Updates
Changelog
New features and fixes in the Areaplane floor plan, map, and irrigation tools, and the iPhone and iPad app.
Create Perimeter
Floor plan and map tools
- Each measurement has a menu with Rename, Create Perimeter, and Delete.
- Create Perimeter adds a length that runs around an area's outline, in the area's colour and named after it.
A rebuilt irrigation planner
Irrigation planner
- A cleaner layout, with fixes for missed clicks, pipes that ended early, and markers removed by a single click.
- Place heads for me lays out heads on every lawn and groups them into zones. Heads never spray off the grass and no longer crowd the corners.
- Choose Best fit or a head type before placing, then delete any head you don't want.
- A step-by-step setup guide, from outlining the grass to exporting the report.
- Pick heads for a zone by clicking them on the plan. Heads you add by hand join a nearby zone.
- Deleting a zone asks whether to keep its heads.
- Plans with several lawns: zones are named after their lawn, and one valve box can serve every lawn.
- The materials list counts valve manifolds and control wire for each valve box, and warns when a box holds more than six valves.
- A new sample yard with lawns in front of and behind the house.
Floor plan and map tools
- Measurement labels hide while you draw, so they never cover the next shape.
- A Show Labels setting to turn labels off.
Tidier drawing
Floor plan and map tools
- Drawing instructions sit in a bar under the toolbar that you can dismiss.
- Smaller drawing dots by default, in all three tools.
One workspace for every tool
Tools
- One workspace for the floor plan, map, and irrigation tools. Switching tools in the header is instant and keeps your work open.
- Sample projects for every tool, separate from your own saved work.
- A refreshed look for all three tools.
- Bring a floor plan's drawing into the irrigation planner.
- The irrigation planner opens a saved project file or a plan image.
Fixes
- Measurements no longer drift off the plan after a reload.
- Projects saved by an older version with misplaced measurements get a one-time offer to fix them.
- Pinch zoom works on touch screens in the floor plan tool.
The first release
Tools
- Floor plan calculator: upload a plan image or PDF, set the scale from one known length, and measure areas and lengths with polygons, rectangles, and lines, grouped into categories.
- Google Maps area calculator: trace land, roofs, and lots on satellite imagery.
- Irrigation planner: lay out sprinkler heads, zones, drip lines, and pipes, with a materials list and a PDF report.
- Projects are saved in your browser and can be downloaded as a file.
- Sod and solar roof calculators.
Smart snapping and room outlines
Drawing
- Smart snapping: points snap to the walls and corners of your floor plan as you trace, with a light tap you can feel. Turn it off anytime in Settings.
- Room outlines: with Polygon, touch and hold inside a room to outline it in one step.
- Faster scale: Areaplane can spot a dimension on your plan, like 20′-0″, and offer it as the scale.
- Labels stay out of the way while you draw, so you can see where the next shape goes. The setting is now called Show Labels.
- On maps, the location and map style buttons hide while you draw.
Devices
- Support for iPhone Duo.
More control over every measurement
Drawing
- Precision placement: zoom in to place a point, then return to your overview. Switch it on or off at any time.
- Select a measurement, adjust its corners or move the shape, and undo changes as you work.
- Live measurements while you draw, a preview of the polygon's closing edge, and a name prompt before saving.
Projects
- Redesigned workspaces for iPhone and iPad, with cleaner tools, project lists, and measurement panels.
- Floor plan and map samples that don't count toward your free project limit.
- Automatic units for imperial and metric projects, with your own thresholds for miles, acres, kilometres, and hectares.
- Search, compact rows, and bulk duplicate and delete for your projects.
- Better map search, measurement labels, and project-file exchange with the web tools.
- Better floor plan zooming, saved viewport positions, and tools to realign imported measurements.
The first release
Measure
- Import a floor plan from an image or PDF, set the scale from one known length, and draw polygons, rectangles, and lengths.
- Find an address and trace areas and distances on standard, satellite, or hybrid maps.
- Name your measurements and see totals as you work.
Areaplane Pro
- Unlimited projects and measurements, measurement folders, PDF reports with plans and totals, and iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad.