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PLNAR

Last winter, we hired an interior designer. She scheduled a time to come over, spent 30 minutes measuring our living room, and sent that info to a CAD artist who set it up with all the proposed furniture. We had to pay that CAD artist, too.

PLNAR, a new room-mapping app that runs on Apple’s ARKit, doesn’t totally replace that, but it definitely would have saved us time and a little money. With my iPhone, I measured the same room in less than two minutes. After you mark out the perimeter by aiming the phone at the floor and tapping a button at every corner or new surface, you can mark off walls, doors, and openings.

There’s a lot of clutter in the room while we figure out where to put things, but the app still worked over furniture that was blocking sight lines. You can then send a PDF and CAD file of the room layout to yourself or your designer. It can also measure walls to create 3D room models, and map backyards, where using a tape measure is either annoying or useless.

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