Floor Plan Guides & How-Tos

General How to Create a Floor Plan (Step-by-Step) A clear, step-by-step guide to creating an accurate, professional floor plan on your iPhone - scan or draw, edit walls in 2D and 3D, label rooms, and export a PDF, DXF, or 3D file. 8 min read

Fire Alarm How to Create a Fire Alarm Zone Plan A practical guide for fire-alarm installers - build a multi-floor zone plan on your iPhone with fire symbols, colour-coded zones, detector coverage, and branded PDF export. 8 min read

Security CCTV How to Plan CCTV Camera Coverage A practical guide for CCTV installers: plan camera coverage on your iPhone with wall-occluded field-of-view cones, find blind spots live, and produce a coverage proposal. 8 min read

Estate Agents How to Create a Floor Plan for Property Listings A practical guide for estate and letting agents - capture accurate room areas, add dimensions, and export a clean branded floor plan that helps listings sell and let faster. 7 min read

Renovation How to Create Floor Plans for Renovation and Contracting A practical guide to making accurate floor plans for renovation: measure on site, sketch options in 2D and 3D, then export DXF and branded PDFs. 7 min read

Interior Designers How to Create Floor Plans for Interior Designers A practical guide to floor plans for interior designers - capture an accurate base plan fast, test layouts with real-size furniture, and present to clients. 7 min read

Surveyors How to Create Floor Plans for Surveyors Create accurate floor plans for surveyors fast on site - capture measured surveys, auto room areas, dimensioned plans and DXF/PDF exports with RoomPlot. 7 min read

General How to Create a Floor Plan PDF Report Build a branded, multi-page floor-plan PDF report on your iPhone - cover page, area summary, legend, photos, and your company logo. 8 min read

General Floor Plan Templates and Export Styles Six floor plan styles - Blueprint, Mono, Dark, Warm, Architectural and Original - and how to pick the right export look for your audience. 6 min read

General How to Make a Floor Plan Without LiDAR No LiDAR scanner? Make an accurate floor plan by hand on any iPhone or iPad: start from a room template, set real dimensions, add doors, and export. 7 min read

General How to Calculate Floor Area From a Plan Gross internal area, net area, and how to read an accurate floor area straight off a plan on your iPhone - measured to the inner wall face. 7 min read

General How to Measure a Room for a Floor Plan How to measure a room accurately for a floor plan - LiDAR scan vs tape measure, length, width, diagonals to check square, door and window positions, and the mistakes to avoid. 6 min read

Property Managers How to Create Floor Plans for Property Managers A practical guide to floor plans for property managers - reusable per-unit plans, photos and voice notes per floor, and branded PDFs for owners. 7 min read

General LiDAR Scan vs Manual Drawing: Floor Plans Should you scan a room with LiDAR or draw it by hand? An honest comparison of both floor-plan methods, and when each one is faster. 6 min read

General Metric vs Imperial Floor Plans When to use metres or feet and inches on a floor plan, and how RoomPlot switches the whole drawing between metric and imperial in a tap. 6 min read

Estate Agents Floor Plans for Mortgage Valuations How to produce a floor plan for a mortgage valuation: measure GIA to the inner wall faces, add dimensions and area, and export a clean plan the lender accepts. 7 min read

General What Is a Floor Plan? A Plain-English Guide What a floor plan is, what the lines and symbols mean, the main types you will meet, and how to make an accurate one yourself in minutes on an iPhone. 7 min read

Interior Designers The Kitchen Work Triangle: Rules and Layouts The kitchen work triangle explained: the 4-9 ft leg rule, layout examples, and how to check your own triangle on an accurate scaled floor plan. 6 min read

Estate Agents Virtual Tour vs Floor Plan: What Listings Really Need Floor plan or virtual tour? What the research says buyers want on property listings, what each costs to produce, and how to capture both in one visit. 7 min read

Security CCTV Where to Place Motion Sensors on a Floor Plan A practical guide to placing PIR motion sensors for a burglar alarm - the placement rules, choke points, and how to map wall-accurate detection coverage on a floor plan. 8 min read

Renovation Block Plans and Site Plans for Planning Location plan, site plan or block plan - what each one shows for a UK planning application, and how to draw the site-detail plan on an iPhone. 6 min read

Estate Agents Do You Need a Floor Plan to Sell a House? Is a floor plan required to sell your home? Not legally - but here is why buyers expect one, and how to make a portal-ready plan in minutes. 6 min read

General How to Export a 3D Scan to USDZ and Share it in AR Turn a LiDAR room scan into a USDZ model that opens in augmented reality on any iPhone or iPad - what USDZ export does, how to send it, and when 3D beats a flat plan. 6 min read

Fire Alarm How to Create a Fire Compartmentation Plan Draw a clear fire compartmentation line drawing on iPhone or iPad - compartment lines by rating, fire doors and protected escape routes, exported to PDF or DXF. 6 min read

Renovation How to Create a Floor Plan for Planning Permission What a floor plan for a planning application needs - existing plans, 1:50 or 1:100 scale, dimensions and a scale bar - and how to capture an accurate existing set with RoomPlot. 7 min read

Estate Agents How to Make a Floor Plan for Rightmove and Zoopla Listings with a floor plan get more enquiries. Here is how to draw a clean, portal-ready plan and export it at the right size for Rightmove and Zoopla. 6 min read

Fire Alarm Floor Plans for HMO Fire Safety How to produce an HMO fire safety floor plan on your iPhone - protected escape routes, interlinked smoke and heat detectors, FD30 fire doors, and a council-ready PDF. 7 min read

Security CCTV How to Plan a Home CCTV System Layout Plan a home CCTV system on a floor plan first - place cameras for gap-free coverage of doors, drives and blind corners using RoomPlot's live coverage cones. 7 min read

Security CCTV How to Avoid CCTV Blind Spots A practical guide to finding and eliminating CCTV blind spots - map wall-occluded camera coverage on the plan, overlap cameras, and cover every corner before you drill. 7 min read

General How to Create an Office Floor Plan A step-by-step guide to creating an office floor plan on iPhone or iPad - capture the shell, zone the space, place desks and services, then export. 8 min read

General How to Design a Restaurant Floor Plan Zone the space, size the seating and keep the escape route clear - a step-by-step guide to drawing a restaurant floor plan on an iPhone. 7 min read

General How to Draw Stairs on a Floor Plan How to draw stairs on a floor plan - the correct tread symbol, the UP/DN direction arrow, and the stair types RoomPlot draws with real geometry. 7 min read

General How to Read a Floor Plan A beginner's guide to reading a floor plan - scale and scale bars, wall, door and window symbols, door swings, dimensions and the north arrow, with a worked example. 6 min read

Renovation How to Draw a Loft Conversion Floor Plan How to draw a loft conversion floor plan - map the sloping ceiling and reduced-headroom line, place the stairs and dormer, and export drawings for building regs. 8 min read

Security CCTV How to Plan a Warehouse CCTV Layout How to plan a warehouse CCTV layout on a floor plan - cover aisles, docks and open spans with the right cameras and see each field of view before you install. 8 min read

General 2D vs 3D Floor Plans: When to Use Each When to use a flat 2D floor plan and when a 3D view helps, and how RoomPlot moves between both from a single plan. 6 min read

General How to Add a North Arrow to a Floor Plan Add an accurate north arrow to your floor plan using the compass: set true or magnetic north, snap to cardinals, and bake it into every export. 5 min read

Surveyors What Is an As-Built Floor Plan (and How to Make One) What an as-built floor plan is and how to create one with RoomPlot: scan existing conditions, tidy the geometry, calculate areas and export to PDF or DXF. 7 min read

General How to Export a Floor Plan to DXF (CAD) Export an editable DXF from a floor plan you scanned or drew on iPhone - clean CAD geometry that opens in AutoCAD and any free viewer. 7 min read

Fire Alarm How to Create a Fire Escape Plan Draw a clear fire escape plan on your iPhone or iPad: capture the floor, add final exits and escape-route arrows, then export a postable PDF. 7 min read

Property Managers How to Make a Floor Plan for an Airbnb or Holiday Let How to make a floor plan for an Airbnb or holiday let: capture the unit, label rooms, add a you-are-here marker and escape route, then export for the listing. 6 min read

Estate Agents How to Make a Floor Plan for Real Estate Photographers Add accurate listing floor plans to your property shoots - scan or sketch on the same visit, brand it, and export portal-ready sizes from your iPhone or iPad. 6 min read

Interior Designers How to Draw a Bathroom Floor Plan How to draw a bathroom floor plan in RoomPlot: capture the shell, place fixtures to size, check clearances and the door swing, then export to share. 7 min read

Interior Designers How to Draw a Kitchen Floor Plan Draw a to-scale kitchen floor plan on your iPhone: capture the walls, place the units and appliances, check the work triangle, then export a PDF or DXF. 6 min read

Security CCTV How to Plan an Intruder Alarm System Layout Design an intruder alarm layout on a floor plan: place PIR detectors, door contacts and the panel, and check each motion sensor's real coverage. 7 min read

General How to Create a Multi-Floor Floor Plan How to capture, align and present a multi-storey floor plan, keeping every level in one project with RoomPlot. 6 min read

Fire Alarm Smoke Detector Coverage and Spacing on a Plan Plan smoke and heat detector spacing on a floor plan: drop a detector, see its real coverage radius, and prove every room is protected. 6 min read