Drawing a Floor Plan

Drawing a Floor Plan

Assume you want to draw a floor plan for your apartment. You got a printout of a floor plan from the landlord, showing the walls, door and windows, and a few (but maybe not all) measures, similar to this:

If you did not get an electronic copy of the floor plan, the first step is to scan it. You will thus have a bitmap, and we will trace it into a vector image, but without using the automatic Trace feature of Inkscape.

• Open up Inkscape, and create a new layer, let's call it "Background".
• Import the bitmap floor plan into it, and rotate it so that most of the walls are horizontal and/or vertical. Lock the layer.

• adjust scale!
• (adjust document size)
• draw walls, doors and windows in a new layer "Walls"
  • Turn down opacity to about 60% to be able to see features on the Background bitmap.
• draw your furniture in a new layer "Furniture"
• print to scale?

See also

• http://www.opendimension.org/ida5D/inkscape.php