A photo of a plan on a display-home wall, a screenshot from a listing, a JPG a builder emailed you. Draftie reads the geometry out of the image and gives you walls you can move.
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Step 01
JPG or PNG. A phone photo works; so does a screenshot, as long as the whole plan is visible.
Step 02
If the image carries a scale bar or dimension strings, Draftie reads them. If not, type one length you know.
Step 03
Check the walls and openings it found, then edit freely, it is a normal plan from here on.
Perspective and resolution. Everything else is recoverable.
A plan photographed at an angle has converging walls, so what should be a rectangle is a trapezoid. Draftie corrects for this, but it corrects better from a photo taken roughly square-on, so if you can stand in front of the drawing rather than beside it, do. The correction is geometric, not magic: the further from front-on you shoot, the more of the result is inference.
Resolution matters more than people expect, and it is the failure people are most surprised by. Two parallel wall lines 5px apart are one thick line, and no model recovers a wall thickness that is not in the pixels. This is not a limitation that better models fix: the information is genuinely absent.
| Plan width in pixels | What to expect |
|---|---|
| 2000px and up | Wall thicknesses and openings read cleanly |
| 1000–2000px | Reliable structure; thin internal walls may merge |
| 600–1000px | Layout usually right, thicknesses approximate |
| Under 600px | Not worth running: re-shoot or find a better source |
Five things, in rough order of how much difference they make.
The image becomes a plan, not a background you trace over by hand. Rooms are named and typed, so the plan knows a wet area from a bedroom. Walls carry real thicknesses. Openings know which wall they sit in and how high the sill is.
From there: drag walls with live millimetre dimensions, drop in doors, windows and furniture, specify every surface from real Australian product ranges with SKUs and slip ratings attached, and export at true scale.
This is the difference worth understanding before you compare tools. Several platforms let you upload an image, but they upload it as a tracing backdrop, and you still draw every wall yourself on top of it. Draftie uploads it as the plan.
Listing plans, brochure plans and display-home plans are usually somebody else’s copyright. Reading one into Draftie to plan your own renovation is ordinary private use. Republishing the output as your own marketing material is not, and it is worth knowing which one you are doing.
If the plan is of a house you own, or you drew it, or the builder gave it to you for this purpose, none of this is a concern.
You photographed the plan at an open home or a display village and want to test whether your furniture, or your extension, actually fits.
An old listing image that needs to become a clean, correctly scaled plan for a new campaign.
A screenshot, an email attachment, a photo of a photocopy. If it is legible and to scale, it can become editable geometry.
JPG and PNG. If what you have is a PDF, use the PDF route instead, it keeps vector precision that rasterising throws away.
Aim for the plan itself to be at least about 1,000px across. Below roughly 600px it is not worth running: adjacent wall lines merge and the detail is genuinely absent rather than merely hard to read.
Yes, within reason. Draftie corrects for perspective, but the further from square-on you shoot, the more correction it has to infer. Roughly front-on is noticeably better, and takes no more effort.
Technically it works. Legally, listing plans are usually someone else’s copyright, so use the result for your own planning rather than republishing it.
Tracing tools give you the image as a backdrop and you draw every wall on top of it yourself. Draftie reads the walls out of the image and gives you them as geometry. The end state is similar; the hour in between is not.
Once you have calibrated it, yes, genuinely to scale, not approximately. Exports are true scale, so a 90mm wall measures 0.9mm on a 1:100 sheet.
The plan on your camera roll can be an editable drawing in about two minutes.
Upload a photo, freeDraftie produces concept plans, not construction documents, and its plan checks are advisory rather than a compliance certificate. Product specifications change, confirm current details with the manufacturer before relying on them.