Generate Diagrams with AI Directly Inside SmartDraw

Does a blank canvas terrify you? Save time and let AI generate the first iteration of a diagram for you. With SmartDraw, you can transform your natural language descriptions and ideas into a diagram or import data you already have like SmartDraw's floor plan notation, CSV, outline, or Mermaid to generate a diagram. Get editable floor plans and diagrams like flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, and timelines instantly.

Generate New Ideas or Visualize Your Own

SmartDraw AI supports two kinds of work:

  • New Ideas: If you're looking for ideas, simply describe what you want using natural language, and SmartDraw AI will rely on publicly available knowledge to generate an initial diagram.
  • Visualize Your Data: If you want to visualize information you already own, you can import your data directly into your prompt. SmartDraw AI supports:

SmartDraw AI will create the first draft of any floor plan or diagram, giving you a professional starting point you can continue to edit in SmartDraw.

Generating floor plan using natural language

How to Use SmartDraw AI

You can find SmartDraw's AI in the SmartPanel, to the left of your drawing area. Click on the "sparkle" or "stars" icon to open the AI tab.

Now you're ready to type your prompt and hit send.

AI is available in every template. However, you can only generate floor plans from a floor plan template.

Natural language prompt

What Can You Make with SmartDraw AI?

SmartDraw automatically detects the type of diagram you're trying to make. You can make:

Every diagram generated will be fully editable in SmartDraw.

Diagrams you can make with SmartDraw AI

Create Editable Floor Plans with AI

Whether you're designing a new building or documenting an existing one, SmartDraw AI helps you create editable, scaled floor plans in minutes. For conceptual design ideas, just describe the building you want. When accuracy matters, use SmartDraw's floor plan notation to import specific measurements. The generated floor plan will be fully editable by SmartDraw's intuitive yet powerful set of floor planning tools.

Explore the floor plan playbook.
Generate floor plans from AI

Generate Editable Flowcharts with AI

SmartDraw lets you generate a basic flowchart based on common business practices when given a natural language prompt or you can describe the steps of your own existing process or import Mermaid code to get an editable flowchart automatically.

Explore the flowchart playbook.
Generate flowchart from AI

Build Editable Organizational Charts with AI

You can use SmartDraw AI to generate an org chart by pointing to a publicly available leadership team or you can import a CSV of your own organization's data and turn it into a structured organizational chart instantly. You can then edit the generated org chart by changing the reporting structure and adding employee information or photos.

Explore the org chart playbook.
Generate organizational charts from AI

Generate Editable Mind Maps with AI

Hit the ground running by having AI turn a text prompt into an outline for your team's next brainstorming session. Alternatively, paste an existing structured outline or bulleted list into your prompt, and SmartDraw transforms it into an editable mind map, preserving the hierarchy while giving you a visual framework to expand and reorganize.

Explore the mind map playbook.
Generate mind maps from AI

Create AI-Powered Editable Timelines

Need a historical timeline and don't know where to start? SmartDraw's AI can easily generate the correct list of public events and place them on a timeline. You can also provide a list of project milestones and get a timeline generated automatically. Refine details and adjust dates and styling easily.

Explore the timeline playbook.
Generate timelines from AI