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Aside from its designated purpose of producing pretty 3D furniture visualizations, the 2D monochrome exports are pretty neat if you need to mock up architect-style floorplans without a proper CAD tool. Can assure you a few UK Building Regs drawings have been produced using it...

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Right, just last month I was looking for a very simple tool to make a floor plan with measurements of my house. I'm not sure if there's a better one than this, but this looks like a perfect fit!

I was kinda thinking of something that maybe uses AR to measure/scan your house and turn it into a floor plan, was disappointed that it didn't really exist as far I looked.

Do you mean like Magicplan? [0] There’s a few others but that’s one I’ve used and it works fine.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/au/app/magicplan-2d-3d-floor-plans/id...

I’ve used that before. It worked well, but I found it frustrating that it required you to identify corners on the floor, where they were frequently obscured by furniture, instead of on the ceiling, where they were not.

Yeah I was just thinking the other day, apps like those would work so much better if they let you aim them at the ceiling. Your ceiling edges/corners are usually a lot more visible than your floor.

> Can assure you a few UK Building Regs drawings have been produced using it...

Australian too. We had a couple days where our normal CAD program went offline due to a bug in their license checker.

I used this to fill the gap.

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