Exporting a 2D floor plan image (PNG, JPG or PDF)

Step by step

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   Open the export dialog

   Top bar → Export / Print / Share → PNG/JPG/PDF or Print (Print, or save as an image or PDF; the same item in the iPhone, iPad and Android apps; older Android app versions call it Image and offer PNG only — update the app to get PDF and Print). The Export / Print Floor Plan dialog opens; on the Export tab choose PNG, JPG or PDF under Format. Printing and exporting share this one dialog — the same options drive both. The dialog sizes itself to what it holds, up to nearly the full height of the window, so on a computer screen every option shows without scrolling. Only a very busy plan (several floors, notes, flooring and tile layouts) on a short screen scrolls inside the dialog, with Cancel and Export pinned at the bottom.

   

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   PNG, JPG or PDF: pick the format

   The three tiles under Format are PNG (Image), JPG (Smaller image) and PDF (Print / email). The button at the bottom follows your pick: Export PNG, Export JPG or Export PDF. Picking JPG adds the JPG quality slider right under the tiles; PNG and PDF have no slider.

   All three are drawn from the same render of your plan, at the same size, so the choice only changes how the picture is stored:

   Format	What it is	Pick it for
   PNG	Lossless image: every pixel exactly as drawn	Slides, documents, anything you'll zoom into or edit; the sharpest lines and text
   JPG	Compressed image, smaller at the default quality, with a JPG quality slider	Email, text messages, websites, listings and forms with an upload size limit
   PDF	The plan placed on a page of the paper size you pick	Printing (at home or at a print shop) and a single attachment to email

   What we measured, exporting the Medium 2-Bedroom Apartment template (Standard paper size, 3000 × 2793 pixels, November 2026):

   Export	File size
   PNG	419 KB
   JPG at 100 % (possible until November 8, 2026)	1,188 KB
   JPG at 85 % (the default and the top of the slider)	352 KB
   JPG at 60 %	235 KB
   JPG at 30 % (the lowest)	186 KB
   PDF (Standard: a Letter-size landscape page)	335 KB

   Two things stand out. A floor plan is mostly flat colour and white space, which PNG already stores very efficiently, so the default JPG is a smaller file but not a dramatically smaller one (here about 16 % smaller; on the two floors of a house we tried it was 19 % and 41 % smaller). And JPG at 100 % was almost three times bigger than the PNG. That's why, since November 8, 2026, the slider stops at 85 %: above that, a floor plan's JPG stops being smaller than its PNG (in the app's own tests on two templates, 90 % came within 2 % of the PNG's size, while 85 % was 20–30 % smaller). If you want perfect lines, export a PNG instead.

   

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   JPG quality: smaller file or sharper lines

   The JPG quality slider runs from 30 % to 85 % in steps of 5 and starts at 85 %, its top setting (until November 8, 2026 it went up to 100 %); the number on the right shows the setting. The hint under it says it plainly: Higher quality gives sharper lines and a bigger file; lower quality, a smaller file. A quick guide: - 85 % (default): looks the same as the PNG at normal size, with a smaller file. Right for almost everything you send. - 60 %: smaller still (235 KB on our test plan); fine for a phone screen or a website thumbnail. - 30–50 %: only when a form or inbox has a hard size limit. Check that the small dimension numbers are still readable before you send it. - Why it stops at 85 %: higher settings gave no visible gain on a floor plan and a file as big as the PNG or bigger (100 % was nearly three times the PNG). For sharper lines than 85 %, export a PNG. The slider only changes how hard the picture is compressed, not its size in pixels: all four of our JPGs were 3000 × 2793 pixels, like the PNG. To get more pixels for big paper, pick a paper size (below).

   

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   What lower quality looks like up close

   At normal viewing size you'll struggle to tell an 85 % JPG from the PNG. The difference shows when you zoom in: JPG compression works on small blocks of the picture, so at low settings a faint haze and blocky fringes appear around text, thin dimension lines and the edges of the dark walls, the classic JPG artefacts on line drawings. At 30 % the plan is still readable, but no longer crisp, and a printout of it looks soft. A JPG has no transparency, so the plan is laid on a plain white background. That's also how PNG exports come out: we checked, and every pixel of the PNG is solid, with white behind the plan and nothing see-through. So you don't lose anything by switching to JPG for a white page.

   

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   Choose style

   Under Options, tick Black & white to strip the colors for a pure line drawing (formal documents, clean printing). Leave it off for full color, including furniture and rugs. Electrical plan shows just the shell, symbols and light fixtures.

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   Choose what shows on the plan

   The rest of Options decide what's drawn on the image. Several start from what your plan shows in Layers (see the next step), and you can change any of them here: - Labels: room names (with size and area), your own labels, furniture names and sizes, and outlet, switch and circuit names. Furniture names print only if Layers → Show furniture labels is on, and sizes only if Show furniture dimensions is on. - Exterior dimensions: each outside wall's overall length (for a yard plan, each fence's overall length). - Interior dimensions: each wall's measurement split where other walls meet it, so you get every room's inside size. See the steps below. - Inside the rooms: indented under Interior dimensions. Ticked, an outside wall's room measurements print on the room side of the wall; unticked, out in the margin. Greyed out unless Interior dimensions is ticked. - Tape measurements: lengths and areas you kept with the tape measure (ticked to start when Layers → Show tape measurements is on). - Room tints: a soft color fill in each room. - Flooring: the tile, wood or other floor you picked for each room. Off to start, and only listed when a room's flooring would print; see below. - Grid and Center / wall midpoint guides: off to start. - Tile layouts: listed when a floor has a layout saved in the Tile Planner (ticked to start when Layers → Show tile layouts is on): full tiles, cut tiles and grout over each planned room. Greyed out on the Electrical plan. - Sticky notes: listed when your plan has notes (ticked to start when Layers → Show sticky notes is on): a numbered pin on the plan for each note, plus a second image (a PNG or a JPG, matching the format you picked; page 2 of a PDF) listing the full text of every note. See sticky notes. - Elevation views (web app): the four exterior elevations as separate images (PNG or JPG), or extra pages in a PDF. Every option works the same whichever format you pick: a JPG gets the same labels, dimensions, notes and elevations as a PNG.

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   The dialog starts from what your plan shows

   Every time you open the dialog, these boxes are set from your Layers switches, so a plan you've tidied up on screen exports the same way: - Exterior dimensions is ticked when Layers → Show exterior dimensions is on. - Interior dimensions is ticked when either dimension row is on in Layers; it starts unticked only when you've hidden both Show exterior dimensions and Show interior dimensions. - Inside the rooms follows Layers → Inside the rooms. - Labels is ticked when any of Show room labels, Show furniture labels or Show furniture dimensions is on. With it ticked, furniture names print only if Show furniture labels is on and furniture sizes only if Show furniture dimensions is on, so you can print room names without furniture names. - Tape measurements follows Show tape measurements, Sticky notes follows Show sticky notes, and Tile layouts follows Show tile layouts. - Black & white starts the way Settings → General → Plan style is set. Flooring, Grid and the guides start unticked. The boxes that follow Layers are set again every time you open the dialog. Other boxes you change, like Grid, stay as you left them until you reload the page.

   

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   Overall lengths, room-by-room sizes, or both

   Three boxes decide which measurements go on the image. On a plan that shows its measurements, all three are ticked when the dialog opens: - Exterior dimensions: the overall length of each outside wall, from one outer face to the other: the size of the whole home. - Interior dimensions: each wall's measurement broken where other walls meet it, so every room's inside width and depth prints, like the editor shows. Inside measurements end in arrow tips, and where the two sides of an interior wall differ, each side prints its own measurements. - Inside the rooms, indented under Interior dimensions (hint: Draw the inside measurements on the room side of the walls — for planning the space before furnishing it): where an outside wall's room measurements go. Ticked, they print on the room side of the wall, even along a wall with furniture against it: the number slides along its line to a clear spot, or sits on a small white label on top of the furniture (see the next steps). Untick it to put them all in the margin. It's greyed out unless Interior dimensions is ticked. Exterior and Interior dimensions don't depend on each other. Untick Exterior dimensions for a plan with only the room sizes (handy when you're furnishing or sending room sizes to a flooring shop). Untick Interior dimensions for a clean sketch with only the overall size, for a landlord or an estimate. Untick both for a plan with no wall measurements. If you've already hidden measurements in Layers, the boxes open unticked to match; tick them to print the measurements anyway.

   

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   What each choice looks like

   Three exports of the same apartment (the Medium 2-Bedroom Apartment template, exported November 12, 2026, with Inside the rooms ticked as it starts). Both gives the overall 30′ 6.5″ length in the margin and each room's width (10′ 6.5″, 7′ 7.5″, 10′ 6.5″) just inside the top wall. Exterior only keeps just the 30′ 6.5″. Interior only keeps just the room widths. Room names and their sizes come from Labels, not these boxes.

   

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    Measurements next to furniture stay readable

    A dresser, a wardrobe or a run of cabinets often stands right where a measurement would print. Since November 11, 2026 (a customer-reported fix) the export keeps every number readable, much as the editor does on screen (except that on paper a number is never hidden, since there's no zooming in): - The number moves along its line to the first spot that's clear of furniture, so it lands beside the wardrobe or past the end of the cabinets instead of under them. - If there's no clear spot (furniture along the whole stretch), the number stays in the middle and prints on top of the furniture, on a small white label, so it's still readable. It is never left out. - Rugs don't count: a number can sit on a rug. This matters most for interior walls. An outside wall's room measurements can go out into the margin (untick Inside the rooms), but an interior wall has no margin: its measurements always print inside the plan, next to the wall. Before the fix, those numbers printed at the middle of the wall and were drawn under the furniture, so a dresser or a wardrobe against an interior wall could hide one completely, even with Inside the rooms unticked. In the export of the Backyard ADU (20 × 30) template shown here, the bedroom's 11′ 6.5″ along the interior wall has moved down beside the door, clear of the wardrobe, and the 11′ 6.5″ along the outside wall behind the bed sits on its white label over the headboard, because the bed and the two nightstands leave no clear spot along that wall.

    

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    Lines over furniture print lighter

    Where a measurement line crosses furniture, that stretch of the line now prints lighter (about a third as strong as the rest of the line), so the cabinets, bed or sofa underneath still read clearly and the line doesn't look like part of the furniture. The arrow tips and the number stay full strength. In this export of the same ADU, the Great Room's 17′ 6.5″ along the kitchen wall runs faintly across the fridge, base cabinets, dishwasher and range, and its number sits on the open wall past the last cabinet. Nothing to switch on: it applies to every PNG, JPG and PDF export and to Print, whenever Interior dimensions is ticked.

    

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    Print the floors you picked

    Picked hardwood, tile or carpet for your rooms in Materials → Surfaces → Flooring Material? Tick Flooring to put those floors on the export. It starts unticked, so a plain export shows the soft room tints instead. A room with flooring prints its floor in place of its tint; rooms without flooring keep their tint. The box only appears when at least one room's flooring would actually print, and it's greyed out with Black & white or Electrical plan, which never print floors. See per-room flooring.

    

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    The title block: name, size and area

    Every export and printout has a title block along the bottom: the design name, then the plan's overall width × depth, its Gross area and Usable area, and the date. These are the same two numbers as Plan Settings → Layout: Gross area is the footprint measured to the outside faces of the outer walls, and Usable area is the floor inside the walls. Any floor opening you cut is taken off both. A yard plan prints a single area instead. Each room's own size and area print on its room label when Labels is ticked. A balcony or patio isn't in either number; its own area prints on the patio itself. The room labels usually add up to a little less than Usable area, because the interior walls sit inside Usable area but in no room: see why room areas add up to less than Usable area.

    

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    Tall, narrow plans: the title block wraps

    The export page takes the shape of your plan, so a tall, narrow plan (a motorhome, a hallway, a container home) makes a narrow page with little room across the bottom. Since November 11, 2026 the line under the design name wraps onto two lines when it doesn't fit, instead of running into the RoomSketch3D name on the right: the size and Gross area on the first line, Usable area and the date on the second. A very long design name is shortened with an ellipsis (…) for the same reason. The Class C Motorhome template (8′ × 25′) shows it: 8′ x 25′ | Gross area 208 sq ft above Usable area 192 sq ft | November 12, 2026.

    

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    Pick paper size and quality

    Under Paper size & quality, leave Standard (screen & small prints) for sharing and prints up to about A3, or pick a paper size (A3, A2, A1, A0, Tabloid (11×17), ARCH D (24×36), ARCH E (36×48)) and a quality (Standard / High / Max). Bigger paper plus higher quality gives a sharper (and larger) file; the line under the buttons shows the DPI and pixel size (for A3 + High: Up to ~220 DPI · 3639 px long edge). This works the same for PNG, JPG and PDF. On our test plan, Standard gave a 3000 × 2793 pixel image, and A3 + High gave 3638 × 3388 pixels: 672 KB as a PNG, 478 KB as a JPG at 85 % and 486 KB as a PDF. A PDF also takes the paper size for its page: the Standard PDF came out as a Letter-size landscape page (11 × 8.5 in), and the A3 one as an A3 landscape page (420 × 297 mm), with the plan placed on it. Inside the PDF the plan is stored without JPG-style compression, so a PDF keeps the PNG's crisp lines.

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    Multi-floor: pick floors

    If your design has multiple floors, tick which to export under Floors to export (Select all / Select active only); every floor starts ticked. Each floor downloads as its own file in the format you picked, named after the design and the floor (for example …-First-floor.jpg and …-Second-floor.jpg), and your browser may ask once to allow several downloads. With Sticky notes ticked, each floor that has notes also gets its own notes page as a separate image (…-First-floor-notes.jpg), and with Elevation views ticked the four elevations come as four more images. The count under the list adds them up for PNG and JPG: on our two-storey test house with notes on both floors it says 4 files will be downloaded, and four JPGs arrive: First floor 307 KB, its notes 54 KB, Second floor 436 KB, its notes 47 KB (as PNGs the same four were 526, 123, 539 and 110 KB; exported November 9, 2026). Tick Elevation views as well and it reads 8 files; untick Sticky notes and it's back to 2 files. (Before November 8, 2026 the count only counted floors and said 2 here.) A floor with very long notes can need a second notes page, which the count doesn't include. With PDF, notes and elevations go in as extra pages of one PDF, so the count says One file will be downloaded; without them a multi-floor PDF export saves one PDF per floor.

    

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    Click Export

    Click Export PNG, Export JPG or Export PDF (the button follows the format). In a web browser the file downloads to your device, named after the design (a one-floor plan comes out as Your-Design-Name-room-design.png, .jpg or .pdf). In the iPhone and iPad apps a PNG or JPG is saved to Photos and a PDF to Files.

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