Floor planner

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Contents 1 Getting setup 2 Getting started 3 What you need to do 4 What you need to calculate 5 When you're done 6 Converting square feet to square inches or square inches to square feet

Getting setup

1. Go to http://floorplanner.com/account/signup
2. Enter your email and password on the right-hand side
3. Go to Create new plan
   
4. Enter your Plan Name at the very top, doesn't matter what it is and then press the Create Plan button at the bottom
5. Now you're ready to make your house floor plan

Getting started

1. First, click on the Imperial button so that everything is in feet
   
2. Go to the Construction window and press the leftmost icon draw room
   

• You can add more rooms by using this tool again. Just click on one of the corners of the floor and drag to create a new room.

1. Then click and drag your walls onto the work area. You can move the walls later by dragging them.

What you need to do

1. Make a bedroom, living room and another room of your choice.
2. You need to have at least 3 items in each room
3. You need to include at least one of these shapes in your house, not per room:

• Circle
• Trapezoid
• Rectangle
• Triangle
• Square

What you need to calculate

• Everything needs to be in feet and square feet. Nothing else.

1. The length, width, radius of each object. Include both base lengths for trapezoids.

• One way of finding these measurements is to click on the object
  

1. The area of each object that lies on the floor in your house

• So you can add plates and stuff like that without having to calculate its area because it will not be lying on the floor but on a table
• Use the place a comment button to show each object's dimensions and area
  

1. The area of your house's floor (should be pretty easy)
2. The area left on your floor after your objects are added to your house's floor plan

When you're done

• Go to the right-hand side and type a name into the Save Design box, then press Save
  
• When going back to the web page to edit your plan go to http://floorplanner.com

• You'll have to do either step one or two below depending if your computer saved your login info

1. Click on the login link at the top-right corner
   
2. OR Click on the overview button
   

• Then click on the Draw icon button
  
• To save your revised floor plan go the right-hand side and click on the disk icon
  

Converting square feet to square inches or square inches to square feet

• Square feet to square inches.
• To go from square inches to square feet you do the opposite operation from the link above. You divide by 144 instead of multiplying by 144.