Reviewed for Flex Version 3.0

Estimated Read Time: 9 minutes

After generating your Flooring Areas, you can modify them to match the planned flooring installation.

Common edits include:

These tools allow your flooring quantities to represent the finished installation—not simply the room layout.

Edit the flooring to match the installation—not the room.

Rooms describe spaces.

Flooring Areas describe flooring materials.

Once generated, Flooring Areas can be edited independently of the rooms they originated from.

Before editing Flooring Areas:

✔ Finish editing the wall layout.

✔ Generate Flooring Areas.

✔ Confirm the Flooring Area already exists.

✔ Review the overall floor plan for accuracy.

Major wall edits are generally easier to complete before making detailed flooring adjustments.

To edit a Flooring Area:

Once selected, Flex makes the Flooring Area available for editing using the tools supported on your platform.

Use boundary editing whenever the flooring installation differs from the generated room outline.

To reshape a Flooring Area:

As the boundary changes, Flex automatically recalculates the Flooring Area.

After completing the edit, confirm the boundary still represents the intended flooring installation.

💡 Pro Tip

Zoom in before editing around angled walls, fireplaces, cabinetry, or other detailed areas.

Sometimes additional corners are needed to accurately represent the flooring layout.

To add a vertex:

Additional vertices are commonly used around:

Only add vertices where the flooring actually changes direction.

If the Flooring Area contains unnecessary corners, simplify the boundary by removing them using the editing tools available for your platform.

A valid Flooring Area must always remain a closed polygon.

Removing unnecessary vertices makes future editing easier without changing the intended flooring installation.

One Flooring Area can represent multiple flooring materials until you divide it.

Use Divide whenever one installation area contains different flooring materials.

Examples include:

To divide a Flooring Area:

If the proposed cut cannot create two valid Flooring Areas, Flex cancels the operation without changing the existing Flooring Area.

Some permanent features should not contribute to flooring quantities.

Examples include:

Depending on the project and platform, Flex supports excluding these areas from flooring calculations.

Excluded areas reduce the calculated install area without requiring you to reshape the outside flooring boundary.

When reviewing a Flooring Area, you may see several calculated values.

These values update automatically whenever the Flooring Area changes.

Before estimating or exporting:

Updated quantities are expected after flooring edits.

The Web editor supports selecting Flooring Areas, reshaping boundaries, inserting and removing vertices, dividing Flooring Areas, reviewing flooring calculations, renaming Flooring Areas, and linked flooring geometry where applicable.

The iOS editor supports selecting Flooring Areas, editing flooring boundaries, adding vertices, dividing Flooring Areas with the Floor Cut Tool, working with exclusions, reviewing flooring calculations, merging Flooring Areas, and touch-optimized flooring editing workflows. Available tools may differ slightly between iPhone and iPad.

💡 Finish editing walls before making detailed flooring adjustments.

💡 Keep Flooring Areas as simple as possible while accurately representing the installation.

💡 Divide Flooring Areas only where flooring materials change.

💡 Use Exclusion Areas for permanent fixtures instead of unnecessarily reshaping the outside boundary.

💡 Review flooring calculations before estimating or exporting.

Changing the flooring installation requires editing the Flooring Area—not the Room.

Only add vertices where the flooring boundary changes direction.

Extra vertices make future editing more difficult.

When a permanent fixture occupies floor space, exclusions often provide a cleaner solution than reshaping the outer boundary.

Every flooring edit updates the calculated quantities.

Review the finished Flooring Area before moving on.

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Select the Flooring Area and edit its boundary using the tools available for your platform.

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Insert additional vertices wherever the flooring boundary requires more detail.

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Simplifying the boundary makes Flooring Areas easier to maintain while preserving accurate calculations.

Divide a Flooring Area whenever different flooring materials are installed within the same area.

Use exclusions whenever a permanent feature occupies floor space that shouldn’t contribute to flooring quantities.

Gross, Excluded, and Net Install Area values update automatically whenever you edit a Flooring Area.