What is qbiqStudio?
qbiqStudio gives you full control over your floor plans. Once your layout alternatives are ready, you can duplicate any design, make adjustments, and explore new ideas directly within the platform.
Whether you're fine-tuning room layouts, updating furniture arrangements, or adjusting circulation paths, qbiqStudio allows you to make changes instantly and see the impact in real time.
How to Access qbiqStudio
Once your layout alternatives have been delivered:
Log in to your qbiq account.
Open the relevant project.
Select Design Alternatives.
Choose a layout and click on duplicate.
You can now begin editing your layout.
Sidebar & Project Information
The sidebar provides an overview of your project and updates automatically as you work.
Metrics
The Metrics section displays key project data, including:
Density
Number of workstations
As you make changes to the layout, these values update in real time.
Program
The Program section shows all room types included in the layout and tracks how much of the program has been placed throughout the floor plan.
Canvas & Navigation
qbiqStudio includes several tools to help you review and edit your layouts efficiently.
Available controls include:
Select: Used to select objects or elements in the workspace.
Select Circulation: Used to adjust the circulation.
Add Independent Wall: Helps to add solid walls.
Measurement: Used to measure distances or dimensions.
Snap: Enables you to detect and snap to walls, columns, or mullions.
Fit to View: Fits the image within the screen for better visibility.
Zoom: Allows you to zoom in or zoom out of the workspace.
To move around the canvas: hold the Spacebar and drag, or press the scroll wheel and drag.
You can also switch between Metric and Imperial units using the controls in the lower-right corner of the screen.
Edit Rooms
qbiqStudio allows you to modify room types, resize spaces, and adjust furniture directly on the floor plan.
Change a Room Type
To change a room's function:
Select the room.
Go to the right menu and click on the drop-down.
Choose the room type you want to apply.
Note: Room changes are limited to the room types included in the original program.
Resize a Room
You can expand or reduce room sizes to better fit your layout.
Select the room.
Drag the room handles to adjust its boundaries.
When possible, rooms can be extended into adjacent spaces.
Note: This tool only works between rooms and does not consider relationships between rooms and circulation spaces.
New option: When resizing a room that is adjacent to two or more rooms, you can now make more precise adjustments. By pressing Tab, you can switch between independent toggles, allowing you to extend or modify only the side needed.
Advanced Room Shaping (Vertex Tool)
Reshape a room point by point - for unique geometries, irregular buildings, and the cases where normal stretching runs out.
What it is
Studio's Stretch tool now has an advanced mode that works on a room's individual corner points - its vertices - rather than only on its edges. You can move a point, add a new one anywhere along a wall, or delete one, so a room can take on shapes well beyond what the standard stretch handles can produce.
Why it matters
Create unique room geometries. Rooms are no longer limited to the shapes the standard handles allow. Whatever polygon the space calls for, you can build it.
Align with irregular building layouts. Real floor plates have columns, cores, setbacks and angled façades. The room can now follow the building, instead of the building forcing a compromise.
A way forward when normal stretching is limited. Where the standard stretch handles stop, advanced mode picks up — no redrawing the room and no leaving Studio.
Precision is built in. Shift constrains a drag to a single axis and arrow keys nudge a point one pixel at a time, so fine adjustments don't depend on a steady hand.
Where to find it
Studio → select a room → advanced mode (the Vertex Tool), via the inline button or by double-clicking inside the room.
How to use it
In Studio, select the room you want to reshape.
Enter advanced mode - click the inline button, or double-click inside the room's area. Double-clicking a clearance works too; double-clicking a door or a piece of furniture doesn't.
Move a point: click a corner point to select it - it turns solid blue - then drag it where you want it.
Add a point: hover over any edge. A white dot with a blue outline appears and your cursor gains a +. Click to add a point there.
Delete a point: click the point to select it, then press Delete.
For precision: hold Shift while dragging to constrain movement to the horizontal or vertical axis. With a point selected, use the arrow keys to nudge it one pixel at a time.
Press ESC to step back one level - once to leave advanced mode and return to normal Stretch, again to deselect the room.
Good to know / limits
Use it when the standard stretch handles can't produce the shape you need. For a simple rectangular resize, normal Stretch is still quicker.
Rooms can't be stretched out into a corridor.
Double-click toggles both ways — it enters advanced mode and leaves it.
ESC always steps back exactly one level rather than dropping you out of everything at once.
Split a Room
To divide a room into multiple spaces:
Hold Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows).
Drag one of the room handles.
This is especially useful when creating multiple rooms from a larger area.
Delete a Room
If a room is no longer needed:
Select the room.
Click Delete.
The area becomes an Empty Space, allowing you to create a new room or add the area to circulation.
Switch Between Open and Enclosed Rooms
Some room types can be converted between open and enclosed layouts.
To switch room types:
Select the room.
Choose Open or Enclosed.
When converting a room to Enclosed, a door is automatically added.
You can then reposition the door and adjust its swing direction.
Note: By default, all new rooms are Enclosed.
Edit Furniture
qbiqStudio includes AI-powered and manual tools for adjusting furniture layouts.
Explore Furniture Layout Options
Select a room to view alternative furniture arrangements.
The platform automatically suggests layouts based on the room's size and geometry, helping you explore different configurations quickly.
Select All Furniture
To edit multiple furniture items at once:
Select the room.
Click Select All Furniture.
All furniture within the room will be selected.
Manually Edit Furniture
For more control, you can manually:
Move items
Rotate items
Mirror items
Copy items
Delete items
Hold Shift while rotating to rotate in 45° increments.
Select Multiple Objects
To edit multiple furniture items at the same time:
Hold Shift
Click each item you want to select
You can then move or edit all selected items together.
Or, click and drag to select multiple items, then move or edit them all at once.
Layouts and Catalog
More furniture options for every room - several complete layouts to choose from, plus a catalogue of individual pieces.
What it is
The furniture panel is now split in two. Layouts offers complete furniture arrangements for the selected room: qbiq's own optimised results under Optimized Layouts, and ready-made standard arrangements under Template Layouts. Catalog holds individual furniture items you place yourself.
Why it matters
One suggestion per room has become a choice of several, so a room can be furnished the way the client expects rather than the way the algorithm ranked first.
Templates cover the standard cases instantly; the catalogue covers everything the templates don't.
Optimised and manual work happen in the same place — no switching tools to adjust a single desk.
Where to find it
Design editor → select a room → Furniture tab.
How to use it
In the design editor, select the room you want to furnish.
Open the Furniture tab.
To apply a complete arrangement, use Layouts. Optimized Layouts are qbiq's suggestions generated for this specific room; Template Layouts are standard arrangements. Click one to apply it.
To place individual pieces, switch to Catalog, choose the item you want, and position it in the room.
Combine the two freely — apply a layout first, then add or swap individual items from the Catalog.
Save the design when you're happy with it.
Good to know / limits
Layouts contain complete arrangements; the Catalog contains single items only.
Optimised layouts are generated per room, so the options differ from one room to the next.
Edit Doors
Door locations and styles can be adjusted within enclosed rooms.
You can:
Move a door to a different position
Flip the Door
Mirror the Doors
Change the door type - between swing and sliding doors
Add doors
Remove doors
Note: Doors cannot be placed on top of windows.
To add a new door, click on the existing door within the space where you want to place it. Select the "Duplicate Door", and a new door will appear in the room.
Edit Circulation
Circulation areas represent the main pathways throughout the floor plan.
qbiqStudio provides tools to help you expand, reduce, circulation zones.
Select Existing Circulation
Click Select Circulation to highlight all circulation areas on the floor plan.
Once selected, you can:
Review circulation coverage
Add adjacent spaces to circulation
Adjust circulation boundaries
Add Empty Space to Circulation
To convert an empty area into circulation:
Select the space.
Click Add to Circulation.
The selected area becomes part of the circulation network.
Convert Rooms to Circulation
Entire rooms can also be converted into circulation areas.
Simply:
Select the room.
Click Add to Circulation.
Generate a New 3D Tour
Once your layout updates are complete, you can generate an updated 3D walkthrough.
To create a new tour:
Click Virtual Tour.
Confirm your request.
qbiq will automatically process the updated design and generate a new video. Please note that the turnaround time for a new video is 24 hours.
Important: While a new virtual tour is being processed, Studio editing and standard redline requests are temporarily unavailable.
If you want to change the material finishes in a revised version in Studio, click Duplicate to create a copy, make your changes, and then send the new version directly from Studio.
Download CAD & Revit Files
You can download design files directly from qbiqStudio.
Available export formats include:
CAD files
Revit files
This allows you to continue working on approved layouts in your preferred design software.
Download a PDF report for a specific design directly from the Design Alternatives page. The report includes a cover page, the design with its legend, and a page with a virtual tour video, if one is available for that design.