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Create and share floorplans with Floorplanner

Create and share floorplans with Floorplanner

Whether you are a homeowner trying to best squeeze all of your new furniture into your new space, a student experimenting with different furniture placements, or just thinking about knocking out a few walls and creating a new space, FloorPlanner could be your space-planning answer.

This free application takes the pencil, drafting table, and the $150/hr architect out of the equation and lets everyday people create and play around with floor plans online. Floor plans are simple to create with a feature rich toolset of drawing tools and household items to place on plans. Users start off by creating living space walls, choosing flooring material, adding doors and windows, and dropping in furniture and electrical outlets. Walls can be moved, colors changed and furniture moved all with a simple click until the perfect plan is set. Floor Plans can then be saved, printed, shared with friends and eventually turned into a 3d space. (In testing mode and only available in Plus and Pro accounts.)

This free online floor plan creation tool is a joy to use. Its simple controls and clean layout make it easy to create rough layouts for all kinds of living spaces quickly. Users can get as creative as they wish, and quite possibly use this as a base design for architects, interior designers and construction trades.

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3D-Seek.com, the shapely search engine

3d-seek

Showcased at demofall 2006 this year, Imaginistics has created the world's first shape-based search engine, 3d-seek. Designers, architects, and 3D data consultants will benefit from the technology, allowing you to draw a a rough sketch of the part you are looking for or use an existing 3D model you have, and it will fetch results based on what you draw. You can also add text to your query, which will bring back slightly better results in some cases. The technology is unique and has been in beta for the past 6 months. Already, the site has 4600+ suppliers to find parts you may need for your project.

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