Room

Step by stepCopy Anchor Link

1. Turn on Room (W).
2. Click inside an area closed by walls — the outline is found on its own, along the inside corners, and the room is born with its area written on it.
3. Where there is no enclosed area you get the warning, and that same click is already the first corner: keep clicking corner by corner and close on the first point, or press Enter.
4. Alt+click forces the manual outline at any moment, even inside an area that was detectable.
5. Click inside a room that already exists and it gets selected, instead of stacking an identical one on top.
6. Esc discards an outline left half done.

Worth knowingCopy Anchor Link

• The options bar carries one thing only: the label style library, which decides how the next room is drawn. There is no thickness or elevation to set before the click.
• The area is measured to the walls' inner face, not to their axis — it is the floor you walk on, not what a quantity surveyor would call construction area.
• A column in the middle of the room does not subtract from the area: the outline is the whole room. The column only stops the search from crossing its body.
• An unwelded joint (or two ends you detached on purpose) lets the area escape: the click lands in an open region, and “no enclosed area found” is meant literally. Close the perimeter with the Wall tool first.
• A room is born unnamed, so at first you only see its area. The name is written in the Inspector, and it is what the label carries.
• The area follows the screen preference, but every room can overrule it in three states: Follow the sheet, Always show, Never show.
• In the Inspector the corners are edited coordinate by coordinate — that is how a corner lands on 2.48 m without depending on the mouse. Below three corners there is no outline.
• Deleting a room does not delete walls: the named area goes, the drawing stays. Delete, the floating bar and “Delete element” all do the same thing.

Related toolsCopy Anchor Link

• Wall
• Slab
• Text
• Dimension

What a room isCopy Anchor Link

It is the plan's named area — not a drawing laid over the drawing. The walls stay the geometry; the room is what says that the void between them has a name and a square measure, and it is what the Copilot, the Inspector and IFC read as a division.

The other way round holds too, and it matters all day: deleting a room does not undo the plan. The walls stay where they are.

The click that looks, and the click that drawsCopy Anchor Link

By default the tool looks, it does not draw. One click inside an area closed by the perimeter of walls — or by beams and columns, or by the outline of a slab lying there — returns the polygon of the inner face, and the room enters already carrying its area written at the centroid.

If the point you clicked is not inside anything closed, Plare says “no enclosed area found — draw the outline” and reuses that same click as the manual outline's first corner. It is the shortest path: no tool switch, no restart. The manual outline is the Slab's — corner by corner, three at minimum, closing on the first point or with Enter — and after a manual outline closes, the tool returns to Select.

Alt+click goes straight to the manual outline, without the warning: it is the way out when an area is detectable but not the one you wanted.

The numbers come from the outlineCopy Anchor Link

Area and perimeter are read in the Inspector and are not editable: they are computed from the polygon. What is editable is the outline — the corners, coordinate by coordinate — and the label.

In the label, two things that the interface keeps in different places are worth telling apart. Font, size (5 to 28 px) and weight (300 to 900) belong to the style, so they replicate to every room wearing it; what the room stores in the file is its name, its area override, and whatever you write over the style. The Room Settings window holds the rest, including its own label, which takes the room off the style.

Whether the area shows has three answers, and the third is the one that avoids arguments: Follow the sheet obeys the status-bar switch and the style; Always show and Never show are the room's own and beat both.