Reviewed for Flex Version 3.0.3

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Flooring Areas represent how flooring materials will actually be installed, not simply how a building is divided into rooms.

Although RENDR can instantly generate Flooring Areas from the rooms in your floor plan, the actual flooring scope may be different.

For example:

Flex lets you start with the geometry RENDR already captured and quickly turn it into the flooring scope you actually need.

Rooms describe spaces. Flooring Areas describe the flooring installation.

Generate Flooring Areas from your rooms, then merge, divide, or edit them to match the actual scope of work.

This distinction is important. Your floor plan might contain five rooms while the flooring project only contains two continuous flooring installations.

Before generating Flooring Areas:

✔ Finish major wall edits.
✔ Confirm your rooms are detected correctly.
✔ Add any required Room Dividers.
✔ Review the floor plan for missing or disconnected walls.

RENDR uses the floor plan geometry to generate your starting Flooring Areas. Getting the layout right first makes the flooring workflow faster.

For most projects, start by generating Flooring Areas from your existing rooms rather than drawing every area manually.

To generate Flooring Areas:

Each enclosed room initially becomes its own Flooring Area.

From there, you can quickly modify the generated areas to match the actual flooring scope.

Regenerating Flooring Areas rebuilds the flooring layout from the current room geometry and can replace flooring changes you’ve already made.

Review your existing flooring before regenerating.

When the same flooring continues through multiple spaces, use Merge Areas instead of manually redrawing one large Flooring Area.

For example, imagine LVP will run continuously through the:

Kitchen → Dining Room → Hallway → Living Room

After generating Flooring Areas, simply merge those areas into one continuous flooring scope.

On iOS:

The first area selected is the area that remains, retaining its name and other identifying information.

The merged area remains selected, allowing you to continue tapping adjacent areas and build a larger continuous flooring area without restarting the tool.

LVP throughout the first floor?

Generate the Flooring Areas → select Merge Areas → tap the areas receiving LVP → watch them become one continuous Flooring Area.

This makes it fast to turn a room-by-room floor plan into the actual flooring scope.

Sometimes the opposite is true: one room or generated Flooring Area needs multiple flooring installations.

Use Floor Cut to divide an existing Flooring Area.

On iOS, Floor Cut now supports both straight and multi-segment cuts.

With Floor Cut active:

This makes it possible to create cuts that turn corners rather than requiring every division to be a single straight line.

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Use Floor Cut when:

For complete instructions, see Editing, Dividing & Excluding Flooring Areas.

You can also create a Flooring Area manually when there isn’t an existing generated area that makes sense as your starting point.

To create a Flooring Area manually:

Manual Flooring Areas are particularly useful for areas that don’t correspond to an existing room.

Select a Flooring Area to review its geometry and flooring information.

Depending on your platform and the selected area, you can:

On iOS, selecting a Flooring Area now also displays a dimension along each qualifying edge of its boundary, making it easier to understand and adjust the shape without leaving Flooring Mode. Very short edges under 0.2 m are omitted from this display.

As you change the flooring geometry, RENDR recalculates the flooring quantities.

Depending on the selected Flooring Area, the Attributes panel can show information including:

This makes Flooring Areas useful as an interactive takeoff workflow: change the flooring scope and immediately review the resulting quantity.

Flooring installations don’t always stop at every interior wall.

On iOS, a Flooring Area can now extend across interior partitions, interior stubs, island walls, and Room Dividers. The exterior shell continues to constrain the flooring boundary.

When an interior wall falls inside a Flooring Area, RENDR accounts for its footprint rather than treating the space occupied by the wall as flooring.

These deductions appear in the flooring calculation and are reflected visually in the flooring display.

This is particularly useful when creating continuous flooring that spans multiple rooms.

Flooring geometry can remain associated with surrounding plan geometry.

After significant wall edits:

Don’t automatically regenerate after every wall edit. If you’ve already merged, divided, or manually adjusted your Flooring Areas, regeneration can replace that work.

Not every part of the flooring boundary necessarily represents installable flooring.

Depending on your platform and workflow, flooring calculations can account for excluded portions of an area.

These may include permanent features or geometry occupying space within the Flooring Area.

For detailed exclusion workflows, see Editing, Dividing & Excluding Flooring Areas.

Before using your flooring quantities downstream, verify:

First verify that your Rooms are being detected correctly.

Check for:

Correct the underlying plan geometry before regenerating Flooring Areas

You don’t need to manually redraw the entire area.

Generate Flooring Areas from the rooms, then use Merge Areas to combine the adjacent areas into the continuous flooring installation.

Use Floor Cut to divide the Flooring Area at the flooring transition.

For an irregular transition, iOS supports multi-segment cuts that can turn through the Flooring Area.

The resulting quantity reflects the geometry of the newly merged Flooring Area, including applicable deductions.

Review the merged boundary and its flooring information in Attributes.

Regeneration rebuilds Flooring Areas from the current room geometry.

If you’ve already customized your Flooring Areas through merging, cutting, or manual editing, avoid regenerating unless you intend to replace the current flooring layout.

💡 Generate first, customize second. Let RENDR create the initial Flooring Areas from the floor plan, then modify them to represent the installation.

💡 Merge continuous flooring. If one material runs through several rooms, merge those areas rather than rebuilding the entire boundary manually.

💡 Cut where materials change. Divide an existing area when a flooring transition occurs inside a room.

💡 Watch the quantities as you work. Flooring calculations update as the flooring scope changes.

💡 Regenerate intentionally. Regeneration can replace your customized flooring layout.

💡 Review before estimating. Confirm the final flooring geometry and quantities before using them downstream.

Can one Flooring Area span multiple rooms?
Yes. Generate the individual areas and use Merge Areas to combine adjacent Flooring Areas where the same installation continues.

Can one room contain multiple Flooring Areas?
Yes. Use Floor Cut or other supported editing tools to represent multiple flooring installations within a room.

Can I create a Flooring Area manually?
Yes. Use Add Floor when you need an area that doesn’t correspond well to existing room geometry.

Can I merge more than two Flooring Areas?
Yes on iOS. After the first merge, the resulting Flooring Area remains selected, allowing you to continue merging additional adjacent areas.

Can a Flooring Area extend across an interior wall?
Yes on iOS. Flooring vertices can cross interior walls while the exterior shell continues to constrain the Flooring Area. Applicable interior-wall footprints are deducted from the flooring calculation.

When should I regenerate Flooring Areas?
Regenerate when the room layout has changed enough that you want to rebuild the flooring layout from the detected Rooms. Don’t regenerate simply to make a small flooring adjustment.