FloorPlan 3D® v11 Essentials

Training movies for FloorPlan

01 - Introduction

02 - Opening Files

• File Types
• Templates and Documents

03 - Templates

• Room Names
• Custom Settings

04 - Interface and Title Bars

• Pull down Menus Desktop
• Palettes
• Application Settings
• Material Databases
• Plane View
• 3-D View
• Help Menu

05 - Toolbars and Icons

• Locations (Levels)
• Select Tool

06 - Location Settings

• Starting New Levels
• Creating Basement
• Display Filter

07 - Importing DXF Files

• Setting up Tracing Layers
• Checking Your Scale

08 -   Additional Changes to the 11 Interface

• Rearranging Your Desktop

09 - Moving/Rotating Trace Layer

10 - Inserting Walls

• Wall Materials

11 - Exterior Walls

• Location Settings - Adjusting Wall Height
• Extend Wall Height to Roof
• Shaped Walls

12 - Enclosed Spaces

• Square Footage
• Interior Walls
• Deleting Extra Wall Sections

13 - Wall Filling

• Repositioning Walls

14 - Backing up Your Work

15 - Inspector Bar

16 - Inserting Doors

• Changing Door Properties

17 - Doors Continued

• Arched Doorways
• Save As

18 - Second-Floor DXF Import

19 - New Wall Snaps

20 - Invisible Walls

21 - Creating Holes in Floors   

• Rendering

22 - Invisible Walls

• Creating Close Spaces to Create Holes
• Holes in Ceilings

23 - Creating Openings or Stairs

• Ceiling Properties
• Rendering

24 -Save As

25 -Adding Stairs

• Drawing Information
• Rotating Stairs
• Stair Widths
• Calculating Wall Heights

26 -Customizing Stairs

• Risers and Treads

27 - Stair Insertion Tricks

• Using Invisible Walls to Close Spaces

28 - Photorealistic Rendering

• Raytrace and Radiosity
• Light Settings

29 - Railing and Balustrades

30 - Closing Wall Gaps

• Adjusting Wall Height
• Changing Camera Angles and Heights  

31 - DRX Windows

32 - Inserting and Adjusting Windows

33 - Replacing Windows

34 - Bow Windows

35 - 2nd Floor Windows

36 - 2nd Floor Windows Continued

37 - Roofs

38 - Bow Roof

39 - Cabinets

• Creating Groups
• Editing Cabinet Styles
• Cabinet Materials

40 - Cabinets Continued

• Corner Cabinets
• Countertops
• Slabs

41 - Curved Countertops

• Slabs
• Editing Slab  Properties

42 - Sinks and Appliances

43 - Cook tops and Islands

44 - Bath and Laundry Fixtures

45 - Tiled Floors

46 - 2nd Floor Bathroom

• Editing Symbol Location

47 - Bay Wall

• Delete windows
• Insert walls

48 - Bay Roof

• Changing window size
• Deleting ceilings
• Sofit roofs

49 - Basement

• Create new location
• Lower ground plane
• Add basement

50 - Terrain

• Example mesh
• Outdoors display filter
• Edit nodes
• Elevate array

51 - Deck

• Deck properties
• Stairs

52 - Prepared Site Tool

• Remove overlapping terrain

53 - Entry Spline

• Slab tool
• Driveway tool
• Spline option

54 - Light Preview

• Rendering with preview option
• Moving and changing windows

55 - Rendering 1

• Positioning light source
• Turning off sunlight
• Render quality vs. time

56 - Final Rendering

• North Angle
• Weather type
• Selecting an output file

57 - Wall to roof

• New wall to roof for cathedral ceilings