Change a floor plan by typing

Have a floor plan redrawn as CAD — walls, doors, windows, room sizes — change it in plain words, see what changed, and download the new plan as DWG, DXF or PDF.

Beta

The redraw is read from your sheet by a model. Check it beside your sheet, and type a correction where it differs.

Purpose

Change a floor plan without a CAD program. Your plan is drawn again as walls, doors, windows and rooms, so a change is a sentence, not a set of line edits.

Who this is for

  • Homeowners, builders and designers trying a different layout: a wider kitchen, another door, an added room.
  • Anyone who has a plan only as a PDF or a scan and needs it as a clean DWG.

Start from your plan

  1. Upload the floor plan PDF in PDF to CAD.

  2. When the sheet is a floor plan, the viewer offers Change this plan by typing. Select it.

    The PDF to CAD viewer offering Change this plan by typing on a floor plan

  3. The plan is redrawn. This takes about a minute, once per drawing. Your uploaded file is not changed.

  4. The editor opens with your sheet beside the redraw. The room table lists every room with its clear size and area.

    The plan editor: the uploaded sheet on the left, the redrawn plan on the right, and the change box

Sizes printed on your sheet are used where they can be read. Anything that had to be assumed, such as wall thickness, is listed under the room table.

Start from a description

  1. Open Floor plan editor and type the plan you want: its rooms and roughly how big, for example A 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house of about 110 m² with an open kitchen and living room.

  2. Select Draw the plan.

    The floor plan editor with the description box and example descriptions

The result is a starting layout to change by typing. It is not an architect's design.

Change the plan

  1. In Change this plan, type the change. Examples:

    • Make the kitchen 600 mm wider
    • Add a door between bedroom 2 and the hall
    • Add a 3 by 3 m study behind the garage
    • Swap the bathroom and the store
  2. Select Apply change.

  3. What changed shows the plan with new walls in green and removed walls in red, and a table of each room's size and area before and now.

    A plan after "Make the kitchen 600 mm wider": the new outside wall in green, the old one in red

Every change is a version. Undo the last change goes back one. The first drawing is always kept.

If the redraw does not match your sheet, say what is different: The bathroom is left of bedroom 2, The living room is 5.2 m wide.

A Worth a look note appears when the plan has something to check, for example two rooms that overlap.

See it as a 3D home

Show my free 3D preview furnishes the plan in 3D: one picture, made once per plan, in about half a minute. A few previews a day are free.

The free 3D preview of a redrawn plan, furnished room by room

Get the full 3D home opens the plan as an interior project, made from the plan as it now stands: a furnished dollhouse, then room-by-room images and a walkthrough film in the House Package. It starts a new interior project, which uses credits like any other.

The preview in the panel with Get the full 3D home under it, and the room table

Download the files

Under Files of this version:

FileWhat is in it
DWG, DXFThe plan at full size in millimetres, on layers: A-WALL, A-DOOR, A-GLAZ, A-AREA (a closed outline of every room) and annotation layers for names, sizes and dimensions
PDFThe plan on a sheet with a title block and a room schedule

What is free and what is paid

Free with an accountOne-time purchase per plan
Redraw or draw a plan, and view itYes
Change by typingA daily number of changesWithout the daily limit
See what changedYes
One 3D preview of the planYes
DWG, DXF and PDF of every versionYes

For a plan you uploaded, the purchase is the same as that drawing's PDF to CAD download. If you have bought that, the editable plan's files are included.

Limits

  • One level per sheet.
  • Straight walls. Curved and angled walls are approximated.
  • Walls, openings, room names and sizes only: no furniture, stairs, structure, plumbing or electrical.
  • No building-code checks.