Icovia™ Space Planner Blog

Icovia Relocates to INSPIREDESIGN at Las Vegas Market

We're going to Vegas baby! A quick update on where we will be:

Move extends Icovia's market presence in home furnishings, interior design and hospitality space planning

Icovia's move is allowing it to participate with the hospitality exhibitors of the new INSPIREDESIGN event running in conjunction with the furniture market.

Icovia's new showroom is situated in a higher traffic area where a concentration of attendees will be top interior design firms and hospitality planners. "The new location allows us to maintain our presence in the home furnishings industry, which is our core focus, but also gain awareness with interior designers and the hospitality industry where we also have customers," said Icovia's President Steve Street. "The Venetian and Palazzo hotels recently signed with Icovia to supply interactive floor plans on their website for meeting planners. We are very excited that the World Market Center is supplying a venue for manufacturers, retailers, interior designers and hospitality in one location."

Attendees visiting the Icovia showroom at INSPIREDESIGN will be able to try-and-buy Icovia's web-based floor plan design software for interior designers and firms. Hospitality planners will be able to visualize how adding Icovia interactive diagrams to their website will increase booked meetings. Icovia will also showcase its 2D and 3D room planner solutions for furnishings retailers, and work with manufacturers who want to incorporate a their product catalogs into Icovia.

New Symbols Have Been Added to Design Edition Planner!

Wow, it has been a busy week here at Icovia!  In addition to new features, we have added the new lighting symbols as well as the cuddler and wedge sofa symbols we previewed just before the holidays.  The sofas have been added to the Living Room Furniture category and the lighting symbols are in the Lighting and Wiring categories.

Have a great weekend and keep those ideas coming!

Happy Planning!

June

At Last...Organize Your Plans with Folders!

Before reading this post, imagine a drum roll with a really big cymbal at the end...Icovia Design Edition now lets you drag and drop your projects into folders!!!

You may have noticed that when you launched your planner today My Plans looked a little bit different.  In this newly launched My Saved Plans window you now have the option to create a New Folder to organize your plans.  The functionality works similar to that of organizing your Browser favorites.

To get started, 

1. Select New Folder and type the desired folder name in the dialog box.  Your new folder will appear at the bottom of the list.  
2. Select a plan using your left mouse button and drag the plan over the folder you would like to file it in.  You know you are in the correct location when a black line appears through the folder name.  Release your mouse button to drop this plan into the folder.  
3. Add additional plans to the folder, using the black line as a guide to place the plan where you want it to appear in the list.  Use this same technique to organize folders within the list or plans within a folder.

As you continue sorting your plans, here are a few tricks you may want to leverage:

• SHIFT+ left mouse button will allow you to select a list of plans to move. 
• CTRL + left mouse will allow you to select multiple files that are not next to each other.  If you are using a Mac, use the open Apple on your keyboard in place of CTRL.
• To Delete a folder or plan, select the item and press Delete.  For safety reasons, you will not be able to delete a folder that has plans.  You will not be able to delete more than one plan at a time.
• Rename only applies to a folder in this release.

This is the short whirlwind tour; however, for those of your attending the next Mastering the Plan Webinar (January 28), we will take a few minutes to give a brief overview of this new functionality.

Happy Planning!

June

Mastering the Plan Webinar Recordings Now Available!

After overcoming a few techincal hurdles, we are pleased to announce that Design Edition users are now able to access recordings from Icovia's Mastering the Plan Webinar series! 

When you log into the planner you will see our new Welcome Screen and all you need to do is grab a cup of coffee (or other beverage of choice) select the webinar you wish to replay, sit back and watch!  

We have also added quick links to our Facebook Fan Page and our Blog.   Remember, if you haven't become a fan on Facebook or subscribed to this Blog yet -- you may be missing out! In addition to product information and updates, we will also be sharing valuable design tips to help you in your design business.  Subscribing to the Blog is easy, just enter your email address in the upper right corner to receive updates.

Do you need to change your email, update your credit card information or change your password? No problem, simply select the  Account Settings tab and all of your account information will be available.

Not a registered User Yet?  If you are not a registered user of Icovia's Design Edition Space Planner and would like to learn more, click here for your free trial. Creating a plan for one room or a whole house has never been easier!

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to respond to this post or email me at june@icovia.com.

Happy Planning!

June

Free Webinar: Icovia Essentials #2 - Working w/Walls

Icovia Essentials #2: Working w/Walls
January 28, 2010, Noon ET

 

Join Steve Street and June Trisciani as we return for our second free webinar demonstrating tips that make it easier to use the Wall Tool in Icovia Design Edition to draw professional interior design floor plans.

Walls can be tricky to work with and this is a great opportunity to learn quick tips and best practices from the experts! 

In this Webinar, you’ll learn:

    Specifically how to work with the Wall Tool in Icovia 

    How to create angled and curved walls 

    How to add wall segments, windows and doors 

    Best practices for getting accurate wall dimensions 

In addition, we will share with you changes to the wall tool we've been discussing and you can weigh in on changes you'd like to see change.

All attendees will see a sneak peak of new features coming, get an update on promised features and a special promotion will be revealed at the end of the webinar!

Register now >

Icovia's 10 Year Anniversary!

 
Thank you to all of our amazing employees, customers and partners for 10 great years of business creating the best online interior design software! We've achieved so much and have some great plans in store for 2010. 

Thank you!!!!

Steve Street
President