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Turn Any Floor Plan Into a 3D Home in Minutes

This is the short one. If you only watch a single video, watch this — it is the whole idea in under three minutes, and it works with any drawing you have, however rough.

Watch it (under 3 minutes)

Same four moves every time, whatever you started from.

What you get at the end

A finished 3D home with furnished bedrooms, a staircase, a swimming pool and trees around it — Three minutes of work: a walkable home with furniture, a pool and a garden.

Starting at the end so you know where this goes. Everything below took under three minutes in the video.

Step 1 — Drop the plan in

A floor plan opened in the WalkMyPlan editor with a tip card explaining how to trace the walls — The drawing loads underneath the pad, and the app tells you what to do.

Drag the file on. PDF, PNG, JPG, WebP or DWG — it lands under the sketch pad as something to trace over. A DWG carries real CAD geometry and is read directly; a PDF or a photo is paper, and the walls are yours to draw.

Step 2 — Trace the walls

The outer walls of a floor plan traced on the sketch pad, showing an L-shaped outline of 93.9 square metres — Start with the outline, then the internal walls.

Outline first, then the walls inside it. Lines snap straight and rooms close themselves.

Check it without the drawing underneath

The traced walls shown alone, without the original drawing, totalling 74.3 square metres — Flip to the **Walls** tab to see only what you drew.

Flipping between Drawing, Walls and Both is how you catch a wall you missed.

Step 3 — Doors and windows

Doors and windows placed on a traced floor plan, with room numbers and a total of 101.0 square metres — Drag them onto the walls; each door gets the swing you choose.

Drag a door where the drawing shows one, stretch a window to match. This is also where the plan starts to feel like a real place.

Furnish it, and add what is outside

A floor plan with furniture chips placed in the rooms and a blue swimming pool outside the walls — Beds, sofas, a kitchen — and a pool in the garden.

Furniture is optional but it is what makes the 3D look like somewhere people live. Pools, pergolas and gardens go outside the walls the same way.

Step 4 — Build 3D

The finished 3D home seen from above with furniture, a staircase, a pool and trees — One press, and the drawing is a house.

That is the whole loop. From here you can walk it at eye height, print it as a PDF, or render it as a photograph.

It really does work on a napkin

A hand-drawn floor plan on paper labelled Kitchen, Bath, Bedroom, Living, Hall and Study, with a pond and a car drawn beside it — Hand-drawn, labelled in biro, with a pond and a car. This traces fine.

Take a photo of it with your phone and upload that. The drawing is only a backdrop to trace over, so it does not need to be neat, straight or machine-readable.

Questions people ask

What file types can I upload?

PDF, DWG, PNG, JPG and WebP, up to 100MB. A photo of a paper drawing counts.

Does it really take three minutes?

For a small plan, yes. A large or messy drawing takes longer — the eleven-minute walkthrough shows a full-sized one at real speed.

Do I need an account?

You can try it without one. An account keeps your plans and lets you come back to them.

What if my drawing is crooked or hand-drawn?

Fine. You trace over it and the lines snap straight, so a wobbly original becomes a straight plan.

You almost certainly have a plan you could try

An email from an architect, an estate agent listing, a photo of a drawing on the wall. Any of them work.

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