Reviewed for Flex Version 3.0

Estimated Read Time: 7 minutes

Most editing problems in Flex are caused by the floor plan geometry—not the editing tools themselves.

Walls define the structure of your project. From those walls, Flex automatically detects rooms, generates flooring areas, calculates measurements, creates elevations, and prepares exports.

When something doesn’t behave as expected, the problem is often a disconnected wall, an incomplete enclosure, or Flex intentionally preventing an edit that would create invalid geometry.

Before deleting walls or rebuilding a room, work through the troubleshooting steps below.

Walls define the floor plan.

If the wall geometry is correct, rooms, flooring, measurements, and many other features update automatically.

When troubleshooting, always inspect the wall geometry first.

Ask yourself:

“Is the problem the feature I’m looking at…or is that feature responding to a wall edit?”

For example:

Thinking this way makes troubleshooting much faster.

Rooms are automatically detected from enclosed wall geometry.

If a room is missing, inspect the walls before making additional edits.

💡 Pro Tip

Don’t only inspect the area where the room is missing. A disconnected wall anywhere around the room’s perimeter can prevent the room from being detected.

Flooring depends on the room geometry.

If the room changes, the flooring may also need to be reviewed.

Fix the geometry first.

Then review the flooring.

Sometimes Flex intentionally blocks an edit.

This usually means the proposed change would create invalid geometry.

These protections help preserve a valid floor plan and are expected behavior.

Doors, windows, and openings remain attached to their host wall.

If that wall changes, Flex automatically updates the hosted feature.

Automatic repositioning is normal behavior.

Measurements describe the floor plan.

They do not control it.

Whenever geometry changes, measurements update automatically.

Updated measurements usually indicate that Flex is keeping the floor plan synchronized.

Before exporting your project, take one final walkthrough.

A one-minute review can prevent much larger issues later.

Many parts of Flex are connected.

Rather than requiring you to manually rebuild rooms, flooring, measurements, and elevations after every wall edit, Flex automatically keeps these systems synchronized whenever possible.

Because of this relationship, a single wall edit may affect multiple parts of the floor plan.

This behavior is intentional and helps maintain a consistent project.

Use this table when you’re not sure where to begin.

Rooms, flooring, and measurements are all generated from the wall geometry.

Fix the walls first, then review the downstream features.

Many issues can be resolved by adjusting an existing wall or reconnecting an endpoint.

Deleting and redrawing walls should usually be a last resort.

Before exporting, take a few moments to inspect the completed floor plan.

A quick review often catches small issues before they become larger problems.

Most often, one or more walls don’t form a complete enclosure.

Inspect every wall connection around the room before making additional edits.

Flooring is based on the room geometry.

Review the surrounding walls first, then inspect or regenerate the flooring if needed.

Flex prevents edits that would create invalid geometry, such as intersecting walls or edits that conflict with hosted openings.

Measurements automatically update whenever the wall geometry changes.

This is expected behavior.

Doors, windows, and openings stay attached to their host wall.

If the wall moves, Flex updates the hosted feature automatically.

Usually not.

Adjusting the existing wall preserves more of your work and is often the fastest solution.

Delete and redraw only when simpler edits cannot resolve the issue.