Simple and Free Site Plan Drawing Software

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Use the Site Program template in Visio Professional or Visio Plan two to create architectural site plans and garden landscape plans.

Click File > New, and search for Site Plan. From the search results, click Site Plan > Create.

By default, this drawing blazon opens a scaled drawing page in mural orientation . You lot tin can change these settings at any time.
To incorporate buildings into your site plan, do one of the following:

Draw outlines of the buildings

On the Domicile tab, in the Tools grouping, click the dropdown arrow next to Rectangle for options such as Line or Rectangle to describe outlines of buildings.

Insert a CAD floor plan
1. Click Insert > CAD Drawing.
2. Nether Files of type, select AutoCAD Drawing (*.dwg, *.dxf). Locate the CAD file and click Open up.
3. To accept the size and location of the CAD cartoon, click OK.
  
  After you have inserted the drawing, you can resize it, modify its scale, or move it. Yous tin likewise lock the Microsoft Office Visio layer that contains the CAD drawing.
Re-create and paste an existing Visio floor plan cartoon into a new drawing
1. Open an existing Microsoft Office Visio drawing.
2. Click Design > Auto Size.
3. On the Folio Setup dialog box, click Drawing Calibration. Make note of the calibration setting in the existing cartoon, and then fix the scale of your new drawing to match.
4. In the existing drawing, select the shapes you want to use in the new drawing and then copy them.
5. Switch to the new drawing, and paste the shapes.
  
  Tip:Y'all can lock the layers of a drawing so that y'all exercise not accidentally change them when you create a new plan on superlative.
Depending on your cartoon type, do ane or both of the following:

Add together roads and parking stalls
1. From the horizontal and vertical rulers, drag guides and position them on the page to marker the locations of the site perimeter, stalls, and roads in the drawing.
2. From Parking and Roads, drag curbs and driveways onto the drawing folio.
3. From Parking and Roads, position parking strips, stalls, and islands on the cartoon page. Mucilage their endpoints ( or ) to guides.
  Tips:
  - To reposition parking stalls, drag the guide to which they are glued.
  - To keep the alignment of a shape from changing while yous move the shape, press SHIFT.
4. From Vehicles, Site Accessories, and Planting, position vehicles, parking accessories, and landscape shapes around the parking strips and stalls. Mucilage their endpoints to guides.
  
  Tip:Use shapes from Annotations and Dimensioning to add labels or dimension lines to your site plan.
Add landscaping elements
1. From Garden Accessories, drag contend shapes and gate shapes onto the drawing page.
2. From Sport Fields and Recreation, drag recreational equipment shapes, such as a pool or a swing set, onto the cartoon page.
3. From Garden Accessories, add patios and walkways by dragging shapes onto the drawing page.
4. From Irrigation, add together irrigation equipment by dragging shapes onto the drawing page.
Add plants past dragging shapes from Planting onto the drawing page. Use the Plant callout shape to label plants.

Y'all tin can record the plant'due south mutual name and foliage type as shape data.

Enter shape data
1. Right-click the shape and select Properties.
2. In the Shape Data dialog box, enter the data as necessary.
Tip:To create and arrange multiple copies of shapes, such as plants and paving stones, use the Array Shapes improver. To do that, click View > Add Ons > Visio Extras > Assortment Shapes.