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This will give you some extra room around the outside of the floor plan, so you can include text around the outside if necessary.

Set the dimensions to one inch larger than the dimensions of your room (remember, it’ll be scaled down to 1 ft = 1 in) – so if you have a room that’s 16 feet by 12 feet, you’ll want to enter in 17 inches for the width and 13 inches for the height.

Change the unit of measurement to inches.

In the New Document dialog box, we’ll want to change the following settings (highlighted with red boxes in the previous screenshot): Here’s where we’ll start setting things up to help make the process of making a floor plan a little easier. Let’s go ahead and open up Illustrator, and make a new document. Setting up a document for floor plan creation Illustrator will do the division for us, and make it so the room (or object) is now measured in feet. If you know the measurement of your room (or objects that’ll be placed in the room) in inches but not in feet, no worries! We can have Illustrator make those calculations for us by typing in the value in inches, followed by /12.

I’ll be referring to the scale I’m using a couple of times while walking through the tutorial. For today’s purposes, the scale for our drawing will have one foot equal to one inch – so, if we have a room that’s 16 feet long, it’ll take up 16 inches in Illustrator. If you’re new to Illustrator, or need a brief refresher, IT Training’s Illustrator: The Basics course will help you get started.īefore we even open up Illustrator, let’s talk about the scale we’ll be using for our floor plan. Note: This quick tutorial assumes you have some basic familiarity with Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial will walk you through setting up an Illustrator document to make a floor plan, and also share some hints that’ll help make the design process easier.

For example, in an assignment for one of my Information Science classes a few years ago, we had to put together a floor plan of the old cafe in the basement of Wells Library and record information about how people interacted with the space – so the ability to make a floor plan can come in handy in unexpected places. I’ve used it for many different tasks, from building logos to making graphics for use on a poster – I even made part of my Christmas cards in Illustrator! Another thing Illustrator can do is help you make basic floor plans, which can be helpful if you’re moving into a new apartment or house and want to plan where things go, or if you’ve got a class project that involves laying out a floor plan of some sort. One of the reasons I love Illustrator is because of how versatile it is. I’m back with another bit of training for everyone – this one’s inspired by a special request workshop I’ll be delivering soon, and it focuses on using Illustrator to make a very basic floor plan.