FloorPlan 2022 Home & Landscape - Mac Upgrade

Ways to Start Your Project

• QuickStart^™: Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.
• Professionally Designed Plans: Need inspiration or an instant starting point? Utilize our editable house plans to fast track your design or browse them for room layout ideas.
• Floor Plan Trace:Trace a favorite floor plan, or use one you've sketched.
• PhotoView:^™ Take pictures of the inside or outside of an existing house and easily add design features and details.

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Gables & Dormers

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Auto Framing

Select metal, wood or custom framing options, including custom roofs, walls, and floor joists.

Windows, Doors & Walls

FloorPlan ^® offers a rich library of door and window styles to choose from, ensuring that you can find the perfect match for your architectural design. You have the flexibility to customize various aspects such as size, grille style, and more to ensure that they fit seamlessly into your plan.

Elevation Editor

Dynamically edit within elevation view. Elevations can be viewed as line drawings, shaded line drawings, full color, and more.

Elevation View

Room Addition and Decoration Made Easy

The process of adding rooms and decorating is simplified with drag and drop room creation. SmartWand ^™technology applies paint or other materials to a specific wall, room, or the entire house with just one click.

Floorplan and Frame

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3D Standard View

3D Cutaway View

Aerial View

Estimate Costs

View in 2D

Real Model

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Start Your Project

• QuickStart^™: Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.
• PhotoView:^™ Take pictures of the inside or outside of an existing house and easily add design features and details.

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2D View

3D View

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PhotoView:^™

Use a photo of your home and design landscaping, decks, and patios around it.

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Original Photo

Photo View Edit

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Site Planner and Topo Tools

Site Planner automatically draws your property line, as you enter the coordinates, then exports your lot into your landscape design. Add real-world topography to your building site. Trace over your topo lines. Automatically cuts or adds fill and building pad to your design.

Site Planner and Topo Tools

Auto Edging & Planting Templates

Zone-specific plant groupings with simple drag & drop placement. A variety of shapes for freestanding, corners, and more.

FloorPlan Home Design Landscape

Planting Library

The Planting Library is a comprehensive feature that enriches your design with a variety of botanical elements. It offers an extensive selection of flowers, shrubs, and trees that can be seamlessly integrated into your design. The library is not just limited to the existing database; it also allows the personalization of the collection by adding your favorite plants.

Planting Library

Plantfinder ^™

The PlantFinder ^™ is an intelligent tool designed to ensure the success of your planting strategy. It searches for plants suitable for your specific area based on a range of parameters that you set, such as international zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions. It provides photo-realistic images of real-world plants, viewable from any angle, enhancing the realism of your design. Additionally, the color-coded zone maps simplify the plant selection process, making it both easy and reliable.

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Plant Finder

Hardiness Zones

Plant Information

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Irrigation Tools

The Irrigation toolkit includes a variety of tools to design a comprehensive watering system. Sprinkler heads can be placed to achieve full coverage, visible only in 2D. Water lines represent the system's connections, and zone markers delineate different watering areas, both also in 2D. An irrigation control panel can be added to walls, allowing for repositioning and elevation adjustments. Backflow valves, essential for system integrity and sometimes legally required, are visible in both 2D and 3D views. Lastly, rain sensors can be installed to enhance system efficiency by conserving water and energy, which should be placed in unobstructed locations for accurate readings. These tools collectively facilitate the creation of an effective and efficient irrigation layout.

Irrigation Tools

Plant Growth

Plant Growth visualization is a forward-thinking feature that lets you plan your design with the future in mind. It allows you to see how your plantings will evolve over time, which is particularly useful for planning the placement of trees and shrubs that will provide shade as they mature.

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Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

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Hardscapes

The Hardscapes feature enables you to create dramatic and functional retaining walls that not only define the space but also enhance the aesthetic appeal of your home. It offers a variety of materials like stone and brick, and once the structure is in place, you can add plantings to complete and complement the overall look of your outdoor space. These features collectively provide a robust toolkit for designing both the green and structural elements of your property with precision and artistic flair.

Hardscapes

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2D View

3D View

Aerial View

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Design Phase Tabs

Design Phase Tab

Easy tabs organize your project into the foundation, floor, electrical, plumbing, roof, etc. creating all the steps needed for your design.

Note: The availability of Tabs (e.g., Foundation, Floor, Electrical, Plumbing, Roof) may vary depending on the product variant you are using. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the Product Line Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.

Object Library

Unlock a world of design potential with an expansive selection of 2D and 3D objects, offering endless possibilities to enhance your space. With a user-friendly interface, you can select and place entire furniture groupings through a simple drag-and-drop mechanism. Dive into a vast array of nationally recognized decorating materials, including stylish faux finishes, elegant wood flooring, sleek countertops, and versatile blinds, among others. Experience the ease and efficiency of our intuitively designed library, crafted for quick and straightforward searches, ensuring you find the perfect design elements in no time.

Object Library

2D House Plans

Save hours of design time by using professionally drawn single and two-story house plans as 2D tracing layers which can then be automatically viewed as a 3D design. 500 plans from which to choose!

Simple Drag and Drop Tools!

Add rooms, paint color, furnishings, landscape plantings and more!

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Drag and Drop Before

Drag and Drop After

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Build Green

Go green in one click; watch your design go green with design tips and objects; recycled glass counter tops, bamboo flooring and more! Make your home more energy efficient with new appliances or update your windows, doors and more!

SmartWand ^™

SmartWand^™technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room, or your entire house, with one mouse click!

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SmartWand^™technology Before Paint

SmartWand^™technology After Paint

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Instant 2D/3D Views plus the ability to create templates for a 3D model of your design

Instantly switch between 2D and 3D views with ease to bring your floor plans to life. This capability allows for a quick assessment of both the spatial and aesthetic qualities of a design. Additionally, you can create templates for a 3D model of your design for future projects or variations.

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BluePrint

3D Model Design

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2D Engine

High performance and high-quality rendering for 2D geometry and text.

Support for customizable line, fill, and pattern colors.

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Home Design Example

Landscape Design Example

Design in Greyscale

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2D Object Detailing

2D Object Detailing

Drawing Styles

Customize and apply drawing styles for any objects or group of objects.

Drawing Styles

Draw Style Profiles

Pick and apply a profile to an object.

Save your profile, then quickly and easily apply to selected objects.

Draw Style Profiles

Format Painter

Easily copy the same style to other objects.

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Format Painter 1

Format Painter 2

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Line and Pattern Styles

Customize lines and patterns to your design.

Sample Lines

Sample Patterns

Detailed View with Custom Applications

Drawing Styles

Antialiasing

Smooth lines and curves.

Line Cap Styles

Choose from Miter, Bevel, and Round.

Annotate Remodeling Details

Easily and Clearly Show Before and After Changes.

Annotate Remodeling Details

Transparency

Options for Lines, Fills, Patterns & Text.

Transparency

Callout Tool

The Callout Tool enables you to identify specific portions of the building model, such as details, sections, and elevations. It automatically adjusts the callout size to fit the text, ensuring clear and precise annotations.

Callout Tool

Railing, Decks and Staircases

Explore an array of railing styles, from offset spindles to glass and wire, and craft custom 3D posts for unlimited design possibilities. With detailed deck construction tools (only available in FloorPlan^® Pro), you can define fascia heights and post dimensions, and ensure stability with support posts that extend to the ground. Fine-tune staircase post heights and achieve a continuous handrail flow over posts for a polished finish.

Railing, Decks and Staircases

LuxCore^™ Photorealistic Rendering

Please note that these features are exclusive to LuxCore^™, available as an optional plug-in for FloorPlan ^® Pro.

The LuxCore^™ rendering engine creates stunning presentations. Render management of materials, luminances, environments, and advanced render styles give you truly photorealistic results. Additional lighting options including Sky, Area, and Custom Object Lights help create stunning indoor renderings.

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LuxCore^™ Photorealistic Rendering

LuxCore^™ Photorealistic Rendering

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Windows, Doors Skylights

Windows, doors, and skylights now feature glass panes for enhanced realism in standard renderings. The photo rendering capability mimics the authentic qualities of double-pane window glass for a lifelike visual effect.

Windows, Doors Skylights

Level Lines

Add labels to drawing to callout important structural elevations when creating construction documentations.

Level Lines

2D Plan Detailing

FloorPlan provides extensive detailing tools suitable for annotating site plans, floor plans, elevation views, and providing other details required for proper construction and permits. These tools include a Callout tool, Plan, Window and Door labels, and Note Markers. In addition, numerous line styles and fill patterns provide greater ability to annotate and call out regions and areas of the drawing. All essential in accurately communicating design intent.

2D Plan Detailing

Modify Toolbar

Align, edit, and distribute elements with ease.

Alignment Tools– Quickly align a selected set of design elements.

Distribution Tools – Spaces selected design elements evenly.

Size Match – Make selected elements the same width, height or both.

Duplicate – Creates specified number of copies, customizable spacing between copies.

Flip and Mirror – Flip objects horizontally and vertically.

2D View Tools – Reset View, Fit To Window, Fit To Selected.

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Original Layout

Size Match Applied

Vertical Alignment Applied

Horizontal Distribution Applied

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Rich Text

More custom text options.

Choose multiple fonts and attributes.

Rich Text

High-Quality Resolution and Printing

High-Quality Resolution and Printing

Powerful Visualization & Rendering

The LightWorks^®rendering engine creates stunning presentations. Render management of materials, luminance, environments, and advanced render styles give you truly photorealistic results. You can create even more stunning renderings with LightWorks^®Skylight, Area, and Custom Object lighting options. These features are ideal for creating dynamic, photorealistic Interior Designs, allowing you to more effectively communicate your design ideas to your client, or your interior designer, builder, or contractor.

Cost Estimation Tool

Cost Estimation Tool

Instant 2D/3D Views plus the ability to create templates for a 3D model of your design

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BluePrint

3D Model Design

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Print Blueprints of Your Designs

Blueprint of Design

DWG/DXF Import and Export

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Import

Export

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3D Export Support

3D Export Support

Intuitive Interactive Help & Do it Yourself Tips

Includes hundreds of DIY how-to-tips from the experts.

Intuitive Interactive Help & Do it Yourself Tips

Note: The availability of features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the Product Line Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.

Start Your Project

• QuickStart^™: Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.
• PhotoView^™: Take pictures of the inside or outside of an existing house and easily add design features and details.
• Intellideck^™: This function smartly recognizes your home’s contours during the design process, enabling you to swiftly create a personalized deck in mere moments.

Deck and Patio

The Deck and Patio templates provide a selection of predesigned layouts that are ready to use with a simple drag-and-drop action. These templates are fully editable, so you can either adopt them as they are or customize them to fit your unique style.

Site Planner and Topo Tools

Transform any ordinary backyard into a vibrant space perfect for entertainment. FloorPlan® includes a variety of objects such as outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, and furniture, allowing you to create a cozy and inviting atmosphere. Additionally, you can enhance your design with pavers, decks, and landscaping elements, tailoring the outdoor area to your preferences and needs.

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2D View

3D View

Aerial View

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