Use Computer to Draw Graphs House Plans

Starting time a new floor plan

In the Categories list, click the Maps and Floor Plans category.
Click Floor Program, and and then click Create.

Turn on gridlines to help with calibration and precision

You may want to have gridlines visible on your drawing canvas to help you lay out and scale objects advisedly:

On the toolbar ribbon, select View > Grid.

A fixed grid can exist useful in floor plans and maps, where you ever want grid lines to show the same measurement. To brand the grid stock-still:

On the toolbar ribbon, select View.
In right corner of the Show grouping, select the "More than" arrow .
In the dialog box, enter the minimum spacing required between lines for each axis, and the filigree volition retain a fixed perspective throughout your blueprint process, regardless of zoom level.

Create the exterior wall construction

Using room shapes

From the Walls, Beat and Structure stencil, elevate ane of the room shapes onto the drawing page.
Resize the room shape past dragging the control and pick handles on individual walls.

Using wall shapes

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag Outside wall shapes onto the drawing folio.
Continue to draw the exterior by using these options:
- Resize walls by dragging an endpoint.
- Right-click wall shapes to gear up options.
- Drag an endpoint of one wall to another wall.
The endpoints are highlighted when the walls are glued. Intersections between two walls are cleaned upward automatically.

Create the interior wall construction

From the Walls, Shell and Construction stencil, drag wall shapes onto the drawing page, positioning them inside the exterior structure.
Continue to draw the interior by using these options:
- Resize walls by dragging an endpoint.
- Right-click a wall to set up options.
- Elevate an endpoint of ane wall to another wall.

Add doors and windows

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag door and window shapes on height of walls.

Doors and windows automatically rotate to align with and glue to the wall. They also acquire the wall'southward thickness and move with walls when you reposition them.

Add other structural elements

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, elevate structural shapes, such as columns, onto the drawing page.
From the Building Core stencil, drag building core shapes, such equally stairs, onto the drawing page.

Add electric symbols and dimension lines

Electrical symbols

From the Electrical and Telecom stencil, elevate wall switches, outlets, and other wall fixtures onto wall shapes. Release the mouse button when a assuming square appears, which indicates that the symbol is glued to the wall. Wall fixtures automatically rotate to align with and glue to the wall

Dimension lines for walls

Correct-click a wall, and then click Add a Dimension.
Reposition the dimension lines and text by dragging a command handle.

If you want to resize a wall after you add together a dimension to it, select the dimension shape, blazon the dimension you want, and then click away from the dimension shape.

Insert a CAD floor programme

On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click CAD Cartoon.
In the Insert AutoCAD Drawing dialog box, select the CAD file you want and click Open up.
To accept the size and location of the CAD cartoon, click OK.

After you accept inserted the drawing, y'all can resize information technology, change its scale, or move it. You lot can besides lock the layer that contains the CAD drawing so that y'all do not accidentally modify it if you lot create a new plan on top.

Save as a DWG file

DWG files are the standard file type for flooring plans that tin exist read by computer-aided pattern (CAD) programs. They contain extra metadata, like room numbers, that can be used by other programs similar Microsoft Search to pattern seating charts.

On the File tab, select Save As > Browse.
Alter the Relieve as type to AutoCad cartoon (.dwg).

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Observe sample floor plan Visio templates and diagrams

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Offset a new floor program

Click the File tab.
Click New, click Maps and Floor Plans, so under Available Templates, click the template that you lot want to employ.
Click Create.

Create the exterior wall structure

Using room shapes

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, elevate ane of the room shapes onto the drawing page.
Resize the room shape by dragging the control handles and selection handles on individual walls.

Using wall shapes

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag Exterior wall shapes onto the drawing folio.
Continue to describe the exterior past using these options:
- Resize walls past dragging an endpoint.
- Drag an endpoint of one wall to another wall.
The endpoints turn red when the walls are glued. Intersections between ii walls are cleaned upwardly automatically.

Create the interior wall structure

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag wall shapes onto the drawing folio, positioning them inside the exterior structure.
Go along to depict the interior by using these options:
- Resize walls by dragging an endpoint.
- Drag an endpoint of one wall to another wall.
  
  The endpoints turn red when the walls are glued. Intersections betwixt two walls get cleaned up automatically.

Add doors and windows

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, elevate door and window shapes on top of walls.

Doors and windows automatically rotate to align with and glue to the wall. They too acquire the wall'due south thickness and move with walls when you reposition them.

Add other structural elements

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, elevate structural shapes, such every bit columns, onto the drawing page.
From the Building Core stencil, drag edifice core shapes, such equally stairs, onto the drawing page.

Add electrical symbols and dimension lines

Electrical symbols

From the Electrical and Telecom stencil, elevate wall switches, outlets, and other wall fixtures onto wall shapes. Release the mouse button when a red square appears, which indicates that the symbol is glued to the wall. Wall fixtures automatically rotate to align with and glue to the wall.

You can too elevate ceiling fixture shapes, such as the Ceiling fan, onto the drawing folio.

Dimension lines for walls

Right-click a wall, and so click Add together a Dimension.
Reposition the dimension lines and text by dragging a control handle.

If y'all want to resize a wall after yous add together a dimension to it, select the dimension shape, type the dimension you lot want, and so click away from the dimension shape.

Insert a CAD floor plan

Click the File tab.
Click New, click Maps and Flooring Plans, and so under Bachelor Templates, click the template that you want to use.
Click Create.
On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click CAD Drawing.
In the Insert AutoCAD Drawing dialog box, select the CAD file you want and click Open.
To accept the size and location of the CAD cartoon, click OK.

After yous have inserted the cartoon, you tin resize information technology, change its calibration, or move it. You can as well lock the layer that contains the CAD drawing so that y'all exercise not accidentally change information technology if y'all create a new plan on height.

Re-create an existing Visio floor program into a new drawing

Click the File tab.
Click New, click Maps and Floor Plans, and so under Available Templates, click the template that you lot want to use.
Click Create.
Open up an existing Visio drawing.
On the Design tab, click Page Setup Dialog Box Launcher. In the Folio Setup dialog box, on the Drawing Scale tab, make note of the scale setting in the existing cartoon, and and so fix the scale of your new cartoon to match.
In the existing cartoon, select the shapes you want to use in the new drawing and so, on the Habitation tab, in the Clipboard group, click Copy.
Switch to the new drawing, and then, in the Clipboard group, click Paste.

Tip:Y'all tin lock the existing layers of a drawing then that yous do not accidentally change them when you create a new plan on elevation.

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