Construction Plans, Proposals, and Management Made Easy

SmartDraw makes creating accurate floor plans, electrical plans, plumbing drawings, landscapes and other scaled drawings for construction accessible to anyone. Make floor plans that comply with OSHA safety standards and create data-backed construction proposals using your own product catalog. Then keep your entire project on track with SmartDraw. No CAD expertise or training required.

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Easy Floor Plans from Scratch

Design precise residential and commercial spaces with intuitive tools and none of the traditional CAD complexity. Draw rooms and walls that snap into place, resize just by typing, and drag-and-drop industry standard fixtures and symbols. Get accuracy without the learning curve.

Import Existing Floor Plans

If you already have an existing floor plan, bring it in as a PDF or image, scale it easily, and build your new design or proposal on top of it. Save time by only drawing what you need from scratch when creating bids, making proposals, planning for renovations, and documenting existing conditions.

Extensive Built-In Floor Plan Symbols

SmartDraw has all the symbols you need for any plan including doors, windows, furniture, kitchen and bathroom fixtures, lighting, cabinets, office furniture, warehouse equipment, wiring, plumbing, HVAC, security systems, plants, landscape elements, and more. Easily search thousands of ready-made symbols and use drag-and-drop to add them to your plans.

Build Custom Symbol Libraries

With SmartDraw, you can truly customize your plan using your own product catalog. Import symbols, apply scale, and add shape data. SmartDraw makes it easy to standardize proposals across teams and projects. Avoid unprofessional, inconsistent plans that lead to misunderstandings and change orders.

Make Data-Backed Plans

Turn a floor plan into structured information by adding shape data to any symbol. Add SKU, cost, model, vendor, notes, and more. Generate a manifest to get counts of specific fixtures for estimating, purchasing, and handoffs.

Better Pre-Construction Planning

Document existing conditions easily by importing a floor plan or site map and add notes and annotations. You can also brainstorm and organize your project's deliverables using a mind map. Then, when you're ready, you can convert that plan into a project chart in a single click.

Keep Your Construction Project on Track

Track the progress of tasks quickly and easily and keep everyone in the loop about critical deliverables. Seen what tasks are related and who is working on what all at a glance.

Make Safety and Compliance a Priority

SmartDraw makes it easy to create OSHA-compliant floor plans that prioritize life safety and clearly communicate hazards, evacuation plans, and required safety equipment. You don't need CAD training to make a clear, scaled plan for safety audits, training, and ongoing facility management.

Easy Electrical Plans

Create detailed electrical plans easily to provide a technical blueprint for your project. Add electrical information to your floor plans using layers to keep everything separate. Drag and drop key components with industry standard symbols for switches, outlets, fixtures, and service panels. Add complexity easily and only show information you need to the right audience.

Easy Plumbing Drawings

Add relevant plumbing layout information to your project using professional plumbing drawings. SmartDraw makes it easy to draw pipes and add industry-standard symbols like water valves, water heaters, water pumps and more.

Easy Landscape Design

Your interior building team can easily coordinate and communicate with the outside landscaping team using accurate landscape plans. Make sure any proposal accounts for both the building and the surrounding site that includes plants, irrigation overlays, hardscapes, and staging areas. Avoid conflicts and reduce work.

Import Photos

SmartDraw allows you to import photos to add real-world context to any design. With SmartDraw, teams can place site photos directly on a floor plan to document existing conditions, installation constraints, and safety issues exactly where they occur. This helps estimators validate assumptions, supports clear communication with owners and subcontractors, and reduces surprises during construction.

Share and Collaborate Easily

SmartDraw makes collaboration easy. Share your diagram with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link. Your team can collaborate on any construction project in real time. You can export your plans as professional, clean PDFs for printing.

Team collaborating on construction floor plan

Support Other Departments

In addition to standard floor plan content, SmartDraw is great at creating traditional diagrams. For example, HR can use SmartDraw to update organizational charts and document workflows and IT can use SmartDraw to create network and technical diagrams.

See Why Public Safety and Construction Teams Trust SmartDraw

"Before SmartDraw, our reports were created in a mix of Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and paper, leading to inconsistent formats and extra work. SmartDraw gave us a single, standardized platform for accident and incident documentation, making our reports clearer, more consistent, and easier to manage."

Michael Johnson
Battalion Chief, Loudoun Fire and Rescue

"Our design and construction company oversees custom home builds and remodels from initial design to completion. SmartDraw provided an affordable, user-friendly, and efficient tool for making rapid adjustments to floor plans without relying on architects or designers for every minor change. The fast setup and intuitive tools really helped us streamline our workflow."

Jake Goodew
Project Manager, Arete Construction Arete Construction logo

"The Crime Scene Unit sought to upgrade its diagramming software to enhance the quality of crime scene sketches used as discoverable documents in criminal investigations. After evaluating available options, we determined that SmartDraw best met our needs due to its ability to produce detailed, forensically accurate diagrams that integrate seamlessly with existing scene documentation tools, including photographs and 3D imaging."

Massi A. Martin, DPA
Commanding Officer, Office of Forensic Science, Crime Scene Unit, Philadelphia Police Department

"For pre-incident plans, we're able to create clear, easy-to-follow diagrams with directions and annotations that our firefighters can quickly understand on scene. For investigations, the software lets us produce accurate, professional drawings that support incident reconstruction. Overall, we've been very pleased with SmartDraw and plan to continue using it as part of our daily operations."

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Jonathan Shim
Captain, Office of the Fire Marshal, Howard County Department of Fire Rescue Services

"SMCFD needed a user-friendly way to create pre-fire plans. SmartDraw allows us to import a PDF and mark it up for utility shutoffs and access points quickly and easily."

Matthew Adelman
Battalion Chief Preparedness, South Montgomery County Fire Department

"As our design services grew, pen and paper simply couldn't keep up. SmartDraw gave us the modern tools we needed for creating space plans and floor plans. It's proven to be a great tool for our sellers to quickly provide customers with feedback on dimensions and fit."

Aaron Schulz
Director of Inside Sales Channels & Sales Operations, National Business Furniture

"SmartDraw has all the tools we need to create site and venue maps for our events. We can import a satellite view of an area and overlay our event layout as a scaled drawing. Not only is SmartDraw intuitive, but their support is excellent."

Emily Rivera
Director, Vendor of Production Services, National MS Society