Draw a floor plan
Draw a Floor Plan Yourself
Draw a Floor Plan Yourself
In Archisketch, it’s okay if you don’t have a floor plan for your home or don’t have a drawing. Using the measurements you take yourself, you can easily draw your home in 3D. When you enter a blank project, you’ll see the Floor Plan Drawing tab on the left, where you can easily draw a floor plan.
Draw Walls
When you start drawing walls (shortcut: L), you’ll see the settings window that appears at the top.
❶ Wall reference selection: When drawing walls, you can choose the center, interior wall, or exterior wall as the reference.
❷ Wall thickness setting: You can set the thickness of the wall. The default value is set to 200.
❸ Snap mode: When snap mode is turned on, yellow guide lines are activated to help make wall drawing easier. You can also turn snap mode off and draw freely.
❹ Orthogonal mode: When orthogonal mode is turned on, walls can only be drawn at 90-degree angles.
When drawing walls, the start and end points must meet for the floor surface to be created automatically. If the wall ends are not connected, the unconnected points are shown in yellow.
Draw Curved Walls
Not only straight walls, curved wallscan also be created. Use this to represent round spaces like stadiums or walls with rounded ends.
Three ways to create curved walls
Draw directly — In the drawing tool, Draw Curved Wallsselect it and draw right away.
Convert an existing wall — After clicking a wall, convert it to a curved wall in [Wall Details].
Right-click menu — Right-click an existing wall and curved walls select the item.
You can click Draw Floor Plan > Draw Curved Wall, or click a created wall and change it to a curved wall in [Wall Details]
You can convert a straight wall to a curved wall from the right-click menu of a created wall
Adjust curvature
After creating a curved wall adjust the degree of bend (curvature)to create various shapes such as stadium-like spaces or rounded ends.
Note — Currently, curved walls only support outward convex shapesare supported. They cannot yet be applied to inward concave walls or partition walls shared by two rooms. (This is a limitation for stability and may be expanded later.)</aside>
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I turn a curved wall back into a straight wall? Yes, you can revert it to a straight wall in Wall Details or the right-click menu.
I need a concave curve. Currently, only convex shapes are supported. If needed, please express it by splitting the space configuration.
Draw Rooms
Using room drawing makes it easier and faster to create a floor plan. If you need to draw a floor plan from scratch, we strongly recommend using the room drawing feature.
Select the Draw Room tool (shortcut: F).
Click the starting point with your mouse on the grid screen.
Click the ending point to create a room of the desired size. At this point, the size is automatically determined according to the grid.
To enter exact dimensions, before clicking the ending point, with the dimension numbers active, type the horizontal length on the keyboard, then press Enter or Tab to enter the vertical length, and press Enter again to complete the room.
Press Esc to exit the mode.
Adjust wall length
You can easily adjust the size by grabbing a wall with the mouse cursor and dragging it. After clicking a wall, you can drag the mouse to expand or shrink the wall to the desired size.
Not only walls, but you can also grab and move vertices to create rooms of various shapes instead of just rectangles. Click and drag the vertex you want, and you can freely adjust the size and shape of the room.
You can adjust wall length by entering the desired number directly. Click the wall orthogonal to the wall whose length you want to change, and the numeric input field for that wall will be activated. Enter the desired value and press Enter to adjust the length.
Split Walls
Using the split wall feature, you can edit walls in more diverse ways and design creative spaces. When you click a wall, the split wall tool appears.
You can vertically separate finishing materials and manage them individually.
You can easily delete unwanted wall sections by breaking the wall.
Shortcut
Draw Walls
L
Draw Rooms
F
Erase Walls
D
Delete selected wall
Delete
Backspace
Delete selected room
Delete
Backspace
Undo
Ctrl + Z
Redo
Ctrl + Shift + Z
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I create curved walls?
It is difficult to set a wall surface to a curved shape, but by using the [Split Wall] feature, you can implement the wall body as a curved surface. If you split the wall multiple times, you can make it closer to a curved surface, and by adjusting and placing the width of fixed window products, you can also create effects like a panoramic window.
Can I flip the floor plan direction?
You can find the floor plan flip feature in Draw Floor Plan > Flip Floor Plan. Both horizontal and vertical flips are available.
Can I print the floor plan?
The floor plan printing feature is not provided. Instead, we recommend saving the image by using the screen capture feature in 2D mode.
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