Product updates

It was expected to be the next logical step. So, before I found down the last hours of this year, in this update I‘m releasing a set of essential bathroom fixtures. All of them are drawn from real fixtures, and they are based on true dimensions and proportions. This is key to making Figarc not only fun but also usable.

The fixtures contain toilets (closed coupled and back-to-wall) and baths (straight and square, freestanding, D-shaped, and corner baths.)Assuming that the number of fixtures will drastically grow, I created a separate Figma library and put them there, to allow for flexibility down the road.

You guessed it—kitchen fixtures are here! Now you can drag and drop kitchen cabinets, fridges, sinks, microwaves, ovens, and oven hoods into your floor plan.

Each kitchen fixture is drawn to adhere to standardized dimensions and contains a few variants in style and size, so it can fit well in small and large kitchen areas.

To provide a larger set of choices for your wall opening, I designed a few types and sizes for doors and windows. The doors are based on standardized dimensions and they should not be stretchable; while the windows, relying on auto-layout, are stretchable because windows need to adapt to many more space situations, unlike the doors.

This week has been more on the creative side. I drew 28 textures of different materials that you can apply to your layers. Now you can get a more refined look and a better visualization when designing a floor plan.

Going back a few steps, before designing realistic furniture, I‘m realising that the framework should begin with technical drawing to be useful to a larger audience.

I did plenty of reading to better understand the construction nature of drawing floor plans. Based on that foundational knowledge, I designed the internal and external walls, the bearing pillars, and a few sizes and type variants of doors and windows.

This is the foundational Figma library that you can import into another Figma file where you can drag and drop elements to have fun while designing your dream house.

I mocked up a set of furniture elements inside a room in a realistic style, to test the waters if Figma can be valuable in creating floor plans. The result was stunning, especially when I incorporated variant overrides, variables, and variables modes to quickly change the furniture style, toggle furniture details, and toggle ambient light.

And thus Figarc is born. 🐣