Draw a Floor Plan

Easily draw floor plans and other scaled drawings

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The Easy Choice for Drawing Floor Plans

Drag and Drop Drawing

Draw your floor plan by easily dragging and dropping new elements like doors, windows, appliances, fixtures, and furniture.

All the Symbols You Need

You'll get thousands of ready-made symbols for furniture for every room from your living room to the bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom fixtures, appliances, lighting, cabinets, plants, landscape elements, and more! SmartDraw also includes many photo-realistic textures that can take your design to the next level.

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Draw Walls with Precision

Click. Drag. Done. That's how easy it is to draw walls for floor plans in SmartDraw. Want exact dimensions? Type them directly into the wall or shape label. Get your layout right the first time without guesswork. Adjust lengths, measure spaces, and fine-tune every detail without breaking your flow.

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Draw Floor Plans to Scale

SmartDraw makes it easy to draw to scale. Choose a common standard architectural scale, a metric scale, and more. You can easily change the scale at any time, even after you've started drawing. You can print to scale just as easily. And your printed scale doesn't have to match your drawing's scale.

Draw floor plans and print to scale

Draw Floor Plans with AI Enhancements

SmartDraw works hand in glove with your existing AI workflow whether you prefer ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or something else. Use your AI to generate ideas for layouts, provide inspiration for interior design styles, and create mood boards. You can then add any generated images to SmartDraw to enhance your project. Draw floor plans with AI inspiration.

Enhance your floor plans with AI mood boards and designs

Manage Complexity with Layers

Layers let you separate your floor plan into distinct views and focus on the sytem you're working on. You can manage complex electrical, plumbing, HVAC information easily and make edits without affecting other parts of your plan. Use a scale-independent annotation layer to keep track of information like the floor plan's author and other settings.

Manage complexity in floor plans with layers

Enrich Your Floor Plans with Data

Add model numbers, costs, descriptions, and other important manufacturing information to elements in your floor plan to display as a tool tip.

You can also export any data as a manifest. You can export the number of chairs of a certain model or get a list of equipment based on purchase date.

Enrich your floor plan with shape data

Easy to Work With Other Apps

SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add floor plans to:

  • Microsoft Office®
    • Word®
    • PowerPoint®
    • Excel®
  • Microsoft Teams®
  • Google Workspace
    • Google Docs
    • Google Sheets
  • Atlassian apps
    • Confluence
    • Jira

Easy to Save to Your Existing Storage Solution

SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your floor plans directly to:

  • SharePoint®
  • OneDrive®
  • Google Drive
  • Dropbox®
  • Box®

There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up. You can spend less time managing software and more time on making floor plans.

Easy to Share

Share your floor plan or blueprint with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link.

Whether you're sharing using a link or a shared folder, you can control who can view or edit your files when it comes to sensitive designs.

You can also easily export any diagram as a PDF or common image formats like PNG or SVG.

Easy to Share

Free Support

Have a question? Chat or email us. SmartDraw support is in-house and free!

Easy to Get Help

Draw Floor Plans as a Team

You can make drawing floor plans a team effort. Your team or clients can join you in making edits and providing instant feedback for any floor plan—all in real time.

SmartDraw also works where you already communicate with your team. You can collaborate on floor plans in Microsoft Teams®, Slack or Confluence.

Collaborate while drawing floor plans

SmartDraw's Floor Planning Features

  • Professional floor plan templates
  • Extensive floor plan symbol collection
  • Built-in common scales
  • Ability to define a custom scale
  • Change scale at any time
  • Ability to add layers for HVAC, and more
  • Scale independent annotation layer
  • Powerful shape data
  • Export a manifest
  • Import a PDF
  • Resize items by typing
  • Measure distance and area easily
  • Works with the tools you use
  • Collaborate with anyone in real-time
  • Export as PDF, PNG, or SVG
  • Works with 3rd party storage providers

Floor Plan Templates & Examples

Draw floor plans with the help of floor plan templates for houses, offices, kitchens, and lots of different types of commercial spaces.

How to Draw a Floor Plan

Step 1

Define Your Goal and Space

Decide which area, room, or entire building you want to draw and define the level of detail you will need. Do you care about furniture placement or do you want to document the wiring layout?

Step 2

Take Measurements

Measure the space or spaces you plan to draw. Note wall lengths, door and window locations, and any architectural fixed features like columns or staircases. If you already have an existing blueprint, the good news is you can import it into SmartDraw.

Step 3

Start Drawing Using a Template

To start drawing a floor plan, you'll want to start with a floor plan template that best fits your project. SmartDraw has templates for both residential and commercial spaces. Start with a template that most closely matches the space you're trying to draw.

Step 4

Draw Walls

Create an outline by adding walls for each room of the building.

SmartDraw makes it easy to drag walls to adjust them or just type the length directly into walls to modify them. Once you've created an outline for your room or house, click on a wall and you'll see two types of growth handles appear. The handle with an up and down or right to left arrow will allow you to move your wall inward or outward vertically or horizontally. The handle at the corners where walls meet will help you adjust your wall diagonally by letting you move the placement of the corner.

Step 5

Place Doors and Windows

Drag and drop doors, windows, and openings onto your walls. SmartDraw automatically snaps them into place. You can set the exact distance from a corner or another feature for perfect alignment.

Step 6

Add Furniture

Drag and drop furniture like desks, chairs, tables, sofas, and other equipment or appliances as needed. Make sure your drawing includes staircases, fireplaces, columns, and built-in shelving. Adjust sizes by typing in exact measurements to ensure everything fits.

Step 7

Organize

Create separate layers for electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and furniture to make your floor plan easier to manage and edit.

Step 8

Refine or Share Your Floor Plan

Check measurements, adjust layouts, and experiment with different configurations. Save your plan, share it with your team or client, and make changes together in real time.

See Why SmartDraw is the Best Choice for Drawing Floor Plans

Millions of users have chosen SmartDraw to draw their floor plans. Why? Because it's easy to use and offers incredibly powerful scaled drawing features at a reasonable cost.

SmartDraw is the fastest, easiest way to draw floor plans. Whether you're a seasoned expert or even if you've never drawn a floor plan before, SmartDraw gives you everything you need.

Use it on any device with an internet connection. Begin drawing with one of the many included floor plan templates and customize it with ready-made symbols for windows, doors, appliances, and a variety of other floor plan objects.

Work on the same floor plan in real-time or share your floor plans with others in a variety of common graphics formats such as a PDF, SVG, or PNG. Export them to any Office® or Google Workspace application in just a few easy clicks.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Drawing Floor Plans

Is there an AI that can draw floor plans?

AI tools and LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are great for generating designs in the early stages of planning for inspiration. However, the images they produce are not editable and not to scale. We recommend using LLMs alongside a tool like SmartDraw. This gives you the best of both worlds. You can translate a text prompt into an inspirational image and use SmartDraw to draw a precise floor plan to scale that you can hand off to a contractor.

How do I draw my own floor plans?

SmartDraw lets you create your own floor plan from scratch using powerful yet intuitive tools. You can add walls and drag and drop symbols for doors, windows, furniture and fixtures. You can even add complex information like wiring and HVAC and enrich your design with data all while working with any scale. Learn more about how you can draw your own floor plan.

Can I import a PDF?

SmartDraw lets your import a PDF and make it a background image you can sketch over. Add evacuation routes, notes, and more to an existing design.

Can I change scale on a floor plan?

With SmartDraw, you can change the scale of any drawing at any time. You can flip between standard and metric scales at will. You can also define your own scale if it is not among the standard scales offered.

Can I lock a part of my floor plan?

Using layers in SmartDraw allows you to group and separate items like electrical symbols or HVAC information so you can show and hide details or prevent editing of specific layers as needed. Learn more.

Can I import images?

You can easily import photos to create texture or add more detail to any design. You can even import an image of an existing floor plan if you want to draw over it in more detail or make notes to share with your team.

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