Overview of Canvas

Overview of Canvas


What is Canvas? 

Canvas is the main design area on a simple floor plan. You reach the canvas, when you either click on “New Project” or an existing project to edit. This is the place where you create your designs or edit your already created designs. The Canvas has many tools, shortcuts, views, and intelligent features to make designing easier and helpful for space planning. Below is a list of tools/icons which you will find on a canvas:

Functions on Sidebar
Catalogue is a repository of all pre-modeled furniture, structural elements, storage items such as wall cabinets, paints, wall finishes, etc. to help you create a design. After you have created a floor plan, you will need to search the item you want to use and then drag-and-drop them on the floor plan along with furniture, wall finishes. This can be done from catalogue icon. Our repository is an ever-growing list, where hundreds of new items will be added every month.     
                                                                                                                         

Shortlist 

This option helps you add all selected products from the catalogue to your shortlist. This especially helps when you want to pick and add multiple products for your project without the hassle of going through the entire catalogue again and again. For example, if you want to add a bed, carpet and side tables to your bedroom, you can shortlist these items from the catalogue and then simply drag and drop from the shortlist. 
                                                                                         


Inspirations are pre-modelled interior designs. These also serve as ready-made templates for you to pick from. You can choose either specific products from these pre-modeled designs or copy-paste the entire model onto your project.        

                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                            

Textures -  All paints, finishes etc. for your walls, ceilings or floors can be found in this section. Pick and choose various ceiling, floor and wall textures from this option. Even textures for your products can be found here.       
                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
Ruler -  This is the measuring tape feature. With the help of a ruler, measure walls and distances between products. This feature is available only in 2D mode.
                                                                                          
                                                                                                         
Copy Format -  Use this feature to copy the texture/ material from anywhere to anywhere. For example, if you want your bed to have the same texture as your wardrobe, simply  use this cool feature. This is useful when you want to give your entire room a harmonious look. 

                                                                                                        

Settings button helps you change wall thickness, wall opacity, wall color, wall snapping, object snapping and Auto save to suit requirements This is especially helpful when you want to  give different thicknesses to the internal walls versus external boundaries.
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                 
Functions on top toolbar 
My project- At the left end of the bar, you can view the name of your current project. You can click here to edit the name of your project followed by pressing the enter key.       
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Feet - This is the place from where you can change metrics used in your floor plan. You can select from Feet/ Inches, or Meters or Yards and millimeters

                                                                                         
Save your project by clicking on the floppy shaped icon. This is very important; else you might lose all your effort.

                                                                                      
Undo your previous actions by using this button. You can undo up to your previous 10 actions by repeatedly using this feature.

                                                                                     

                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                   
Redo -   With the help of this feature, you can redo your undo actions.
                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                              
Erase -   With the help of this button you can erase your project and start afresh.

                                                                                                            
Help - This is the central place for your help and support. You can find all tutorials, help pages, contact numbers etc.
                                                                                                                                                                 


Icons/ Buttons on canvas sheet

2D - 
This is the mode for 2D drawing & space planning. It provides a top plan view of your project. You can easily plan the space using this mode.

                                                                                                               

3D -  This is the design mode where you can design/ view your floor plan in 3D mode and operate on objects or structures in this mode. You can move things around, or paint the walls directly in 3D.  You can also easily switch between 2D and 3D mode for accurately arranging your objects.
                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                    



Floor plan mode -  Drawing of floor plan and adding furniture to rooms is done on the floor plan mode. This is the default designing mode.
              
                                                                                            

Ceiling plan mode -   You can add ceiling, false ceiling or beams in the ceiling plan mode . Before you can design ceilings, you will need to enter the Ceiling Plan mode.

                                                                                            


Buttons on the Context bar

The nib-shaped Wall tool helps you draw straight lines/walls on the floor plan. The tool also provides a text box for you to enter accurate wall length



 

     






 



The Room tool helps you draw square or rectangular rooms on a floor plan.  The tool also provides a text box for you to enter accurate room dimensions. For example, to create a room of 20 ft X 20 ft, simply draw a room using the Room tool and then enter 20, 20 in the two text boxes given next to the cursor.



         

                                                                    









The Select tool helps you pick and choose multiple items to either group or move together or perform operations which can be applied on all the selected items together.                                                                     








                           

Upload Floor Plan – This tool helps you upload your scanned floor plan onto the Neo canvas. Currently, Foyr NEO supports scanned images in JPG(JPEG)/PNG format only. If you have your floor plan in any other format like Autocad or PDF, you will need to export them first in an image format (or take a snapshot and save it) before using it in Foyr Neo. Once you upload the floor plan, this is an easy way for you to trace the floor plan and draw using the wall tool or room tool on top of the floor plan.

  For more details on how to upload simple floor plans, please refer to the help guide on the same subject.


         








interior spacing

The below video gives an overview of the entire canvas in Neo.