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How to edit a floor plan at once
Hello. I have designed a floor plan with sever rooms that are in one column (they share same width) and I have put some furniture in them. Now I want to decrease their width. Is there an easy way to do it like resizing a window of a program in Windows? I want to select on of the walls, move it 1 meter to the left and every wall, furniture, room to shrink/resize/move with one meter? It is too much of a work to move everything one by one. My plan is a work in progress and I am searching for a quick way to change it because when it is drawn my vision of it becomes more clear and often I have a better idea or I want to see how it would look if I change something like a with of a room. But because everything is connected in a floor plan I don't want to redraw everything for every small change. Thant you.
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Re: How to edit a floor plan at once
It depends on what exactly you want because you say two different things: shrink everything like a program window and move a wall and move furniture along with it.
Resize everything Install the AdvancedEdit plugin. It has a function to resize everything you have selected. With ctrl+A you can select everything: walls, rooms, furniture, polylines, dimension lines, etc.
Move the wall and move furniture/walls with it Select the wall you want to move and all the furniture that should move with it. Don't select rooms and walls connected to the moving wall. Walls connected on the corners will resize with the move but the other ones you will have to resize separately. Right click in every room and recalculate each room. It might be easier/faster to select everything in your modellist (bottom-left) and then add the wall you want to move to the selection with shift-left-click in the 2D pane. You can click and drag in that list or use ctrl+A just the same as in the 2D pane. In the list you can multi-select furniture with shift+right-click, not a shift+left-click like in the 2D pane.
For the horizontal walls that didn't move/resize: double click the correctly resized top wall. Notice the X-coordinates. Select all horizontal walls that must be resized to the width of the column and with ctrl+shift+E modify them: set the X coordinates to the same as you wrote down. They will all resize to the same lenght as the top wall and will be perfectly placed between the centers of the left and right wall.
With such 'delicate' actions make sure you first make a copy of your .sh3d project file. That way you can easily restore your project if it doesn't work out like you intended. You can even keep copies with different column widths: project500.sh3d, project600.sh3d, etc.
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