Checking a floor plan before publication

What the check finds

The check walks the geometry systematically and reports what does not fit together: doors and windows not sitting on any wall, openings wider than their host wall, duplicate openings at the same point, very short wall fragments, and wall ends that join nothing.

On the room side it flags rooms with no area, rooms with no name, and enclosed rooms with no door or passage. For furniture it flags pieces crossing walls, pieces overlapping each other, and pieces sitting outside every room.

• Opening off the wall, or wider than the wall
• Duplicate doors and windows at the same point
• Rooms without a name, without an area or without access
• Furniture inside walls, inside other furniture, or outside rooms

When to run it

Always immediately before exporting, and again after any substantial change. It is especially worthwhile after a photo import, because structures adopted from an old drawing bring typical junction problems with them.

Not every message is an error. A doorless opening may be intentional, and an unnamed store room sometimes is too. The check therefore distinguishes hard errors, warnings and notes — you make the call.

The last five minutes before export

Alongside the automatic check, take a manual look at three things: are all room names right? Does the sum of areas match the figure in the listing? Is the storey name correct? Those three questions catch errors no software can detect.

Finally, review the output at the size it will appear. A plan that looks coherent full-screen can be unreadable as a portal thumbnail — in which case fewer dimensions and larger type are the fix.