How to Trace a Floor Plan From an Image — RoomSketch3D
Have a floor plan on paper, as a PDF, or a scan? Import the image into RoomSketch3D and trace over it to recreate it as an accurate, editable, 3D-ready plan — setting the scale, tracing the exterior and interior walls, placing doors, furnishing, and viewing it in 3D.
2 minUpdated 2026-11-09
Read the full step-by-step guideWhat this video covers
- 1Tap Floor Plan Image or PDF on Home and pick your file
- 2Check the picture, crop it, then tap Next
- 3Name it and choose Trace it myself
- 4Calibrate: Room size (tap inside a room whose size you know)
- 5Check the arrows reach the walls
- 6Calibrate: or use the Tape measure
- 7Outline: put the first corner down
- 8Outline: draw the outside walls
- 9Walls: draw the inside walls
- 10Re-check the scale with your walls drawn (Recalibrate)
- 11Doors & windows
- 12Match each door's swing to the drawing
- 13Create the design
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