Reviewed for Flex Version 3.0

Estimated Read Time: 4 minutes

Create flooring geometry that matches a continuous material installation—even when that installation spans several rooms.

• Why Rooms and Flooring Areas are independent

• How to represent one flooring material across multiple rooms

• The differences between the Web and iOS workflows

• How to correct flooring geometry without relying on a Merge tool

Flex separates room geometry from flooring geometry.

A room describes the enclosed space created by walls and Room Dividers. A Flooring Area describes the material installation you want to measure. Because those are different things, one flooring installation may span a kitchen, dining room, hallway, and family room without changing any of the room names or boundaries.

Important: Flex 3.0 does not currently include a Merge Flooring Areas tool on Web or iOS.

If separate Flooring Areas need to become one continuous area, rebuild the flooring geometry using the tools available on your platform.

Model flooring the way it will be installed—not simply the way the rooms are named.

Use one continuous Flooring Area when the same material will run through connected spaces without a transition.

Common examples include:

• Hardwood extending through a kitchen, dining room, and hallway

• LVP continuing from a family room into an adjoining office

• Carpet covering a bedroom and connected closet

• A flooring area that was accidentally separated during editing

Keep areas separate when the material, installation direction, transition detail, or scope changes.

Because there is no Merge tool, the safest workflow is to remove the unneeded Flooring Areas and draw the intended continuous boundary.

1. Switch to Flooring Mode.

2. Review the existing Flooring Areas and confirm which material should remain continuous.

3. Delete the separate areas that need to be replaced.

4. Choose Add Floor or Draw New Area.

5. Trace the complete installation boundary across the connected rooms.

6. Close the polygon by selecting the first point.

7. Rename the new Flooring Area and review its gross area, exclusions, and net installation area.

8. Save your changes.

Deleting or redrawing Flooring Areas does not delete the underlying Rooms.

For example, Kitchen, Dining Room, and Family Room can remain three separate Rooms while one hardwood Flooring Area spans all three spaces.

In Flooring Mode, select each obsolete Flooring Area and use Delete Flooring Area or the Delete/Backspace key. Then choose Draw New Area and trace the continuous installation boundary. The Web editor prevents overlapping Flooring Areas, so remove the old areas before drawing the replacement.

In Flooring Mode, select each obsolete Flooring Area and use the trash control to remove it. Then choose Add Floor, tap the boundary points, and tap near the first point to close the polygon. The same touch-first workflow is available on iPhone and iPad, although the iPad presents the Flooring controls in a collapsible side panel.

Regenerate from Rooms can quickly rebuild Flooring Areas from detected room boundaries.

Use it when the current flooring geometry is broadly incorrect and room-based areas provide a better starting point. Regeneration replaces the existing Flooring Areas, so review the confirmation carefully. Afterward, delete and redraw areas as needed to match continuous material runs.

If a continuous Flooring Area later needs a transition, use the Divide or Cut tool.

Choose two points on the selected area boundary to split the polygon. The larger resulting area keeps the original name, while the smaller area receives a new default room name that you can edit.

Objects such as stairs, fireplaces, cabinets, storage, and some fixtures may be excluded from flooring calculations automatically or manually, depending on the platform and object type.

After redrawing a Flooring Area, verify:

✔ Gross area

✔ Excluded area

✔ Net installation area

✔ Excluded objects

✔ Boundary placement around walls and openings

Flooring installers work from material runs, transitions, and actual installable area—not room names alone.

Keeping Rooms and Flooring Areas independent allows Flex to preserve the architectural organization of the plan while producing takeoffs that more closely reflect the work being installed.

If you cannot draw the replacement Flooring Area:

✔ Confirm you are in Flooring Mode.

✔ Delete overlapping Flooring Areas before drawing the new polygon.

✔ Use at least three boundary points.

✔ Close the polygon by selecting the first point.

✔ Check that the new boundary does not cross itself.

✔ Undo and retry if a vertex was placed incorrectly.

There is no Merge Flooring Areas command in the current Web or iOS release.

Flex prevents invalid or overlapping flooring polygons. Remove the areas being replaced before drawing the continuous area.

Changing Flooring Areas does not rename, combine, or remove Rooms.

Regenerate from Rooms replaces the current flooring layout. Use it only when room-based geometry is the right starting point.

Yes. Flooring Areas are independent from Rooms and may cross room boundaries when the material installation is continuous.

No. Flex 3.0 does not currently provide a Merge command. Delete the separate areas and draw one replacement area.

Yes. Use Divide on Web or the Cut Tool on iOS to split the selected Flooring Area.

No. Flooring geometry is edited independently from walls and detected Rooms.

• Working with Flooring Areas

• Editing, Dividing & Excluding Flooring Areas

• Working with Rooms

• Measurements & Dimensions

• Exporting Your Floor Plan