This is a simple step-by-step guideline to help you draw a basic floor plan using SmartDraw.
Choose an daerah or building to design or document.
Take measurements.
Start with a basic floor plan template.
Input your dimensions to scale your walls (meters or feet).
Easily add new walls, doors and windows.
Drag and drop ready-made symbols to customize your space: furniture, kitchen, bathroom and lighting fixtures, cabinets, wiring, and more.
Step 1. Select a Template
You can find floor plan templates under the New Document section of the Dashboard. Let’s start with Residential Floor Plan in the Floor Plans – Residential category.
All of the tools you need to create your floor plan will be docked to the left of your drawing daerah in what we call the SmartPanel.
The difference between different kinds of floor plan templates will mostly be the model of symbol libraries docked with the template. A residential template will have more home furnishings while a commercial template will have more office symbols and so on.
Choose a floor plan template
Step 2. Draw Walls
Select the Wall tool in the upper left part of the SmartPanel to the left of your drawing area. Click once in your work daerah to begin drawing a wall segment, drag your mouse, and then click again to complete your wall segment. You can continue adding more walls to create a closed outline. A circle will appear at the end of a wall to help you connect it to close the outline. Click Esc to exit out of wall drawing mode.
Draw walls
Step 3. Adjust Your Outline as Needed
Even after an outline is completed, you can change the dimensions in one of two ways. Either click on a wall and slide it to its desired length, or click on the dimension and model in the measurement you want to resize it to. When you do this, you’ll note that the opposite wall will resize to the same dimension automatically.