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Polygon floorplan in Floorspace editor

asked 2022-04-06 14:51:23 -0500

Tim Mueller
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updated 2022-04-07 08:51:40 -0500

Aaron Boranian

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I have an existing building with a trapezoidal footprint, an artifact of the property boundaries. It doesn't really align to the grid in the Floorspace editor when creating the model, and there doesn't seem to be a way to disable the snap-to-grid functionality. Am I missing something? Should I be using SketchUp to build the model, rather than Floorspace?

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answered 2022-04-06 18:16:23 -0500

shorowit

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You can draw a trapezoidal footprint by using the Polygon drawing tool instead of the Rectangle drawing tool:

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If the vertices of the polygon don't align with the grid, you can reduce the grid spacing from a default of 5 ft to something smaller (decimals work too):

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For example, here's a trapezoid using a grid spacing of 6 inches (0.5 ft):

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