Questions and answers
Getting started
How do I try a space?
Upload a plan and see your home in 3D before you pay: look around, and see rooms and measurements. The sample duplex is free to edit, no account needed. Editing your own home needs a plan, from $6.99 a month. Cancel anytime in Settings and your home stays viewable.
Will my floor plan be public?
Try the sample duplex without an account. Upload a plan to see your own home in 3D before you pay; editing it needs a plan. Saved projects stay private unless you publish. Upload only material you have permission to use and review the result before publication. The generated-image gallery remains private to project editors. Only images explicitly selected for a published release appear on its public page.
How accurate are the sizes?
Scale can be interpreted from the drawing and optional context: original units, a scale denominator, and up to 30 reference measurements, each a label plus a known length. These are evidence for interpretation, not a guarantee of calibration. Check the reported scale status rather than assuming that entering one measurement resolves the scale. No accuracy tolerance is claimed. Model data uses meters; the editor's Units control offers Metric or Feet and inches. Compare two independent dimensions against reliable plans, then verify critical furniture, purchase, or building measurements on site.
My plan is a photo or a scan. Will it work?
A legible listing PDF, scan or photograph can work. Some drawings cannot be converted; the app reports the reason.
How long does it take?
The project reports completed processing stages while the plan is interpreted and the model is compiled. Time varies with the drawing and queue, so the progress display does not promise a fixed finish time. You can close the tab and return to the project later.
Can I use it on my phone?
Partly. A phone can upload a plan, open the viewer, review a project and change finishes on an existing option. Use a tablet or computer for the full furniture editor, measurement controls, design options and detailed comparison work. Clients and other recipients can open published project pages on a phone without installing the editor.
Can I import an existing building or 3D object?
Yes. To open a building, choose New project and import a model; this uses an import allowance. To add an object to a design, use Import model inside the editor. IFC and Apple RoomPlan files can open as walls, doors, windows and slabs you can edit (IFC can also bring columns, zones and roofs) when their shape can be verified; anything else arrives as an object you can move and scale. gbXML gives zones only. Every other format arrives as selectable objects you can move and scale, not as editable walls.
Accepted formats are glTF/GLB, IFC, SKP (2017, 2020 and 2025), OBJ with MTL, static FBX, DAE, STL, PLY mesh, 3MF, 3DS, STEP/IGES, BREP, 3DM, USD/USDZ, VRML 2, AMF, Apple RoomPlan, gbXML, CityJSON and static Blender 4.5 .blend meshes, up to 64 MiB and 2 million triangles. Include companion textures and buffers, or send one ZIP. Choose the units for OBJ and any other file that does not store them, and review the conversion notes. The homepage uploader takes drawings; models go in through New project or inside the editor.
Can I upload Revit or Blender files?
Revit .rvt files are not accepted: export IFC from Revit. Its walls, doors, windows and slabs open as elements you can edit when their shape can be verified; anything else arrives as an object you can move and scale. Blender .blend files saved in Blender 4.5 open as static meshes you can move and scale; for other Blender versions, animation or materials you need to keep, export glTF or GLB with textures. Check scale, orientation and materials in the preview.
Can I upload a DWG drawing?
Not directly. Save or export the drawing as DXF (or PDF) from your CAD tool and upload that, up to 25 MiB. DWG is available as an export on Pro and Team.
Which floor plan files can I upload?
Upload one JPEG, PNG, PDF, SVG or DXF file up to 25 MiB. A PDF can have up to 256 pages. Use the complete floor plan rather than a cropped room when the surrounding walls and openings affect the decision.
A scan or phone photograph, including a photographed hand sketch, can work when it is square to the page and the room labels, dimensions and wall lines remain readable. HEIC, TIFF and WebP are not accepted: convert them to JPEG or PNG first.
Can I convert a PDF floor plan to a 3D model?
Yes. Upload a PDF floor plan up to 25 MiB to reconstruct a conceptual 3D model you can explore in a browser. Choose the required PDF pages and crop regions in the local preparation workspace before uploading.
Export the full sheet at its original size rather than taking a cropped screenshot, and keep the labels, wall lines, and dimensions readable. Use the preparation workspace to select pages and arrange fragments by physical floor; the drawing-context page number records source metadata. The model is a design reference, not a survey or construction document.
Can I convert a JPG or PNG floor plan to 3D?
Yes. JPEG and PNG floor plans are accepted up to 25 MiB, alongside PDF, SVG and DXF. A phone photograph works when the page is square to the camera, the whole plan is in frame and the wall lines, room labels and dimensions stay legible.
A flat scan gives the reconstruction more evidence than a photograph taken at an angle. Add the drawing scale and a known length when you upload, so the model has a dimension to work from.
What does the conversion produce?
It produces a conceptual 3D reconstruction with completed walls, openings and readable room labels. Open it in the browser, inspect the room connections and compare the model with the drawing before designing from it.
A project also carries saved revisions and model details. The project creator can export a revision while the project is nonpublic, with available formats depending on the plan. The reconstruction does not become a survey, construction document or native BIM authoring model.
Why are doors or windows missing after the conversion?
Faint lines, ambiguous symbols, a cropped plan, or a low-resolution scan can make an opening harder to interpret. The reconstruction can also miss or misread an opening in a legible source, so a missing door or window is not proof that the drawing is unclear.
Compare each opening with the source before furnishing and correct a misread wall, door or window in the manual editor. If the drawing or context can be improved, prepare a clearer source. Supported product-caused corrective retries follow their own availability and limits and cost no additional floor; a materially revised replacement drawing uses another unit, disclosed before processing. A new reconstruction does not guarantee a repair, so review opening by opening.
Can one project contain several floors or unit types?
On any plan, a building can combine files or selected PDF pages into a multilevel model. Select physical levels and the exact total before processing, then review elevations, alignments and stair connections. A failed build goes back to your monthly builds; supported product-caused corrective retries follow their own availability and limits and do not consume another unit, while a materially revised replacement source does. Keep alternative apartment or hotel room types in separate projects for comparison.
What should I check before furnishing the model?
Compare the exterior outline, room names, wall positions and openings with the source drawing. Complete walls and readable labels make the model easier to review, but they do not prove that the drawing matches the building as it exists today.
Can I explore my own plan before paying?
Yes. Upload a plan and see your home in 3D before you pay; editing it needs a plan. A failed build goes back to your monthly builds.
The account, upload, editor and billing application currently use English. Basic is chat-led with an available existing allowance; the manual editor offers distinct direct controls on the same canvas.
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Can I edit walls and doors in the editor?
Yes. In a Design Option the manual editor moves, adds and removes walls, doors and windows, and places, moves, rotates, duplicates and removes furniture. The reconstructed plan stays as a locked reference, so every option can be compared with the drawing it came from.
If a wall or opening is wrong, compare it with the source. A clearer one-page PDF, scan, or more reliable drawing context may help another import, but even a clear drawing can be misread. Reimporting does not guarantee a correction.
Can I generate AI furnishing directions?
Basic is chat-led: request furnishing or finish changes when an existing assistant allowance is available, review each proposal and confirm the changes you want to keep. The manual editor exposes direct controls on the same canvas; the source drawing remains a reconstruction reference.
Every plan includes saved-direction controls, with 3 design options on Home, 10 on Home Max and Plural, and up to 30 on Core, Pro and Team. Review a saved direction, apply it as a Design Option and edit its furniture and finishes. Photoreal AI images of the current view are a separate workflow that uses credits.
Can I measure inside the model?
The two-point measure tool reports a model-space distance in metric or feet and inches. It does not calibrate the reconstruction or certify a clearance. Use it to investigate, then verify the real dimension before ordering or building.
Can I create a photoreal image of my model?
As a signed-in editor, capture the current 3D view to generate a visualization with Gemini. The image uses that camera, scene and materials. Your private project gallery shows the result beside the captured source view.
Each result records the model revision used to create it. You can download the generated image and the exact source GLB.
What should I trust when the image and model differ?
Use the captured source view and the navigable 3D model to inspect layout and modeled geometry. The generated image communicates the proposed atmosphere and may change small visual details, so compare it beside its source before sharing.
How can I use one model for my own home?
Compare a pre-construction home with the developer's floor plan, test whether the furniture you own belongs in the rooms and examine finish directions before committing. Verify contract areas, existing conditions and critical dimensions through the appropriate documents and site measurements.
Can it plan an Airbnb or short-term rental?
Use the model to test beds, luggage, dining, work and storage in the available footprint, then make a visualization of the proposed setup. It does not manage bookings, publish to an OTA, set occupancy or forecast revenue.
What can a hotel team review?
Create one project per room or suite type, compare bed, desk, seating, storage and luggage layouts, and carry the chosen revision into the next review. Brand, accessibility, egress and procurement compliance remain separate professional work.
How does it help sell or lease a property?
A prospect can open the public model beyond a fixed listing image. A source-linked visualization can show a proposed furnishing direction, while availability, certified area, inclusions, pricing and contractual terms remain in the sales or lease documents.
What can a designer hand to a client?
Share comparable Design Options, a public navigable model, or a generated image beside its captured source view. When the next tool needs a file, the project creator can export it before publishing the project, in the formats their plan includes.
Why choose INK TO BRICK instead of a render-only tool?
You can inspect and edit the 3D model behind a presentation. The project keeps its source plan, furniture and finish options, captured views, generated images and exported revisions together.
The product still leaves surveys, code review, native CAD or BIM authoring, purchasing and commercial records to the tools and professionals built for them.
Privacy and your data
Is my floor plan used for research?
No. Research use is off. Nothing is used for research.
Where do my uploads live?
Inside the project they create. The upload consents cover building and editing your project, and collaborating with the people you invite.
What happens after I unpublish?
Search engines and cached copies may retain public content after unpublishing.
What can I take away?
Every plan exports PDF plans, images and GLB. Pro and Team add DWG, DXF, IFC, SketchUp and STEP.
What do the plans include?
Home is $6.99 a month for one home with up to 2 floors. Home Max is $19.99 a month for one home with up to 4 floors, and Plural is $39 a month for up to 10 homes with up to 4 floors each, commercial use included. Core is $39 a month for 10 active projects with up to 3 floors each, Pro is $69 a month for 15 projects with up to 6 floors each, and Team is $149 a month for 40 projects with up to 10 floors each and 3 seats. Every plan can be paid yearly for the price of 10 months.
Credits reset each month: 10 on Home, 40 on Home Max, 100 on Plural, 80 on Core, 120 on Pro and 300 shared on Team. When you reach a limit you can buy a one-time top-up: +1 floor for $2.99 on home plans, +3 floors for $4.99 or +5 floor builds for $9.99 on work plans, +20 credits for $9.99 or +100 credits for $39. Choose or change a plan from your account settings; signing in alone does not start a subscription.
What is the Project Pass?
The Project Pass is a legacy purchase whose paid allowances remain honored. New customers choose a monthly or yearly plan.
Can my team work on the same project?
Yes, with editor seats on Core, Pro and Team. A workspace has owner, admin, editor and viewer roles, and an owner or admin invites a colleague by email; a pending invitation can be resent.
Extra seats cost $19 a month each on Core and $25 on Pro and Team. Team includes 3 seats. Home, Home Max and Plural have one owner editor. Invited reviewers can view and comment without an editing seat.
Is there an API or MCP integration?
Pro and Team include supported external MCP access, and Team includes API access. Every plan includes the application and basic exports; assistant changes have a monthly allowance on every plan.
Purchase or change a plan in account settings. Tell us the workflow you need to automate so we can tell whether supported MCP tools or API access on Team fits it.
What can someone do with a public project link?
They can open the published page without an account, rotate the model and inspect the visible project information. A signed-in visitor can participate in supported public interactions such as comments or upvotes.
Public projects can also opt into map discovery or featured-space and newsletter consideration when those controls are used.
Do I need an account to view a published home?
No. A published project page opens in any browser without an account: turn the model, read the project text and read the comment thread under it.
Signing in is needed to comment, upvote or follow. Publishing remains a decision the project creator makes, and source floor plan images stay private unless explicitly included in a published release.
Does the public page expose the original floor plan?
The public page presents the model and the public project fields. The private generated-image gallery, collaborator details, billing records and internal processing evidence are not part of that page. Input and Normalized floor plan images stay private unless you explicitly include them in a published release.
Model data delivered to a public browser can be copied. Do not treat a public viewer as access control for sensitive geometry.
Can I make a project private later?
Saved personal projects stay private unless their owner publishes. Removing a public page cannot recall screenshots, downloads, search results or cached copies already held elsewhere.
Plans and billing
What counts as one floor?
One physical level activated as an editable floor. Two levels on one PDF page use two floors; fragments describing the same level use one. Rooms, design options, exports and manual corrections do not use extra floors.
What can I try before paying?
Upload a plan and see your home in 3D before you pay. The sample duplex is free for anyone to edit, without signing in. Editing your own home needs a plan.
Can I cancel?
Yes, anytime in Settings. Your homes stay viewable after you cancel. On Core your projects and client links stay view-only, and on Pro and Team your projects and past exports stay.
What happens if reconstruction fails?
A floor build is reserved when processing starts and counted when the editable result is ready. A failed build goes back to your monthly builds. Supported retries cost no additional floor; a materially revised replacement drawing counts as a new build, and we tell you before it starts.
What if I reach a limit?
You are offered a one-time top-up at the moment you need it: +1 floor on a home for $2.99 on Home, Home Max and Plural; +3 floors on a project for $4.99 or +5 floor builds for $9.99 on Core, Pro and Team; +20 credits for $9.99 or +100 credits for $39 on every plan. Credits and builds you buy never expire.
How do credits work?
One photo, or one AI layout, furnish or restyle, uses one credit. Monthly credits: Home 10, Home Max 40, Plural 100, Core 80, Pro 120 and Team 300, shared by the team. Assistant changes, the edits you ask for in plain words, have their own monthly allowance: Home 100, Home Max 300, Plural 500, Core 300, Pro 600 and Team 2,000, shared. Both reset each month.
Can my team share a plan?
Yes. Core adds editor seats at $19 a month each and Pro at $25. Team includes 3 seats, and more are $25 a month each. Clients open view-only links, and on Core, Pro and Team they can pick between your design options.
Which plans include MCP and API?
Pro and Team include supported MCP tools under project permissions. Team includes API access. Use the web app for floor plan upload and scene export.
Which plans include MCP?
Pro and Team include supported external MCP tools under project permissions. Assistant changes have a monthly allowance on every plan. A self-service connection starts with read access; reading an existing project does not consume a floor. To prepare changes you confirm, authorize the design-option write and select scopes. Home, Home Max, Plural and Core do not include MCP, and Team includes API access.
How do I connect Codex?
Add https://mcp.inktobrick.com/mcp as a streamable HTTP server, then authorize lodnor.floorplan.read and offline_access. Copy the project ID from the project dashboard URL and include it in your first request because the MCP server does not provide a project-list tool.
What can an MCP client do with a project?
A read connection can open a floor plan workspace, inspect revision history, search the fixture catalog and review saved aesthetic or Design Option state.
A self-serve Codex connection starts read-only. Signing in again with lodnor.design-option.write and lodnor.design-option.select lets it prepare Design Option edits and selections, each of which you confirm before anything is saved.
Can the INK TO BRICK MCP server upload, export or control Blender?
MCP can request supported pinned JSON or GLB exports from existing projects and retrieve their delivery. Use the web application for drawing uploads, reconstruction and the broader export library; API workflows are part of Team. MCP does not control Blender. For Blender automation after downloading a GLB, use Blender Python or a separate Blender MCP server.
Which file formats can I export?
INK TO BRICK offers 20 export formats across paid plans in four groups. Floor plans: SVG, PDF, DXF, and DWG. 3D models: GLB, glTF, OBJ, Collada DAE, STL, 3MF, SketchUp SKP, STEP, and USDZ. Model data: JSON, CSV, Excel XLSX, and IFC. Images: PNG, JPEG, and WebP.
Every plan includes default SVG/PDF drawings, all-row CSV/XLSX schedules, JSON, GLB, glTF, OBJ, DAE, STL, 3MF, USDZ, and default PNG, JPEG and WebP images at 1280 by 960. Pro and Team add DXF, DWG, SKP, IFC, STEP, custom drawing and image controls (16 to 4096 px a side), and filtered schedules. The project creator or an assigned customer Editor with an available seat can use the export library, and only while the project is nonpublic. Its regular public-viewer GLB remains available after publication.
Which floor plan export format to chooseCompare export access
What are the drawing exports for?
SVG preserves vector drawing output, PDF provides a scaled sheet, and DXF and AC1032 DWG provide layered 2D canonical plans for CAD handoff. They come from the reconstructed model rather than reproducing the original authored CAD file or a construction set.
Can I export to Blender, SketchUp or AutoCAD?
You export the file each application documents an importer for, then check the result yourself. Blender documents a glTF 2.0 importer, so send GLB or packaged glTF. AutoCAD and other CAD applications read the DWG or DXF drawing, a layered 2D plan rather than the original authored CAD file. SketchUp documents opening an SKP file, and the SKP export carries meshes, materials and textures.
GLB and glTF are on every plan; DXF, DWG, and SKP require Pro or Team. These are file handoffs rather than automatic synchronization with Blender, Revit, SketchUp, or another authoring tool. Check geometry, scale, units, orientation, and materials after import.
Floor plan to BlenderFloor plan to SketchUpFloor plan to DWG or DXFBlender glTF import guideThree.js GLTFLoader
Can I view my floor plan in AR on an iPhone?
Export the model as USDZ, the format Apple documents for AR Quick Look, then open the file on an iPhone or iPad. USDZ export is available on every plan.
USDZ carries static meshes and materials, not custom Apple AR interactions. Check the reported scale status and two independent dimensions against reliable plans before trusting the model's apparent size in AR.
Can I 3D print the model?
You can export STL or 3MF, the two formats slicers read, on every plan. What you get is a conceptual reconstruction rather than a print-ready mesh.
Check wall thickness, watertightness, the base size and the scale you slice at before printing. Lossy conversions report their downgrades, and a small model of a whole floor usually needs thicker walls to survive handling.
Which GLB should I choose?
GLB export can use the canonical model, a preserved original or the pinned saved presentation, depending on what the receiving workflow needs. A photoreal result also offers the exact source GLB tied to its captured revision.
What do the data and image exports contain?
Canonical JSON preserves structured project data, while CSV and XLSX make tabular review easier. IFC, on Pro and Team, carries canonical rooms, walls, openings and properties. PNG, JPEG and WebP export plan or 3D views for documents, websites and presentations.
A room-map JSON can describe room boundaries and doorway connections without becoming a printable plan.
What does an export not guarantee?
DWG is a layered 2D canonical plan. SKP carries a mesh model without parametric round-trip or app-certified fidelity. IFC carries canonical room, wall, opening and property semantics without becoming a native Revit model or engineering model. STEP AP214 contains faceted BREP surfaces without parametric history. USDZ contains static meshes and materials rather than an Apple AR experience.
Lossy conversions report their downgrades, and STL or 3MF files need print-readiness checks. The library does not create video, a native CAD or BIM round trip, construction documents or engineering validation.