To convert a floor plan to 3D, upload a PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG, or DXF drawing of up to 25 MiB and add any reliable dimensions you know. INK TO BRICK reconstructs the rooms, walls, and openings as a conceptual 3D model. You see your home in 3D before you pay, and editing it needs a plan. A failed build goes back to your monthly builds. There are 20 export formats across paid plans; basic formats are included on every plan. Select the PDF pages and crops for each physical floor in the local preparation workspace before uploading.
What you can upload
Prepare plans in one of five formats, up to 25 MiB per file. Group pages and fragments by physical floor before uploading. Each physical floor uses one floor unit.
How the conversion works
- Upload one floor plan: PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG or DXF, up to 25 MiB. The file is checked before anything is built from it.
- Add optional context: property type and use, floor level, rooms with their areas, ceiling height, original drawing units, the scale denominator, and up to 30 reference measurements. These help interpret scale; they do not certify it. A drawing-context page number records the source sheet, not which PDF page to convert.
- The run reads the drawing and reconstructs rooms, walls and openings as a conceptual 3D model, and reports whether it resolved the scale.
- Explore the rooms in 3D in the browser. The viewer reports overall width, depth and height, the space count, the modeled floor area and per-space dimensions; the editor also offers a Feet and inches display (1 m is about 3 ft 3 in).
- Furnish and finish: place pieces from the furniture library, assign finishes and materials, and switch lighting presets. Keep existing conditions as the reconstruction reference and use a Design Option for furniture and finishes. Correct walls and openings with manual controls on the same canvas. Verify a furniture fit check against both the reconstructed geometry and the real room.
- The project creator can export a saved revision while the project is nonpublic, using formats included in the paid plan. Or intentionally publish a model page anyone can open and copy; a public showcase is not private sharing.
What the 3D model gives you
- Rooms, walls and openings reconstructed from the drawing, with readable room labels.
- Measurements: overall width, depth and height, space count, modeled floor area, per-space dimensions and a two-point measure tool. The editor’s Units control offers Metric or Feet and inches.
- A furniture library you place from, piece by piece.
- Finishes and materials on room floors, wall surfaces, ceilings and fixtures.
- Lighting presets, the same three the image exports use: daylight neutral, warm evening and overcast soft.
- Saved design directions that you can review and apply as Design Options with plan access. New AI furnishing generation and refinement are not currently available.
- Revision history, saved-direction controls, and side-by-side comparison on every plan.
- Photoreal presentation images tied to the exact revision and camera they were taken from.
- Multi-floor buildings, with stair and alignment review, up to the floor limit of your plan.
What it does not do
Export your model in 20 formats
Every plan includes basic exports: default SVG/PDF drawings, all-row CSV/XLSX schedules, basic 3D formats, and default images. Pro and Team add custom export controls: drawing layers, paper, scale, orientation, floor selection, filtered schedules, and image size, lighting, and visibility. Drawing controls include A4, A3, or Letter paper and scales from 1:10 to 1:1000, with 1:100 as the default. A 3D model or 3D-view image export can use the canonical model, an original model when available, or a saved presentation build with saved-direction access. The format-by-format guide says which one to pick for which destination.
Convert a PDF, JPG or PNG floor plan to 3D
A vector PDF exported from drawing software preserves line work and dimension labels. A scanned PDF contains an image, so inspect its clarity rather than relying on the file extension. Choose pages and crop regions in the local preparation workspace, then arrange their fragments by physical floor before uploading. Converting a PDF floor plan to 3D walks through one-page preparation, scale evidence, and checks on the resulting model.
JPG and JPEG name the same image format; PNG is also an image input. Scans and photos of printed sheets are accepted. Keep the capture flat, square-on, and evenly lit, at a resolution where parallel wall lines stay separate. Blurred lines or perspective distortion can make openings harder to interpret, but a reconstruction can also misread a clear source. Run the door and window check on the model before you build anything on top of it.
SVG and DXF are the vector inputs. Both keep walls as geometry rather than pixels, which means nothing has to be resampled and the drawing reads the same at any zoom. If you have a choice between an image export and the vector it came from, send the vector.
Floor plan to Blender, SketchUp, AR or a 3D printer
The model leaves as a file, and the file decides the destination: GLB, glTF or OBJ for a Blender workflow, SKP for a SketchUp workflow, USDZ for viewing a plan in AR, STL or 3MF for printing a physical model, and DXF or DWG for a CAD drawing handoff. Check the importer documentation for your version of the destination app. Inspect geometry, units, orientation, and materials after import rather than assuming every element survived unchanged.
How much does it cost?
Home is $6.99, Home Max $19.99 and Plural $39 a month for your home; Core is $39, Pro $69 and Team $149 a month for work, and yearly billing costs 10 months. Cancel anytime in Settings and your home stays viewable. Photos and AI layouts use your monthly credits. The plan table lists image generation allowances and export access side by side.
Frequently asked questions
Can I convert a hand-drawn floor plan?
Yes. Photos and scans are accepted, including hand-drawn plans. Keep walls, openings, labels, and dimensions legible. A readable source and reliable reference measurements help interpretation, but the reconstruction still needs review.
Is the model to scale?
Scale can be interpreted from the drawing and optional context, including units, a scale denominator, and up to 30 reference measurements. Supplying a measurement does not guarantee calibration. Check the reported scale status and compare two independent dimensions against reliable plans; verify critical dimensions on site.
Can I edit walls?
Yes. In the manual editor you pick a wall, door or window to change its size and position, or draw new ones. When a reconstruction misreads much of the plan, a clearer source may help another import, but it does not guarantee a correction.
Do I need an account?
Not to look: published homes on the explore map open in a browser with no account at all. Uploading a plan needs one, and you sign in with a code sent to your email or with Google.
Is my floor plan private?
Personal projects stay private until you choose to publish; the data page explains what a public page carries, including the optional publication of Input and Normalized floor plan images.
What file do I get for Blender?
GLB, glTF and OBJ are exchange formats available on every plan. Blender 5.0 removed its built-in Collada DAE importer, so choose GLB, glTF or OBJ for current Blender releases. Check units, orientation and materials after the import.
Can I get a CAD file?
Yes. DXF and DWG drawings require Pro or Team; IFC and STEP require Pro or Team. The drawing controls include layers, A4/A3/Letter paper, and scales from 1:10 to 1:1000. These files carry reconstructed geometry, not a verified construction set; check units and dimensions in the receiving CAD application.
The shortest way to know what your own drawing turns into is to send it. Upload your floor plan and watch the model come back, or open a published model first and turn somebody else’s home in the browser before you spend an import. If you are still comparing tools, the software comparison guide sets out what each kind of tool is actually for.