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Floor plans, layouts and decisions that become clearer when you can walk through the space.

Conceptual illustration of a CAD floor plan becoming a cutaway house model

How to turn a DWG floor plan into a 3D house or apartment

Export the right view from your CAD drawing, keep its dimensions readable and build an interactive model you can review in a browser.

5 min
Conceptual floor-plan photograph beside a physical cutaway apartment model

How to turn a JPG floor plan into a 3D house or apartment

A clear floor-plan photograph can be enough to explore a layout in 3D. Here is how to prepare the image and avoid the mistakes a convincing model can hide.

6 min
Conceptual sharp drafting sheet floating above an apartment cutaway with terraces

How to convert a PNG floor plan into an interactive 3D model

Keep fine linework sharp, preserve the scale information and turn a digital plan image into a model you can rotate, walk through and review.

5 min
Conceptual architectural sheets separating into aligned floors of a cutaway home

How to turn a PDF floor plan into a 3D house or apartment

Choose the right pages, preserve the dimension labels and understand what a PDF can—and cannot—tell an interactive model.

5 min
Conceptual layered CAD linework aligned over a physical apartment model

From DXF floor plan to 3D: units, layers and a readable export

A drawing exchange file can preserve useful geometry, but a clear model starts with checking what those lines represent and how their units are defined.

5 min
Conceptual overhead camera photographing an old paper floor plan beside a house model

How to turn a scanned or photographed paper floor plan into 3D

Flatten the page, protect the dimension labels and separate documented geometry from information the old drawing no longer tells you.

5 min

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