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16 articles
Getting started
Your first plan in five minutes.
- Draw your first room →
- Type rooms as a list →
- Save your plan →
- The start screen and the tour →
- Start from an example home →
- Start from your address (Netherlands) →
- Search tools, actions and help →
- Undo, redo and the history of changes →
- Send feedback and install the app →
- Wishlist: vote on what comes next →
- Workspaces and work profiles →
- Use the app on site →
- Scan a room with your phone →
- On the iPad and other tablets →
- Install Squaremetry as an app →
- Room templates: bathroom, kitchen, toilet and laundry room →
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17 articles
Drawing and measuring
Rooms, walls, doors and odd shapes.
- Select, move and change walls →
- Curved walls, build-up, wall height and bay windows →
- Add doors and windows →
- Rooms: name, type, ceiling and floor →
- Trace a floor plan →
- Select several things, copy and paste →
- The right-click menu →
- Zoom and move the plan →
- Measure and dimension lines →
- Text, lines and callouts →
- Split a room without a wall →
- Lock layers →
- Split levels and half floors →
- Renovation drawing: existing, new and demolish →
- A Bluetooth laser distance meter →
- Freehand lines on the plan →
- Set the scale with something you know →
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19 articles
Floors, stairs and details
Levels, stairs, furniture, materials and more.
- Floors, heights, roofs and variants →
- Outbuildings: garage, shed, summer house, carport →
- Add a stair →
- Openings in the floor →
- Balconies, terraces and porches →
- Furniture: place, change and list it →
- Place structures, symbols, ground and north →
- Materials and colours →
- Photos, field notes, photo points and 360° photos →
- Systems: electrical, water, heating and air →
- Electrical plan: heights, switches, cables and the fuse box →
- Pipes and ducts: water, drains, heating, floor heating and air →
- Systems assistant: a proposal per room →
- Interior: kitchen run and wall tiles →
- Colour and material per piece →
- Documents and your own 3D models →
- Plot boundary and site plan →
- Terrain and a house on a slope →
- Photo points as tags: CSV list →
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13 articles
3D, section and views
3D, the section, modes, sun study, video and stills.
- X-ray house: the building phases in 3D →
- Review: check, measurement sheet and the standard →
- Present →
- See your plan in 3D →
- Section and Split view →
- Elevations of the four sides →
- Make a video or a still →
- Sun study for garden, terrace and balcony →
- From a floor plan to walking through it →
- Sales flyer and social images →
- One piece in your room (AR) and walking in VR →
- Wall elevations of a room →
- Tape measure in 3D and in the view link →
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28 articles
Modelling in 3D
Free shapes, groups, terrain and parts, and making them count.
- Model: free 3D shapes next to your plan →
- Model: select faces, edges and groups →
- Model: draw lines, faces close by themselves →
- Model: rectangles →
- Model: circles →
- Model: arcs →
- Model: polygons →
- Model: extrude a face into a shape →
- Model: move and copy, also in a row →
- Model: rotate, also in a circle of copies →
- Model: scale →
- Model: offset edges inside or outside a face →
- Model: sweep a profile along a path →
- Model: measure distance and angle →
- Model: paint colours and materials →
- Model: erase edges and faces →
- Model: look around, slide and fit →
- Model: cut the model with a section →
- Model: groups and components →
- Model: layers and the overview →
- Model: join, subtract and overlap shapes →
- Model: a whole house, or loose objects that never count →
- Model: terrain →
- Model: saved views, styles and sun →
- Model: smart parts from a few sizes →
- Model: furniture from the library →
- Model: draw freehand →
- Model: 3D text →
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8 articles
Areas and rules
What counts, and why each number is what it is.
- Foundation: crawl space, slab or basement →
- See every area and why it counts →
- What counts, and the standard you measure to →
- Measuring instruction and the measurement report →
- Problems and checks before you export →
- Where each length comes from, and the BAG check →
- Measurement report from an FML file →
- Checklists for the site visit →
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18 articles
Files and export
PDF, SVG, PNG, CSV, DXF and plan files.
- Drawing set: every sheet in one PDF →
- Sheets: drawing sheets with live views →
- Views on a sheet: place, scale and crop →
- Draw on a sheet: dimensions, notes, tables and images →
- Sheet templates and the scrapbook →
- Export as PDF, PNG, JPG, SVG, CSV or DXF →
- Export presets: listing image and escape plan →
- Copy the UAD 3.6 table →
- Image or PDF to DXF →
- Import a DXF drawing →
- Start a home from an FML file →
- Go back to an earlier version →
- The language of an export →
- Contractor pack: drawings, DXF and a view link in one ZIP →
- Export a 3D model or a BIM file (GLB, USDZ, OBJ, IFC) →
- Listing pack: the data and floor plans for a listing site or MLS →
- Export an image in 8K →
- Start from a scan, an IFC file or a point cloud →
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11 articles
Sharing
View links, edit links, embeds and presentations.
- Work on a home together, live, and leave comments →
- A preview when you paste a view link →
- Share a plan with a view link →
- Put the floor plan on your website →
- Let someone change your plan with an edit link →
- The shared plan page, AR and questions →
- Make a presentation for your client →
- A "measure your home" link for the occupant →
- Assignments and delivery by link →
- Comments on a spot and approval →
- Statistics of a view link →
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7 articles
Recognition and AI
Detect walls, plans from text or a sketch, Ask the norm.
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21 articles
Account and billing
Homes, payments and your data.
- Sign in and save homes to your account →
- Sign in with a passkey →
- Signed-in devices: two at a time →
- Find and open your homes →
- Folders, labels, status and duplicates →
- Hand over a home →
- Copy a floor to another home →
- My defaults for new plans →
- Favourite settings →
- Unlock a home or get Pro →
- Download or delete your data →
- API keys →
- Your logo and contact button on embeds →
- Your photos in the workspace →
- Help by looking along →
- Invite someone and both get a month of Pro →
- Single sign-on (SAML) for your office →
- News by e-mail, and the reminder before a yearly renewal →
- Webhooks: tell your own system when something changes →
- Connect an AI assistant to Squaremetry →
- The API per home: make, measure and export homes →
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