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Assume you want to draw a floor plan for your apartment. You got a printout of a floor plan from the landlord, showing the walls, door and windows, and a few (but not all) measures. | Assume you want to draw a floor plan for your apartment. You got a printout of a floor plan from the landlord, showing the walls, door and windows, and a few (but not all) measures. | ||
If you did not get an electronic copy of the floor plan, the first step is to scan it. You will thus have a bitmap. | If you did not get an electronic copy of the floor plan, the first step is to scan it. You will thus have a bitmap, and we will trace it into a vector image, but without using the automatic Trace feature of Inkscape. | ||
* Open up Inkscape, and create a new layer, let's call it "Background". | * Open up Inkscape, and create a new layer, let's call it "Background". | ||
Revision as of 19:38, 19 February 2008
Drawing a Floor Plan
Assume you want to draw a floor plan for your apartment. You got a printout of a floor plan from the landlord, showing the walls, door and windows, and a few (but not all) measures.
If you did not get an electronic copy of the floor plan, the first step is to scan it. You will thus have a bitmap, and we will trace it into a vector image, but without using the automatic Trace feature of Inkscape.
- Open up Inkscape, and create a new layer, let's call it "Background".
- Import the bitmap floor plan into it, and rotate it so that most of the walls are horizontal and/or vertical. Lock the layer.
- adjust scale!
- (adjust document size)
- draw walls, doors and windows in a new layer "Walls"
- draw your furniture in a new layer "Furniture"
- print to scale?