How much of a floorplan do you have to change if you take a commercially produced design for a home and want to sell your own version of the home commercially, without being sued?
How much of a floorplan do you have to change if you take a commercially produced design for a home and want to sell your own version of the home commercially, without being sued?I do’t think any self-respecting architect or designer will make minor changes to others’ commercial designs and call it their own.However, given the history of home designs and the limited variations available to designers due to construction codes, aesthetics, and other considerations and constraints, I imagine it’s possible to get away with it quite easily since home designers often take inspiration from others’ designs anyway.
If we want to change floor plan for first floor in residential house, can we build pillar at any random place in first floor irrespective of ground floor design?
Absolutely NOT!Why not? Well, let’s ask ourselves: What is the purpose of a pillar?Image credit: Google search.As shown here - the purpose of any load bearing pillar in construction is to direct the load (the weight of the structure, the people, the furniture, snow on the roof, etc… to the concrete footing which is supported by the soil. Engineers have calculated the most cost effective way to support all the weight (static and dynamic) of a residential house, and this is what they have come up with:Depending on the soils ability to support a load, your footing is going to change in depth and width. The footing is ONLY under load bearing walls - if we were to pour a footing everywhere (which we would call a slab) we’d pay for a lot more concrete than what’s necessary thus incurring needless cost.All of this to say-Can we build pillar at any random place in first floor irrespective of ground floor design?No. You know what happens when you put a pillar that’s load bearing and unsupported underneath?So… no.. please don’t put pillar at “random places” in the house.The loads supported by pillars need to be transferred to the soil. Adequately.Please consult an architect or an engineer when deciding where to put a pillar on your first floor.
What do you wish you could change about your current home's floor plan/design?
My house is an Italianate Victorian. I am not terribly fond of Victorian homes: they have little to no connection to the outdoors, the rooms are small (our front parlour is 13 ft by 13 ft), and it has a ridiculous curved staircase that is impossible to get furniture up and down.That said, I recently completed a very long renovation in which we revised some aspects of the floor plan, moving the kitchen from the darkest, saddest part of the house, adding bathrooms upstairs (the only full bath in the house was on the first floor at the back of the house) and adding a larger rear staircase that you can actually move furniture up. Every house is a compromise, and while this house is not my perfect home, it now suits the way I live better than it did before.Why did I buy a house in a style I dislike, with so many flaws? First, the location was great. A nice neighborhood that was a little down on its luck but gentrifying, with a location close to what I need to get to. Second, it was on a double lot (two lots joined together to make one larger plot of land), and I am a gardener, so I liked having lots of room for trees. Third, the house had good bones, and was mostly unmodified, so it was worth spending the time and money on making it work better for us. And finally, I bought the house with my spouse, and it was a mutual decision that involved some compromise.
How can i edit floor plan in aloha?
Aloha TableService and Floor Plan TableService now offers a Floor Plan interface - a graphical representation of the restaurant dining room that allows access to the guest checks, and provides shortcuts to the most commonly used functions. Users can have their restaurant table layout integrated into their POS, providing easy server access to order entry. Since the Floor Plan visually emulates the actual restaurant, orders are entered quicker with less mistakes. Floor Plan comes with an easy-to-use layout builder, born from our highly user-friendly QuickService Panel Editor technology. Designs can be as creative as needed to accurately depict the restaurant layout. Additional TableService features include enhancements for Team Service environments such as Rapid Login and Public Cash Drawers which add to the speed of service in a bar or cashier environment. There are also new features for Reports, Auto-Gratuity and Guest Checks, including the ability to now split checks from the close screen.
If I have a floor plan in my hands on an A3 size paper, but the scale mentions that it was originally made on an A1 size paper. How should I factor in the change in paper size when I measure the area on the A3 print out?
In short, there is no exact answer to this, because it depends on a number of things, particularly whether you want to resulting document to be accurate.It’s not the size of the sheet that might be important, it might be the size of the drawing itself.If accuracy isn’t a problem, use a factor of 2 and don’t worry about it.If it is, things become more complicated.Your question assumes that the original has been printed true to scale. In many cases it’s not!If it has been printed on paper directly from a CAD package and the print has been configured correctly, and there have been no ‘scale to fit’ page options checked, it should be true to scale.If it has been printed from CAD to PDF, then it may well not be correct, because printer margins vary from one device to another, and if the original document had smaller margins than your device can support, your PDF print dialog will offer a print to fit option by default.Planning Authorities have this problem frequently when printing files submitted electronically. I’ve had to go through an exercise of printing them myself to prove that they overlay precisely and that the boundaries and areas are accurate.If your original itself has been copied, you may find that inaccuracies have crept in there.In short, you simply can’t assume that your original drawing is true to scale. This is why architects often use scale bars on their drawings. Some don’t deliberately as a means of making it more difficult for people to make unauthorised use of them.The most reliable way to do this is to scale something with a known or fixed dimension (the longer the better), and work out the enlargement or reduction factor.
Is there a floor plan of 10 Downing Street?
Yes, there is a floor plan: it's for numbers 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street. The interconnected nature of the three addresses is why, as you've already spotted, the property looks 'bigger on the inside'. Why are the properties are so closely interwoven that they need to be understood as a single building? Number 10 is the official residence of the prime minister (to be technical, it's still known as the residence of the 'First Lord of the Treasury', but for many generations this job has been the prime minister's!) Number 11 is the official residence of the Chancellor. Number 12 houses the prime minister's press offices and other information services. The plans are not up-to-date - recent internal changes will be kept private for matters of security - but give a very good idea of the present layout, since structural walls will be largely unchanged. Here's the ground floor: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.a... And the first floor: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.a... and here's the second floor (including the small third floor area) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.a...
How can I design a floor plan for a house?
Floor Plan Maker is perfect not only for professional-looking floor plan, office layout, home plan, seating plan, but also garden design, fire and emergency plan, HVAC, elevation diagram...Abundant floor plan templates and examples are contained in floor plan maker and more are easily accessible online.Five Steps to Design House Floor PlansStep 1. Open a Blank Drawing PageGo to File > New > Floor Plan, choose the type of floor plan you want and then double click its icon to open a blank drawing page.Step 2. Set the Drawing ScaleNavigate to Floor Plan menu of the Ribbon, in the first Scale group, input a drawing scale value in the box or click the arrow besides the box to choose one drawing scale from the drop-down menu.Step 3. Add and Edit Floor Plan ShapesTo Add House Floor Plan Shapes:From the left libraries, drag and drop shapes to the canvas.Connect walls by dragging one wall to another. When the connection point turns red, release the mouse and two walls will be glued.To Edit Floor Plan Shapes:To set the opening direction, go to Home tab to click Rotate and Flip button. Drag the yellow control point to change the door opening angle and direction.Change a shape's color and border by clicking any quick style under the Home tab in the Styles group.To Add Dimension Lines to WallsThe dimensioning library contains a variety of dimensioning symbols for users to draw interior dimension, exterior dimension, angular dimension, radius dimension, etc.Step 4. Add Floor Plan ContentsDouble click a shape or a table to type in text. -> Press Ctrl + 2 to add more text boxes. Press Ctrl + shift + 2 to adjust text box. The text box turns purple.Step 5. Save or Export Floor PlanClick Save on File tab to save as the default format .eddx. ChooseSave as on File tab to save as other formats, you can also hit Export & Send under File to export the floor plan as images, presentation slides and web documents and so on.Reference:How to Design Your Own House Floor PlansBest Floor Plan Software Architectural Engineers Should Have
How to make a floor plan on Google SketchUp?
Something like these, but not soooo elaborate...yet. http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DGoogle%2BSketchUp%2Bbedrooms%26y%3DSearch%26fr%3Dyfp-t-103%26ei%3Dutf-8%26js%3D1%26x%3Dwrt&w=500&h=287&imgurl=static.flickr.com%2F70%2F251629734_39d4cc82fe.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fschlunzi%2F251629734%2F&size=77.6kB&name=First+floor&p=Google+SketchUp+bedrooms&type=JPG&oid=90d2ff2cf639e672&fusr=schlunzi&tit=First+floor&hurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fschlunzi%2F&no=1&tt=1&sigr=11gq33r8q&sigi=11d1v64b8&sigb=13huvfklp&sigh=116120q6r And if this isn't a trouble for you, how to add the top of a room that I already found. In the floor plan, in top view. Like after I do the floor plan from top view, in bedroom 1, I want to add the really bedroom in to the 1 and make it top view, how do I do that? If you need specific things, then feel free to e-mail me! Thank you once again!
When starting a floor plan why must you begin with general shapes and light lines?
THIS IS SO YOU CAN GET THE BASIC DIMENSIONS RIGHT and so you can change any mistakes that may have been made ;) x
Can we change the column direction from first floor?
Yes it is possible structurally and practically.But you must decide this before slab cast, because some extra design and additional reinforcement is to be added so that the load on the first floor column must be transferred to below evenly and uniformly.If the width of the column is more than 30″ then it might be little complicated but no worry,it is also possible.I have done this in one of my construction.Changing the direction, changing the section and size , changing the shape ,all are possible.But everything must be decided before slab cast.IMPORTANT.Execute the work as per the structural engineers design only, don't execute with others suggestions.Thanks.