Tour
What the floor planner does and where each button is, in 13 chapters. Start the full tour, or any one chapter, and it walks you through the real screens.
71 steps in all. Next and Back move through them, the arrow keys work too, and Esc ends the tour. The editor chapters open the HDB 4-room template when the plan is empty, so there is something to measure.
1The app and the sidebar
Everything starts from the sidebar on the left. Home is where new work starts. Designs, Uploads and Favorites are your library. Templates and Inspiration give you a starting point. Render, Video and 3D Model turn a plan into pictures and models. Takeoff tests is our proof that the measuring works. Your plan and account sit at the bottom.
Buttons
- New
- Home
- Designs
- Uploads
- Favorites
- Templates
- Inspiration
- Render
- Video
- 3D Model
- Takeoff tests
- Tour
- Plan card
- Account menu
12 steps
- Home. Home is the starting point. Describe a plan for the AI, drop in a drawing to measure, or pick a template. New at the top of the sidebar opens the same choices from any page.
- Designs. Every plan you make is saved here, including the saves the editor makes on its own while you work. Open one to carry on. Deleted plans go to Trash, inside Designs.
- Uploads. Drawings you bring in, PDFs and images, are kept here so nobody uploads the same file twice. Open one and the editor starts in takeoff.
- Favorites. Anything you star, a design or a template, collects here.
- Templates. 28 Singapore layouts: HDB, condo, landed, office, retail, F&B and commercial. Each opens as a real plan with walls, doors, windows and furniture, so you change it rather than start from nothing. A few are for paid plans.
- Inspiration. Finished plans and ideas to borrow from. Open one as a starting point for your own.
- Render. Turns a plan into a still image in the interior style you pick. It runs in the browser and saves to Designs.
- Video. A short orbit or walk-through of a plan, recorded in the browser.
- 3D Model. Orbit a plan in 3D and export it as a GLB file for other 3D software.
- Takeoff tests. Our proof. 20 drawings go through the same takeoff as a real job and every room is checked against its known area. Chapter 11 goes through it.
- Tour. This tour as an outline you can read or print. Any chapter can be started from there.
- Your plan and account. At the bottom of the sidebar is the plan you are on, with Upgrade or Manage plan, and your account menu: Account, Help and Sign out.
2Start a plan
There are three ways to start a plan: a blank canvas, a template, or a description for the AI planner. The AI planner lays the rooms out at real sizes and draws the walls, doors, windows and furniture. You ask for changes in plain words, and every answer is one step that Undo takes back.
Buttons
- Upload a drawing
- Blank canvas
- Start with a template
- View all templates
- Or describe the plan
- AI
- Undo
6 steps
- A new plan. A new plan opens on this screen. Upload a drawing to measure it, start on a blank canvas, pick a template, or describe what you want and let the AI draw it.
- Blank canvas. Blank canvas gives you an empty plan with the Library open. Draw the walls and rooms yourself, then add doors, windows and furniture.
- From a template. The four here are the common ones, and View all templates opens the rest. A template comes in as a normal plan, so anything in it can be changed.
- Describe it. Type what you need, for example "4-room HDB flat with a service yard and an open kitchen". Claude lays out the rooms at real sizes and the planner draws the walls, doors, windows and furniture. Give it a minute.
- Change it. Ask for changes the same way: "make the master bedroom bigger", "add a balcony off the living room". It works on the plan you have rather than starting again.
- Undo. Each AI answer is one step. Undo at the top, or Ctrl+Z, takes it back, so it is safe to try things in front of a client.
3Drawing and editing
The editor is the canvas in the middle, the tool palette on the left, the side panel on the right and the bar along the bottom. Walls and rooms are drawn with the tools, doors, windows and furniture come from the Library, and anything you select gets a toolbar next to it. The bottom bar sets units, grid, snapping, dimension lines and zoom. The overview in the corner shows where you are on a big plan, and 2D/3D switches the view.
Buttons
- Select
- Wall
- Line
- Door
- Window
- Room
- Area
- Text
- Measure
- Calibrate
- Library
- Selection toolbar
- m / cm / mm / ft
- Grid
- Snap
- Dimensions
- Fit
- Overview
- 2D | 3D
- Save
- Export
9 steps
- The tool palette. All the drawing tools, each with a shortcut: V select, W wall, R room, A area, T text, M measure, C calibrate. A small mark in the corner of a button means there are more tools under it.
- Walls, doors and windows. Wall: click corner to corner, right-click to stop. Line, Door and Window are under the same button. Drag a door or window across a wall to place it, or double-click the wall.
- Rooms. Room: drag a box. Area, under the same button, clicks round each corner of an odd-shaped room. Give every room a category, because the category decides whether it gets waterproofing.
- Library. Doors, windows and furniture. Drag a piece onto the plan, or click it to drop it in the middle of the view. Doors and windows settle into the nearest wall.
- Selection toolbar. Select a wall, room or piece of furniture and this toolbar appears next to it: size, rotate, flip, duplicate and delete.
- Units, grid, snap and dimensions. Switch between m, cm, mm and ft. The toggles turn the grid, snapping and dimension lines on and off. Minus and plus zoom, and the last button fits the whole plan in view.
- The overview. On a wide enough screen, a small overview of the whole plan sits in the corner of the canvas. Click or drag in it to move around a big drawing.
- 2D and 3D. Switch to 3D to check the plan reads properly, furniture and all. Switch back to keep drawing.
- Save and export. The plan saves on its own as you work, and Save does it now. Export gives PNG, JPG, PDF with a title block, SVG, DXF for CAD, a JSON project file, or the room areas as CSV.
4Upload a drawing for takeoff
Takeoff starts with the architect's drawing. Import a PDF or an image (PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 50 MB) and it sits under the plan. Every drawing you bring in is kept in Uploads, so the next quote on the same job starts from the same file. In the Takeoff panel, Fade pushes the drawing back so the measured rooms stand out, and Replace drawing puts a newer revision in its place.
Buttons
- Import
- Drawing
- From Uploads
- Uploads
- Upload drawing
- Replace drawing
- Fade
3 steps
- Import a drawing. Import, then Drawing, takes a PDF, PNG, JPG or WebP. From Uploads picks one you brought in before. You can also drop the file on Home.
- Uploads. Every drawing you bring in is kept in Uploads. Open one from there and the editor starts in takeoff with the drawing in place.
- Fade and Replace drawing. The Drawing section of the Takeoff panel. Upload drawing brings one in from here too. Once there is one, Fade pushes it back so your rooms stand out, and Replace drawing swaps in a newer revision.
5Analyse the drawing
Analyse drawing measures the rooms off the drawing with geometry first, then shows those measured shapes to a vision model and asks only what each one is. On Server default, Claude answers first and Gemini takes over if Claude fails or is busy. Measure only skips the AI and leaves the areas unnamed. The model can get a name wrong, but it cannot change an area, so nothing it says can change a number on a quote.
Buttons
- Vision model
- Server default
- Measure only
- Analyse drawing
6 steps
- Pick the vision model. This decides who reads the drawing. Server default is what we normally use: Claude Opus first, then Claude Sonnet, then Gemini, each taking over with the same drawing if the one before fails or is busy. Pick a model and it answers first; the others still back it up.
- What the other options mean. Measure only skips the AI: rooms are measured and left unnamed, quick and free. Gemini, OpenAI and Anthropic force one provider. Local runs Ollama on the machine you are on, and Office Mac mini only works from a device on our Tailscale network.
- Analyse drawing. Press it and the drawing is read. With no drawing uploaded it reads the plan on the canvas instead. The note under the button says what it will read, or what is missing.
- Geometry measures, the AI names. The areas come from geometry: the lines on the drawing are traced into closed shapes and measured. The model only says what each shape is, kitchen, bathroom or not a room. A wrong answer can mislabel a room but never changes a number.
- Watch it work. The card shows the percentage and what is happening now, in five stages: read the words (the PDF text and OCR), measure every enclosed area, look closer wherever a printed room name and an outline disagree, name the rooms with AI, and check the result. While it looks closer, the drawing zooms to that spot and a dashed box marks it.
- The AI check and its summary. At the end the AI is shown the outlines on the drawing and the same rooms raised into 3D, and says what it sees: a verdict, a short summary, what kind of building it is, and anything still to check. Rooms it says were merged or missed are looked at again up close and fixed, and the check runs again. Everything fixed this way is listed under Fixed automatically.
6Review what was found
After Analyse, everything found waits in the Detected list until you accept it. Each room shows its name, area and confidence, with a note on anything the system changed: the model's name checked against the name printed on the drawing, two rooms that probably ran together through a doorway, pieces joined into one room. Areas left out as not rooms, such as dimension strips, title blocks and furniture outlines, are listed underneath, and Put back brings one in. Accept takes one room, Accept all takes everything above 80% confidence, and the 3D view shows the rooms as a model so a wrong one stands out.
Buttons
- Detected
- Accept
- Accept all above 80% confidence
- Notes
- Put back
- 2D | 3D
- AI layer
- Versions
8 steps
- The Detected list. Everything Analyse found waits here until you accept it. Each row has the name, the area and how sure the model was.
- Notes and printed names. Read the notes. The model's names are checked against the names printed on the drawing, and the note says when they disagree. Every other change the system made is noted on the room too.
- Probable merges. A note saying two rooms probably ran together means one outline went through a doorway and took in the next room. Check the outline before you accept it.
- Left out, and Put back. Under the list are the areas left out as not rooms: dimension strips, title blocks, furniture outlines, things outside the plan. If one really is a room, Put back brings it in at low confidence, so Accept all will not take it without a look.
- Accept and Accept all. Accept takes one room into the plan. Accept all takes every room above 80% confidence and leaves the doubtful ones for you to look at.
- Check it in 3D. Switch to 3D to see the rooms as a model. A room in the wrong place or a missing wall is easier to spot there than on the flat drawing.
- AI layer on and off. The AI layer switch in the bar under the drawing hides everything the AI found, its outlines and names, so you can see the original drawing underneath, and shows it again. Rooms you drew yourself stay visible.
- Save versions. Versions keeps the plan on your account: the drawing, the rooms, the AI analysis and the last quote. Save it as Version 1, run the analysis again or upload a newer drawing, save Version 2, and open either one later. Every finished analysis is also saved here on its own, so a refresh never loses it.
7Set the scale
Areas are only right once the scale is right. When the drawing prints its dimensions or a scale bar, Analyse reads the scale off it and shows how sure it is. It is never applied on its own: check it against a dimension you trust and press Apply. Otherwise calibrate: click both ends of a known dimension and type its real length. Until the scale is set, the panel says the areas must not be billed and a quote comes out as a draft. Plans drawn in the editor are to scale already.
Buttons
- Apply
- Calibrate instead
- Calibrate from known dimension
- Calibrate (C)
4 steps
- Scale read from the drawing. When the drawing has printed dimensions or a scale bar, Analyse works out the scale and shows it here with a confidence. It is not applied on its own. Check it against a dimension you trust, then press Apply.
- Or calibrate. Calibrate from known dimension: click both ends of a dimension on the drawing and type the real length. Every area after that is in real metres.
- The Calibrate tool. The same thing from the tool palette, shortcut C.
- Why billing waits for it. Before calibration the drawing is measured on the default grid, so the areas could be off by any amount. The panel says not to bill them, and a quote made then is marked as a draft. A plan drawn in the editor is already to scale.
8Quantities
The quantities table is the takeoff: every room with its area and its billable area. Show it in m², ft², sq yd or ha. Filter to wet areas when you only want what gets waterproofed. Billing rules add the wall upturn on wet areas and a wastage allowance. Untick a room to leave it out of the totals and the quote. Export the room areas as CSV for a spreadsheet.
Buttons
- Area unit
- All rooms | Wet areas
- Upturn height
- Wastage
- Counted
- Export > CSV
5 steps
- Area units. m², ft², sq yd or ha. It changes how the areas are shown, not the measurement underneath.
- The quantities. One row per room with its area and billable area. The tick says whether it counts: untick a room and it drops out of the totals and the quote.
- Wet areas. Show switches between all rooms and wet areas only: kitchens, toilets, balconies, laundry, the rooms that get a membrane. A room can be marked wet or dry by hand as well.
- Upturns and wastage. Billing rules add a wall upturn on wet areas, 0.3 m here, and a wastage allowance, 10% here. Billable includes both, and billable is what the quote prices.
- CSV. Export, then CSV, gives the room areas as a spreadsheet for anyone who wants to check the numbers in Excel.
9Quote
The Quote panel turns the takeoff into a priced quotation with nothing typed twice. Pick a membrane system: each comes with an indicative Singapore rate and where that rate came from, and you can type your own. A room can carry its own products. The bill of materials works out the primer, membrane coats, reinforcement and sealant to order. Preliminaries and contingency go on top, then GST at 9%. Download the quotation as PDF or CSV, or Generate quote to create the quote record.
Buttons
- Membrane system
- Rate
- Rooms
- Choose a product
- Bill of materials
- Preliminaries
- Contingency
- GST 9%
- CSV
- Generate quote
5 steps
- Membrane system. Pick the system for the job. On the sample plan the tour picks PU liquid membrane. Each has an indicative Singapore rate per m² with its source next to it. They are a starting point: type your own rate and that is used instead.
- Rooms. Every counted room is priced here. A room bills at the main system unless you give it products of its own, for example a different membrane on the balcony.
- Bill of materials. What to order: primer, membrane per coat, sheet with laps and strips, reinforcement at corners and joints, and sealant.
- Preliminaries, contingency and GST. Preliminaries and contingency go on top of the work, then GST at 9%. PDF gives an A4 quotation to send, CSV gives the lines for a spreadsheet.
- Generate quote. Generate quote creates the quotation from exactly what you see. If the drawing was never calibrated it comes out as a draft.
103D, Render, Video and 3D Model
Once the plan is right you can show it. The 2D/3D switch in the editor is the quick check. Render makes a still image in an interior style you choose, Video records a short orbit or walk-through, and 3D Model lets you orbit the plan and export it as GLB. All of them run in the browser and save to Designs.
Buttons
- 2D | 3D
- Render
- Video
- 3D Model
- Export GLB
4 steps
- 3D in the editor. The quickest check: switch to 3D and orbit the plan with the furniture in place.
- Render. Pick a plan and an interior style and it renders a still image. It runs in the browser and the result saves to Designs.
- Video. A short orbit or walk-through of the plan, recorded as a video you can send to a client.
- 3D Model. Orbit, pan and zoom the plan in 3D, and export it as a GLB file for other 3D software.
11Takeoff tests
Takeoff tests is how we know the measuring works. 20 drawings, from our templates, from group projects and from plans online, go through the same takeoff as a real job, and every room's measured area is checked against its known area. A drawing passes only when every room is inside tolerance and nothing extra was measured, because an extra area would end up priced. Client drawings are shown as numbers only.
Buttons
- Test cards
- Pass / Fail
- Rooms passed
- Median error
- Extra areas
3 steps
- What the 20 drawings prove. Each card is one drawing run through the same takeoff a real job uses. Every room's measured area is compared with its known area, so this tests the numbers that go on a quote, not how the screen looks.
- How to read a card. The badge says pass or fail. Rooms passed is how many rooms came in inside tolerance, Median error is the typical miss, and Extra areas counts things measured that are not rooms. One extra area fails the drawing, because it would be priced.
- Client drawings. Client drawings show the numbers only, with a lock where the picture would be. The numbers come from the same run as the rest. Open any card for the room by room results and every change the system made.
12Plans, billing and the test accounts
There are three plans: Free, Pro and Studio. Free draws and measures plans. Pro and Studio add the 3D view, AI room detection, quotations, saved projects and team seats, paid monthly or yearly. Account shows the plan you are on, its status and when it renews. For testing, the login page has four ready accounts, Free, Pro on a free trial, Pro paid monthly and Pro paid yearly, each one click with no password. Their subscriptions are not real and never reach Stripe.
Buttons
- Pricing
- Monthly | Yearly
- Account
- Manage plan
- Test accounts on the login page
3 steps
- Plans. Free, Pro and Studio. Free draws and measures. Pro and Studio add the 3D view, AI room detection, quotations, saved projects and team seats. Each can be paid monthly or yearly.
- Your account. Account, in the menu at the bottom of the sidebar, shows the plan you are on, whether it is a trial or paid, monthly or yearly, and when it renews. Manage plan is where you change it.
- The test accounts. Sign out and the login page lists four test accounts: Free, Pro on a 14-day trial, Pro paid monthly and Pro paid yearly. Click one and you are in, no password. Their subscriptions are not real and never touch Stripe.
13Using it on a phone
On a laptop, the side panel on the right can be dragged wider from its left edge, so a long takeoff or quote is easier to read, and it remembers the width. On a phone, the same panels open as a sheet from the bottom, the drawing tools sit in a bar along the bottom, the panels and view switch are in the three-dot menu, and the sidebar is behind the menu button at the top left.
Buttons
- Panel edge (drag)
- Mobile tool bar
- Three-dot menu
- Menu button
3 steps
- Make the panel wider. Drag the left edge of the side panel to make it wider or narrower. It remembers the width. Useful for the quote, which has a lot in it.
- Panels on a phone. On a phone, Takeoff, Quote and the other panels open as a sheet from the bottom, over the plan. Close it to get back to drawing.
- That is the tour. Tour in the sidebar has all of this as an outline, and any chapter can be started from there. The Guide button in the editor brings it back too.