SVG, PDF, DXF, DWG, GLB or USDZ: which floor plan export do you need?

Conceptual model only. Not a survey or construction document.

Twenty exports in four groups: drawings, 3D models, data and images. What each format is for, who reads it, and which plan includes it, in one table.

Four groups, and the group decides the format. Drawings (SVG, PDF, DXF, DWG) are the plan as a 2D sheet, with layers, paper size and a stated scale. 3D models (GLB, glTF, OBJ, Collada DAE, STL, 3MF, SKP, STEP, USDZ) are geometry you can move through, print or hand to a visualizer. Data (JSON, CSV, XLSX, IFC) is the model as structured information, room by room. Images (PNG, JPEG, WebP) are pictures of it, and nothing more. Pick the group by what the recipient will do next, then pick the format by what opens on their machine.

Which floor plan export do you need?

What do the drawing exports give you?

Plan exports offer layers for rooms, walls, openings, fixtures, labels, and dimensions; A4, A3, or Letter paper; a scale from 1:10 to 1:1000; landscape or portrait orientation; and floor selection. The default is A3 landscape at 1:100 with every layer on. Plus includes SVG and PDF at those defaults. Changing the paper, scale, orientation, layer set, or floor selection requires Creator, Project Pass, Studio, or Business. Those plans also include DXF and DWG. Business is required for the underlying multi-floor building workflow.

Choose SVG when the plan is going into a document, a website or a designer’s hands and will be restyled. Choose PDF when it is going to be printed or read, because the scale note and the paper size travel with it. Choose DXF or DWG when someone is going to draw on top of it: they arrive as CAD entities on layers, which is what a drafter needs and what a picture can never be.

What do the 3D model exports give you?

Geometry: rooms, walls and openings, with the fixtures and furniture placed in the editor. Each 3D export also names its source, which changes what is in the file more than the extension does. The canonical model is the reconstruction with your edits. The original-model source refers to a model associated with the project, not the floor plan PDF or image. A saved presentation build is one look you kept, so the file matches images you have already shown someone.

• Handing the model to someone else to render or animate: GLB first, glTF if they want to open the JSON, OBJ if their tool is old. See the Blender guide.
• Continuing to model the building yourself: SKP for SketchUp, or a drawing export as an underlay. See the DWG and DXF guide.
• Standing the space up at full size on a phone: USDZ. See the AR guide.
• Printing a physical model: 3MF where the slicer takes it, STL where it does not. See the 3D printing guide.

What do the data and image exports give you?

JSON carries the canonical model as structured data. Plus includes all-row CSV and XLSX schedules. Filtering either schedule to rooms, walls, openings, fixtures, or finishes requires Creator, Project Pass, Studio, or Business. A room schedule reports the modeled room geometry, not a surveyed area. IFC and STEP are Business handoffs for building data or faceted surfaces rather than pictures.

Default PNG, JPEG, and WebP image exports start on Plus at 1280 by 960. Custom camera views, a specified lighting preset, changed layer or object visibility, floor visibility, and nondefault sizes from 16 to 4096 px per side require Creator, Project Pass, Studio, or Business. A plan view and a 3D view are different image choices, not different file formats. The daylight-neutral, warm-evening, and overcast-soft presets are presentation lighting, not a daylight study for your site and orientation.

Why does the file you downloaded not behave the way you expected?

• An import is not an export. What goes in is a drawing: PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG, or DXF, up to 25 MiB. What comes out is any of the twenty formats above. DXF appears on both lists and means different things on each: on the way in it is a drawing to reconstruct, on the way out it is a drawing generated from the model. DWG, GLB and IFC are outputs only.
• An image download is not a mesh. A PNG of the 3D view cannot be opened in a 3D application, rotated, measured or printed. If the person asking for "the 3D file" plans to do any of those, they mean GLB, SKP or USDZ, and sending them a picture costs both of you a day.

NoteChanging the container does not change the standing of what is inside it. A DWG or an IFC written from this model is still a reconstruction of a drawing. Conceptual model only. Not a survey or construction document. Use this model for design exploration, and verify dimensions on site before ordering or building.

What INK TO BRICK does here

There are twenty export formats across paid plans. Plus includes default SVG and PDF plans, GLB, glTF, OBJ, DAE, STL, 3MF and USDZ models, JSON, all-row CSV and XLSX schedules, and default PNG, JPEG and WebP images. Creator, Project Pass, Studio, and Business add DXF, DWG, SKP, customized drawing and image controls, and filtered schedules. Business adds IFC, STEP, and multi-floor buildings of 2 to 20 floors. Free does not include the export library.

Two rules sit above the format list. The project creator or an assigned customer Editor with an available seat can use the export library, and only while the project is nonpublic; after you publish, the public viewer’s own GLB is what remains. And every export starts from the same place: an uploaded floorplan turned into a conceptual 3D model, which is what floor plan to 3D walks through. Current plan access is on the pricing page.