Type the width and length of the house, divide the rooms with walls, and place doors and windows by clicking on a wall. Every dimension you type goes into the plan exactly; room areas are calculated in real square meters. You don't need to know any drawing software, and there's nothing to install; it opens in your browser.
Each step builds on the one before. The eight tabs in the editor’s left panel are these steps; the images show the same sample project as it really looks in the editor.
Type the plot dimensions or draw it by clicking its corners with the A tool; trapezoidal and many-sided lots work too. Setbacks are measured from the building's outer lines to each plot edge; coverage ratio and plinth height are set in this step.
Draw a room box with O and a wall with W. Type a number while drawing and press Enter, and the wall ends at exactly that length. Doors K and windows P are placed by clicking on a wall; the opening is actually cut.
Grab an object from the Furniture tab and drag it onto the plan. You can't know where a socket or drain goes until the bed, counter and desk are in place; that's why this comes before MEP. See the library →
Draw the garden wall along the edge of the plot: it snaps to the plot’s corners and edges and to the ends of other garden walls. Concrete, wood or iron railing on a concrete base; height, thickness and lights are up to you. Place a pedestrian gate, sliding driveway gate or garage door by clicking the wall. Outdoor →
Sockets, switches, lighting, low voltage, circuits, water supply and drain lines placed around the furniture. The MEP check shows unconnected symbols and missing lines. The mechanical and electrical layer unlocks in the Plus plan.
Place fire extinguishers, detectors and emergency exits on the plan. The travel distance check draws the route from the farthest point to the exit; the check and the evacuation sheet are in Pro. Fire safety →
Check the plan against accessibility rules for Germany, the UK, the US or Türkiye, or with the General set made of the strictest values of all four: wheelchair turning space in every room, clear door openings, the route from the entrance to the rooms and its narrowest point. Free in every plan. Accessible design →
Voltage and load calculation plus BIM: properties of columns, beams, walls, doors and windows, clash detection and IFC export. Problem items are marked on the plan.
Once you draw the plan, the section and the elevation are ready too: you place the section line with two clicks, open the elevation from four sides, and put them all on the sheet with a title block.
Tools are grouped by stage in the left panel; each has a single-letter shortcut. For the full list, see the Keyboard Shortcuts page.
Click, point the direction, type the length, Enter. It continues as a chain; a double-click or right-click ends it and the tool stays open (Esc drops the unfinished segment). Thickness from 5 to 60 cm, 20 cm by default. Adjoining walls join at the corners, and dimension labels appear automatically.
Drag a rectangle or type width × depth. Set its name and flooring in the right panel; its area is shown in m².
Click a wall and the opening is cut. Flip the door's swing direction and hinge side; set the window width in cm.
Pick one of four types and click on the plan. Tread lines and the up-direction arrow follow drafting conventions; then you drag to move it and rotate it with R.
Define the site boundary with a blue dashed line. The building is compared with the boundary and the coverage ratio is calculated.
Grab, move, rotate and duplicate objects. Add free notes to the plan with T: "Socket here", "Hanging length 210".
10 cm grid, corner and 15° angle snapping. Walls are always drawn straight and aligned; if you want to draw freely, turn snapping off with a single key.
Once you verify your email, your work is saved automatically; Ctrl+S saves right away. Download the .json project file with Ctrl+Shift+S and open it on another computer; get a high-resolution image with the PNG button. Scaled PDF is in the Plus plan, DXF in Pro.
With the Container tool in the Shell step you place real-size modules on the plan; line them up side by side, stack them, and divide the inside like rooms. In 3D, elevations and sections the container is drawn at its own height.
Click "Add floor" on the floor bar at the bottom left of the drawing area; the upper floor opens as a blank page, but the floor below stays underneath as a trace. You use it as a guide to stack the stairs, load-bearing walls and wet areas. Floor numbers are shown on the bar and you switch with one click; to hide the lower floor, turn off the "Floor below trace" button. With the three buttons on the same bar, you copy the shell, the doors and windows, and the MEP up from the floor below, one at a time; doors and windows are matched by position and sit on the wall in the same line.
Click a wall with the door tool K and pick the type in the panel that opens to the left of the drawing area when the tool is selected, or in the right panel. Each type is drawn with its own plan symbol; direction and jamb flip with one click. Single swing door, open passage (no door) and front door are in Free; revolving door, garage doors and the other types are in Plus and higher plans.
Standard room door. Hinge side and opening direction flip with one click.
100 · 110 cm · height 210 cmTwo leaves and two swing arcs, for living room and garden openings. Equal leaves or a 2/3 split.
120 · 140 · 160 cmSlides on a track in front of the wall; no swing clearance needed, but it needs free wall space as wide as the leaf.
90 · 100 · 120 cmThe leaf slides into the wall and takes up no space on either side. The wall must be at least 12 cm thick.
90 · 100 cm · wall ≥ 12 cmThe panels fold up in a zigzag; for narrow corridors and in front of wardrobes. Swing clearance is half that of a single leaf.
60 – 120 cmTwo leaves slide past each other; for balcony and terrace exits. The glass leaf is drawn in blue, like a window.
160 · 180 · 240 cmThe entrance door of an apartment or house: a thick, solid leaf and a handle. The accessibility check looks at the approach space beside the handle.
110 cm · clear width 100 cmFor hotel, shop and office entrances: a curved glass drum with four wings. A wheelchair can’t pass through it and it doesn’t count as an emergency exit, so the editor tells you to add a swing door next to it.
200 cm · height 220 cmSectional, roller, swing and folding. Overhead doors are drawn dashed on the plan; they go on building walls and on garden walls.
250 – 300 cm · height 225 cmClick a wall with the window tool P; pick the type in the panel that opens to the left of the drawing area when the tool is selected, or in the right panel. Glass is drawn blue, the frame black; the opening direction of sliding and tilt windows flips with one click. Drag the ends of a selected door or window to change its width, type the distance to the corner on each side in the panel, or center it on the wall. Single casement is in Free, the others in Plus; glass spanning several floors is in Pro.
Standard room window; frame and a single glass line. Sill height is 90 cm in 3D.
60 – 150 cmCenter mullion, two sashes. A wide opening for living rooms and bedrooms.
120 – 200 cmTwo panes slide in front of each other; no swing clearance. For balcony and terrace facades.
150 – 300 cmA non-opening panel with a double glass line. For stairwells, living room corners, display windows.
60 – 300 cmTop-hinged, opens by tilting inward; a dashed line shows the opening direction. For bathrooms and kitchens.
40 – 100 cmA three-part window projecting out from the wall; it gives you a seating nook. The outer face flips with one click.
120 – 240 cm · projection 40 – 60 cmA glass facade from floor to ceiling; no sill or lintel, dark mullions at equal spacing. Its width goes up to the whole wall.
default 300 cm · up to the wall length · up to the ceilingWhen two floor-to-ceiling glass panels reach the same corner, the wall at the corner goes away; the glass meets at a single corner post.
two panes · one corner postExtend floor-to-ceiling glass over several floors: the wall in line on the floor above turns to glass too, leaving only a slim transom at the slab.
2 or more floorsStairs take up more room than anything else in a plan. Choose the type that fits your space and place it at its real size; see from the start how much area it takes. On the upper floor the stairs show as an opening, so you won't fill that area by mistake.
One flight, one direction. Treads are evenly divided and an arrow shows the way up. The simplest solution for narrow corridors and duplexes.
Flight width 90–120 · length = treads × 28 cmTurns 90° at a quarter landing. It fits into a corner and shortens the stairwell; you set the flight down to the lower floor against a wall.
Landing 100×100 · flight 90–110 cmTwo flights side by side with a well between them; turns 180° at the landing. Climbs the same floor height in the least floor area.
Total 200–250 · well 8–20 cmRadial treads around a central column. The most compact solution; for attics, mezzanines and single-person passages.
Diameter 140–200 cmIn the editor’s Outdoor step you draw the garden wall point to point; you can type the length. The wall stands on the ground and doesn’t affect the building’s area or calculations; it also appears in 3D and in DXF and IFC exports.
When you draw a gallery void on an upper floor, that floor’s slab opens and the room below shows at double height. Put two-story floor-to-ceiling glass on the living-room facade and from outside it reads as one single glass face.
Every dimension label and every area calculation is a real value; nothing is eyeballed. The editor's defaults come from building practice, and all of them can be adjusted.
Yes. Click "Add floor" on the floor bar; while you draw the upper floor, the floor below shows as a trace, which you can turn off. You can copy the lower floor's shell in one click. Ground + 1 floor in the Free plan, unlimited floors in Plus and above.
No. You start by typing the width and depth; when drawing a wall, just type the length on your keyboard and press Enter. Snapping keeps your walls from coming out crooked.
You work with your free account; once you verify your email, your plan is saved automatically, and even if you close the tab, you pick up where you left off. You can also download the project as a .json file and open it again later.
On the Free plan: PNG with the Nodaform signature and the project file. Scaled PDF is available on the Plus plan, and DXF (CAD) export on the Pro plan.
Yes. Turn your phone sideways to draw walls, rooms, doors, windows and furniture and look at the 3D view; pinch with two fingers to zoom. Held upright, saved and shared plans open in view mode. A computer is more comfortable for large plans.
No. Nodaform is a tool for concept visualization and developing ideas. Structural, architectural and mechanical construction drawings must be approved by a licensed architect and engineer.
Create a free account, type in the dimensions and start drawing. 70 free objects and PNG export are included in the Free plan.
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