X18 Space Planner

[JonathanK]

I know it's been around for a long time, but is there any way to turn off the "walls" around the space planning rooms to have it just be a plain box...like it used to be back in the day?

[DBCooper]

I don't think you can so you might want to send Chief a bug/request.

 

You could always use something other than a room box, such as a polyline with a fill and label.  You could even fillet the corners to give you a similar look to the old boxes.   I don't think there is an easy way to add in the box dimensions though (unless one of the macro experts knows how).  None of this will be as easy or automatic as it was before though.

 

Actually, if you want a much more automatic "hack", you could use a wall cabinet.  I choose a wall cabinet because I didn't want a countertop and then I could set the corners to be rounded. The automatic label can then be the room name (just typed in manually) followed by the size using %width.to_s("'-\"")% x %depth.to_s("'-\"")%.  Setup a fill style and voila, you have something that looks like an old room box.

 

If you actually want to build the walls using the room boxes, then this won't be very useful.  

 

 

 

 

[ValleyGuy]

On 9/10/2026 at 4:15 PM, JonathanK said:

I know it's been around for a long time, but is there any way to turn off the "walls" around the space planning rooms to have it just be a plain box...like it used to be back in the day?

 

Room Space Box walls work off of your wall defaults. Just make a super thin room divider wall and put that as your Exterior and Interior wall default. Same tool, just no wall thickness.

 

[JonathanK]

Thanks, Shayne.  This is a decent work around.

Don't love it, mostly because the amount of drawing we do without using Space Planning makes changing the defaults less than ideal, but it's definitely something to keep in mind.

[Steve-C]

I didn't love the new space planer when it came out but I've gotten used to it. I do like that there are more editing properties with the boxes. 

[Joe_Carrick]

I also like the new space planner, but I would really like to be able to revert an existing plan to a "Space Planner" configuration.

It would be great to switch back and forth between them

One problem I've noted is that if a particular "Space Planner" room type isn't in the default room types:

• When Build House is selected the room doesn't retain the type.
• Under those circumstances I think Chief needs to automatically add that room type to the defaults.

Edited September 17 by Joe_Carrick