VRV (Floor Plan)

Beta: design a VRV multi-head system on the floor plan and turn it into a standard VRV quote.

• Upload a floor plan and AI detects the rooms and areas
• Auto-layout places an indoor unit in every conditioned room plus one outdoor unit on an external wall
• Click any marker to pick the brand, series, unit type and which rooms it serves
• A live capacity readout keeps the indoor total inside the outdoor unit's range
• The result is a normal VRV quote — same PDF and fields — that you can still edit in the regular VRV editor
• This is a Beta feature. We'd love your feedback

VRV (Floor Plan) is a faster way to start a VRV or VRF multi-head quote. Instead of adding indoor areas one at a time, you upload a floor plan and Cooledge lays out the units for you. You then fine-tune each unit on the plan and hand off to a standard VRV quote.

This feature runs in the Cooledge Portal (desktop) only and shows a Beta pill on its tile.

What You Need

Before you can create a VRV floor plan quote, make sure you have:

• An active Cooledge subscription (any plan)
• The Air Conditioning industry enabled — VRV (Floor Plan) shows for Air Conditioning businesses
• AI credits available — each floor plan scan uses AI credits, the same as ducted floor plans (check your balance under Settings → Billing)
• Your VRV System catalogue set up — Settings → A/C Catalogue → VRV System. VRV (Floor Plan) uses this existing catalogue, so there's nothing new to configure
• A floor plan file — PDF (multi-page supported), PNG, JPEG or WebP. Multi-level plans are supported

How It Works

1. Start a VRV (Floor Plan) Quote

You can start from either place:

• Quotes → New Quote, then pick the VRV (Floor Plan) tile (it shows a Beta pill), or
• The Floor Plan page

2. Upload Your Floor Plan

Upload the floor plan — PDF (multi-page), PNG, JPEG or WebP. Multi-level plans are supported. Each scan uses AI credits. Cooledge analyses the plan and detects the rooms and areas.

3. Units Are Placed for You

Auto-layout places:

• One indoor unit in each conditioned room
• One outdoor unit against an external wall

Placement is style-aware — wall units snap to walls and cassettes sit at the centre of the room — so the markers land somewhere sensible from the start.

4. Configure Each Unit

Click any marker to open its config card. From there you set:

• Brand and series
• Unit type (the indoor style)
• The specific unit — auto-picked to suit the combined heatload of the rooms it serves
• Rooms served — checkboxes so a single indoor unit can cover several rooms

5. Check Capacity

The footer shows a live readout: "Indoor units: X kW of Y kW outdoor (Z%)". An advisory warning appears once you go past a 130% connection ratio (see below).

6. Save and Build the Quote

Save & Continue requires every marker to have a unit selected. The builder then prices the design through the standard VRV engine, with power supply and mounting defaults pre-set. The output is a normal VRV quote — same PDF, same fields.

Working With Indoor Units

You can mix indoor styles across the plan:

• Wall Mounted
• Ceiling Cassette — standard and Compact
• Bulkhead
• Mid-High Static — a ducted fan coil

The outdoor unit comes in Small, Medium, Large and Twin variants.

A few controls make bulk changes quick:

• Apply to all indoor units — change the unit type across the whole plan in one click
• Changing the outdoor brand/series re-picks the indoor units to match, so a brand switch doesn't leave stale selections behind
• Rooms served lets one indoor unit cover several rooms — tick the rooms it feeds and the unit is auto-picked to suit their combined heatload

Capacity & Connection Ratio

VRV outdoor units can be connected to more indoor capacity than they're nominally rated for — this is normal and is called the connection ratio. The footer readout keeps you honest: "Indoor units: X kW of Y kW outdoor (Z%)".

Once the indoor total passes 130% of the outdoor unit's rating, an advisory warning appears. It's a prompt to review rather than a hard stop — you may want a larger outdoor unit or fewer indoor heads. Keep an eye on this readout as you add rooms served to a unit.

From Design to Quote

The result of the floor plan flow is a normal VRV quote. That means:

• The same PDF and the same fields as any other VRV quote
• It can later be edited in the regular VRV quote editor — refrigerant pipework, mounting, controllers, drainage and everything else are configured there as usual

For the full list of VRV fields and options, see the reference and tutorial docs:

• VRV System Field Reference →
• VRV System Tutorial →

Beta Notes

VRV (Floor Plan) is a Beta feature. Here's what that means today:

• The design surface covers unit selection and rooms served — placing indoor and outdoor units, picking brand, series and type, and choosing which rooms each unit feeds
• Refrigerant pipework is not drawn on the plan. It's priced through the standard VRV fields in the regular editor, exactly as it always has been
• Everything downstream of the design is a standard VRV quote, so nothing about the PDF, pricing engine or editing changes

We're actively improving this flow. If something feels off or you have a request, please send us your feedback — it directly shapes what we build next.

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Related Articles:

• VRV System Field Reference → — every VRV field and option
• VRV System Tutorial → — step-by-step VRV quoting
• Ventilation Quoting → — bathroom and laundry exhaust ventilation
• Subfloor Ventilation Quoting → — subfloor damp and mould extraction
• Floor Plan Scanning → — the ducted floor plan flow

Need help with VRV (Floor Plan)? Email us at support@cooledge.com.au