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How to Create a 3D Floor Plan From Scratch (No File Needed)

You do not need a drawing to start. If the home only exists in your head — an extension you are planning, a flat you are thinking of renting, a house you would like to build — you can draw it here and walk through it in about four minutes.

Watch it (4 minutes)

A blank page to a furnished home you can walk through. Here is each step.

What four minutes of drawing gets you

A finished 3D floor plan drawn from scratch, furnished, with people standing in the rooms and trees outside — Drawn from nothing: rooms, furniture, people, trees.

No PDF was involved anywhere in this. It began as an empty grid.

Step 1 — Draw one line

A blank sketch pad with a single vertical line drawn on it, the first wall of a new floor plan — A blank grid and one line. That line is already a wall.

Take the pencil and draw. There is no setup, no template to choose, no units to configure first — the grid is in metres and the line you just drew is a wall.

One line is already a building

A close-up 3D view of a single drawn wall with a door in it, standing on its own — Switch to 3D after one line and there it is, with a door in it.

You can flip to 3D at any moment, even this early. It is worth doing once just to feel how direct the loop is: draw a line, look at a wall.

Step 2 — Close the shapes and rooms appear

Three rooms drawn on the sketch pad measuring 8.2, 14.4 and 46.9 square metres, totalling 75.2 square metres — 8.2, 14.4 and 46.9 m², counted as you draw.

Every closed shape becomes a room and prints its own area, with a running total at the bottom. This is the part people find unexpectedly useful — you can size a room by drawing it and watching the number, instead of doing arithmetic first.

Step 3 — Drop in furniture and a pool

Furniture chips including a double bed, counter, table, TV and sofa placed into rooms, with a swimming pool outside — Drag a bed, a counter, a TV, a sofa. The pool goes outside.

Furniture comes from the panel on the right — drag it where you want it. Name the rooms while you are here; the names show up in 3D and in the printed plan.

Change your mind as often as you like

A larger floor plan being edited with a wardrobe and table placed, now totalling 98.9 square metres — Move a wall, and every room around it re-measures itself.

This is the real reason to draw from scratch rather than in a CAD tool: moving a wall is one drag, and everything downstream updates itself.

Step 4 — Walk through it

The finished 3D floor plan seen from above with furnished rooms and figures of people standing in them — Press Build 3D, then drop to eye height and walk.

Standing inside a room is how you find out whether it is actually big enough. Adding a person or two gives you the scale instantly.

The 3D home alongside a printable PDF floor plan with measurements and room labels — A measured PDF you can hand to a builder, or a link that opens in 3D.

The PDF comes out measured and labelled, which is what a builder or a landlord actually wants. The share link opens the walkable model in a browser, no account needed at the other end.

Questions people ask

Do I need a floor plan to start?

No. That is the whole point of this one — you start from a blank page.

Is it in metres or feet?

Either. There is a metres and feet toggle in the toolbar, and switching it converts everything.

How accurate is it?

As accurate as you draw. You can right-click any wall and type its exact length, so a plan drawn roughly can be made exact afterwards.

Can I add a second floor?

Yes — draw the second floor and stack it on the first. There is a separate tutorial for that.

Draw the home in your head

A blank page, a pencil, and about four minutes. No file, no account needed to try.

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