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Hello 

I am trying to use Lucidchart for basic Home Plan. I would like to be able to draw a line between 2 walls that will show the length in feet based on the scale. 

This should be an easy and convenient feature that is not there in the products.

The dimension is shown when using the walls and it adjusts when the wall is stretched or shrunk. This is useful when putting together a room but not for indicating the room dimensions.

Hi Surendra 

Thanks for reaching out in the Lucidchart Community! You can change the scale of your floorplan by clicking the gear icon on the bottom left corner of the canvas. You can then set the default unit as meters or feet for your scale and type the appropriate proportions in those units. In the image below the scale indicates that 1 inch of the canvas page equals 8 feet.

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Please keep in mind that if you would like this scale to be apparent upon export you will need to add a measurement object to serve as a visual reference.

The wall length can be by dragging them to a specific size but there is not a way to type in the length. We’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. If you’re willing to share, we’d love to hear more details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience posted in the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, other users can upvote it and add details of their own. For more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post.

For more information on how to get the most out of our floorplan functionality please take a look at the Create floor plans to scale article from the Lucidchart Help Center.

Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any further questions.


And…? Is there a dimensioning tool (horizontal, vertical and diagonal like in Visio)? Where can I type dimensions to resize the shape from template to desired size?

 


Hi ​@Celsiuss, thank you for continuing this post! Unfortunately, this isn’t currently supported in Lucid, but we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. Please first search the Product Feedback section of this community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request.

If no one has submitted this idea yet, please create one of your own and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

Thank you for sharing your feedback and ideas in the community. Please let us know if you have any questions. 


This tool is VERY weak in it’s abilities. So many missing features compared to others. Can’t even draw a simple line to a specific length. Units are worthless because it never adhears to them. No dimensions, No rotate for MOST objects. Pretty worthless when you cannot rotate a group of objects. DO BETTER.


Hi ​@Rad, thank you for sharing your feedback. I apologise for the inconvenience that this has caused you. We encourage you to upvote the following Idea posts and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience there. This will help to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the requests. 

Thank you for sharing your feedback and ideas in the community. Please let us know if you have any questions.