📐Design: Space Planning in Canvas

Learn how to import floor plans, add product drawings, and layout your space plan quickly and easily, all in your Canvas white board.

Who would benefit from this session?

• Furniture Dealer Sales, Furniture Dealer Account Manager, Furniture Dealer Marketing, Brand Representatives, Residential Interior Designer, Commercial Interior Designer, Facilities Manager, Project Managers

Step 1: Open the Canvas for this Training

Space Planning in Canvas 👈

This "Training Canvas" is in Preview/Viewer mode to all users - If you’d like to edit this Canvas, duplicate the Canvas and edit the duplicated version.

• Use the Training Canvas to follow along as you learn how to import floor plans and add products and their 2D vector drawings to your Canvas to then layout your furniture and space plan to perfection.

• Helpful Tip: Have access to multiple tabs and/or screens? Make the most of your training session with Canoa University open on one monitor (referring to the Syllabus with helpful articles and the Training Checklist), and the Training Canvas open on the other.

Step 2: Syllabus

You now have your very own teaching assistant and guided support along side the Training Canvas. Below are helpful articles and videos that will help you along the way.

*Also search for articles in the AI Search Bar above

• Uploading a Floor Plan

  • Start a new Canvas directly from importing a drawing

  • Or import a DWG, DXF, JPEG, PNG (files under 15mb) into an existing Canvas

  • Precisely Scale your floor plan

• Selecting your Furniture

  • Add products to your Canvas

  • 🧱 For Canoa blocks and placeholders - Search by manufacturer 'Canoa Standards' they should pop up in your Canvas.

  • Use Canoa AI

  • Reference Templates for vignette ideas

    • Space Planning Kits template

  • Toggle between the three views of a product - image, drawing, card

• Creating your Layout / Fit Plan in a Scaled Environment

  • The power of using Areas

  • The actions you can take in product drawing view

  • Using a dimensioned rectangle to space plan

• Sharing and Exporting your work

Step 3: Training Check List

Make sure you've hit all of the important topics by checking off this list.

• Upload your Floor Plan

  • Convert a PDF floor plan to an image file (JPEG or PNG) & Import the image plan into your Canvas

  • Precisely Scale the floor plan to make sure it is to scale
  • Import a DWG floor plan into your Canvas (Note: In CAD, make sure to hide any layers that you don't want to work with)

  • Measure the floor plan to make sure it is to scale

• Add products to your Canvas to begin space planning

  • Use the Canoa AI tool
  • Copy paste a vignette from our Canoa Products Library
  • Toggle to the drawing view of your products

• Drag your product drawings into the floor plan

• Use Distribute and Align to space plan evenly with the product drawings
• Group together multiple product drawings

• Duplicate grouped drawings

• Create several Areas in your floor plan

  • Change the fill color

  • Name your Areas

• Export your work by using a Frame

  • Export the full floor plan as a DWG and open up your DWG in AutoCAD

  • Place a Frame around a portion of your floor plan and export that portion as an image file. Use that image file in a presentation.

• Use a dimensioned rectangle to quickly space plan a room or area

Video Recording:

Space Planning Webinar

Resources:

📋 Training Canvas - Canvas: Space Planning

🏗️ Space Planning Kits Canvas

🧱 For Canoa blocks and placeholders - Search by manufacturer 'Canoa Standards' they should pop up in your Canvas.