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DXF Floor Plans: Editable Giraffe360 Plans for Your CAD Software

Jānis Beinerts (ανοίγει σε νέα καρτέλα)/ VP of Product

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Editable DXF floor plan shown on a desktop monitor

A Giraffe360 DXF floor plan is the property's plan as a 2D CAD drawing, drawn at 1:1 scale from the LiDAR measurements taken when the property was captured. It opens in AutoCAD, LibreCAD, nanoCAD, FreeCAD and other CAD software, where an architect, designer or developer can measure from it and draw on it.

What a DXF Floor Plan Holds

The floor plan in a listing is a picture. Its walls are adjusted so buyers can read the layout at a glance. Someone planning a renovation needs the walls where they really are, so the DXF draws the plan as accurately as possible, without the visual adjustments the listing plan gets.

The drawing is at 1:1 scale, and one unit in the file is one centimetre by default, which the person opening it can change to the unit they work in. Heights aren't in the file, since the DXF is a 2D drawing and doesn't model objects or spaces in 3D.

The DXF comes with a second vector file, the SVG. It keeps the listing plan's look in separate layers, from the structure and furniture to the windows and doors, room colours, names and areas, so a designer can change colours and furniture in Illustrator, CorelDraw or Inkscape. Because its walls are adjusted for appearance, the SVG isn't the file to take precise measurements from.

Measured on the Same Visit as the Photos

The DXF is drawn from the scan the Giraffe360 camera takes for the listing, where one visit produces the HDR photos, the 360° panoramas for the virtual tour and the LiDAR data behind the floor plans. After the capture, the camera uploads the project over Wi-Fi, processing starts in the cloud, and the finished plans arrive in the project in your dashboard beside the photos and the tour.

DXF and SVG come as an add-on, which your account manager can set up. With it on your account, DXF appears as a format when you download the floor plans from a project, and a single floor can be saved on its own.

Generated DXF floor plan file
Generate your floor plan file

Try the Test File in Your Own Software

Download the test file to check the DXF in your own CAD program before you book a demo, and measure a room in it. The unit to choose on import is the centimetre, so that the drawing measures like the property, and the import steps for AutoCAD, Revit and Chief Architect show where each program asks for it.

Ryan, our VP of Product, talks through DXF floor plans in the video below.

Our VP of Product Ryan talks through this latest feature

Frequently asked questions

DXF, the AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format, is the format Autodesk created for moving drawings between CAD programs, introduced with AutoCAD 1.0 in 1982. The usual DXF is a plain text file, and Autodesk publishes its documentation.

See a DXF From a Real Project

Book a demo to see a Giraffe360 project's floor plans, from the listing image to the DXF, with the photos and tour from the same visit.

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