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Generate a plan

The Plan tab generates a room layout for one unit: where the bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and other spaces go.

The tab has two modes. Switch between them with the buttons at the top of the tab:

Mode In short
Explore Choose a unit type (for example a two-bedroom apartment). Termite proposes layouts.
Sketch Define your own list of rooms and constraints. Coming soon.

Explore mode

Use Explore when you want quick layout options for a standard unit type.

Shown in Archicad. The steps are the same in Rhino and Revit. For what to select in your tool, see What to select in each CAD tool.

Step 1: Boundary

For the geometry types each CAD tool accepts, see What to select in each CAD tool.

  1. Click Select / Update Boundary. A selection bar opens.
  2. Click Select Unit Boundary and select the closed outline of the unit. This can be a unit from your unit mix or any closed polyline.
  3. Click Select Entry Edge and select the edge where the front door goes.
  4. Click Select Daylight Edge and select the edges on the facade (where windows can go).
  5. Click Finish.

Tip

Termite puts rooms that need daylight, such as living rooms and bedrooms, along the daylight edges. Choose these edges carefully.

Step 2: Topology and generate

  1. Pick a Category:
    • apartment: studio, one bedroom, two bedrooms, three bedrooms or any
    • hotel-room: one to five beds, or any
  2. Pick a Type from that category. Choose any to let Termite decide.
  3. Options:
    • With loggia: add a loggia (a covered balcony).
    • Furnished: add furniture to the layout.
  4. Threshold: the snapping tolerance Termite uses to clean up the lines of the layout. The default is fine in most cases.
  5. Click Generate Plan.

A progress display shows what Termite is doing. When it is done, the layouts appear as thumbnails.

Use the results

Click Load in Rhino (or Load in Revit, and so on) on a tile to draw the plan into your model: walls, rooms and labels, on separate layers.

To get other options, change the type or the boundary edges and generate again.

Sketch mode

Coming soon

Sketch mode is not available yet. Use Explore mode for now.

Sketch mode gives you full control over the layout. You will be able to:

  • set your own list of rooms (the topology), with the area of each room and which rooms connect to each other
  • add preferred locations (points that show roughly where a room should be)
  • add fixed geometries (rooms whose shape and position are fixed)
  • add an axis grid that the walls follow

Termite will then generate a plan that follows these inputs.