the screen, a hand resting on it does nothing: no point, no zoom, no menu. With a keyboard on the iPad all shortcuts work, including ⌘Z and ⌘⇧Z. If a call comes in while you draw, the unfinished step is undone and everything else is saved.

Install Squaremetry as an app on your iPad or computer

Put Squaremetry on your Home Screen or in the Dock: it then opens in its own window and works without internet. Under ? › Install app you see the steps for your browser: Safari on iPad, Share › Add to Home Screen; Safari on a Mac, File › Add to Dock; Chrome and Edge, Install. We show this once by ourselves, on your second visit. On the iPad the app has its own icon and start screen.

Your bar layout follows your account

Where you put the toolbar, the zoom and help blocks and the side panel, and the tools you pin, now stay with your account. Sign in on another computer and the bar is where you left it. A change made without a connection goes to your account as soon as you are back online.

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Favourites now set the layout and the share options

A favourite with the group Layout puts the bars and the panel where you saved them, and one undo puts them back. Share starts with the choices of your default favourite: how long the link works, PDF download, 3D, photos and the link preview.

Pick the door or window type before you place it

Door and Window open a short list above the toolbar: single, double, sliding, pocket, an opening without a door or a garage door; fixed, casement or sliding window. Pick one and click a wall. Esc closes the list and you keep placing; your last choice stays. On a phone the list is a sheet at the bottom.

Thickness and height while you draw

With Wall or Room chosen, a small card shows the thickness and height of what you draw next, with − and + or a typed size. Room keeps the exterior and interior wall apart; Wall also has a height above the floor. What you set stays your default, the same as in My defaults. A size out of range is refused with a sentence.

The room map stands at the top left

The small map of the rooms is no longer under More for this plan: it stands at the top left of the plan, with its own edge, next to the side panel or the rail. Click a room to zoom to it. Fold it away with the arrow; it stays folded. Not on a phone.

Rent points: a low strip only counts inside its room

In the Dutch rent points (WWS), a strip lower than 1.50 m now only counts inside its own room. A strip that sticks out past the façade, or one drawn twice, no longer takes off too much. Interior walls never counted here, so nothing changes for them. This is rule set 0.1.2; a plan where it does not apply keeps its numbers and its old version.

Loss areas: toward a garage measured on the inside

The loss areas (ISSO 82.1) now stop at the inside of the wall toward a garage or another space outside the thermal zone: the façade, floor, roof and perimeter of the room next to it no longer run to the middle of that wall. Toward the neighbours and toward zone 2 they still run to the middle. This is rule set 0.3.1.

Outside dimensions as chains around the house

Outside now puts a chain of dimensions outside the house on each side: close to the house the parts of the facade, from corner to corner and at every step in the wall, and further out the total of that side. Thin lines with small arrows, the numbers small along the line, and never a number on another number or a room name. A slanted wall gets its own size along the wall, and a shed that stands apart gets its own chains. Double-click a part or a total to type a new size. Plans you already have keep how they look until you choose.

A new plan shows its sizes on all four sides

A new plan now starts with Outside on all four sides. Prefer something else? Choose it under Settings, My defaults, Dimensions in a new plan, or save it as a favourite setting.

What the floor sits on is now in Remodel

Basement, crawl space, slab on ground, home below, unheated or outside air: you now choose what a floor sits on in Remodel. Click a room and then Floor sits on, in the panel on the left or in the card on the right. Search for Floor sits on and it opens there with your room. In Plan the room shows only its floor finish, so the panel stays calm. Plans you made before keep their choice, and the section, the Build-up colours and the loss areas use it as before. The area never changes.

Help next to the line templates of a quote

The line templates in a quote now have their own question mark. It opens the guide to a quote from the quantities, at the step about templates with your own prices.

A new panel next to the plan: find everything in two clicks

The panel on the left of Plan is new. At the top the name of your home, then one wide floor field: click it to see every building with its floors, add a floor or add a building. Below it a colour overview of the floor: every room as a patch in its own colour; click one to open it. Then the active variant with its area large, and a button with the number of variants. Then calm rows: Rooms, Area (with the main number on the right and what counts), Heights, Layers, This floor (name, copy, turn, roof, delete), and Duplicate variant and Delete this variant at the bottom. A room opens in the same panel with its shape and area, and rows for its Type, Floor, Walls and ceiling, Settings (height and whether it counts) and Items in this room. Every row opens in place, with Back to return. Everything works with the keyboard; on a phone the Rooms sheet has the same parts.

A calmer library

The library is one panel now: search with a star next to it for your favorites, one list to choose a category (Basic at the top, then All categories and every kind with its number), the number of results, and the tiles below with a name on up to two lines. Colour and Fits in sit under Filter. Search and the list stay in view while you scroll, and tiles come in as you scroll, so long lists stay smooth. Nothing found? One click searches all categories.

Small tiles and 3D previews

Switch the library between large and small tiles, and between our drawing (2D) and a picture of the 3D model for pieces that have one. Both stay in this browser and can be part of a favourite setting under Display.

Search finds part of a word, also in German

Part of a word is enough: "bank" finds "hoekbank". In German, words like Bett, Tisch, Kühlschrank or Tür find the right pieces too.

Double-click a size on the plan to type it

Double-click the number of a dimension on the plan (outside size, a part of a dimension chain, or the inside size of a room) and type the new size, like 3.80 m, 13' 4" or 13.5'. Enter sets it, Esc cancels, and a size that cannot work says why and changes nothing. On a phone, double-tap. The furniture and shapes inside go along, and one undo puts it back.

Which side stays: clearer, and your own default

The choice Left or top stays, Right or bottom stays or Both sides now shows a small picture and one sentence of what happens, with a link to the guide. Set your default in Settings, My defaults (or as a favourite setting). A choice on a card holds until you close the editor.

Shapes from Model move with the home

A shape you made in Model now goes along when you move a room or the whole home, moves with a wall it stands against, and turns and mirrors with the plan. In 3D, a plate at the height of a wall top no longer shows black jagged patches.

No more "0 m²" between two walls

Two walls right next to each other no longer make an empty room between them with a label of 0 m². A gap smaller than 0.05 m², or narrower than 5 cm on average, is not a room and counts nowhere.

Pick the kind of a room from a list

The kind of a room is now one line, like Kind: Living room. Open it for a list you can search by typing, with the kinds used most in this plan at the top. It works with the keyboard; on a phone you get the list of your phone.

Favourite settings

Save the settings you use most as a favourite with a name: dimensions, display, drawing, 3D, export, sharing and layout. You find Favourites in the menu Dimensions and in Export. One click applies a favourite to the open plan, and one undo puts everything back. Without an account they stay in this browser.

Start every new plan with a favourite

In Settings, Favourites, choose a default for new plans. On the start screen, in My homes and with Start with your address, Start with lets you pick another one. An owner or admin of a team pins one favourite as the house style of the team.

The same bar in every editor

Survey, Remodel, Model and Sheets now have the bar of Plan at the bottom: zoom and history on the left, the tools of the editor in the middle with their key and More, and on the right the choice of that editor (Dimensions, Layers in Systems, View in Model, Sheet in Sheets), search, the shortcuts and the question mark. Every tool has its own key; in Sheets the scrapbook is S and a table is T.

The section belongs to Survey

Section is no longer in Plan. Open it in Survey or Sheets, or search it: that takes you to Survey. A line A-A you placed stays saved and shows on the plan in Survey.

Customize the bar

Under More or the question mark: put the tool bar at the bottom, top, left or right (on a side it is a narrow rail with the name under each icon), move the other blocks and the side panel, hide what you do not need, choose which tools stay in the bar and in what order, and show words at every tool or none. Back to default puts it all back in one click. Your choice stays in this browser; a phone keeps its own bar.

Furniture moves with the walls

Drag a room, a selection or the whole floor and everything inside goes along: furniture, kitchens, symbols, pipes and cables, notes, dimensions and photo points. Move one wall (also just a part, or by typing a size) and what stands against it follows: a kitchen run, a cabinet, a radiator, a socket. Free-standing furniture stays, and only shifts back the little it needs when the wall would run through it. Turning or mirroring the plan turns the furniture too. One undo puts it all back. Layers you locked stay where they are.

Put the floor plan on your website

Under Embed on your site you find a short tip and a new guide. The code now holds a small line "Floor plan made with Squaremetry" under the plan; with Pro or Team you can uncheck it. A link that stopped shows a calm card instead of an error.

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Walls and low strips follow the boundary of what counts

Under the Dutch measuring code, three things now come out right. An interior wall next to a space that does not count (not accessible, or entirely lower than 1.50 m behind a knee wall) is the boundary and no longer counts. A strip lower than 1.50 m only counts inside its own room. And an interior wall that stands under a low strip on both sides is itself lower than 1.50 m there. This is rule set 0.1.2. A plan where none of this applies keeps exactly the same numbers and still names its old version; a plan can also keep 0.1.1.

Room templates for a remodel

Start with a room that already has its fixtures: five bathrooms, a kitchen in one wall, L, U, galley or with an island, a toilet and a laundry room. The work profile Remodeler starts with Room template on the start screen. In the card of a room you drew, Room template puts the fixtures in that room and says whether it fits; furniture that was there goes out in the same step, and Undo brings it back. A room that is too small changes nothing and says what size it needs.

Bathroom and kitchen pages open the drawn room

On the bathroom and kitchen layout pages, each drawing now opens in the editor as that room with its fixtures in place, not as an empty room. A link only fills an empty plan; a plan you already have stays as it is.

Clean wall corners in 3D

Where two walls meet, 3D now joins them with a mitre, just like the floor plan. The white strip and the flickering jagged patch on an outside corner are gone, cladding lines run on around the corner, and the section no longer draws two walls over each other at a corner. The white end of a wall only shows on a free wall end and in the section.

Withdraw from an unlocked home within 14 days

As a consumer you can now withdraw from an unlocked home within 14 days, just like Pro and Team: in Settings, under Withdraw within 14 days, you confirm, the home is locked again and you pay only for the days used. The rest goes back through Paddle, and you get a confirmation by email.

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Sharing tracings: only the owner or an admin of a team

In a team workspace only the owner or an admin can turn on Help improve detection with my corrected tracing, because the office decides about the data of its clients. Members see the box switched off, with the reason.

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A short explanation on every tool

Point at a tool or button and a label says what it does, in one sentence: the editor picker, the tabs of Survey and Remodel, Share and Export, everything under More in the toolbar, every tool in Sheets, the tabs of Systems and the camera buttons in 3D. In Sheets and Systems the ? next to the tools now opens the guide for the tool or tab you chose, and the 3D help has a ? to its guide. The guide on the start screen explains how it works.

Knee wall: measured on the outside

The Knee wall field in the Roof panel and the guide Levels, heights, roofs and variants now say where it is measured: on the outside face of the façade, where the roof rests on the wall. The roof, the area under 1.50 m or 5 ft and the gross volume start there.

One way to describe cancelling

The site, the terms, the help and the FAQ now all say the same thing: you cancel Pro or Team in a few clicks from Settings.

Radiator output is out for now

The Heat output tab in Systems, the indication on the card of a radiator and the Radiator output table in Sheets are gone for now. The rule of thumb was too rough; radiator output comes back later. Radiators stay on the plan with their own fields. A plan with a Radiator output table still opens: that table is left out, the rest of the sheet stays.

Loss areas per zone instead of the energy export

In Measure, More for professionals now shows the loss areas of a drawn home as ISSO 82.1 describes them, split per zone: floors with their perimeter, roofs along the slope, and façades with their windows and doors, plus the Ag. Download them as a sheet (PDF) with a small plan per floor, or as a table (CSV). The project file for energy label software and the label details (year built, type of home, address, building height) are gone for now. A storage room behind a knee wall now lies inside the zone, so the roof above it counts.

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3D tells you what to do when it cannot start

When a browser cannot show 3D, you no longer get a message that disappears after a few seconds. In 3D, in a share link and in the presentation you now see a card with the reason and the setting to check in your browser: in Chrome and Edge "Use graphics acceleration when available", in Firefox "Use hardware acceleration when available". A browser with only the older WebGL 1 is asked to update. If the browser takes the graphics memory back, 3D draws again by itself when it returns, or you click Try again. Your plan always stays. Tested in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Chromium.

Clearer AI instructions and MCP tools

Ask the norm answers briefly, without a fixed number of sentences. The MCP tools say when they return an error, and ask_the_norm says in its description to answer only from our passages and to cite their links.

Download my data holds everything

The zip from Settings now also holds your personal data (account, sessions, devices, consents, waitlist, feedback, AI log, API keys, payments), per workspace its links, versions, photos, documents, exports and logos, and named and pinned versions as open files. Owners and admins also get the leads and invoices of their workspace. Keys and other secrets are left out.

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No photo location to AI

A sketch or photo you send to AI is now always redrawn in your browser first, also when it is small, so the place where the photo was taken and other photo data never leave your device.

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Angles and labels on Sheets that follow the plan

Under More in the Sheets tools: Angle measures between three points in a view, and a point on a wall corner follows that wall. Label reads the room at its point: the room name, area, size and level fill in by themselves and change when you rename the room or move a wall. Fields work in English, Dutch and German.

Draw on a sheet and tables from CSV

Draw puts lines and shapes on a sheet point by point, open or closed, with the length on paper and in the plan at the scale of the view. Table from a CSV file places a table from a file (semicolon, comma or tab, up to 100 rows of 12 columns); you can replace it with another file.

Your own title block

In the card of a sheet, Fields and logo turns standard fields off, adds up to 6 fields of your own and a logo of your own. Put it on all sheets at once, and Save as template keeps it for your other homes.

DXF per sheet, and export only what is chosen

Export sheets now makes a DXF per sheet: the paper at full size with the frame, the title block, each view cropped to its frame and every kind on its own layer, with a paid home or Pro like every DXF. Only what is chosen exports just the views and parts you chose, as PDF, PNG, SVG or DXF.

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Width × length in every room

Dimensions › Inside now shows the width and length under the name of each room, such as 3.20 × 4.10 m or 11′ 8″ × 13′ 4″. Prefer lines? Choose Dimension lines. Numbers never sit on a room name or its area any more: they move along their line or to the other wall. On screen and in PNG, PDF and SVG.

Dimensions per room and on all four sides

In the card of a room, Show the dimensions of this room turns them on or off for that room alone. Outside and Chains can show on all four sides or on the left and bottom. The button at the bottom right now says what is on, such as Dimensions: Outside, and a short tip shows the first time.

Lighting plan with switch groups

Systems has more kinds of light: surface spot, track light, linear light and LED strip. Lights switched by the same switches form a group with a letter, and the card says whether it is one switch, two-way or two-way with intermediate switching, with a tip when a one-way switch sits in a two-way group. The lighting plan is a sheet in the drawing set and on Sheets.

Radiator output per room

Under Heat output in Systems, each room gets an indication from a rule of thumb: its volume times the watts per m³ for the insulation, from the year built or your own choice. A radiator shows its share. The source is next to every number: a rule of thumb, not a heat loss calculation. Drawing aid, not an installation design.

Camera, doorbell and systems in 3D

A camera and a doorbell are symbols on their own layer, also in the export and the DXF, and Electrical has an outdoor socket. Systems also show in the normal 3D: symbols as small blocks at their height and pipes and cables at their level, each trade on or off.

Clear about who checks the result

Where a result leaves Squaremetry, the editor now says plainly that you check it: "Check every measurement yourself" before you export and in the area report, "A proposal: check it" with AI proposals, the energy assessor stays responsible for the registration in the energy export, and a quote and the sample plans ask you to check the quantities and measurements. Squaremetry is a drawing aid, not a measurement on site.

Five editors instead of eight

Plan, Survey, Remodel, Model and Sheets. Remodel has two tabs: Interior (furniture, kitchen, tiles, prices and the quote) and Systems (electrical, water, heating and air), with Select and the tools of the tab in the toolbar; Wall, Room, Door and Window are under More. The plot, the driveway and garden, the ground and north are now Outside in Plan, under More in the toolbar. Present is a button in every editor: at the bottom of the editor menu, under Share and with Alt 6, and Esc takes you back to where you were. Flyer and social images are also in Export, and the sun study opens from the 3D options. Nothing went away: old links with Interior, Systems or Site open the new place. Your work profile now only sets which editors are on top; every key and link opens every editor.

The history box

The clock next to Undo and Redo opens your steps, newest first, each with a short name, the editor where you made it and when. Click a step, or use the arrow keys and Enter, to go straight back to it; undone steps show grey until you make a new change. Pin it to keep it on screen while you draw: drag it where you like, and your browser remembers the place. The key J opens and closes it. On a phone it is History box in More, a sheet at half height.

Pages for remodelers

Bathroom layouts and kitchen layouts drawn to scale with the clearances and the work triangle measured, a panel schedule filled in from a plan with its one-line diagram, a remodel planner with the demolition and build quantities, and a page for contractors. Every drawing and number comes from the editor itself.

Rent points: a void under a sloped roof is deducted once

In the rent points (WWS), a void or stairwell and the part of a room lower than 1.50 m both do not count. Where the two overlapped, that part was deducted twice and the space came out too small. It is now deducted once, as the opening, just like the measuring code since rule set 0.1.1. This is WWS rule set 0.1.1; a plan where nothing overlaps keeps exactly the same points and still names 0.1.0.

Contractor pack

One button in Export and in Sheets makes a ZIP for the contractor: the drawing set (existing, demolition and new, systems, interior walls with the kitchen run), every quantity as CSV with trade and unit, the quote or a list without prices, DXF on layers with a paid home or Pro, and a readme with the view link when the home is in your account. The usual export rules apply: free with the small mark.

A void under a sloped roof is deducted once

Under the Dutch measuring code, a void and the part of a room lower than 1.50 m both do not count. Where the two overlapped, for example a void next to a low roof edge, that part was deducted twice and the living area came out too low. It is now deducted once, as the void. This is rule set 0.1.1; a plan where nothing overlaps keeps exactly the same numbers and still names 0.1.0.

Panel schedule and single-line diagram

Under Fuse box in Systems, Panel schedule as PDF prints the schedule (per circuit the breaker, RCD, poles, points, rooms and cable length) and a simple single-line diagram, through Export like every PDF. Both are also in the drawing set and on Sheets. Every sheet says: Drawing aid, not an installation design.

Floor heating in circuits, with a layout

Place a manifold and Systems splits the floor heating into circuits: each stays under the longest circuit you choose (usually 100 m, or 300 ft), with flow and return to the nearest manifold, and gets a number. Tips say when there is no manifold or a manifold has more than 12 circuits. The floor heating layout prints as its own sheet.

Systems on Sheets and every symbol on the wall

Sheets has new tables from the plan: Panel schedule, Floor heating circuits and Mounting heights, and new views: the single-line diagram and the floor heating layout. A ceiling light, vent or drain can now get a height on a wall, and then shows in the wall elevation; a soil stack runs from floor to ceiling.

Bathroom and kitchen check

Interior says when a toilet, sink or shower has too little room (IRC 2021 in a plan in feet and inches), when a Dutch toilet room or bathroom is smaller than the Bbl asks for a new home, and when the work triangle is too long. With the size we measure next to the size of the rule. A note, never a block.

Before and after

A plan with new walls or walls to demolish shows Existing or After the works in 3D, the elevations, the section and the 3D of a view link. Switch to see the home as it is now; the plan itself does not change.

Kitchen and wall, finished

The wall elevation shows a kitchen run in its parts: plinth, base cabinets with seams, worktop, backsplash with tiles and wall cabinets at their height. A band of wall tiles gets a pattern (brick, herringbone, diagonal) with the extra cutting in the count. A kitchen in an L or U counts the corner once, and Make a corner piece shortens the other run.

Dutch example plans by home type

Seven new Dutch pages with floor plans by home type, in square meters: tiny house, care home in the garden (mantelzorgwoning), bungalow, home for older people, barn-style house, farmhouse and notary-style house, plus a second plan on the apartment page. Every room shows what counts under the Dutch measuring code (NEN 2580): living area, other indoor space and outdoor space. A sleeping loft under 1.50 m, a void, a garage and a balcony are listed apart. Open any plan in the editor and you get the same numbers.

Quantities of the work: demolish, build, sills and reveals

Quantities and costs now shows what a renovation takes: square meters and length of wall to demolish and to build per kind of wall, doors and windows that go out and come in, the wall to break out for a new opening and to close up for a removed one, window sills and reveals. In meters or in feet, and in the CSV.

Layers from the build-up, and a floor build-up per room

Plaster, board, insulation, screed and waterproofing per material, in area and volume, from the build-up of each wall and the new floor build-up of each room. Waterproofing counts its upstand on the walls. Walls without a build-up are named, not guessed.

The quote follows every quantity, with line templates per trade

A quote line can now follow any quantity of the plan: demolish and new, sills, reveals, layers, tiles, the kitchen run, cables, pipes and symbols per piece, or a whole trade at once, with a subtotal per trade. Save the lines of a trade with your own prices as a template and use it again in the next quote. We never fill in prices.

Line templates in your account

Signed in, your line templates per trade are saved in your account and come back on every device.

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The editor fits a tablet held upright and large text

On a tablet held upright, Export stays in view, the page no longer slides sideways and the tools no longer sit under Dimensions. With text at 200 % on a small phone, menus, Export and the wall card wrap instead of running off the screen. Undo and Redo on a phone are easier to tap, and Whole wall / This part only grows with your text size.

Works when your browser blocks storage

With strict privacy settings, such as Firefox blocking all cookies, the editor opens and you can draw. The status says right away that this browser cannot keep the plan, also when its storage is full, with a button to download the file.

Pinch to zoom while you draw walls

Zooming with two fingers in the middle of a chain of walls no longer adds an extra wall. The chain carries on where you left it.

See what is chosen in high contrast, and locked rooms

In high contrast mode the chosen tool, view, side that stays, wall thickness and other choices get a clear outline. A room with its size locked shows a small lock next to its name.

Start from address opens faster

Coming from Start from address on the website, the address window now comes first, even on a slow phone, with a calm loading line instead of an empty plan. If you are signed in with a plan in this browser, the question to add it to your account waits until the address window is closed.

One part fails, the rest keeps working

If a part of the editor cannot load, for example offline the first time or just after an update, only that part says so, with Try again. The rest keeps working, and once you are back online the part comes back by itself, without reloading.

Clear status when your account stops saving

Signed out somewhere else or your session ended: the status says Signed out with a Sign in button, and your latest changes go to your account as soon as you sign in. A home moved to the trash can be put back from the editor. Removed from a team: the status says View only, with the file to download. Returning from payment no longer says Payment received until the payment is confirmed. A refused team or personal name gets its own message.

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Rooms with many walls

A room with many walls, such as a bay window of twelve short walls, a tower room or a long L-shaped hall, now keeps its name and use when you open the plan again. Before, such a plan could not be loaded.

Clearer room names in example plans

In the pictures of the example plans, names in small rooms no longer run into each other or over the walls. A small room gets a shorter or smaller label, only its name (the area is in the table next to it), or a label beside it with a thin line.

More different layouts from a description

Plan from a description now also tries a square and a long outline, so you get three really different layouts more often. The best one is still first.

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Fewer versions when you work together

When two people save the same home in turn, Versions keeps at most one state per person every 10 minutes, instead of one for every save. A change that replaced someone else's work is always kept.

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Start with your address, from the Dutch site

The Dutch home page and the page for energy advisers now have a button that opens the editor at Start from your address.

More example plans: cabins, barndominiums, styles and apartments

Fifty-three more pages with real floor plans by home type: cabins and small houses, barndominiums with a shop, houses by number of bedrooms, mobile homes, duplexes and apartments, and styles from Cape Cod and Tudor to mid-century modern. Every plan shows each room with what counts under ANSI Z765; a shop, a garage, a porch, a basement and space under 5 ft are listed apart. Open any plan in the editor and you get the same numbers.

A share link until a date lasts the whole day, on your clock

A link that works until a date now works until 23:59 on that day where you are, and the list of links shows that same day. In Amsterdam the link used to run on into the next night, in Los Angeles it stopped in the afternoon. The earliest day you can pick is tomorrow on your own clock.

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Dates are your own day

A new quote is dated today on your clock, also just after midnight or in New Zealand, and the date in the field, on the screen and in the PDF is the same day. Valid until is exactly the number of days you set. Deadlines, the sun study and the report from an AI assistant use your day as well.

File names keep their letters

A plan called Woning Şahin Yılmaz Łódź now downloads as woning-sahin-yilmaz-lodz instead of losing letters, and a name in Chinese stays in the file name. This holds for the PDF, the images, DXF, the quote and the other exports.

Copied only when it really is

When the browser does not allow copying, the API key, the webhook secret, the widget code and the buyer link no longer say Copied. You see that copying did not work, and the text is selected so you can copy it yourself.

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Large text on a small phone

With the text size at 200% on a phone 320 pixels wide, the site no longer slides sideways: the logo stays small, the menu button stays on screen, buttons and long words wrap, and wide tables scroll inside their own frame. In the editor, a long press on the drawing no longer selects text on an iPhone, and Open file also offers .sqm files on an iPhone.

My homes finds every house, also with thousands

My homes used to stop at 500 houses: search and the Trash did not see the rest. Now search looks through every house in your workspace, the count is right, and the list loads the next houses when you scroll down or click Show more. Every house in the Trash can be found and restored.

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Download my data has everything, also the Trash

Download my data gave at most 1,000 houses and left out the Trash. Now the zip has every house, and houses in the Trash are in the folder Trash.

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Saving on two devices at once keeps both

When your laptop and your phone saved the same house at the same moment, one change could be lost. Now one of them gets the message that a change from another device was kept in Versions, and both states are there.

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Large plans: reports and the FML are faster

The professional report and the FML of a plan with many walls are made about twice as fast, and a very large plan gets more time. When our server is busy with other large plans, the editor now says so, instead of saying the plan is too large.

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Your receipt shows every letter and the home

Receipts for a home now name the home, and names like Şahin or Łódź are spelled right instead of with question marks.

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API keys and AI count per month in Dutch time

The monthly limit of an API key and the AI actions per month start at midnight on the first, Dutch time (Europe/Amsterdam), like the homes per month. Retry-After says exactly how long until then.

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Every name in your PDF, in every alphabet

Names such as Şahin, Yılmaz, Łódź, Šimek or Œuvre, and Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese text, now appear in the measurement report and in every PDF exactly as you typed them. They used to turn into question marks. Emoji are left out of the PDF.

Uploading many floor plans: one odd file name no longer stops the rest

A file name with an emoji right at the length limit used to stop the whole upload with "No connection". Now the name is shortened without cutting a character in half, and every file gets its own result. A room or level name with an emoji at the limit saves to your account as well.

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Long names fit in My houses

A very long name or address without spaces no longer makes My houses wider than the screen. Names and addresses wrap and stop after two lines with an ellipsis; hover to see the whole name. Searching for cafe now also finds Café, even when the name came from a Mac file name.

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Its own reason when a name cannot be saved

An empty name, a name of only spaces or invisible characters, or a team name over 200 characters is now refused with its own reason instead of a server error. Characters that turn text around are taken out of names, so a name always reads the way it looks. New homes per month now start counting at midnight in the Netherlands.

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Start from your address (Netherlands)

Type a Dutch address and the editor makes the outer walls of every floor, the attic and the roof in one go, from public map data (BAG and 3D BAG). You see a preview first: the outline with the walls you share with the neighbours, and a small 3D view. Shared walls become party walls, a garage on your plot becomes a separate building, and every wall is marked Assumed so you know to check it. One Undo takes it all back. Apartments are not supported yet.

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Type a size, or lock it

Type the length of a wall, or the width and depth of a rectangular room inside the walls, in feet and inches or meters. Choose which side stays: left or top, right or bottom, or both sides. Joined walls move along, so rooms stay closed, and doors and windows keep their place from the side that stays. Lock size keeps a wall length or a room size: other changes move it as a whole, or do not go through, with one sentence why. Lock several at once: Shift + click, or on a phone press and hold and tap Select more.

Move the whole wall or just this part

When another wall joins a wall partway along, a small switch shows next to it: Whole wall or This part only. This part only moves just the piece between the joins where you grab it, and adds short walls of the same kind and thickness so the rooms stay closed. Doors and windows in that piece go with it, the rooms and their areas follow at once, and one Undo puts it all back. Hold Alt (Option) while you drag for the other choice; on a phone, tap the choice first. Drag the piece back in line and it is one wall again.

Walls stay attached to a curved wall

A wall that joins another wall partway along now stays attached when you curve that wall, straighten it or move it. Before, its end stayed on the old straight line, which left a gap, and the room behind it lost its colour and its area. The wall label also has room between the kind and the thickness again, and it no longer covers the size labels.

Pick from up to three layouts

Plan from a description now shows up to three different layouts side by side, each with a small drawing and its area by the standard of your plan. Pick one with the mouse or the arrow keys and click Use this layout. It is still one AI action.

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What happens to your plan with AI, on one page

The AI floor plan generator page now shows the proposal screen for a typed description, measured by the standard, and says exactly what an AI action sends and what stays in your browser. Two new questions answer whether we train AI on your plans and whether there are credits.

3D in your language right away

Change the language while 3D is open, in the editor, in a shared link or in the presentation: the words and numbers in the drawing change with it. Labels such as the plan cut, the note about what is above the cut and the norm lines now read in English, Dutch or German.

No false alarm when you edit through a link

If you edit a plan through an edit link and the connection dropped just after saving, or the same save arrived twice, the next save no longer says that someone else changed the plan at the same time. That message now only appears when someone really did.

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Very large plans save calmly

Saving a very large plan to your account no longer holds up the server for anyone else: the area is worked out on the side. A plan in your account can have up to 2,000 walls on a floor and 25,000 parts in total. A larger plan stays in your browser, the status says Too large for your account · kept here, and your account keeps the version from before.

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Changing your mind at checkout is safe

Did you open a checkout for a home and then choose the home with the measurement report in another tab? The first checkout can no longer be paid, and if it was paid at the same moment, you get what you paid for. Opening the checkout again after closing it, or clicking twice, gives the same checkout. Pro and Team: two tabs give one checkout and never two subscriptions.

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Team seats hold when you invite many people at once

Sending several invitations at the same moment can no longer go past the seats of your team. Invitations beyond the last seat get the message that all seats are taken.

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Clearer reason when an upload is the wrong kind

Uploading floor plans: a web page or a ZIP file with an image name now says it is the wrong kind of file, not that it is damaged. Damaged now only means an image that cannot be opened.

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Every waitlist link keeps working

Signed up for the waitlist twice? The confirmation link in the first email still works, and the link to leave the list, in every email we sent you, still takes you off it in one click.

Energy export follows the survey protocol more closely

The energy export now makes a project file of version 12.0 (NTA 8800:2025) and fills in the cooling of a cooling zone. A garage is always outside the zone and borders a strongly ventilated space; an attic is inside unless you mark it cold. Rooms open to a room with air conditioning join the cooling zone. Floors and roofs run to the middle of a party wall, a roof under 15 degrees is flat, and a sliding door counts as a window. New in the file: the year classes from 2014, the front façade with the front door, the roof type of the main building, the BAG number from your account and the building height from ground level, dormers included. The energy label table in the measuring instruction shows the same Ag. You still check everything.

Several editors on one home

The editor menu at the top left takes you to Plan, Survey, Interior, Systems, Model, Site, Sheets or Present, also with Alt and the number of the editor. Each has its own calm screen and tools, and all of them work on the same plan: move a wall in Plan and 3D, the sheets, the measurement sheet, the energy export, the floor heating and the quote follow. What you chose stays chosen, and Undo works across editors and says where a step was made. Switching editor halfway through a wall ends it, as Esc does. On a phone you see Plan, Survey and Present.

Your work profile

Tell us what you use Squaremetry for: homeowner, real estate agent, drafter, energy assessor, remodeler or designer. On the start screen, in the editor menu or in Settings. It sets which editors you see first and how you start, with FML, DXF or AI where it fits. The other editors stay under More editors, at the same price.

A calmer top bar and panel

The top bar now has the editor menu, the views of that editor, Together, a menu with units, language, File and Feedback, Share and Export. On the left you see the levels, the rooms and one total; variants, heights, layers and the room map are under More for this plan. In 3D, the section and the elevations the panels and the drawing tools step aside; in 3D the level tabs stay when there is more than one level. On a phone More is grouped and the card of a room is half high, with the room in view.

The professional report and the FML come from our server

The professional measurement report and the FML for Funda are now made on our server, from the version in your account, after it checks what applies to this home. It is the same report as before, page for page. The editor saves your last change first; without a connection, or if the home changed in another tab, it says so and nothing is counted. The indicative report is still made in your browser, also offline.

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The gross volume follows the roof

In Measuring instruction the gross volume now follows the roof as you drew it: every wing of an L, T or U shape, a pitch per side and every dormer, up to the top of the roof build-up. Before, a roof on an L, T or U counted as the rectangle around the level, which made the volume too high, and a dormer did not count. A plain rectangle without dormers keeps exactly the same number. The sheet, the report and the Dutch section show the same roof; in the section the 1.50 m and 2.00 m lines under a dormer now start at its front.

Square feet to acres, and converters both ways

A converter for square feet to acres with lot sizes, and in Dutch one for acres to square meters. The area converters now also work the other way: type the unit after the number, like 2.5 acres on the hectares page, and the answer starts with hectares.

More converters for measuring

New converters for millimeters, inches, centimeters, meters and feet, square meters, square yards, square inches and hectares, a feet and inches calculator that adds and subtracts, and a guide to reading a tape measure with a tape that shows your mark. Most have a button that opens the room or lot in the editor.

How big Dutch homes are

A Dutch study with Statistics Netherlands (CBS) figures: the average home is 120 m², per home type and per building period, from 2012 to 2026, with our own example homes next to it and the data as a download.

Steadier converters

The acres converter no longer stops working above 11,000 acres; it now says that 10,000 acres is the limit for one lot. Converters also read thousands the way you write them: 1,000 in English and 1.000 in Dutch.

No false alarm after saving

If the page closed or the connection dropped just after saving to your account, the next save no longer says that a change from another device was kept in Versions. That message now only appears when the home really changed elsewhere, such as on another device.

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Two devices at a time

Your account works on two devices at a time, on every plan. Sign in on a third and the oldest is signed out, with a short message there. Each new device sends you one email, and Settings, Security lists your devices with a Sign out button.

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Euros in the Dutch editor

In Dutch, the editor shows every amount in euros: unlocking a home, Pro, Team, the quote and the quantities. In English it stays in dollars.

Images from 3D follow the export rules

PNG and 360° images from 3D, and the PNG of the section, now follow the same rules as other exports: free ones carry the small Made with Squaremetry mark; with Pro, Team or an unlocked home they do not.

Your wish starts with your vote

A wish you suggest on the wishlist now starts with your own vote on it. You can still take it back.

Basements by ANSI Z765

The rules, the basement question and the guides now say it plainly: only the basement level itself is below grade; the floor above it stays above grade. The calculation already worked this way.

62 new example plans by home type

Twenty pages with real floor plans by home type, from tiny houses and ADUs to barndominiums, farmhouses and houses with a basement, and a real plan on fifteen square footage pages. Every plan shows each room with what counts under ANSI Z765: a garage, a porch, a basement and space under 5 ft are listed apart. Open any plan in the editor and you get the same numbers.

New prices, and no more "unlimited"

One home stays $5. A home with the professional measurement report is $7.50. Pro is $19 a month or $149 a year, with 30 new homes a month. Team is $69 a month or $690 a year for 5 people, with 150 new homes a month; add people up to 20, each with 30 homes more. A home counts once: exporting it again is free, also later. Above the number, one more home is $2, or move to Team. You see how many are left before you export.

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Team for more than 5 people, and per year

In Settings, Plan and billing, an owner or admin adds or removes a seat, up to 20 people. A seat that is in use cannot go. Team can now also be paid per year.

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The professional measurement report belongs with Pro, Team or a home with the report

The indicative report stays free, with the small mark. The professional report and the FML for Funda are part of Pro, Team or a home with the measurement report. A home you already unlocked adds the report for the difference.

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Honest about the status of the rules

The measurement report and the way of working in every report name the rule set with its id, version and status. While the rules are a proposal, a professional report says it is a concept, never final.

Footprint for appraisers, in tenths of a foot

Walk around the house and type each side, like R 32.5, D 24, L 12.3. You see at once whether it closes and how many square feet it is, and one click draws the exterior walls. The footprint sketch (PDF) shows every level with its sides in tenths of a foot and the area calculation. The report and the CSV get declarations for ANSI Z765-2021 in our own words.

For Funda in Export

With a plan to the Dutch measuring instruction, Export has one package for Funda: the FML, a PNG per floor and the measurement report when it is ready. Funda has not yet confirmed that it accepts FML files from other programs; until then, give your agent the PNG or the PDF.

The report address comes from your home

Is the home in your account with an address, then the measurement report fills in street, postcode and place for you. You can still change them, and one click puts the address of the home back.

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Upload many floor plans at once

In My homes, click Upload floor plans and choose up to 20 PDFs or pictures at once. Each one becomes its own house with the floor plan as its document. Open a house and the plan is ready as an underlay: set the scale, then Detect walls works as usual. A file that does not work gets a line with the reason.

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The 2.00 m line in the Dutch section

For a Dutch plan the section now shows the 2.00 m line next to the 1.50 m line under a sloped roof, in the same style and also in 3D and in the SVG. Both heights read with two decimals. A line only runs where the roof is higher; a flat roof has none.

Fuse box: main switch in the CSV and safer limits

The CSV export lists the main switch and the supply above the circuit overview. A circuit on three phases with a single phase supply now shows up under To check. A main switch from a file that is not in the list is shown as it is. And a 49th circuit no longer gets a 13th RCD, which made the plan impossible to open again.

Draw freehand

In Model, hold the button and drag a loose line on the ground or on a face; end on the start and it becomes a face. On the plan, Freehand draws a loose line as a note or sketch that never counts. Each line is one step to undo.

3D text in Model

Raised letters with a letter height and a depth, on a face, on a wall of the house or standing on the ground, such as a house number. They show in 3D and in GLB and OBJ, and never count for the area.

Set the scale with something you know

When you trace a plan, a bath (170 cm, or 5 ft and 5 ft 6 in) sits next to the standard door. The total from the listing now really sets the scale: after your first rooms, or on an outline you click. You see how sure the scale is.

Your name instead of ours, with Team

A team can show its own name and logo instead of "Made with Squaremetry" on view links, embedded plans, presentations, flyers and the measurement report. The link stays on squaremetry.com.

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Ask the norm shows our guides on every plan

Signed in without Pro, or with the AI answers of the month used up? Ask the norm still shows the parts of our measuring guides that match your question, with the link and the rules version, without an AI answer. That costs nothing and does not count. An AI answer is part of Pro.

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Pages for remodeling

New pages on the electrical plan, outlet and switch heights, as-built drawings, the bathroom plumbing layout, interior elevations, tile layouts and home additions. Each shows drawings made by the editor itself, with the heights, lengths and areas from the same plan.

Energy export with address and building height

The project file of the energy export now also holds the address (from the home in your account, or from the survey report) and the building height, from the ground floor level to the highest point of the roof. For an apartment the height stays empty. What is missing stays empty with Please check. The file is a plain label survey: tailored advice is off.

Energy export for EP advisers

In Measure, More for professionals now shows the Ag per calculation zone and the loss areas of a drawn home, with a room with air conditioning as its own zone. With Pro or Team you download a project file (.epa), a table (CSV) or a sheet (PDF) for your energy label software. It is input, not a label: you check it.

Systems on every drawing, one terrain in 3D, and Pages

The mounting height of a symbol now has one source, so the wall elevation, Systems and 3D agree; a radiator hangs by its bottom. Wall elevations also draw the boiler, water meter, manifold and indoor air conditioner. The electrical and plumbing sheet of the drawing set shows the cables, the switch lines and a legend with the circuits. While Model holds a copy of the plot terrain, 3D shows the terrain once. The pages you trace are now called Pages, so Sheets means only the drawing sheets.

Easier to read and to click

Buttons in the toolbar and the top bar are larger, with a click area of at least 44 px. Text in the editor is at least 12 px, the edges of fields are dark enough to see, and radio buttons and check boxes are teal.

Room labels that fit

The name and area of a room now stand at its roomiest spot, away from the bed, the rug and the stair, with a white edge so they read over wood and tiles. In a narrow room, or when you zoom out, the name goes over two lines and then only the area shows, so the text stays between the walls. Exports, shared links and PDFs do the same. On a phone a problem chip stays on the screen.

A calmer website

The home page now says each promise once, and the steps read as a short numbered list. On a phone there is one yellow button in view at a time and nothing to swipe sideways. The site fits screens from 280 pixels wide, also when you zoom in.

Squaremetry in your AI assistant

Add Squaremetry to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code and ask for the floor area of your rooms under the Dutch measuring instruction or ANSI Z765, with the rule set and its version. The answer has a link that opens exactly those rooms in the editor, with your sizes inside the walls. Signed in, the assistant finds your plans, exports them and makes an area report, with the same rules as in the app.

The open .sqm format, with a validator

The plan file now has a published specification, a JSON Schema and an example file for every example home. A saved .sqm also stores the areas with the rule set and its version. Check any .sqm in your browser on the format page.

Every number says what it covers

The main number now says Whole home, and with more floors the floor you see has its own line. On a phone the sheet shows the floor under its name and the whole home below it. The Check panel names a rule once, with its floors. In meters the three other ways to measure sit under Compare. In an AI proposal in feet each room shows its area again instead of 0 sq ft.

Plans open with Select

A plan that already has walls now opens with Select, so a click chooses and never adds a wall. 3D, the section, the elevations and Measuring instruction switch to Select too. An empty plan still starts with Wall, and on a phone the line above the toolbar follows the tool you picked.

One message at a time

The editor now says one thing at a time: a problem or a message first, then the hint for your tool, then a tip. The label at the mouse no longer repeats the hint. The search tip comes after your first room, in plain letters.

Typed sizes are inside sizes

Type 12 x 14 in the Room tool or the room list and the room is exactly 12 x 14 from wall to wall: 168 sq ft, the same number as on squaremetry.com. The walls go around it. Links from the website, the calculators and a face you turn into a room in Model work the same way.

Start from an example home

The start screen and the File menu now offer example homes: US homes in square feet and Dutch homes in square meters. Each opens as a normal plan you can change, measure, view in 3D and export.

Calculators for lengths and shapes

Convert feet and inches, centimeters and acres, or work out a circle, L-shaped, trapezoid or irregular room. Draw this room opens the same room in the editor, with exactly the same area.

Fixes from a full test round

A room list accepts names with a number, like Bedroom 2 12 x 11, and fixing one wrong line no longer adds the other rooms twice. A typed wall over 1 km gives a message instead of a huge wall. In the report, rooms on a floor below grade no longer say they count. The roof window opens on top in Measuring instruction, and in 3D the card of a piece of furniture no longer covers the camera buttons. On a narrow screen the toolbar scrolls.

Sheets: drawing sheets with live views

A new mode for drawing sheets, from A4 to A0 and ARCH E, with a title block. Place views of the plan at a fixed scale, crop them and turn layers off; add dimensions that follow the walls, notes, tables from the plan and images. Export all sheets as one PDF.

Sheet templates for your office

Save the layout of a sheet as a template for every home of the office, or only for one client profile. Everyone in the team starts a sheet the same way.

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Terrain and building on a slope

Add measured heights of the ground around the house, or with an account get them from the Dutch height map (AHN, open data). Elevations draw the ground along each side, 3D shows the slope and the site plan the heights.

Plot boundary and site plan

In Place › Plot, draw the plot boundary, make it as a rectangle around the house or, with an account, get it from the land registry. The distance to the boundary on every side, a driveway and garden, and a site plan in the export and the measuring report.

Split levels and foundations

Give a floor its own level, such as a half floor at +1.40 m, and link it with a stair that follows the levels. Choose the foundation per building: crawl space, slab or basement. The gross volume follows, and a basement can be added as a level.

Renovation drawings

Mark walls, doors and windows as new or to demolish: new is red, demolish yellow with a dashed line. Areas count the plan after the work. Export the existing situation, the work and the new situation as separate sheets.

A drawing set in one PDF

Export a drawing set: a cover with the list of sheets, the floor plan, furniture and electrical plan per floor, elevations, section, room walls and sheets with your own text, each with a title block. Choose and order the sheets; the choice stays with the plan.

Wall elevations of every room

In Elevations, choose Room walls to see every wall of a room from inside: cabinets at their height, tiles, sockets and switches at their mounting height, windows, doors and sizes, with a key plan. Export one page per room as PDF, SVG or DXF.

Your logo on exports with Pro

With Pro, the logo from Settings › Brand now sits at the top of your PDF, PNG, JPG and SVG exports, not only in the embed. Teams keep their house style and client profiles.

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Prices in euros, and pages for professionals

The Dutch site now shows the prices in euros, including VAT, with pages for real estate agents, drafting services and energy advisors. New on the site: a page for appraisers with ANSI Z765 and the UAD 3.6 table, pages about AI floor plans, plans from a photo and 3D, four more room sizes, and short answers to what people ask before they start.

Fuse box, pipes, a proposal per room and the X-ray house

In Systems, put sockets and lights on circuits, lay the cables from the meter cupboard and see the overview and count of the fuse box. Draw water, drain, heating and duct runs with their length, or lay them automatically. Propose gives a first layout per room type that you accept or discard in one step. In 3D, the X-ray house shows the building phases with the installations through the walls. A PDF sheet per trade has a legend with counts and lengths; a DXF puts each trade on its own layer.

Systems: electrical, water, heating and air

Turn on the Systems mode to place sockets, switches, lights, taps, radiators, vents and air conditioners with their mounting height. Each trade is a layer you can turn off on the screen and in each export, and a PDF can add a sheet per trade. A drawing aid, not an installation design.

Measurement report from an FML file

Open an FML file and go straight to a measurement report in one route: confirm the load-bearing walls one by one, pick a roof, make the report.

A "measure your home" link

Send the occupant a link with five simple steps. They measure, you check the measurements before the report.

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Assignments, review links and approval

Keep an assignment with the home and deliver by link. Your client or the seller puts comments on a spot on the plan and approves it with their name; you see the status in the plan.

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Statistics of a view link

See visits, viewing time and the time per room of a view link. Without cookies and without personal data.

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Tape measure in 3D

Measure between two points in 3D; the tape snaps to corners and wall edges. Photo points show in 3D too.

A quote from the quantities

Turn the quantities into a quote with VAT, discount and markup per line, a valid-until date, a PDF and the signature of your client.

Checklists for the site visit

Fixed questions for the measuring instruction or ANSI Z765, with a signature. The answers count in what the measurement report notes or holds back.

ADU in the UAD 3.6 table

Mark an outbuilding or rooms as an ADU. It gets its own rows and total in the UAD 3.6 table, the copy and the CSV.

A Bluetooth laser

Connect a laser distance meter in Chrome. A chosen wall gets its inside length, a chosen room its ceiling height, marked as measured with a laser.

Export in another language

Export a plan in English, Dutch or German, whatever language the editor is in. Room types follow; names you made up stay.

Photo points as tags

Copy the photo points of a level to another home, or keep them as a CSV list and add them back.

Image or PDF to DXF in one step

Turn a floor plan picture or PDF into walls, doors with their swing and windows, with the area by the standard, in your browser. Add them to your plan for free, or download a DXF with the usual layers with Pro or an unlocked home.

A listing text from your measurements

Get a short, factual listing text written from what you measured: the area by the standard, rooms, floors and outdoor space. Parts with a number you did not measure, or a word that exaggerates, are left out. Text only, part of Pro.

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Room names from the traced plan

After detecting the walls, the editor can read the room names on the plan, like Kitchen or Slaapkamer 2, and propose them as name and type per room. Keep or drop each one; one undo takes them away.

Several sheets at once, as floors

Choose a ground floor and a first floor at once, or a PDF with more pages. Each sheet goes under its own floor with its own scale, like 1:100 straight from the PDF, and the floors line up.

Change the plan with a sentence

Type make the kitchen open, add a study or make bedroom 2 bigger. You see the floor now and with the change, with the difference in area by the standard, and accept it in one step. Part of Pro.

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Trace a phone photo of a paper plan

Took a photo of a printed plan? Straighten the photo drags four corners onto the sheet, straightens it and removes shadows and specks, all in your browser. Detect walls now also finds doors with their swing.

Scanned walls, checked before a report

A wall can now say its length comes from a scan, with how sure the scan was. On a scanned floor, the measuring instruction and the Check panel ask you to check the scanned measurements first, with a check measurement and the facade thickness.

Work on a home together, live

Open Together, fill in your name and draw at the same time as others who have the home open, in your account or through an edit link. Everyone has their own colour and cursor; when two people change the same thing, the last change counts. Without a connection you keep drawing and your changes go along later.

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Comments with a pin

Put a pin with a question or remark on the plan, reply to it and mark it as done. Comments are saved with the home and never show on the drawing or in an export.

Upload your own 3D model

Add a GLB or OBJ file of a piece you own. We check the size and the unit it was made in, then you place it like any other piece; 3D shows your model. Up to 20 MB and 200,000 triangles.

A larger library, also for offices, cafes and shops

Twenty-one more pieces now show as a real 3D model, from wall cabinets and cooker hoods to lamps and a wall-hung toilet. Three new floors: terrazzo, cork and hexagon tiles. Sixteen new items for offices, hospitality and shops, such as a bar counter, a checkout and shop shelving.

Documents with a home or a room

Keep quotes, specifications and photos with the home or with a room, shown with its area. PDF, JPG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB. Photos lose their location data. They stay off the drawing and out of share links.

Colour per part, prices and a budget next to a roomy version

Give the frame and the upholstery of a piece its own material and colour; you see it in the plan and in 3D. Add your own price, model number and link per item, in a budget and a roomy version. The products list adds them up per room and for the whole home, also in the CSV.

Prices in the office library

An office can give its own items a price, a model number and a link. When a colleague places the item, the price comes along into the plan.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Wall tiles in bands and a tile plan

Split a wall side by height, for example tiles up to 1.20 m and paint above, with the area minus doors and windows and the number of tiles. Give a tiled floor a pattern (straight, brick, herringbone or diagonal), a start point and a direction; the plan shows the joints and the count adds the extra cutting.

Interior mode with a kitchen run

Turn on Interior and add a kitchen run along a wall in one click: worktop, base and wall cabinets, a backsplash of panel or tiles and a ceiling trim. Quantities and costs counts the worktop length, the cabinets and the tiles.

News only when you ask, and a reminder before a yearly renewal

Settings, Account has News by e-mail: off until you tick it, and every news mail stops with one click. With Pro per year you get a mail 7 days before it renews, with the amount and the way to cancel.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Single sign-on (SAML) for offices

With Team, Settings, Team can connect the identity provider of your office. After you prove your domain with a DNS record, colleagues sign in with their work account and join the office. We switch it on per office.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Images in 8K

With Pro or Team, PNG and JPG have a fourth size: 8K, 7680 px wide, for large prints. A phone that cannot make an image this large says so, instead of giving an empty image.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Listing pack for listing sites and MLS

Export, More formats has a listing pack: the floor plans per floor as JPG and the areas a listing site asks for in one ZIP. For the US the RESO fields an MLS reads, with the source of the area you choose; for the Netherlands the four areas of the measuring instruction.

Connect an AI assistant to your plans

An AI assistant that speaks MCP can now sign in as you: it reads your plans with every room and its area, exports them, and if you allow it renames plans and rooms. You see what it asks before you allow it, and Settings, API lists every connection with a button to disconnect.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Webhooks and dated API versions

With Pro or Team, Settings, API now sends a signed message to your own system when a plan changes or an export or measuring report is ready, with tries again and a delivery log. The API has versions with a date and fair notice before an old one stops.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

3D models and BIM files

Export opens More formats: GLB, USDZ and now OBJ with materials, each level and kind as its own part, and IFC 4 for BIM, with every room as a space and the area that counts under your standard.

Start from a scan or an IFC file

Open a room scan from an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR (RoomPlan JSON or USDZ) or an IFC file as a new plan with walls, doors, windows and rooms. A point cloud becomes an underlay at scale to trace.

See a piece of furniture in your room

Click a piece of furniture and choose See it in your room (AR). On an iPhone, iPad or Android phone with AR it stands at its real size in your room; on a computer you scan a QR code. The link holds only the kind and size, not your plan.

Walk through the house in VR

With a VR headset, 3D and the view link show a VR button. You start at eye level where the camera was and walk with the thumbstick.

View links that unfold when you paste them

Paste your view link in a chat app, Slack, Teams or a document and it shows a card with the name, the area and a picture of the floor plan. Sites that can embed show the plan itself. You choose per link; off gives a plain card.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Sales flyer and social images

In Present mode, make an A4 flyer (PDF) or a square or portrait image for social media from your plan: all floors at the same scale, the area under your standard, the rooms and a QR code to your view link or any link you paste.

Videos that start from the floor plan

A video can now start with your floor plan, after which the walls rise and the camera flies past your saved views. Add calm or bright music made in your browser, or save a GIF as a quick preview.

From a floor plan to walking through it

Open 3D on an empty plan and upload a floor plan. Set the scale with one line; when the walls are found with confidence they go into your plan, rise from your drawing, and you walk through the house. Then choose a roof.

Realistic 3D

One switch in 3D and in your view link: real textures on walls and floors, the sun at your time of day, soft shadows and furniture at real size in empty rooms. Made from your own plan, not an AI image.

Photo quality when you stand still

In Realistic, stand still at eye level or in bird's-eye and real light is worked out in your browser: sun through the windows and soft shadows. Move and normal 3D is back. Phones get a light version.

Model: free 3D shapes next to your plan

A new mode to draw and shape anything in 3D: lines and faces that close by themselves, extrude, move, rotate and copy in rows, groups and components, join and subtract, terrain, smart parts and furniture from the library. The terrain of your plot can be shaped here too, and elevations, 3D and the report follow. Same house and the same undo. Free shapes count for area only after you make them a wall, room, storey, roof or dormer.

Where every size comes from

Each wall can say how its length was taken: measured, laser, from a drawing or assumed, with an accuracy. The report and the CSV list it. In an account, a Dutch home can be compared with the area in the BAG.

Photos and notes per room

Add photos and a site note to a room, place photo points on the plan, upload your own 360° photo and blur faces or house numbers in your browser. Location data is always removed.

A public wishlist

See what is planned, in progress and done, and vote for what you want next with your account. You can also suggest a wish; the team reads it first. No names are shown.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Elevations of every side

Open Elevations next to Plan, Section and 3D to see all four sides of the house, with windows, doors, levels and the roof. Export them as SVG, PDF or DXF.

Roofs on any shape, with dormers

Roofs now follow L, T and U shaped houses with ridges, hips and valleys. Set a pitch per side and add a dormer; the attic area follows the new roof.

Garages and sheds as real buildings

Add a garage, shed, summerhouse, carport or canopy with its own walls and roof. It stays out of the main area and shows up separately in the totals and the export.

Larger paper sizes

Export on Tabloid, A2, A1, ARCH C and ARCH D, with a title block on every plan page.

A calmer toolbar

The toolbar now shows eight tools. Line, stair, list, trace and the rest are under More tools, and every key still works. The cards for a room, wall, door or window each have their own delete button.

Corners that join

A gap of less than 5 cm (2″ in feet) between two wall ends now closes by itself, with a message; undo opens it again. A loose wall end shows an open circle, so you see where a room is not closed.

The editor in German

Choose Deutsch in the language menu, or open the editor in a German browser. German uses metres and a decimal comma.

Every guide in Dutch too

All 68 guides are now also in Dutch, under /nl/help/, with pictures of the Dutch editor.

Faster pages

Each page first loads only the styles it needs. The rest, and the fonts, come after the page is on your screen.

A guide for every feature

68 guides with pictures of the real app, on /help/. The ? next to a tool or panel opens the guide for it.

Doors, windows and furniture in the isometric view

The isometric export now draws doors, windows and, if you want, the furniture, in our own drawing style. It also comes as a PDF.

Every piece of furniture has a height

Furniture stands at its own height in the isometric view and in 3D, and a wall cabinet hangs where it should. You can set your own height in its panel.

Delete a floor

Under the floor tabs you now see Delete, as soon as a plan has more than one floor. You get a message and can undo it in one step.

Nothing below this room

A room upstairs that stands on nothing gets a warning on the drawing and before you export. Show it, move it over the floor below, keep it as an overhang, or fit it to the floor below in one click.

Zoom with the mouse wheel

The mouse wheel zooms in and out around the pointer. On a trackpad two fingers move the plan and a pinch zooms.

Right-click menu

Right-click a wall, room, door, window or piece of furniture for what you can do with it. Also with Shift + F10, or a long press on a phone.

Switch units with a plan drawn

Feet and metres can now be switched at any time, also when a plan is drawn. The sizes stay the same and you can undo it.

Move freely in 3D

Tilt, pan and zoom to the pointer in 3D, or fly and walk through the house, up the stairs to the next floor. With a mouse, trackpad, touch or keys.

Sun study

See how many hours of sun your garden, terrace or balcony gets, per day or per season. The walls of your plan cast shade. Looking up a Dutch address, so the buildings nearby cast shade too, needs an account.

Rent points and energy label input (NL)

For a Dutch home: the area parts of the rent points system (WWS) and the area per floor with Ag, filled in from your plan, as a CSV. A proposal, not yet reviewed; the Huurcommissie stays decisive.

Detect walls when you trace

Upload a picture of a plan and the editor suggests the walls; you keep or drop each one. It can also read the dimensions on the plan to check the scale. This runs in your browser.

Video and stills

Make a video that flies past your saved 3D views (MP4, or WebM where the browser cannot make MP4), or a still of up to 4K. It all happens in your browser.

Free library and your own photos

39 free 3D models and 28 free textures (CC0) for furniture, floors and walls. Or put your own photo on a floor or wall; it stays in your browser.

Dutch measuring instruction mode

Turn on the Dutch measuring instruction mode for a measurement sheet per floor, a closing sum that points to the room that does not add up, and the measurement report.

Your plan in 3D

Switch between Plan, Section and 3D. The plan is raised in 3D in our own drawing style, with ink lines and the colours of your materials.

Section

A cut through the house, with a small key plan that shows the cut line, level marks and heights. Stairs show up in the section too.

Floors

Add floors, switch, rename and copy them. You see the floor below faintly, and the totals count every floor.

Stairs, roofs and outdoor space

Draw stairs, openings in the floor and outdoor space, and give a floor a roof with its shape and pitch. They count in the area where the rules say so, and show in 3D.

Furnish your rooms

Place furniture from the catalogue, duplicate it, group it and push it against a wall. A check tells you whether it fits.

Share a plan with a link

Make a link that only lets people look. Choose how long it works, copy it, and turn it off whenever you want. People open it without an account.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Embed a plan on your own site

Copy the embed code from the share window and the plan shows on your own page, with a button for full screen.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

QR code on the PDF report

For a home in your account, the PDF report can carry a QR code that opens the live plan. It is off until you turn it on.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

New handles for editing

Corners, walls, doors and windows get their own handles, exactly where dragging works, so small changes are easier.

Snap to the lines of a PDF

When you trace a PDF with drawn lines, your clicks snap to those lines, so walls follow the plan exactly.

Set the scale with a door

Click the two sides of a door and set the scale in one step. A check warns when the scale gives an unlikely size.

My homes and teams

Keep your homes in your account, search them, and invite people to a team with their own role.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Sign in with a passkey

After signing in with a code by email, you can add a passkey and sign in with your device next time.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

Download or delete your data

Download everything in your account as one file, or delete your account: you are signed out everywhere at once, and the account is erased for good 30 days later.

Needs an account. Accounts open at the launch.

The editor opens faster

Parts you do not need yet, like tracing and the Dutch texts, now load only when you use them.