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How To Draw Building Plans

Building Plans are a set of scaled drawings, which show a view from above, the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure. Usually plans are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file.
Quick building plan software for creating great-looking office layout, home floor, electrical plan, commercial floor plans, Storage building plans, expo and shopping mall building plans, school and training building plans, cafe or restaurant plans, gym and spa area plans, sport field plans, electric and telecom building plans, fire and emergency plans, HVAC plans, security and access plans, plumbing and piping plans and plant layouts.

Create Floor Plans Easily with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

There are two basic ways of creating a floor plan: hiring an interior designer or designing on one’s own. Professional help can be quite expensive, and the result may not always be worth the money. Let’s take a look at what skills are needed to create the interior design on your own.
Primarily, this basic knowledge of the composition rules. It helps to compose, to place the shapes and volume of the interior, to achieve balance in the room between the free space and objects. This might help to compose correctly, to place the shapes and the volumes in the interior, to achieve balance between free space and furniture in the room.
Basic color theory. There are strictly defined rules and laws, which are used to select a fitting color combinations to create a harmonious interior.
How to Draw a Floor Plan
How to Draw a Floor Plan

floor plan sample Floor Plans

floor plan sample
Construction, repair and remodeling of the home, flat, office, or any other building or premise begins with the development of detailed building plan and floor plans. Correct and quick visualization of the building ideas is important for further construction of any building.

Food Court

Food courts are one of the most rapidly developing areas of the restaurant business. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software offers a Food Court solution from the Food and Beverage area with wide capabilities for planning, design, developing and advertising of a Food Court.

Store Layout Software

Store Layout Software — Create store layouts, planograms, сommercial spaces with ConceptDraw.
You do not need to be an artist to create great-looking store layouts. ConceptDraw has many examples and templates for drawing floor plans and restaurant layouts. You can create quick custom designs of Store layouts, Shop design , Cafe Floor plans, Restaurant Floor plans, House Floor plans, Office Floor plans with the our store design program.

Business diagrams & Org Charts with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Business flowcharting tool helps you create a flowchart with minimal effort. With ConceptDraw you can make a flowchart, draw data flow diagrams, orgchart professional, process flow diagrams etc - without any prior knowledge or training.
Draw Business Process Diagrams
Draw Business Process Diagrams

Emergency Action Plan Template

In the case of origin of an emergency is very important to have a correct, clear and comprehensible action plan which will help you to react quicker and to make right decisions. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with Fire and Emergency Plans solution from the Building Plans Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park provides extensive drawing tools for quick and easy creating fire and emergency plans, and also a set of various templates and samples, among them the Emergency Action Plan Template.
"A commercial building is a building that is used for commercial use. Types can include office buildings, warehouses, or retail (i.e. convenience stores, 'big box' stores, shopping malls, etc.). In urban locations, a commercial building often combines functions, such as an office on levels 2-10, with retail on floor 1. Local authorities commonly maintain strict regulations on commercial zoning, and have the authority to designate any zoned area as such. A business must be located in a commercial area or area zoned at least partially for commerce." [Commercial building. Wikipedia]
The warehouse floor plan example "Shipping, receiving and storage" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Plant Layout Plans solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Warehouse floor plan
Warehouse floor plan, sloped rack, shipping container, semitrailer, push back rack, opening, gate, electric forklift, container ramp, L-room,
The design elements library Building core contains 80 symbols of stairs, elevators, escalators, restroom fixtures, and a safe.
Use the shapes library Building core to draw the structural diagrams, bathroom layouts, building automation, architectural drawings, and riser diagrams, as well as space plans, store and shopping mall plans, and facility planning, plant layouts using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
"In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan otherwise known as a Scottish plan is a drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure.
The term may be used in general to describe any drawing showing the physical layout of objects.
A floor plan could show:
Interior walls and hallways;
Restrooms;
Windows and doors;
Appliances such as stoves, refrigerators, water heater etc.;
Interior features such as fireplaces, saunas and whirlpools;
The use of all rooms shall be indicated." [Floor plan. Wikipedia]
The vector stencils library Building core is provided by the Floor Plans solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
 , washroom counter, vault, urinal, toilet stall, toilet, straight staircase, straight run stairs, stair section, stair landing, stair direction, stair break, spiral staircase, sink, scissor staircase, ornamental stair, ornamental staircase, hand rail, handrail, freight elevator, escalator, elevator, divided return stairs, corner landing, corner hand rail, chute, Z-shaped stairs, Z-shaped staircase, L-shaped stairs, L-shaped staircase,

How To use Building Plan Examples

Whether you need to create the house floor plan, office floor plan or salon floor plan or other, you can always do it using our sophisticated software called ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with help of various libraries with many vector stencils to use for such schemes and plans.