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Automatic furniture layout with Smart Layout
Smart Layout furnishes a room or an entire plan in one step, choosing and placing pieces for the room type and style you select. It is a rules engine, not a language model; a layout planner based on a language model is in development.
Is Arcvelle's Smart Layout an AI layout tool?
Smart Layout is a rules engine, not a language model. It furnishes a room or a whole plan in one of 10 interior styles, using placement rules for 9 room types, with full, essentials or decor-only scopes, and can keep furniture you have already placed. A language-model layout planner is in development.
What it does
Features
Rules for 9 room types
Placement rules are written per room type, so a bedroom and a dining room are furnished in different ways.
10 interior styles
Japandi, Modern, Scandinavian, Minimalist, Industrial, Mid-century modern, Bohemian, Coastal, Classic and Wabi-sabi.
Three scopes
Full furnishes the room completely, essentials places the core pieces, and decor only adds finishing pieces around what is there.
Keeps what you placed
Tell Smart Layout to keep existing furniture and it fills in around your pieces instead of replacing them.
One room or the whole plan
Run it on a single room or across every room in the plan at once.
Ordinary, editable furniture
Everything it places can be moved, rotated, resized, recoloured or deleted, with undo if you change your mind.
How to
How to use the automatic furniture layout with smart layout
Step 1: Set the room types
Check that each room has the right type, because the placement rules depend on it.
Step 2: Choose style and scope
Pick one of the 10 styles, a scope, and whether to keep furniture already placed.
Step 3: Run and refine
Apply Smart Layout, review the result in 2D and 3D, and adjust anything that needs a designer's judgement.
Step-by-step guide: Smart Layout
Use cases
Who it is for
Sense-checking a floor plan
Furnish a new plan quickly to test whether each room can take the furniture it needs.
A styled first pass for clients
Generate a starting layout, then spend your time on the decisions that need judgement rather than placing every chair.
A quick decor pass
Add lamps, plants and accessories to a room whose main furniture you have already arranged by hand.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Why call it a rules engine instead of AI?
Because that is what it is. Smart Layout follows written placement rules for each room type and style; it does not use machine learning or a language model. We describe it plainly so you know what to expect from it.
Is a language-model layout planner coming?
An AI layout planner based on a language model is in development. It is not available yet and has no announced release date. This page will say so when it can be used.
Which styles can Smart Layout use?
Ten: Japandi, Modern, Scandinavian, Minimalist, Industrial, Mid-century modern, Bohemian, Coastal, Classic and Wabi-sabi. You choose one each time you run it.
Will Smart Layout move furniture I have already placed?
Turn on the option to keep existing furniture and Smart Layout works around those pieces. If a run does not give the result you wanted, undo reverses it.
Is Smart Layout free?
Yes. Smart Layout is included in Arcvelle Studio, which is free to use today with no account required.
Can I use Smart Layout on a tablet?
Yes. Arcvelle Studio, including Smart Layout, runs in desktop and tablet browsers, with touch pinch-zoom on the plan.
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