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0:02Welcome back to the interior design
0:04playbook. Expert lessons to streamline,
0:06scale, and succeed. In our last lesson,
0:08we imported a DWG plan and started our
0:10interior construction drawing, the solid
0:12foundation of a professional drawing
0:13set. Today, we are moving forward with
0:15the next layer. We will be creating a
0:17furniture and finished floor plan. You
0:19will see how we keep the entire process
0:21efficient and streamlined by just using
0:23one tool. No more hopping between
0:24software, searching for furniture,
0:26blocks, and materials online. With
0:27Rayon, the platform that I've used for
0:29every sheet so far, you'll work smarter
0:31and faster in one place. So, today,
0:33here's what we're going to cover.
0:34Stylizing plans with textures, colors,
0:36and fonts for a polished and client
0:38ready finish. Furnishing in minutes
0:40using Rayon's 10,000 plus block library.
0:43Just drag, drop, and customize
0:44instantly. We'll organize our
0:46presentation with canvases, views, and
0:48layers, laying the groundwork for our
0:50complete interior design construction
0:51document set. By the end of this lesson,
0:53you'll know exactly how to go from
0:55technical drawings to fully styled
0:57presentation ready plans, all without
0:59leaving Rayon. Download the free drawing
1:00set template below to follow along. It's
1:02fully editable so you can adapt it to
1:04your own project and start building a
1:06scalable professional workflow for your
1:08own project. Let's dive in. So, to kick
1:10things off today, um before we dive into
1:12this furniture and finish plan, I do
1:14want to explain the difference between
1:16um our model space and our presentation
1:17space. uh what they're called canvases
1:20in um here in Rayon. And basically the
1:23difference is that on a model canvas,
1:25that's where you're going to be drawing.
1:27Um that's what where you're going to be
1:28doing, you know, your floor plan, your
1:30details, whatever. And they can be on
1:32one model canvas or multiple. See, we
1:34have multiple set up over here. And then
1:36your presentation canvas is where you're
1:38going to take those models and like
1:40basically dump them onto the
1:42presentation canvas. And then you can
1:43like use overrides and layers to show
1:46different things. So, for instance,
1:47these three boards right here, right?
1:49This is the same floor plan, but it's
1:51presented differently. So, we didn't
1:54draw this floor plan three different
1:55times. We're just showing different
1:58layers turned on on different types of
1:59plans. Like, so for this one, you know,
2:01we've got a construction plan. So, we're
2:02not going to be showing finishes and
2:04furniture. Down here, we've got
2:05lighting. So, we have the lighting
2:07turned on. Then, down here, you know, we
2:08took the lighting off and now we're just
2:10kind of showing finishes um and
2:12furniture. So, that hopefully kind of
2:14helps explain uh the model space versus
2:17the presentation space. And I do want to
2:20go ahead and set up a page with you. Uh
2:23we'll just do it right over here to the
2:24side. This should help kind of explain
2:26that whole layer override thing as well.
2:29So, let's just go into our pages over
2:31here and hit the plus sign. Um that's
2:33just going to give us a whole new sheet
2:34here. Uh you can move it around. You can
2:36see that there's like snaps and grid
2:38lines and stuff, so you can make it nice
2:39and tidy. But once we select it, we can
2:42go over here and tell it what size we
2:43want it to be. So these are just all
2:45very typical sizes. The other ones in
2:47this presentation are A3. So I'm just
2:49going to click A3. Uh and you can see
2:51that it created basically the same size
2:53as all these other sheets. So now that
2:56we have our page created here, you can
2:58always copy and paste your uh title
3:01block if you want, but I'm just going to
3:02show you how to basically create a new
3:04view on a page. So, if we go back to our
3:07layers panel over here, we can hit the
3:08plus sign, and then we're going to go to
3:11view, and then you can select which
3:12model canvas you want this view to come
3:14from. So, we're going to tell it floor
3:16plan because we're going to be creating
3:18a furniture and finish plan together.
3:21And you can see that it uh brought in
3:22this view. Obviously, it's a little bit
3:24too big for our page. So, we can scale
3:27that down. Um, if you have it selected,
3:30you can come over here and just uh give
3:32it an exact scale. I think since this
3:35was created in
3:37meters, this is going to be kind of an
3:39odd shape or odd scale. 11
3:43128s
3:44to an inch uh is going to be our scale.
3:47So, a more typical scale would be like
3:481/8 of an inch, 1/4 of an inch, um or
3:51even like 3/32. But, uh we're working
3:54with the units here. Uh, by the way, if
3:56you do get this uh if you do have this
3:58drawing template and your units are in
4:01meters or something that you're
4:02unfamiliar with, you can always go down
4:03here um and oh, let me move me again and
4:07go to length unit and go to whatever
4:10you're most comfortable with. I
4:11personally am feet and inches, so that's
4:13what I like to do. Um, and then it will
4:15change all of your units to that, which
4:17is really helpful. So, now we've got our
4:19floor plan here. Still looks a little
4:21bit odd. Um, what we're going to do is
4:23hold down our command key. Uh, I am
4:25working on a Mac, so it might be a
4:27little bit different for you. And I'm
4:28just going to basically bring our, uh,
4:31frame in a little bit because we don't
4:33need that much going on here. Uh, we
4:37want to get our legend in there
4:39and just kind of scrunch this until it
4:42looks right. I think that's looking
4:45okay for what we, you know, for the
4:47teaching purposes of this course. So now
4:49it, you know, fits on here, but it's
4:51showing way too much, right? So let's
4:54just pretend that we are creating a
4:56construction plan. So we need to turn
4:59some of these layers off. How I'm going
5:01to do that is I'm going to double click
5:03on this view. And you can see that
5:04actually now I can edit stuff. Um
5:07there's things that are being
5:08highlighted. It kind of grayed out
5:09everything else. You do need to be
5:11careful in here because if you zoom in
5:13and out, it will change your scale. Um
5:15you can uh disable that by clicking this
5:17little button right here. So that way if
5:19I zoom in and out, it's not going to
5:20zoom in and out on the actual uh model.
5:24So uh what we need to do here is since
5:26we already have a bunch of our layers
5:28set up, we need to just kind of turn
5:30these off, the ones that we don't want
5:32off. So for a construction plan, you
5:34most likely are not going to have light.
5:35So I'm going to turn that off. You most
5:37likely are not going to have furniture.
5:40Uh our areas are basically our finishes,
5:43so I'm going to turn those off as well.
5:45Everything else I think we'd probably
5:46have. We've got our topography, uh, the
5:49garden with the pool, walls, shadows,
5:52annotations. So, that's looking pretty
5:53right. So, once you get all of your
5:56layers set correctly here, you can see
5:58when I hit done, this is going to change
5:59over here. Right now, I'm in the layers
6:01of my view. But, if I hit done, now I'm
6:03in the layers of my presentation canvas.
6:05So, I didn't affect anything in the
6:08model space. I just am affecting the
6:10presentation space, like how it's being
6:12shown. I love that aspect of uh RAN
6:15because now if I wanted to create a
6:18furniture plan, I could basically just,
6:19you know, duplicate this and then turn
6:21my furniture layers on. So that's
6:22exactly, you know, what we did over
6:24here. So uh once you kind of mess around
6:28with your layers and get that all set
6:30up, uh your construction plan should
6:33start looking like this. So you, you
6:34know, you've got your annotations,
6:36you've got your walls, you've got, you
6:38know, some indication of what these
6:40spaces are. You can easily create a
6:43legend. Also, if we go, let's just go
6:46into our model space and I'll show you
6:47how we create that. So, if I go to my
6:49floor plan model space, you can see that
6:51we have legends already created here.
6:53Um, but if you wanted to create your
6:55own, all you have to do is just use
6:58basically model lines and text to do
7:00that. So, down here, you know, you can
7:02grab your rectangle if we're trying to
7:03kind of recreate what we have here. Just
7:05draw your rectangle and then, you know,
7:08you'd add in your text. So um space
7:12areas and flooring material
7:18hit the check mark. If you want to
7:19change the size obviously you would
7:21change that here. So maybe this is like
7:256 or something bigger. Um you can change
7:28the uh font and of course always if you
7:31like the style um just save that style.
7:34Just hit the plus button and it will if
7:36you rename it and then save it will save
7:38into your styles. Um, and then yeah,
7:41just kind of like rinse and repeat for
7:43down here. Rayon does have uh an
7:46advanced metadata and properties option.
7:48So if you are interested in exploring um
7:51you know a deeper method to count some
7:54and list your elements in your space, uh
7:57this is where you can add the
7:58information directly onto your styles,
8:00areas, blocks, and more. And then to
8:03that helps you create the tables with
8:05just a few clicks. Um, for this lesson,
8:08we're just keeping it simple and uh we
8:10will touch on the meta metadata
8:12abilities in lesson seven where we are
8:15going to use it to create our smart FFN
8:17tables. But again, feel free to just
8:19visit Rayon's basic tutorial series to
8:22learn more about metadata for the
8:23zoning. So, I've got a nice fresh blank
8:26floor plan for us to start uh sprucing
8:28up here. Essentially, what we're going
8:30to do is we're going to create zones to
8:33uh start making our finish plan. And
8:35then we will also uh use some furniture
8:38blocks from the library to uh create our
8:41furniture plan on top of that. So let's
8:43start by creating a couple new layers. I
8:46am going to create a layer over here
8:49called furniture and then also a layer
8:52called finishes. You could also call it
8:54zones or um areas or whatever you uh
8:57want. But we will also reorganize these
9:00here in a minute to try to uh get them
9:02in the right hierarchy in our layers
9:04group because we want to make sure that
9:05they're sandwiched between the right
9:06layers. We don't necessarily want
9:08finishes on top of everything because
9:10it's going to hide all of our
9:11annotations and whatnot. Um I'm going to
9:13make sure that I'm on the layer finishes
9:14and we'll just start adding our zones.
9:16So if I go down here to zone, you can
9:18see when I hover over a space um that is
9:21enclosed, it will let me create a zone.
9:24So, I'm going to just uh drop on this
9:27one. And you can see that it
9:29automatically gave me um a recent style
9:31that I've used. But if you want to um
9:35make it your own, for instance, uh let's
9:38see here. Let's make it like a orangey
9:40color. Uh the font can be, you know,
9:44whatever. Uh the size you can change
9:47like maybe we want that a little bit
9:49smaller. You can easily change the name
9:52if you just uh double click in there and
9:55then like maybe we want to name this
9:56bedroom and then check mark that. Um if
10:01you want to add any other indicators
10:04like uh you know if you want to call out
10:06the material or something you can always
10:09just add in some model lines. So like we
10:11could go to our rectangle here and draw
10:14a little rectangle.
10:17give it a white solid fill. And then you
10:19can just add text to it. So you can say,
10:21you know, a floor covering wood um or
10:25some sort of like speck or something
10:26like that. And then once you're done,
10:28just check that. Um of course, if you
10:31want to change the size, if you want to
10:33change the uh font, that's all very easy
10:37to do. And then it's kind of just a
10:38rinse and repeat process from there. So
10:40you would just continue to add your
10:42zones, uh change your hatches. So, like
10:47for instance, if this is going to be a
10:48bathroom, I'm probably going to want a
10:50different texture. Uh, maybe I'll go
10:52over to the hatches, find something
10:54closer to this. Maybe I want to change
10:56my opacity a little bit. Um, so it's not
10:59so in your face.
11:01And then, um, again, just rinse and
11:04repeat. If you want to, uh, you know,
11:07group this text here, all you have to do
11:09is hold down your shift key, make sure
11:11that we have them both selected, and
11:13then group. And then you can easily move
11:16those around together. You could copy
11:17and paste and bring it into here and
11:19say, you know, wood covering would be
11:23tile in here. So let's adjust that. So
11:27wood covering tile. Done. Okay. And then
11:31again up here, we would want uh this to
11:33be probably the same as below. Um also,
11:37if this is like a closet or something,
11:40we can always uh edit that right over
11:44here.
11:45We're just going to say bath.
11:48And then same goes for up here. So I'm
11:51going to drag or I'm going to ey drop
11:54that style down there cuz I I want that
11:56style up here too. Uh again, change the
11:59name of this. This will also be the
12:01bath. Uh it's just going to be a large
12:03bath. And then uh copy paste this up
12:05here. So once you kind of get like your
12:07style down, you start getting some of
12:09this stuff in here. It just kind of
12:10becomes easy. you can just uh copy paste
12:13or reuse styles. It's like the setup
12:15that takes a little bit of time, but
12:17once you get that down, it's going to be
12:19um so much easier. Now, once you start
12:22getting all of your finishes in, I'm
12:25going to turn on my annotations layer
12:26really quick just to show you. We do
12:29need to make sure that we drag our
12:30finishes layer down. I'm going to
12:33sandwich it between the walls and the
12:34shadows, and you'll see why here in a
12:36second. So, right now, it's sitting on
12:37top of all the annotations that I've
12:38already drawn. But what I want to do is
12:40I want to drag this finishes layer right
12:42between walls and shadows. And now you
12:44can see there's another one of our um
12:47tags coming in here. But now you can see
12:49that this sits between the walls and the
12:53shadows layer. And it doesn't sit on top
12:55of anything else. And then when we add
12:57our furniture, we need to again make
12:59sure that those are probably either
13:02right above finishes or right above
13:03shadows. So we can just drag that there
13:05now. And that way when we start uh
13:07drawing our furniture in here in just a
13:10second, um it's going to sit in the
13:12right spot. And you can always adjust
13:14these if you need to. Uh this is where
13:16it's going to be really important to
13:17make sure that you're drawing on the
13:18right layer. Let's dive into some blocks
13:20here. I'm going to open up Rayon's block
13:23library, which is over here. This
13:26library has more than 10,000 blocks uh
13:29set up in top view, front view, and side
13:32view for your sections and elevations,
13:34which we'll get to in a later lesson. Um
13:37you are able to bring in your own
13:39blocks, so you can import DWG or PDF
13:42blocks um from, you know, any vendors
13:45that you can find online. You can also
13:47draw your own blocks, which I'll show
13:48you how to do here in a second. The nice
13:50thing too is that you can curate your
13:52own block library and then share it with
13:54teammates um which you know makes it so
13:56much easier to like standardize your
13:58drawing sets um easier and more
14:01accessible. So let's go ahead and just
14:03start populating just this little
14:04section of the floor plan uh with some
14:06of these blocks and then I will also
14:08show you how to kind of change the style
14:10of them as well. So we're just going to
14:12start with this um bedroom here. So I'm
14:14just going to search queen bed. Just
14:17type type in queen and see what comes
14:19up. Um, so you can see that I've already
14:21got multiple different options here.
14:23These are all in floor plan. And then
14:25down here we've got some like elevation
14:28type things. So obviously we want the
14:30floor plan. I'm just going to double
14:31click the one that I want. And then it's
14:33going to put it in my space. So here
14:36again, you can see how it's like sitting
14:38on top of our information. So we might
14:40need to move our uh layer around a
14:43little bit, but I'm just going to start
14:44by rotating it and place it where I want
14:46it. That's like the beauty of this is
14:48that these blocks are kind of like
14:50already grouped together, so you can
14:52easily just move them around um as you
14:55need. So, I can already see here. Let's
14:57go back to our layers. So, I'm probably
14:59going to put the furniture layer below
15:01finishes. Uh and then what we'll do is
15:05we need to probably move some of our
15:07text. Like for instance, this one is
15:09under finishes, but I can move that
15:11group into, you know, my annotations and
15:13then that will end up sitting on top
15:15later. If you can't get your layers
15:16right, you can also just move this
15:18around. Um, right. So, you know, if I
15:20know that I'm not going to have
15:21furniture there, maybe it makes more
15:22sense there. Okay. So, you know, and
15:24maybe we want our furniture
15:26to be maybe you want it above the
15:29shadows. You just you you figure it out
15:31for however you want your style to look.
15:33Let's populate this with a couple more
15:35things. Let's put a couple of wardrobes
15:36over here. So, I'm going to go back to
15:38my libraries and just type in wardrobe
15:41and see what we have. Um, once I find
15:45one that I like, uh, maybe this one,
15:48I'll double click it and it will come
15:49into my space. And then you can also
15:52kind of see that this is like snapping.
15:54So, um, it's easy to see. Okay, this is
15:57like sitting against the walls. Um, once
15:59you have those where you want them,
16:01maybe I want a nightstand, but maybe
16:03it's like, you know, a size that I can't
16:06find in here, so I want to draw one
16:08myself. Um, so what I'm going to do is
16:10I'm going to just draw that with my uh
16:12tools down here. So I'll grab my little
16:14rectangle tool and uh create whatever
16:17size I want. And then same as any other
16:20style, I'm going to just add a fill. Uh
16:22let's also say that maybe I want like a
16:24little lamp here. I just want to
16:26indicate a lamp. So if you want to make
16:28these into a block, you can just hold
16:29down your shift key and select
16:30everything that you want to create a
16:32block with. Right click and go to block.
16:35And now that's an actual block that I
16:37can come back to later. So that will
16:39show up in my blocks um library over
16:41here. So if I X out of that. So I come
16:43over here and I can see it there. If you
16:45want to rename it, you can just click on
16:46the three dots over here and click
16:48rename. So maybe it's nightstand. Enter.
16:51And then, you know, I can copy and paste
16:53that like I would any other block. You
16:55know, start moving things if I if
16:57they're not fitting. Like maybe we need
16:59to move it over here cuz there's an
17:00opening. So that makes that really easy.
17:02You can also add in things like a rug. I
17:05think they've got them named as carpets
17:06in here. Or again, if you have your own
17:09block or want to create your own block,
17:11uh that's what we can do here. So, you
17:12know, you can if you like any of these,
17:14you can just double click and bring that
17:16in here. Now, make sure that in your
17:18layers panel, obviously, this is sitting
17:20on top of everything right now. So, make
17:22sure in your layers panel that you go
17:24over here. I'm going to go under here,
17:26and I just want to drag this carpet
17:28underneath my bed and everything else.
17:30So, then that way it's not um sitting on
17:32top of things. And again, it's kind of
17:34blocking some of our other information
17:36here, but we can easily move that as we
17:38need to. Also, if you, you know, if
17:41there's a block in here that you really
17:42like, but maybe you want it to be a
17:45color or something like that, you can
17:47always select it and just hit edit and
17:50then click the block. We are going to go
17:53adjust the properties over here and
17:55change the style. Maybe we want this bed
17:56to be red for some reason. Um, right.
17:59And then once you have that uh the way
18:02that you want it, then you're just going
18:03to hit done. And now we've got a nice
18:06bright red bed. So once we have all of
18:08our information in here, right, this is
18:10a lot of information, but once you've,
18:12you know, started getting your zones and
18:14your uh, you know, materials and your
18:18furniture and any other tags or anything
18:20in there, again, make sure that they're
18:22all on the right layer. And that way
18:23when we go to our paper presentation
18:25space
18:26we can click on or you know when you add
18:30your view you want to make sure that you
18:32go to override or double click on it and
18:35then uh that's when you are able to turn
18:38on and off certain features. So you know
18:40if we wanted to turn off the annotations
18:44uh but you know we want the shadows on,
18:46we want the furniture on, we want the
18:48areas on. Now, this is looking a much
18:52more like a furniture plan, right? Like
18:53a furniture and finish plan than our
18:56construction plan that we had before.
18:58So, that's how you easily can just kind
19:00of like override and turn layers on and
19:02off. Use the same, you know, model that
19:04you've built, just uh adjust what kind
19:08of what you're seeing. And then you
19:09should have a furniture plan that's
19:11looking something like this. Nice work
19:14today. You just created a furniture and
19:16finish plan in rayon. You styled your
19:18drawing, furnished it with built-in
19:19blocks, and kept everything organized
19:21with canvases, views, and layers. Next
19:22up, we'll be moving to lighting plans
19:24and fixture spec sheets so you can keep
19:26building towards that full interior
19:28construction documentation set. Don't
19:29forget to download the free template to
19:31practice with. And if you're enjoying
19:32this series, please make sure you like,
19:34subscribe, and comment with any of your
19:36takeaways. See you in the next lesson.
19:40[Music]

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