Reviewed for Flex Version 3.0

Most floor plans require very little wall creation.

Because Flex begins with a captured scan, you’ll typically spend your time editing existing walls rather than drawing new ones.

Occasionally, however, you’ll need to add new geometry.

Common examples include:

Drawing walls in Flex is designed to feel simple, but there are a few best practices that will help produce much cleaner floor plans.

Always connect new walls to existing geometry whenever possible.

Connected walls create better rooms, cleaner measurements, and more accurate exports.

Before creating a new wall, ask yourself:

“Does this wall already exist?”

Many users initially assume they need to draw a wall when the existing wall simply needs to be extended.

If a wall is already present—even if it’s slightly short—editing the existing endpoint usually produces cleaner geometry than drawing a second wall.

If no wall exists, drawing a new one is the correct approach.

To draw a wall:

To draw a new wall:

The Wall tool remains active after each wall is placed, allowing you to continue drawing additional walls. When you’re finished, return to the Select tool.

To draw a new wall:

The Wall tool remains active after each wall is placed, allowing you to continue drawing additional walls. When you’re finished, return to the Select tool.

As you drag a wall, Flex displays a live preview including:

Press and hold at the wall’s starting point, drag to the endpoint, and release to create one wall segment.

While drawing on Web, Flex always applies 5-degree angle snapping. Holding Shift will disable angle snapping during wall creation.

The Wall Tool remains active after you release, so you can immediately press, drag, and release again to add another wall. Return to the Select Tool when you are finished drawing.

Press at the starting point, drag to preview the wall, and release to create one wall segment.

On iPhone and iPad, Flex applies the enabled vertex, wall-line, angle, and movement-grid snap settings while you draw. Very short wall gestures may be discarded to prevent unstable wall segments.

The Wall Tool remains active until you choose the Select Tool or another tool.

The best wall is one that becomes part of the existing floor plan.

As you approach existing geometry, Flex displays color-coded snapping feedback:

• Green indicates a connection to an existing wall vertex or corner.

• Amber or yellow indicates a connection to the edge of an existing wall, creating a T-junction.

• Blue indicates a free endpoint or an angle-snapped endpoint that is not connected to another wall.

Wait for the intended connection indicator before releasing the wall.

This tells Flex that the new wall should become part of the surrounding geometry rather than existing independently.

New walls don’t always end at corners.

Sometimes they intersect another wall midway through.

For example:

When you draw into the middle of an existing wall and see the amber or yellow wall-edge indicator, Flex automatically creates the proper T-junction and updates the surrounding geometry.

You don’t need to manually split the wall first.

Traditional CAD programs often require users to trim, split, and reconnect geometry manually.

Flex performs that work automatically so you can stay focused on the floor plan instead of managing line segments.

Walls in Flex aren’t simply centerlines.

Every wall has thickness.

As walls connect, Flex automatically creates clean corner joins so the finished plan represents actual construction rather than overlapping lines.

You don’t need to manually miter corners.

Flex automatically creates clean wall joins wherever possible.

Once a new wall has been added, take a few moments to review the surrounding area.

Ask yourself:

Small reviews now prevent much larger corrections later.

A newly drawn wall should usually update nearby rooms automatically.

If it doesn’t:

✔ Zoom in.

✔ Check every connection point.

✔ Verify the wall isn’t stopping just short of another wall.

✔ Confirm the wall is not crossing or overlapping existing geometry. Flex will not create a wall that crosses or overlaps another wall.

✔ Review whether the wall should connect to another nearby wall, and make sure you are snapping to the wall itself—not to a door, window, or opening. New walls cannot attach directly to a DWO.

Most room detection issues are caused by incomplete wall connections rather than the wall itself.

💡 Draw fewer, longer walls instead of many short segments whenever practical.

💡 Extend existing walls before creating new ones.

💡 Wait for snap confirmation before finishing every connection.

💡 Review the room immediately after adding a wall.

💡 Zoom in when creating complex intersections.

Tiny gaps are difficult to notice but can prevent room detection and affect downstream calculations.

A simple room should generally be made from a small number of connected walls rather than dozens of tiny pieces.

Cleaner geometry is easier to edit later.

Flex recognized nearby geometry and created a proper wall connection automatically to preserve the integrity of the floor plan.

Flex enforces minimum geometry limits to prevent invalid or unstable wall segments. On iPhone and iPad, wall gestures shorter than roughly six inches may be discarded instead of creating a wall.

When a new wall connects to the middle of another wall, Flex automatically creates the required intersection so the walls behave as a connected structure.