Draw a floorplan

The Floorplan creator draws your home room by room. Rooms are measured inside, and every wall shows its length. Walls run across, up and down, or at 45°: other angles and curves aren't supported.

Add rooms#

1. Open the Floorplan creator. It starts with an example plan; select Start again for a blank one, or Show the example to bring it back.
2. Select Draw room and drag out a rectangle, or select Add room and type its Width and Depth.
3. Drag a room to move it. With Snap to walls on, a room brought close to another lands an inside wall's width away, so they share the wall. Hold Alt while dragging to place it freely.

Shape and size the walls#

1. Select a wall to type its Length inside the room. The wall at the far end moves, the way a tape measures.
2. For a wall shared with another room, type the Wall thickness. The room on the other side moves to fit, so every room keeps its size.
3. To make an L or T shape, select a wall, choose Add a corner, then drag the wall on either side of it.
4. Drag a corner to move both walls that meet there. Remove this corner takes out a corner you added.
5. To cut a square corner at 45°, for a splayed bay or a chimney breast across a corner, select the corner, type how far back each wall goes under Cut back each wall by, and select Cut corner at 45°. A wall at 45° drags, takes a typed length and holds doors and windows like any other. Remove either of its corners to square the corner off again.
6. Select the floor (nothing selected) to set the ceiling height and the outside and inside wall thicknesses.

Split a room with a partition#

A partition is a new inside wall across a room, such as a stud wall closing off an en suite or a cupboard. It splits the room into two rooms.

1. Select Partition, then tap a wall of the room where the partition starts.
2. Tap where it turns. Each straight part runs across, up and down, or at 45°, and its length shows as you go. On a phone, drag your finger to see where the next point goes and lift it to put it there.
3. Tap a wall of the same room to finish. The partition is as thick as the floor's inside walls, centred on the line you drew.
4. Backspace takes back the last point and Esc stops. Undo puts the room back as it was.

The larger part keeps the room's name, ceiling height and project room; the smaller one is a new room. When you save a floorplan to a project, the save asks which project room the new room is. A partition has to stay inside the room, can have up to 8 straight parts, and can't meet a wall where there's a door or window.

To work out the studs and boards for a partition, or any wall between two rooms, select it and use Open in stud wall builder (on a project's floorplan, Build this wall). See Plan a stud or brick wall.

Add doors, windows and openings#

1. Select Door or Window, then tap a wall.
2. Drag it along the wall, or type where it starts under From the wall's start, with its Width, Height and Sill height.
3. For a door, use Hinge on the other side and Open the other way.
4. Under Door, window or opening, switch it to Opening for a gap with no door, such as an archway.
5. Under Position in the wall, choose Standard, Inside or Outside, and set it back from that face for a frame recessed into a thick wall.

Point it north#

Turn the north arrow on the drawing, or type North, clockwise from the top on the floor's panel. Each window's facing then shows in the room list, and the air-con calculator uses it.

Get around#

• Pinch, Ctrl and scroll, or the zoom buttons zoom; Fit to screen shows the whole floor.
• Drag the background to move around.
• Undo, Redo and Delete are on the toolbar. With the plan focused, arrow keys nudge what's selected and Delete removes it.
• Full screen gives the plan the whole window, with every tool, including Opening, along one bar. Select Details for the panel and Exit full screen to leave.

On the free page your plan is kept in this browser as you draw. To keep it with a project, see Save a floorplan to your project.