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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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