Plus, you'll get beautiful textures for flooring, countertops, furniture and more. • Intuitive You can set the size of any shape or line by simply typing into the dimensions label. Do the same to choose a specific angle between walls. • Draw and Print to Scale Easily SmartDraw has the most complete feature set for creating scaled CAD drawings. You can easily change the scale at any time. Choose among common standard architectural scales, a metric scale, and more. You can print to scale just as easily.
And your printed scale doesn't have to match your drawing's scale. Keep track of your setting in a scale-inpendent annotation layer. • Free Support Got a question about creating floor plans? Call or email us. SmartDraw experts are standing by ready to help, for free!
With SmartDraw you can create your floor plan on your desktop Windows ® computer, your Mac, or even a mobile device. Whether you're in the office or on the go, you'll enjoy the full set of features, symbols, and high-quality output you get only with SmartDraw.
Once your floor plan is complete, it's easy to share it. You can save it in a variety of common graphics formats such as a PDF or PNG. You can also export it to any Office ® or G Suite ® application in just a few clicks. Insert your floor plans into reports or presentations easily.
SmartDraw also integrates with Atlassian's Confluence, Jira, and Trello.
Choosing a House Design Program When looking for home design software there are several things you'll want to consider. • Are you just fiddling around with home design ideas for fun? • Planning a home remodel? • Needing to create full blueprints for a new home design?
If you're just trying out ideas or if you are remodeling and need to provide basic floor plan sketches to a carpenter, the online free floor plan software tools can do the trick. Scroll down to see the reviews on this page for the following free house design software programs: • Floorplanner • Autodesk Homestyler • Floor Planner by Small Blueprinter • Gliffy Software for New Home Construction If you are creating full construction drawings for a new home design, you may be better off looking at some of the more full-featured house design software packages that will make it easier to create multi-story designs, add roofs, show cross-sections, elevations and framing details. Creating full construction drawings certainly is possible using a program such as Google Sketchup but you will need to have the skill of a draftperson and residential designer or architect to create properly dimensioned and accurate drawings. Reviews Below are reviews for the following programs (the stars indicate our rating for each product).
• • • • Floorplanner Floorplanner is a simple, basic and free floor plan software tool. It features a simple tool set with which you can create whole rooms, walls, drag and drop windows, doors, skylights, plumbing fixtures, furniture, stairs, people, cars (even an Alpha Romeo) and more from a library.