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Start a new floor plan

Create the exterior wall structure

Using room shapes

Resize the room shape by dragging the control handles and selection handles on individual walls.

Using wall shapes

Continue to draw the exterior by using these options:

The endpoints turn red when the walls are glued. Intersections between two walls are cleaned up automatically.

Create the interior wall structure

Continue to draw 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 between two walls get cleaned up automatically.

Add doors and windows

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

Add other structural elements

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag structural shapes, such as columns, onto the drawing page.

From the Building Core stencil, drag building core shapes, such as stairs, onto the drawing page.

Add electrical symbols and dimension lines

Electrical symbols

From the Electrical and Telecom stencil, drag 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 also drag ceiling fixture shapes, such as the Ceiling fan, onto the drawing page.

Dimension lines for walls

Reposition the dimension lines and text by dragging a control handle.

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

Insert a CAD floor plan

After you have inserted the drawing, you can resize it, change its scale, or move it. You can also lock the layer that contains the CAD drawing so that you do not accidentally change it if you create a new plan on top.

Copy an existing Visio floor plan into a new drawing

1. Open an existing Visio drawing.

2. On the Design tab, click Page Setup Dialog Box Launcher. In the Page Setup dialog box, on the Drawing Scale tab, make note of the scale setting in the existing drawing, and then set the scale of your new drawing to match.

3. Switch to the new drawing, and then, in the Clipboard group, click Paste.

Tip: You can lock the existing layers of a drawing so that you do not accidentally change them when you create a new plan on top.

Start a new floor plan

On the File menu, point to New, point to Maps and Floor Plans, and then click Floor Plan.

By default, this template opens a scaled drawing page in landscape orientation . You can change these settings at any time. For more information see Change the drawing scale.

Create the exterior wall structure

Create the basic exterior wall structure in one of the following ways.

Using room shapes

Resize a room by dragging the control handles and selection handles on individual walls.

Using wall shapes

Continue to draw the exterior by using these options:

The endpoints turn red when the walls are glued. Intersections between two walls are cleaned up automatically.

To make walls join properly, make sure Glue to Shape geometry is selected in the Snap & Glue dialog box.

Create the interior wall structure

Continue to draw the interior by using these options:

Resize walls by dragging an endpoint ( or ).

Drag an endpoint ( or ) of one wall to another wall.

The endpoints turn red when the walls are glued. Intersections between two walls get cleaned up automatically.

To make walls join properly, make sure Glue to Shape geometry is selected in the Snap & Glue dialog box.

Add doors and windows

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

Add other structural elements

From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag structural shapes, such as columns, onto the drawing page.

From the Building Core stencil, drag building core shapes, such as stairs, onto the drawing page.

Add electrical symbols and dimension lines

Electrical symbols

From the Electrical and Telecom stencil, drag 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 also drag ceiling fixture shapes, such as the Ceiling fan, onto the drawing page.

Dimension lines for walls

Reposition the dimension lines and dimension text by dragging a control handle .

To see a tip about a control handle for a selected shape, pause the pointer over the handle.

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

Insert a CAD floor plan

On the File menu, point to New, point to Maps and Floor Plans, and then click Floor Plan.

By default, this template opens a scaled drawing page in landscape orientation . You can change these settings at any time. For more information see Change the drawing scale.

After you have inserted the drawing, you can resize it, change its scale, or move it. You can also lock the layer that contains the CAD drawing so that you do not accidentally change it if you create a new plan on top.

Copy an existing Visio floor plan into a new drawing

1. On the File menu, point to New, point to Maps and Floor Plans, and then click Floor Plan.

By default, this template opens a scaled drawing page in landscape orientation . You can change these settings at any time. For more information see Change the drawing scale.

2. Open an existing Visio drawing.

3. Switch to the new drawing, and then, on the Edit menu, click Paste.

Tip: You can lock the existing layers of a drawing so that you do not accidentally change them when you create a new plan on top.

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