Reading the fit and the critic¶
The fitted plan¶
After every change to the sketch, the tool solves the whole plan again. The fitted plan always holds to these rules:
- No overlaps. Rooms that overlap in your sketch are pulled apart.
- Inside the plot. Nothing crosses the outline.
- A door for every way in. Each room the circulation reaches gets a door in the wall it is entered through.
- Rooms keep their facade. A room drawn against the outline stays against it.
- The circulation as drawn. Corridors follow your lines, at the widths you gave them.
Each room is labelled with three areas: what the brief asked for, what you drew, and what the fit fitted. A large gap between them is worth a look.
Two switches change how the plan is shown:
- Give the leftover floor to the rooms. Space the fit leaves over is handed to the rooms and the circulation beside it, instead of staying empty.
- Drawing view. Shows the plan as a drawing: black on white, walls, doors and windows only - what you would hand over.
The critic¶
Under the drawings, the critic lists what it finds, grouped by how serious it is:
| Group | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Errors | The plan does not work as drawn: a room cannot be reached, or the fit could not hold something you asked for. |
| Warnings | It works, but something is off: a room much smaller than asked, too dark, or awkward to reach. |
| Notes | Things worth knowing that are not problems. |
| Kept | What the plan does well and the fit preserved. |
Hover any sentence to highlight what it is about, on the sketch and on the fitted plan at once.
When the critic says nothing yet
Place the rooms and draw the circulation first. The critic speaks once there is a plan to judge.
Working with it¶
The quickest way to a good plan is short loops: move one thing, read what changed in the critic, move the next. When an error will not go away, the circulation is usually the cause - check that every room is reached by a line or a door.