I had a very specific need to calculate
square footage of the house before purchasing
hardwood floors I wanted to know the
exact number of hardwood floor packs
that I need to purchase before the
installation
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to do this calculation I decided to use
Microsoft Visio create floorplan and
then use automatic features of Visio to
calculate square footage illnesses what
we're gonna focus on in this video I'm
gonna show you how to create a simple
floorplan how to do calculations and how
to use all the cool features Visio
provides related to floor plan to create
floor plan. You need to launch
the application and type floor plan in
the search box
as you can see there are a lot of
different plans visa allows you to crave
like office layout home plan floor plan
directional map 3d and a lot of others
so if you need those specific ones
please explore those options but in this
video we're gonna focus on the floor
plan I'm gonna click on the floor plan
and as you can see Visio brings all the
stencils and the left needed to create
the floor plan by default PCI opens
walls shells and structure stencils but
you also have points of interest
electrical and telecom drawing tool
shapes and dimensional architecture and
you can also add more shapes as needed
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all of them with you it is very simple
to create floorplan if your room is
rectangular you just select rectangular
room in Visio and bring it in into the
main screen
visa allows you to zoom in so you can
see bigger size of the room and you can
see the sizes so make sure as you
creating floorplan that you measure the
size of the room first and then you can
adjust the sizes here in the application
this particular one we are looking at is
21 feet by 26 feet and three inches
now let's add a door into our room you
can just drag the door stencil and it
will automatically adds into the wall so
this is the door you can do a couple
things was the doors you can make it
bigger depending upon what the size of
your door is typically it's three feet
door that you haven't known so you can
play with this if it's hard to adjust
that was just the mouse you can always
click properties and say ok my door is 3
feet and it will become a three feet
door you can also change how far the
door is opened here
and obviously doors can open and close
in a different sizes of their own so you
can play with that too to do that you
just do a right mouse-click and you can
say revert left right opening and do
that or you can also reverse in an out
opening so those are the very cool
features as with any Visio stencil you
can copy and paste so if you select the
door you can cut copy the door and then
paste that and I accidentally selected
format painter which I didn't intend so
you can select the door click copy and
then click paste and it will create
another door if you want to maintain the
size so maybe it's the walks in the room
right and this way you don't have to
adjust the sizes after you created
creation of windows in the floor plan is
also extremely easy you drag the window
stencil into the room and drop it right
on the wall you can adjust windows sizes
the same way
if you'd like to learn more about
Microsoft Visio I recommend online
training course a careful to selected
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more fun if you house consists of just
rectangular rooms you can bring in
another rectangular room and adjust as
needed and you can can do as many of
those rectangular rooms as you need as
the next step you can add doors and
windows into those new rooms that you
just put together on the other hand if
your house does not have rectangular
rooms but all the rooms or some of the
rooms are odd shapes these are still
makes it possible to do floorplan even
for odd shaped rooms to do floorplan for
the odd shaped rooms you need to bring
in wall stencils one after another and
create configuration of the room of the
odd shape it is a little bit more work
but the good thing it is still possible
the reason I selected Visio to create a
floor plan is because Visio can
calculate square footage of the created
floor plan automatically this is very
nice feature and very useful if you're
trying to calculate square footage
especially for odd shapes rule to
calculate square footage you need to
take the space stencil and bring it into
the space in this example I brought it
into the first room I've created in this
floor plan the next step is you do a
right mouse click and click Auto size
and as you can see the space stencil
expanded to fill in the size of the room
and it automatically calculated the size
which is 551 square foot you can also
rename the office here by clicking on
properties
insane what's the actual name of the
room it could be master bedroom in this
example if you think that the visa is
the right application to do the work
that you're trying to do and build the
floorplan make sure to check out other
training links I provide in the
description for this video to help you
learn more about Visio M good luck on
your project
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