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Photograph a hand-drawn sketch or an old paper plan. FloorDrafter redraws it as a clean digital floor plan in a minute or two, built to keep your walls, doors and written dimensions where you drew them, and puts it beside your original so you can check it. Download a PNG, or export DXF for CAD.
Upload a floor plan image to start — this tool converts an existing plan.
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A real example: a phone photo of a graph-paper sketch and the CAD drawing that came back — same walls, same dimensions. Yours appears here in a minute or two.
A sketch to floor plan converter turns a photo of a hand-drawn or printed plan into a clean digital plan. FloorDrafter redraws the walls, openings, room labels and written measurements you drew, straightens the lines, and returns a PNG, a DXF for CAD, or a plan to keep editing.
Graph-paper and notebook sketches, napkin drawings, a whiteboard photo, an old or faded paper plan, a photocopy, the builder's plan from a sales brochure, or an existing floor plan image. Not a photo of the room itself: the converter redraws drawings, it does not survey spaces. One floor per upload: if two floors share a sheet, crop each one first. JPG, PNG, WEBP or PDF, straight from your phone.
No drawing at all? Describe the layout in words instead, with the AI floor plan generator
Examples
Same phone photo, three instructions. The input never changes: a ballpoint sketch on graph paper with 4.20 m and 3.5 m written on the walls, photographed on a desk. What changes is the sentence underneath, and that sentence decides which floor plan comes back.
What FloorDrafter returns, depending on what you ask
Four steps and a minute or two of waiting. No CAD skills.
Lay the sketch or plan flat, fill the frame with the paper and shoot from straight above in even light. A phone photo, a scan, a whiteboard picture or a PDF all work.
Upload it and pick Technical for a black-and-white line drawing, Presentation for rooms tinted by use, or Photorealistic for floor textures. Add a note only if something should change, such as dimensions in feet.
The redraw appears beside your sketch. With Technical, a check sheet asks whether it matches; compare the rooms, walls and figures, and if something is off, look at the second version or fix it in the editor.
Download the PNG, export a DXF of the walls, doors and windows on a subscription, or open the plan in the editor to make the next change.
Yes. An old plan goes through the same converter as a sketch: photograph or scan the sheet and upload it. The redraw keeps what is printed on the plan and leaves the paper behind, so yellowing, fold lines and print showing through from the other side of the page do not come along.
The original: a 1921 catalogue plan
The Technical redraw, no instruction given
That last point matters: anything printed on the sheet counts as part of the drawing and is copied, so crop away other drawings, prices or captions that share the page. The table, your hand and anything else outside the sheet are removed without asking.
One thing to check on this example: the catalogue draws its doors without swing arcs, and the Technical redraw added them. Which way each door opens is the redraw's guess, not the catalogue's.
With the Technical output, the default on this page, the converter first reads every label and figure on the sheet and hands that list to the drawing step, so each one is set once, in its place, spelled as written. On a low-resolution photocopy we tested, redraws without that list got between 71% and 89% of the text right, and one run added 39 labels that were not there; with the list, every label and figure came back right.
Don't have the original plans? Ask the previous owner or the builder, and check the building records held by your city or county. Catalogue homes like the one above can often be matched to scanned catalogues on the Internet Archive.
With the Technical output, the result opens as a check sheet: your original and the redraw side by side, and one question underneath them: “Does this match your original?” Switch to “Overlay” to lay one over the other. Answer it or skip it; the download is never blocked.
Anything that looks like a phone photo or a screenshot, and anything under 1,000 pixels on its short side, gets two redraws at once: those are the uploads most likely to come back as a different plan, about one run in three on low-resolution copies in our tests, however the request is worded. Other uploads get a second redraw only when the first looks too little like the original. Either way, “Something's off” shows you the other version first.
If neither is right, the plan opens in the editor. A wrong word or figure can be retyped there without spending credits, on the first Technical version; that moves the number, not the wall. Anything that has to be redrawn, such as a missing wall or a door on the wrong side, is circled and described instead, for 3 credits at 2K.
The converter does not stop to ask. It draws its best reading and leaves the verdict to you on the check sheet, so take the guesswork out before you shoot: ink over faint pencil, rub out stray lines, write a figure on each wall that matters, and label anything that is not obvious, such as WC or stairs down.
In the editor it works the other way round. When you describe a change and the editor’s AI agent cannot tell which wall or which version you mean, it asks one short question instead of guessing. In the two weeks to 9 September 2026, it asked 11 such questions; 10 were answered, and each of those led to a new plan within ten minutes.
Changing the plan after the redraw, from circling a wall to keeping versions, has its own guide: how to edit an AI-generated floor plan
Numbers you write on the sketch are copied, not measured, so the plan is as accurate as your tape measure. Here is what each situation gives you.
| What you write on the sketch | What comes back |
|---|---|
| 4.20 m on the living-room wall | That wall is sized to 4.20 m and the figure is kept as a dimension line. Check it on the check sheet. |
| Nothing on the bathroom walls | They keep the proportions you drew, relative to the walls that do have numbers. |
| Only room names, no numbers at all | A proportional plan with labels. Ask for dimensions in feet or in metres and every room gets dimension lines in that unit. |
| 12 ft on one wall, 3.5 m on another | Both are respected. Say which unit you want on the finished plan. |
| Export DXF | Walls, doors and windows as lines in metres, scaled from a standard 0.9 m door. Text and dimension figures are not part of the DXF. |
For a scaled survey of an existing building you still need a measured plan. This converter draws what you sketched.
No numbers on your sketch yet? Take them first: how to measure a room for a floor plan
You do not need to draw neatly. These six habits are what separate a one-shot conversion from a retry.
Anything printed on the sheet is treated as part of the drawing, so crop away other drawings or text on the same page. The table and your hands are removed anyway, but a tight shot converts cleaner.
An angled shot gets squared up, but a straight one always converts cleaner.
Faint graphite on grid paper is the most common reason a wall goes missing.
Outer walls first. One number per wall is enough; the rest is drawn in proportion.
Standard symbols are read more reliably than the word door written next to the wall.
Outer walls thick, inner walls thin, and keep it consistent across the sheet.
Every conversion is a high-resolution PNG; downloads made before you pick a plan carry a small watermark.
Drop it into a listing, a message to your contractor or a slide. To hand someone a PDF, print the PNG to PDF from your browser.
On a Pro or Studio subscription, export the walls, doors and windows as lines in metres, 1 credit per export, and carry on in CAD. Room names and dimension figures stay on the PNG.
Open the plan in the editor, circle the part to change and say what you want, or retype a label on the first Technical version without spending credits. Each change is saved as a new version, so the earlier one stays. To see the layout in 3D, press See it in 3D under the result, 3 credits at 2K.
Three ways to get from a sketch to a floor plan, and what each one asks of you.
| FloorDrafter converter | Drag-and-drop editors | Human redraw service | |
|---|---|---|---|
| You supply | A phone photo or scan of the sketch | Your time: trace every wall, type every length | The sketch plus measurements, then you wait |
| Time to a plan | A minute or two, plus your check | One to three hours for a first plan | Same day to a few days |
| Cost | 3 credits per plan; Pro at $19 a month covers about 50 plans | Free tiers save one plan; paid from about $10 a month | From about £18 per plan |
| Output | PNG; DXF of walls, doors and windows on a subscription; changes in the editor | Fully editable vectors, PDF and DXF, to-scale print | A PDF or JPEG plan drawn to your numbers |
| Best for | Planning, listings, contractor conversations, first drafts | Exact drawings you will keep revising in software | Listing plans when you do not want to touch software |
Redraw your sketch or the old plans that came with the house, then mark the new kitchen or the wall to take out and compare versions before you talk to a builder.
A clean plan for the listing from the builder's plan or the sketch you made at the viewing, without a second site visit or a CAD operator.
Turn a site sketch or a client's old drawings into a clean plan to quote from, or export the walls to CAD on a subscription.
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Upload a phone photo of your sketch or an old paper plan and get a clean digital floor plan back in a minute or two.
