Tile Melt Planner

Plan tile that dissolves into a wood floor.

  1. Set the room and the tile.
  2. Pick a tile area or outline your own with Draw, then drag its corners with the Area tool.
  3. Shape the melt with the sliders.
  4. Fix single tiles with Add and Remove.
Room

Type 10' 6", 10 6 or 10.5 (feet).

Type 3.2 (metres) or 320 cm.

Tiles

For long tiles, a ⅓ offset hides the slight bow that long tiles often have.

Turn the pattern
Slide left–right
Slide up–down

Sliding changes where whole tiles land. Use it to avoid thin slivers against the walls.

Tile area & melt

Start from a shape, or outline your own with the Draw tool above the drawing. Fine-tune it with the Area tool. Orange dashed edges melt. White edges are hard lines.

Gaps start inside the line
Tiles reach past the line

Together these set how wide the melt is. Turn on Show the melt band under View to see it.

Randomness

0% gives a clean stepped edge. 100% scatters tiles like falling snow.

Clumping

More clumping gives fingers and bays instead of single scattered tiles.

Clump size
Fade-in where melt meets a hard line

Stops a melting stretch from starting abruptly next to a straight border (try "Melt in one spot").

Clean-up & snowflakes
Snowflakes (lone tiles past the melt)
Snowflakes drift up to
Pieces not touching the main tile area

Snowflakes and tiles you add by hand are always kept.

Fill wood pockets boxed in by tile, up to

Cutting wood to fit a tile-sized hole is fiddly, and it can look like a missing tile.

Each melting tile touches at least

Raise this to trim thin spikes and tiles hanging by one edge.

No hand edits yet.
Look
Tile colours (slider = how much of each)
Variation within a colour
Stone texture
Wood floor
Plank width
Typical plank length

Herringbone and chevron planks are all the same length, usually 4–6 times their width (e.g. 4" × 24").

Turn the wood
View
Shopping list
Extra for cuts & breakage
Save & export

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