This guide doesn’t explain the tools, it shows the way: one flow from opening an account to sharing. Six steps are enough for the curious; professionals extend the same line to fourteen steps with MEP, fire safety, accessibility, voltage simulation and BIM.
No fiddling line by line: width, depth, Enter. A door goes in with a click on the wall, furniture with a drag; your time goes into decisions, not lines.
No license, installation or training costs. Paid plans only unlock layers and exports; the whole flow for a small fraction of a professional CAD license.
Single-letter tools, snapping, size warnings and autosave. A short tour on first launch, this guide after that; if you make a mistake, Ctrl+Z.
At home, at the office, at a client's: sign in with the same account and pick up where you left off. No updates to download, no version mix-ups.
The same line reads at two speeds: the curious share a PNG in six steps; professionals extend it to fourteen steps with site, MEP, fire safety, accessibility, voltage simulation and BIM. Click a step to see what to do below it.
Press "Start drawing my plan", then enter your name, email and password on the Sign up tab, or sign in with Google. Verify your address with the link sent to your email; projects can't be saved until you do. Your plans are waiting for you wherever you sign in to your account.
Plan name, width and depth (m), wall thickness (cm). Choose "Building shell" and the outer walls come ready; for fully freehand drawing, pick "Blank page".
Pick the wall tool with W: click a point, point the direction, type the length, Enter. To name an area enclosed by walls, put a label inside it; its area is written on the plan automatically. K for door, P for window: click a wall and the opening is cut; width and swing direction are in the right panel.
Grab an object from the 03 Furniture tab and drop it on the plan. Rotate 15° with R, change its size to match your own furniture in the right panel, duplicate with Ctrl+D. The layout check flags any object that blocks a door, overlaps or narrows a passage on its own.
Fit to screen with F, toggle dimensions with L; the summary in the right panel gives the total area and the number of rooms and doors. Your work is saved automatically; for a backup, download a .json with Ctrl+Shift+S.
"Snapshot" in the Save menu gives you a high-resolution PNG; put it in a listing, send it to the family group, show it to your builder. The "should the bed go this way or that way" debate ends with one image. Scaled PDF is on the Plus plan.
Press "Start drawing my plan", then enter your name, email and password on the Sign up tab, or sign in with Google. Verify your address with the link sent to your email; projects can't be saved until you do. Your plans are waiting for you wherever you sign in to your account.
In a new plan, choose "Lot boundary" or pick the parcel tool with A; click corner by corner or type in the side lengths. The parcel area is calculated in m²; setbacks are measured automatically from the building's outline to each parcel edge.
Draw the outer walls inside the parcel; thickness is between 5 and 60 cm, 20 cm by default. Once the shell is closed, the gross area shows in the right panel. For a multi-story building, use "Add floor" in the floor bar; while you draw the upper floor, the one below shows underneath as a trace, and you can copy its shell in one click. Each floor’s net height and the slab thickness are in the Project heights card in the right panel when nothing is selected. Drawing a container home? Use the Container tool in the same step to line up 20 ft, 40 ft or 40 ft HC modules and stack them (Plus).
Draw interior walls with W; the chain keeps going and ends with a double-click or right-click. Select a room you drew with the room tool and give it a name and flooring; an area enclosed by walls gets its name from the label you put inside. Area in m² and perimeter in m go into the quantity take-off.
K door, P window: click a wall and the opening is cut. In the right panel: width, position on the wall, opening direction and hinge; door types (sliding, pocket, folding, double, revolving, garage doors) and window types (double, sliding, fixed, tilt, bay, floor-to-ceiling glass) in the Plus plan; front door in Free, glass spanning several floors and gallery voids in Pro.
Drag an object from the 03 Furniture tab, rotate it with R and change its size in the right panel. Passages at least 50 cm, comfortable 60 cm; 75 cm around tables, door swings clear: the layout check marks missing space on the plan. This is where the bed head and the counter get their place; the MEP follows from it. You draw the garden wall and garden and garage gates along the plot edge in the next tab, 04 Outdoor (Plus).
In the 05 MEP tab, place symbols to suit the furniture: an outlet next to the nightstand, a double outlet above the counter, a switch on the latch side of the door. Place the panel and draw circuits from the panel to the rooms; enter heights in the right panel.
In the 06 Safety tab, place fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and exit signs on the plan. The travel distance check measures the walking route from every point to an exit under Turkish, EU, UK or US rules, and marks the farthest point and access to extinguishers. You put the evacuation plan on a sheet.
In the 07 Accessible tab, check the plan against German, UK, US or Turkish rules. The wheelchair turning space in every room, the clear width of doors and the narrowest point on the route from the entrance to the rooms show on the plan. If the entrance is raised, add a ramp: straight, L or U.
Each circuit's power is summed from its symbols; current, recommended breaker (B10, B16, B20…), cable size and voltage drop by run length are calculated. An overloaded circuit lights up red on the plan, and the breaker list goes into the MEP sheet.
Walls, doors, windows, rooms and MEP elements are mapped to IFC classes; you enter properties such as material, thickness and height. The quantity take-off (m, m², m³) is generated automatically; clash detection flags a socket that lands in a door opening, a circuit running through a column or furniture pushing into a wall.
Switch to 3D from the top bar: in the isometric view, check the space in front of windows, socket heights and the tops of cabinets. Seeing all floors stacked is on Plus, the interior walkthrough on Pro; if you spot a problem, go back to 2D and fix it, and the 3D updates instantly. The section and elevation in the Shell step (Plus) show heights; in the Safety step you place the fire equipment (Plus), and the escape check and evacuation plan sheet are on Pro.
Your work is saved automatically. Ctrl+S saves right away, Ctrl+Shift+S downloads a .json backup; keep revisions as separate projects or with Duplicate (Plus) in My account. On the Pro plan, people you give Editor access can also edit and save the same plan.
PNG on every plan. Scaled PDF (1:50, 1:100) on Plus; DXF, quantity schedule, MEP sheet and breaker list on Pro; IFC and simulation report on Ultimate. The PDF goes to the client, the DXF to the contractor, the IFC to the BIM team.
If you skipped the short tour in the editor, carry on from here; the full list of shortcuts is on the Keyboard Shortcuts page in the Guide.
Open a free account; no installation, and the same account works on a computer, a tablet or a phone.
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No; you can switch between tabs however you like. The order is a suggestion: you can't place furniture without knowing the walls, or sockets without knowing the furniture.
No; the short tour in the editor appears only once, on first launch. The same information stays in this guide permanently; the shortcuts are also listed under the "Shortcuts" button in the editor's bottom bar.
Yes. Your projects are stored in your account on our servers; sign in with the same account on another device and you pick up where you left off. For a backup, you can also download the project file (.json) from the Save menu.
Length inputs are in centimeters. In the view settings you can show dimensions in meters, centimeters, or feet and inches; areas are shown in m².