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How to view or edit a 3D floor plan [Beta]

Amply stitches together rooms to build view of entire floors

Written by Eric Fitz

This feature is in "Beta"

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Overview

We always recommend scanning the home on a room-by-room basis. This enables faster, more accurate scans, room-level loads, room CFM estimates and more...but you also need a complete floor plan to understand how the rooms relate to each other.

Floor plans are great. They:

  • Enable better design decisions and installation planning

  • Help verify you captured every room in a building story

  • Make projects easier to communicate with customers and teams

  • Sometimes are required for permits or rebates

  • And more

How to open a floor plan

After scanning all or a portion of a story of a home, you can view the floor plan of a given story of the home by:

  1. Tap the "Scans" view of the home (the 2D image of the home on the project page).

  2. Tap on one floor of the home to drill in.

  3. Select "Floor Plan" in the lower right.

Adjust the floor plan view

Rotate the view by using a single finger drag on the background

Translate up/down or left/right with a two-finger drag

Zoom in or out with a "pinch" gesture with two fingers

Edit a floor plan

Does your floor plan not look right or are the rooms overlapping incorrectly? This is the section for you!

For homes scanned after updating to Amply version 5.0.0, floor plans are generated automatically.

However, sometimes small adjustments need to be made to the floor plan because:

  1. The scanning process was disrupted for some reason while in the home. For example, closing the iPad or navigating out of the project can disrupt the scan and affect how new rooms are stitched together.

  2. Automatic room placement is not perfect. We're working to make it better!

Instructions for fixing misaligned rooms:

  1. Toggle "Edit Mode." In Edit Mode, you can rearrange how rooms connect.

  2. Rooms look to connect door to door. In Edit Mode, Amply will show you the available doors on the rooms. When you bring two doors together, the grey doorway will turn blue. Tap the blue overlapping doorways to link the rooms together.

  3. Repeat until the floor plan looks correct!

Do you not see the doors you expect to see when manually updating the floor plan?

If you are editing the floor plan and you do not see the doors you expect to see available for linking room together, the issue is likely that that door of the room is not labeled as a door. Only doors will glow blue and show as options to link rooms.

The solution is to navigate back to that room's scan and edit that opening to be a door. See this help article on how to convert openings into doors. You can then navigate back to the floor plan and you should see that opening as an option for linking rooms.

Manually create a floor plan from a scan completed before Amply 5.0.0

Projects and scans completed before Amply 5.0.0 can be manually stitched together by linking rooms together via doors

Here's how to create a floor plan from a scan completed prior to Amply 5.0.0:

  1. More likely than not, when you view the floor plan for the "old" scan, the rooms will appear to be stacked on top of each other.

  2. Enter Edit mode and start by separating out the rooms to take inventory of what needs to be rearranged.

  3. You can then follow the standard instructions for fixing misaligned rooms to piece together the floor plan!

Add the 3D floor plan as a static image to the design report

Want to draw a duct layout, show equipment placement on the 3D floor plan? Draw something else? Then want to add it to your design report?

Here's how to add a 3D floor plan as a static image in the Amply design report:

1. Open the project and locate the correct floor plan

2. Take a screenshot

  • Use the iPad's built-in method for taking a screenshot by pressing the power and volume + buttons at the same time.

3. Annotate the screenshot with drawing tools

  • Pro tip: Long-press with your finger or stylus pen after drawing a line or shape to straighten it automatically.

  • Add labels or symbols for items like registers and outdoor units.

4. Save the screenshot to your Photo library

  • When the markup is complete, tap the check mark to finish.

  • Save the edited image to Photos.

5. Upload the image back into Amply

  • Return to Amply.

  • Open the project

  • Navigate to the Electrical / Other section

  • Tap the plus sign to add a new item.

  • Select the picture icon to open Photos.

  • Choose the saved screenshot and upload it

  • Name the image how you prefer

Using "My location" to build an accurate floor plan

Amply's Find my Location feature simplifies building a proper layout of a given story of the home. This feature will appear for all projects once a user has navigated to any 3D floor plan. How to view a 3D floor plan

Amply uses your location in the home to build an accurate 3D model of the house as you scan room by room.

If Amply loses your location, the 3D model may not automatically fit together correctly. Amply will communicate it has lost your location when the tracking status turns red. Use find my location to find your location again. Finding your location ensures Amply continues to knit the rooms of the home together accurately.

How do I find my location?

Press Your location and then Find Location.

This will bring you to a screen showing Amply’s current understanding of your location in the home and a camera window. Move the iPad around as though you were scanning the room. Amply will use what it recognizes about the room to place you in the correct room and location.

Once your location in the room looks correct, press Done to confirm it.

You can then continue scanning as usual!

FAQ

Why does Amply lose my location?

Amply may lose your location during interruptions to the scanning process. These interruptions trace back to how Amply interacts with the iPad hardware and software. The typical causes of Amply losing your location are covering the camera, navigating away from Amply, or sleeping the iPad.

What if my location doesn’t look correct?

Amply may not find your location in the room immediately. If your location doesn’t look right, continue to scan more features of the room you are in. The more Amply sees of the room you are in, the better it can place you in the room and overall 3D floor plan.

I forgot to find my location and my floor plan doesn’t fit together!

No worries. If you forget to update your location and or you’re moving smoothly through the home and don’t want to pause, you can use Amply’s 3D floor editing feature to fix any errors in the floor plan. See this article for how to edit 3D floor plans.

What does red, blue, and yellow tracking status mean?

  • Blue: Amply knows where you are and should place new room scans in correct relation to existing room scans. Keep on scanning!

  • Red: Amply has lost your location in the home and may not place new room scans correctly in relation to existing room scans. You can continue scanning but the 3D floor plan may not fit together cleanly. You can edit the 3D floor plan later.

  • Yellow: Error state. It is unlikely you will find yourself in a yellow state but if you do, these are the likely solutions:

    • Error states

      • Camera blocked! - uncover the camera.

      • Moving to fast - slow down

When should I not try to find my location?

No need to try to find your location once you’ve left the home. So if you’re back at the office or in the truck and you see a red tracking status indicator, feel free to ignore it.

What is Amply is not doing with your location?

  • Just to avoid any confusion, Amply is not tracking your location when you are not scanning a home.

  • Amply only uses your location to construct an accurate 3D model as you scan room to room If you do not want to update your location, the 3D model may not fit together automatically. That is okay! You can use the Edit Model toggle on the 3D model to fit the rooms together later.

Do I need to walk back to a specific room to find my location?

No. As you scan the room that you are in, Amply will update its understanding of your location and reset your relative location in the home. There’s no need to return to a specific place in the home.

What will the tracking status show me if I have not scanned a room yet?

If you have not scanned a room yet, the tracking status will be grey and prompt you to start a scan! Amply is not keeping track of your location in the home until you start a scan. From that point, Amply uses your location to determine how to stitch together rooms in the floor plan.

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