Buy extra projects

August 9, 2012, 5:37 am

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Last month we simplified our product range to 3 options: Basic, Plus and Pro, giving users 1, 5 or 180 projects a year.

But what if you just need 1 more project?

Starting this week, you can also buy extra projects for a simple price per project. See the table below:

How does it work?

Go to your dashboard, click on the button to create a project. Only if your project limit is reached, you will get a menu in which you can buy extra projects. Just choose the amount and go ahead to pay.

Clearly, for upgraded users, prices of extra projects are cheaper. Upgrading is also a good deal because you get options to print, export, share and embed the amazing floor plans you made.

Need bigger deals?

If you think you need 500 projects or more per month, please contact us through our contact form.

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Välkommen till floorplanner! (Floorplanner now in Swedish)

August 20, 2012, 9:19 am

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Swedish We released a Swedish version of floorplanner! Now Floorplanner is available in 14 languages. We would like to thank a couple of our Swedish users for their help in this. They helped translate about 50% of the entire platform, our web pages, the drawing tool, manuals and the objects in our library. Big thumbs up!

You can switch to your own language in your profile, go to ‘My account’ on your dashboard and change it in your profile. Not logged in, check out the flag in the top right.

Feedback

There are probably still some errors in our translations. Have you found any errors or untranslated parts in our product or pages or can’t find any furniture items, please let us know through our contact form. Would you like to help us out? You can become a translator and get a Plus account for free!

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Gift Certificate

September 13, 2012, 3:02 pm

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Are your friends moving to a new house?
Is your uncle starting a restaurant?
Want to welcome the new owners of your house?
Or maybe your partner talks and talks about redesigning the garden but just doesn’t get started...

Floorplanner Plus might just be the perfect gift for your friends to enjoy their (new) space in the best possible way. It lets them visualise their interior ideas in an easy, stunning and convincing fashion.

For only € 9,95 they can! With the Floorplanner Gift account you give someone all Plus benefits for one year, including high quality visuals in 2D and 3D and enough project space to keep them busy for a while. And of course, they can draw & share their plans as easy as Floorplanner has always been for that.

Tell me more!

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Drawing an Attic

October 19, 2012, 4:08 am

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Do you want to draw your attic in Floorplanner? We explain step-by-step how you do this in our trips & tricks, including setting wall heights, drawing a roof and adding windows.

It’s a bit too long for our blog, so check out the manual here and go along planning! If you're still struggling after going through these pages, just post on our forum and we'll try to be of assistance.

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Making a Legend

November 5, 2012, 8:00 am

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Here’s how you can make a legend with the items from our library.

1) Search for ‘Legend’ in the sidebar. You’ll get a bunch of items that can be handy for creating legends.
2) Drag a surface or border onto your plan. You can give it any color you like.

3) Find the A in the construction menu. Drag Text objects from here onto your surface for the title and description.
4) We have letters A-Z and numbers 0-9 to help you indicate an item.
5) Search for ‘symbols’, ‘electrical’, ‘emergency’ etc to get any other symbols you may need.

6) Type ‘Balloon’ or ‘Labels’ and you’ll find objects to give your remarks or descriptions a nice border.

I hope this was useful!
Want to have this for later use? Download the mini-manual Making a Legend.

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The spotlight on our partners

November 20, 2012, 1:29 pm

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More and more companies are using Floorplanner to draw professional floorplans for real estate agents and other clients. The quality of these partners and the plans they create is growing on a daily basis.

To promote our floor plan producing partners and make it easier for real estate agents to find a suitable provider we launched our new Partner page. On this page you’ll find professionals that can make quality floor plans for you , pretty much anywhere in the world.

For partners and future partners

If you’re reading this and thinking: 'Hey, I want to be on this partner list too!', you just need at least a Floorplanner Partner account. Then, contact us to be on this list. You can use our contact form for more info.
Partners will show up in our list in a random order on for each pageview.

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Black and white style

April 24, 2013, 3:25 am

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Over the years we have seen a growing number of properties that are presented online with a colorful, interactive floorplan made with Floorplanner. However a lot of floorplans are still printed on paper and in many cases this is in black & white and for this a more “cleaner” look helps readability.

We have provided a black & white export option for some time now but as we are always looking to improve things we are rolling out some improvements that will make it even easier to create a more technical 2D look for your floorplans.

Some of the things we recently added are:

A collection of black and white furnishing items to our libraries
Simple doors and windows
Hatch patterns for your floors
A black and white export option
The option to turn off shadows

Check out this plan as an example:

Or, with a subtle color:

We will be improving things further in the near future. Think about:

More black and white items
More hatches for your floors
Easier PDF/image export
A small tutorial on how to get the best black and white look

To get black and white furnishing items, do a search for "blackandwhite" in the sidebar. toggle the grey buttons below the search bar to get the topviews

We'll keep you posted!

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Floorplanner acquires London based Mydeco3D to help bridge the Imagination Gap for home buyers

May 16, 2013, 12:40 am

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New research has discovered that 73% of people experience the “Imagination Gap”; an inability to visualise themselves, their furniture or their belongings in a property for sale or to rent, even after viewing pictures online. A surprising 70% of people still can’t imagine how a property will look after seeing it in person.

This has serious implications for the property market, as the same research by Floorplanner found that 75% of people are less likely to purchase or rent a property if they cannot imagine living in it.

To tackle the significant problem of this Imagination Gap in the property market, Floorplanner today announced the purchase of Mydeco3D Ltd. Mydeco’s award winning 3D room planner tool adds new depth to online property listings by enabling floorplans to be populated with virtual, highly accurate versions of real-world products and furnishings. This is key to addressing the difference between how a property looks today and what it might look like after it has been purchased, furnished and decorated.

“A floorplan is a crucial component of any property listing. Our research shows over 50% of consumers spend more time viewing properties that have an interactive floorplan, making a sale or let much more likely,” said Jeroen Bekkers, CEO and Founder of Floorplanner. “Floorplanner has always had a unique interactivity that helps people visualise properties more clearly. With the addition of Mydeco’s technology, we’ll be able to close the Imagination Gap of house-purchasers and home-makers by delivering room styling in an even more compelling way. Unlike photos or static 2D plans, our platform can show the future potential of a property, making it easier to buy, sell, let and rent a property.”

Soon to be integrated with Floorplanner’s current, cutting-edge technology, this new platform allows buyers and renters to personally style each room, using a virtual model of a property, both prior to and after moving in.

“Almost a million rooms have been designed with Mydeco’s 3D tools,” added Jeroen. “Combining the success of this technology with Floorplanner’s well-established platform will help real estate agents offer better floorplans for all listed properties. We have created something that homebuyers can really understand. Our 3D modelling content keeps them engaged with online property listings for longer, driving up interest, engagement and ultimately the price achieved.”

Update: check out the coverage on the Wall Street Journal and TheNextWeb.

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HTML5 floorplans for phones and tablets

May 29, 2013, 3:01 am

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Floorplans are an essential part of any serious property presentation. And more and more people are accessing these presentations on mobile devices – property portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla in the UK state that over 30% of their traffic now comes from a phone or tablet. That means that floorplans need to be shown at their best in these mobile environments too.

Floorplanner floorplans can be output as 2D and 3D high quality images - but also as interactive floorplans. These interactive floorplans can be easily embedded into any website, as easily as embedding a YouTube movie. The advantage of an interactive floorplan is that it engages home hunters far more in planning the rooms, seeing if it corresponds to their needs, driving up emotional attachment to a property which results in better leads.

HTML5 for phones and tablets

We’re really pleased to announce that interactive floorplans are now available on all mobile devices. We recently released an HTML5 version of the interactive floorplan viewer especially designed for phones and tablets.

What’s even better is that you don't have to change anything. Whenever you load a floorplan on a mobile device, the new HTML5 version is automatically loaded.

Floorplans to scale

A house can have several floor levels and the floors can have different sizes. We have improved our mobile viewer to automatically display each floor to the same scale. This way, it's easier for a home hunter to understand the size of the floorplans and thus the house.

So have a look – get out your phone or tablet and try it out for yourself. We hope you’ll be impressed! Check out these plans for instance:

http://pl.an/27438

http://pl.an/demo-house

http://pl.an/oude-amersfoortseweg-118---hilversum

http://pl.an/94617

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Floorplanner partners with Officeplanner to visualize office space

August 4, 2013, 12:46 am

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Floorplanner extends its platform into office spaces through a partnership with Officeplanner. This partnership adds a new possibility to the Floorplanner platform that allows people to automatically create different office layout proposals within seconds and see them in 3D.

“Visualising the possibilities of a particular space is hard and hiring a designer to draw up a custom proposal brings additional costs” says Jeroen Bekkers, CEO of Floorplanner.com “Officeplanner solves this by delivering custom 3D layout proposals on the fly based on the floorplan from our platform. It saves companies and real estate agents considerable time and money but also gives them much better insights into the potential of a space.”

Leading Dutch property portal Funda.nl is among the first to use the Officeplanner / Floorplanner integration within their website. This integration went live this week with over 250 office spaces already enabled with this feature.

Jan Werkman, commercial manager at Funda, says: "From experience we know that it's difficult for future tenants or buyers to see the potential of an empty office just by looking at a floorplan. They have a hard time visualizing if this is the right space for them. The interactive 3D floorplan from Officeplanner helps to bridge this 'imagination gap' based on the most advanced internet technology available."

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Spring update : improving Floorplans

March 31, 2014, 7:13 am

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It has been some time since you’ve heard from us. We’re happy to mention some improvements and updates of the Floorplanner tool. Lately, we've been working hard on improving Roomstyler and Floorplanner simultaneously.

New drawing features

We added some little details that could matter for a lot of our users.
1) Rotate your entire plan at a custom angle. This is ideal for drawing plans with rooms at an angle, like the one displayed.
2) The option to get the total floor area of your plan. You can see in one go the total square size of all your auto-generated rooms, and also of your custom surfaces. We’ve had the option in m2 for some time now, but now we also added the option in square feet.
3) Extra assets. The last months we’ve added plumbing symbols, server- and network equipment, a tennis court and an indoor soccer field. Also we improved the look of some assets like our TV screens.

Tutorials & Tricks

We started a series of tutorial movies in which we explain how to draw in Floorplanner. Every now and then we will add a new movie showing some new tricks or features to get the plans you need.

Also, we added some documents with Tips and Tricks on several subjects. For instance: How to draw an Attic, How to add a legend, Repairing your floorplan We’re glad to see that since then, the quality of attic plans has been visibly improved, and we see more and more people using floorplanner for electric- and plumbing plans with a legend explaining all the symbols.

Czech version!

In january we released a Czech version! We hope to bring all the floorplanner goodness to the Czech- and the Slovak republic. Thanks to our dedicated translators!

If you want to hear about our latest features or see the amazing plans our users are making, just like our facebook page. For questions or feedback, please visit our forum

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Basic tutorial movie part 3

June 2, 2014, 3:28 am

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Part 3 of the basic tutorial series is online. After covering basic room drawing in part 1, doors windows and structural components in part 2, this time we explain about rooms properties and surface drawing.

We're adding new videos to this series soon. You can subscribe to our channel to get notified for the newest instruction movies.

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Basic tutorial movie part 4

June 5, 2014, 4:05 am

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Part 4 of the basic tutorial series is online. In Part 4 we add a kitchen and some furniture. We explain 2 ways of drawing separate wall sections, how create a low wall, grouping objects and setting object properties.

We're adding new videos to this series soon. You can subscribe to our channel to get notified for the newest instruction movies.

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