Free Easy Way to Draft on Blueprints

The Easy Choice for Creating Your Floor Plans Online

Easy to Use

You can start with one of the many built-in floor plan templates and drag and drop symbols. Create an outline with walls and add doors, windows, wall openings and corners. You can set the size of any shape or wall by simply typing into its dimension label. You can also simply type to set a specific angle between walls. SmartDraw also lets you see and adjust the exact distance between a corner of a room and a wall opening.

You can easily add fixtures, display dimensions, and measure distances and areas in your floor plan as you design.

Easy to Find the Symbols You Need

You'll get thousands of ready-made visuals for furniture, kitchen and bathroom fixtures, lighting fixtures, cabinets, office furniture, wiring, plumbing, HVAC, security systems, plants, landscape elements, and more! SmartDraw also includes many photo-realistic textures that can take your design to the next level.

Easy to Draw and Print to Scale

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

Easy to Do More

Keep track of information like the author and settings used in a scale-independent annotation layer. Add layers for electrical, plumbing, or HVAC.

You can also add model numbers and other important manufacturing information to elements in your floor plan to display as a tooltip.

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.

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 plan designs 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 Get Help

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

How to Make Your Floor Plan Online

Step 1

Define the Area to Visualize

Determine the area or building you want to design or document. If the building already exists, decide how much (a room, a floor, or the entire building) of it to draw. If the building does not yet exist, brainstorm designs based on the size and shape of the location on which to build.

Step 2

Take Measurements

If the building exists, measure the walls, doors, and pertinent furniture so that the floor plan will be accurate. If the layout is being created for an entirely new area, be sure that the total area will fit where it is to be built.

Step 3

Start with a Template

Choose a floor plan template that best fits your project. SmartDraw has basic floor plan templates for rooms, houses, offices, and more.

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

Add Architectural Features

Begin adding features to the space by including the unchangeable things, like the doors and windows, as well as the refrigerator, dishwasher, dryer, and other important appliances that must be placed in a specific location.

Step 6

Add Furniture

Add furniture like desks, equipment, chairs and so on.

Step 7

Print or Share Your Floor Plan

Once your floor plan is built you can insert it directly to Microsoft Word^®, Excel^®, PowerPoint^®, Google Docs^™, Google Sheets^™, and more.

SmartDraw also has apps to integrate with Atlassian's Confluence and Jira. You can share your floor plan design in Microsoft Teams. You can also easily export your floor plan as a PDF or print it.

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