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0:01[music]
0:02Every interior designer understands this
0:04frustration. You pour hours into
0:06perfecting a kitchen design. You refine
0:08the layout, select the finishes, and
0:10obsess over every detail. But when you
0:12finally present it to your client, they
0:14hesitate and second guess. It's not
0:16about your creativity or
0:17professionalism. It's your
0:18communication. [music]
0:19Even the most brilliant design can fall
0:21flat if clients can't clearly see the
0:23vision. So today, we're going to fix
0:24that together.
0:25>> [music]
0:25>> I will show you five steps to present
0:27your kitchen designs so clients can
0:29understand them right away and approve
0:30them faster with fewer revisions.
0:33Because here's the truth. When your
0:34presentation doesn't explain the entire
0:36story, you're wasting time, energy, and
0:38profit on back and forth that shouldn't
0:40even be happening in the first place.
0:42So, let's change that. In this video,
0:44I'll be using Rayon Design, which if you
0:46don't know yet, it's the new Gen
0:47Effortless CAD tool for interior
0:49designers and architects, where you can
0:51do anything from importing DWGs and PDFs
0:54to drawing and editing floor plans and
0:56sections to fully fleshing out your
0:58design presentations with stylized mood
1:00boards and even built-in AI tools. This
1:02entire presentation that I'm about to
1:04show you was made in Rayon from A to Z.
1:06You can go ahead and create a free
1:08account using the link below. Let's get
1:10started. Your architectural floor plans,
1:12sections, and design details might look
1:14crystal clear to you, but clients don't
1:17see line work the way that we do. They
1:19just kind of see confusion. And that's
1:21why adding realistic materials, accurate
1:23colors, and detailed text annotations
1:25help them envision what seems obvious on
1:27[music] your end. So, this is a complete
1:30set that we have in RAM that we're going
1:32to take a look at today. I'll just kind
1:34of run through the pages really quickly,
1:36just kind of the layout. So, we have our
1:39title sheet in here. We've got the table
1:42of contents, some conceptual stuff,
1:44[music] and then we go into our, you
1:46know, more detailed technical drawings
1:48like the floor plan, the sections, um,
1:51some inspiration images, axonometric
1:54views, and again, we're going to deep
1:56dive into some of this stuff in this
1:58video, but ending up over here at the
2:01FFN schedule and just kind of a little
2:04closer sheet. So, that's kind of an
2:06overall look at this presentation. And
2:09again, we'll talk about five different
2:11things that we can do with this
2:13presentation to make it a little bit
2:14more clear and obvious to our clients.
2:17Even some of the small things like
2:19having consistent fonts and hierarchy in
2:21your layouts make a really big
2:23difference on how like finished and
2:25trustworthy your design looks. A
2:27polished drawing can tell your client
2:29like this is real. This is ready to be
2:31built. Let me just go ahead and show you
2:33a little before and after of what I
2:35mean. Um, this is just an example of a
2:38project that I created in Rayon Design.
2:40Um, [music] it is a DWG that I imported
2:42into Rayon to scale, which by the way,
2:44if you didn't know, you can import PDFs
2:47or just draw accurately from scratch
2:49directly in the tool. [music]
2:51So, let's go ahead and take a look at
2:53how I did this. So, I'm popping over
2:55into my model canvas, which I encourage
2:58you to go check out some other videos on
3:00the page if you want to understand the
3:01difference between paper canvas and
3:03model canvas. But essentially, the model
3:04canvas is just where you're going to be
3:06drawing. The paper canvas is where
3:07you're going to be presenting [music]
3:08those drawings. So, if we pop over to
3:10the model canvas, I just want to show
3:12you what this could look like or what
3:14this might look like already as you are
3:16presenting them. Now, this is actually
3:18pretty detailed as it is. This is a
3:20floor plan in a section. Um, we've got
3:22like, you know, door swings and that
3:24kind of thing, but it's not as good as
3:26it could be. So, just by adding a few
3:29materials, dimensions,
3:32maybe a couple of annotations, uh, we
3:34can really make this drawing
3:36understandable. Again, just that basic
3:38line work doesn't really compute with
3:40everyone. Obviously, in our designer
3:42brains, we get it, but everyone else
3:44might not understand. So, so let's just
3:46zoom over to what this could look like
3:49if it were a little bit more stylized
3:51and understandable for the client. So,
3:53you can already see even with just a
3:55little simple wood texture on the floor
3:58and down here, especially with, you
4:00know, our backsplash, our cabinet color,
4:03[music] our metal on our different
4:05appliances, like you start to understand
4:07or at least your client will start to
4:09understand better this layout. So, let
4:12me just show you how you can apply these
4:13different styles, dimensions, and add
4:16some annotations as well. So, in our
4:18drawing here, we have basically this
4:20drawing is made up of different blocks
4:22or just shapes. And so, if I were to
4:24double click in here and select one of
4:26these, you can see that this is
4:28basically just a shape that I can add a
4:31different style to. So over here in this
4:33right hand panel, you can see that I
4:35have a different style applied to, for
4:38instance, [music] these cabinets than I
4:40do to uh maybe this refrigerator or
4:43something like that. Um you can see I've
4:45got a metal style applied there. And
4:47then over in the cabinets, I've got like
4:48a wood texture. So with our block or our
4:52shape or anything like that, you can add
4:54different styles. So if I come over
4:56here, I'm just going to go ahead and
4:57detach [music] this style just so I can
4:59show you how to create a new style. So,
5:01if I detach this, it's going to show me
5:03what the fill of that shape is and what
5:05the stroke of that shape is. [music] So,
5:07we want to change the fill. So, I'm
5:09going to just say remove fill. And you
5:11can see that it basically took that
5:12shape away. [music] And now, if I go to
5:14add fill, just click on this add fill.
5:17Now, you can click on uh different fills
5:21up here. So, whether you want a solid, a
5:23gradient, a texture, there's a whole
5:25library of lovely textures in here. or
5:28there's, you know, all kinds of
5:29different wood or um tiles, carpet, that
5:33kind of thing. You can also apply a
5:35hatch, which would be like a little bit
5:36more basic representation, but you can
5:38see it kind of works well for certain
5:40things, like for instance, this
5:41backsplash. Or you can even upload your
5:43own image, which I really love. So, if
5:44there's a specific material that you
5:46have, um, you can just add that here.
5:48So, just say upload and then add in your
5:50own. Now, if you already have another
5:52material in the project that you like,
5:54you could also just grab this little
5:56eyropper and you can ey drop another
5:59style that you like and then it will
6:00apply that to whatever uh shape you are
6:04hovering over. And then if you really
6:06like that style or if you've created a
6:08new style that you want to use on in the
6:10future in this project or another
6:12project, you can just kind of create
6:13your own library [music]
6:15um just by saying plus and you can save
6:17that style. So, I'll hit the plus button
6:19and then you can name it. Uh, you can
6:22edit any other properties. If you go
6:24back to um if you click this little
6:26image right here, you can also edit the
6:28opacity of it. So, if you don't want it,
6:30you know, super opaque, if you want a
6:32little bit transparency, or you can also
6:34always adjust um some of these filters
6:36like the exposure, contrast, saturation.
6:38And then on some of these like the
6:40texture and the hatch, you can adjust
6:43the uh transformation of it. So, that's
6:45where you'd be able to scale it up or
6:47down, rotate it, um, all that good
6:49stuff. So, because I like this wood and
6:52we're going to keep this wood, I'm just
6:53going to ey drop that and keep that on
6:55our [music] cabinets. That whole process
6:57is something that you will just
6:58basically replicate as you move
6:59throughout your model. Now, if I get out
7:01of my edit mode here, I'll show you how
7:03to add in some dimensions as well. So,
7:05down on this little bar here, we've got
7:07[music] a little thing that says
7:08dimension. And basically, this is pretty
7:10simple. All you're going to do is just
7:12click point A and point B and then it's
7:14going to give you your dimension between
7:16those two points. So if [music] I want
7:18to uh measure this countertop I'm just
7:21going to click click and then I will
7:23drag it out down here. Now you can see
7:25that the style of this dimension looks a
7:27little bit different than the other
7:28dimension style that we have here. So
7:30just as we did with these cabinets, you
7:31can edit the style of pretty much
7:33anything in here. So whether it's the
7:35font, the color, an annotation, a
7:37dimension, and again, you're just going
7:39to do that right over here on this side.
7:41So you can select from different fonts,
7:44different colors, different sizes, and
7:48similarly to our original style that we
7:52were just editing up here. You can also
7:54grab that little eyropper.
7:56If there is another style in your
7:58project already that you really like,
7:59you can just grab that eyedropper and ey
8:01drop right on that and it's going to
8:03match that style, which can be a huge
8:05timesaver. So, after you kind of start
8:08your project, this might seem like a lot
8:10of like upfront work trying to get this
8:12uh style uh reeled in and trying [music]
8:16to make sure that you know everything
8:17kind of matches, but once you create
8:20these styles, uh you have them for the
8:22future. And so you kind of have that
8:23style library and that standard library
8:26for your future design documentation. So
8:28that was step one where we kind of like
8:30refined our drawings. Now in step two,
8:32I'm going to show you how you can add
8:34images to tell your story a little bit
8:36further. We don't need to just show the
8:38floor plan. We want to show the entire
8:40story. Right? So this is where you can
8:42include images of your inspiration,
8:44textures, tone references right next to
8:47the layout of your design. When clients
8:49are able to see how the mood board
8:51interacts with the plan, they can
8:53understand your design intent um a
8:55little bit better, not just the
8:56geometry. So, this step really bridges
8:59imagination and approval. And it's where
9:01that emotional buyin really happens. And
9:04this is actually really easy to do in
9:05Rayon. You can actually set up your
9:07presentation and mood boards directly
9:09where you draw your architectural
9:10drawings. So, you don't have to like
9:11jump between different tools or pay for
9:13different software subscriptions. So,
9:15let me show you real quick how I made a
9:17few of these mood boards. If we just
9:19zoom in on, let's just say these
9:21sections here. Now, you can see that
9:23we're kind of like creating this visual
9:25that goes along with the sections. So,
9:27not only are the different styles that
9:29we've applied to these sections going to
9:31help uh that comprehension, but these
9:34additional images are going to help put
9:37some of the pieces together in the
9:38client's mind. So, I just want to show
9:40you how you can quickly drop in an image
9:43um onto your presentation board. So,
9:45let's just say that I want to replace
9:47this faucet here. So, I'm going to just
9:49delete that and show you how easy it is
9:50to bring in an image. You can either
9:52just copy um the image from straight
9:54from the internet. You can save it
9:56directly to your desktop and then um
9:58kind of import it or something like
10:00that. I'm just going to show you how to
10:02do it from the internet. So, if I go to
10:05um just like a faucet search and let's
10:06just say that I found an image that I
10:08like, I can just rightclick and copy
10:10that image and then go back to my rayon
10:13canvas and just hit [music] paste and
10:15it's just going to come right in there.
10:16So, then that's where I can kind of like
10:18scale it. I can also if it has some sort
10:21of like background that's not white. It
10:23looks like this one already has a white
10:25background, but if yours doesn't, um you
10:27can just click on edit image down here
10:28and then AI will remove the background
10:30for you. [music] It's also nice if you
10:33want to kind of stack things on top of
10:34each other and just kind of like really
10:36create that like collage. Uh you can
10:38also upscale using AI here as well. So
10:40if it's like a really low resolution
10:42image, which this one looks pretty low.
10:44So we could say upscale and it's just
10:46going to make that um a higher
10:48resolution. You can see that it really
10:50crisped that up. Um it looks like it
10:53doubled the size. So once you're done
10:54with that, you just say done. And then
10:56you've got it right there. And you can
10:58see I can stack it on top of things now
11:00because it's kind of [music] um got that
11:02transparent background. So that's how
11:04you can easily add these images to your
11:07views. Now you can also add images into
11:09shapes. You can see that these are all
11:11kind of like a circle [music] shape. So
11:13how you would do that is just by uh
11:15placing a shape and then you will just
11:17add a fill over here in the style and
11:20this is where you would just add your
11:21image. So, if you have that image on
11:22your desktop, you would just say upload,
11:24and it will basically fill that circle
11:26with your image. On to step three. We're
11:28going to leverage AI for fast 3D views.
11:32Many interior design workflows [music]
11:33are uh solely 2D based, but honestly,
11:36before getting client approval, modeling
11:38an accurate 3D kitchen can be a big
11:40waste of time um until it's approved.
11:43But today, we have AI tools that can
11:45help us. [music] And that doesn't mean
11:47that you can't give your clients the
11:49perspective that they need. Rayon has
11:51this built-in AI panel that is just
11:53[music] for you. So now we can use that
11:56to generate quick 3D axonometric views
11:59of our kitchen layouts without actually
12:013D modeling. Um so in seconds your plan
12:04is going to turn into a realistic easy
12:05to understand visual. Um as you can see
12:08here we have a couple of different
12:09examples. These are just AI generated
12:11based on floor plans and sections that
12:13we prompted it with. And this really
12:15helps your client grasp the scale, the
12:17layout, the flow. And once they see
12:19that, they can approve it faster. So,
12:22let's see how I was able to create these
12:23plans here. We're going to go over here
12:25into our little panel here, and we're
12:28going to click on AI chat. Now, we're
12:30going to basically prompt this to create
12:33a [music] 3D axonometric view from
12:36sections and floor plans that we've
12:38already created. So, actually, I'm going
12:40to pop into my model canvas. So, I've
12:42got this up on the screen and go back to
12:44my AI chat. And then here we're just
12:46going to prompt it and say create
12:48[music] a 3D axonometric
12:52view from this floor plan and sections.
12:57You can also like add in additional
12:59prompts to kind of like help it.
13:01Sometimes it helps it, sometimes it
13:02hurts it. So you might have to play
13:03around a little bit with it. Um, but I'm
13:05going to just say like maintain
13:08style and see how that does. And then we
13:10also want to click this little plus sign
13:11and say add screenshot. And that's going
13:14to allow us to take a screenshot right
13:16here of what we want it to use. [music]
13:19And then we're going to just hit this
13:20little send and we'll let it do the work
13:22and see what it comes up with. Okay. So
13:25over here we can see that it has created
13:27a view for us. It doesn't look super
13:29accurate, but we can go ahead [music]
13:32and insert image so we can take a better
13:34look at it. Um you can see that it's
13:36definitely retained some of the style.
13:38It's retained um a lot of it honestly,
13:41but it got the island a little bit
13:43wrong, which is okay. So, that's kind of
13:46where you can continue to uh refine and
13:49prompt, but I think it did a good job of
13:51keeping the same kind of style. Um I do
13:54think that the more information you give
13:56it, the better. For instance, uh
13:58originally when I was kind of playing
14:00around with this, I just gave it the
14:01sections and it didn't do a great job.
14:03So, I think giving it that floor plan uh
14:05does really help. And you can see that
14:07it also kind of like grab that wood
14:08floor style and applies it as well. So
14:10again, I think the more information you
14:12give it, the better. But if it doesn't
14:14turn out exactly like how you want, just
14:15kind of keep prompting it and continue
14:17to give it more information to really
14:20understand what your design is. And then
14:23uh once you have it, again, just import
14:24it right into your drawing. You can just
14:26pop it right here on your model space
14:28and then use it in your paper space
14:31later. So, moving back into our paper
14:34canvas, we are going to talk about step
14:37four, which is creating accurate spec
14:39sheets. Transparency truly builds trust.
14:42And if you can add a table that includes
14:44materials, appliances, costs, lead time,
14:47clients appreciate that when you
14:49anticipate their questions before they
14:52ask them. When they can see everything
14:54that's included, what's available, how
14:56it all fits in their budget, the
14:58hesitation just starts to disappear. And
15:00in this case, like all others, you can
15:03create these sheets directly in Rayon.
15:05You don't need to switch over to Excel,
15:07and definitely you do not need to
15:08manually count and sum your totals. So,
15:12let's just take a minute to see how you
15:13can create an accurate spec sheet super
15:15[music] fast. There are a few different
15:17ways to create um different tables in
15:19Rayon. The first and probably like the
15:22most simplistic is just like a basic
15:25table with lines, shapes, text that you
15:29would just create like you were just,
15:31you know, [music] drawing a table with
15:34different tools. So that's kind of what
15:36is shown here. Now, there are faster and
15:39I guess more accurate ways to also show
15:41tables that I'm going to show you in a
15:43second. Um, but let's just see what
15:44we're working with here. So you can see
15:46that this is all just like plain text.
15:48[music] We've got some line work. It's
15:50just basically a basic table. And you
15:52can simply add that by clicking down
15:54here in the layout um arrow and just
15:56click table. And that's going to [music]
15:58essentially start you out with some nice
16:00columns and rows to start adding your
16:02information. But like I said, there are
16:05better ways to do [music] this. So I'm
16:07going to just show you um a couple of
16:09those ways. So first of all, if you do
16:12like this kind of style of table, but
16:15maybe you want all this information to
16:17be parametric to the actual blocks,
16:20styles, whatever in your drawing. And by
16:22that I mean if you have a refrigerator
16:25block in your model, you can actually
16:28apply custom properties to that block.
16:30So different information. So, for
16:32instance, the cost, the size, the
16:35description, and [music] then if that
16:37were to change throughout the project.
16:38So, if you decided to source from a
16:41different brand, all you would have to
16:43do is update the block, and then your
16:45table [music] would update as well. So,
16:47let's just take a look at this
16:49refrigerator for example. Um, so if I
16:51were to double click on any of this
16:52text, you can see that it's just
16:54basically plain text. But if you wanted
16:56to make it that parametric property. So
17:00let's focus in on this supplier
17:01manufacturer text right here. So if I
17:03were to double click this, you can see
17:04that it's basically just plain text that
17:06you can edit, which is totally fine. But
17:08again, it's more of like a dumb version,
17:10and I think it's probably smarter to use
17:12a smart version that would essentially
17:14update um if you needed it to. So in
17:17order to do that, we can just go to add
17:18variable on this text, and we're going
17:21to basically have it look at our block.
17:23So, I know that our block is called
17:25whatever. I don't know how to pronounce
17:27this, but um this is what it's called.
17:29So, I'm going to click on that. And then
17:30I'm going to click on our brand, which
17:32says IKEA. I'm going to delete this text
17:36here. And you can see that IKEA kind of
17:38shows up different than the Subzero. Um
17:40and that's because the Subzero, this is
17:42just plain text. [music] The IKEA is
17:43actually like a tag. So, if I go into
17:46that block later and I change [music]
17:48the custom properties of it. So, let's
17:50just go into our block. I believe it's
17:52this one. So, if I go into the block, I
17:55double click here and like let's just
17:57say that we end up changing the brand
17:58back to Subzero.
18:01Now, we go back to our paper canvas and
18:05you can see that this has updated back
18:07to Subzero because it is basically tied
18:09to that block. [music] Now, you can do
18:11that same exact thing with all of this
18:12information. For instance, like you
18:14know, the cost if that gets updated or
18:16the lead time if that gets updated,
18:18[music] that's how you would tie it back
18:20in. Now, there's another way to create
18:22tables, and that [music] is to go over
18:25here to our tables and hit plus. And
18:30this is going to create a table with all
18:33of the blocks in either the paper canvas
18:35or the model canvas. You would specify
18:37that. So, I'm going to say model canvas.
18:39So, the way this canvas is set up is
18:42that it has a lot of um pre-made blocks
18:44with uh different, you know, base
18:46cabinets and that kind of thing. Um, so
18:48those are all showing up over here. And
18:49then to continue to refine the table, um
18:52you can just add columns. So um again,
18:54if we want to add maybe brand, uh then
18:56you would have all of the brands show up
18:58here. And then maybe if you want to also
19:00add in category or something like that
19:03here. Um and then you can kind of just
19:04[music] start kind of refining your
19:06table based on these things. And then
19:08you can kind of start filtering things
19:10based on what you want to show. So for
19:12instance, if you want this to be a
19:14furniture table, then you would refine
19:16that in your filter under your category.
19:18um or if you want it to just be
19:20materials. And it all depends on how you
19:22set yourself up. So, this is going to be
19:25a really good approach if you have
19:28modeled in a very clean way, in a very
19:30organized way. And then once you get
19:32your table um organized in the way that
19:34you want it to, you can actually just
19:36insert that table directly into your
19:38paper canvas. So, I'm just going to say
19:40insert. And now you can see [music] that
19:42that entire table came up. And again,
19:45this will be the same kind of like
19:47parametric thing that I showed you with
19:49those tags. So anytime that you update
19:51any [music] of the brand of all these or
19:54the category or whatever, that's going
19:56to update in your table. So then
19:58similarly to the manual tables, you can
20:00just kind of adjust this um very easily.
20:02If you need to scale it up or down or
20:05change any of the style, the color, the
20:08font, anything like that, um you would
20:10just do that how we've already done so
20:11[music] far. And in our final step, step
20:14five, we are going to share our
20:16presentation like a pro. As designers,
20:18we need to stop printing and sending
20:20PDFs that go out of date the moment that
20:22you hit send. [music]
20:23Bringing paper to your client meetings
20:25feels super outdated, and it's honestly
20:27a missed opportunity to impress them and
20:29showcase your professionalism. With
20:31Rayon, you can share your presentations
20:33online through a live link, uh, one that
20:35updates automatically. So you can also
20:37showcase it on a screen or in a Zoom
20:39meeting and [music] let clients scroll
20:41and Zoom to see it clearly. It keeps
20:44everyone on the same page, literally. No
20:46lost versions, no confusion, no email
20:48clutter. Your client always sees the
20:50latest design and you look very
20:52organized and professional. So let me
20:54just show you how simple it is. And by
20:55the way, you can access the link to this
20:57model and presentation in the tutorial
20:59description down below. So, if you do
21:01want to export this drawing set to PDF
21:04um to have a hard copy, all you have to
21:06do is go to this little hamburger menu
21:08and go to export and then PDF um and you
21:10can just export specific pages, all
21:13pages, and then it will prompt you to
21:16adjust some of your settings here before
21:17you print it out. Now, if you pop over
21:20to your model canvas, you'll see that
21:22there are some more options. So, we can
21:24actually export this model canvas to DWG
21:26if you'd like to as well. So that's
21:28going to bring it to scale into any
21:30other CAD programs. And popping back to
21:33the paper canvas, this is where you can
21:35do that live [music] link. So I'm just
21:36going to click this little share button
21:37over here in the right hand corner. This
21:39is where you can add uh clients or
21:42collaborators or even team members
21:44emails. You can select them as an admin,
21:46editor, viewer, and then just hit that
21:48invite button. If you don't want to do
21:50it there, you can also just create a
21:52public link and copy that link and just
21:54uh share it via email. You can also um
21:57save or export this model as a template
22:01and or [music] presentation if you'd
22:03like as well. And that wraps up five
22:05ways to level up your presentation.
22:07Winning client buyin isn't about more
22:09meetings or more mood boards. It's about
22:11clarity, confidence, and communication.
22:14Refine your visuals, tell the [music]
22:15story, show the details, share
22:17seamlessly, and use technology to make
22:20your ideas more clear. When you do that,
22:22your clients stop hesitating and start
22:24saying [music] yes. If you found this
22:26tutorial helpful, feel free to like and
22:27subscribe to our channel. And of course,
22:29you're welcome to create a free rayon
22:31account using the link below and see how
22:32it can enhance your workflow. Also, let
22:34us know in the comments if you have any
22:35other tips for faster client buyin. See
22:37you next time.

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