Floor plan software for students and teachers
Free floor plan software for the classroom: nothing to install, no student accounts to set up, and it runs in the browser on Chromebooks. Students draw to scale, check areas against their own sums, and walk through their design in 3D.
- Student accounts
- None needed
- Runs on
- Chromebook, tablet, laptop
- Units
- ft-in or metric
- Price
- Free
A floor plan is a good classroom project because it mixes measurement, arithmetic, geometry and design, and the result is something students can walk through. The usual obstacles are software installs, licences and accounts. FloorGen has none of those: open the page and draw.
Why it works in a classroom
- No accounts. Students start drawing at once. Their plans save in the browser they use, not on our servers, unless they choose to sign in. Accounts are for people 16 and over under our terms, and class work needs none.
- Browser only. It runs in Chrome on a Chromebook and in the browser on iPads, Windows and Mac laptops, with nothing to install.
- Free. No school plan, licence or seat count.
- Real units. Feet and inches to 1/16 in, or metric to 1 mm. Areas are worked out from the walls, which makes a good check on hand calculations.
- Fifteen languages. The interface comes in fifteen, including English, Spanish, French and German.
Lesson ideas
| Lesson | What students do | Start from |
|---|---|---|
| Scale drawing (math) | Measure the classroom with a tape, draw it, work out the area by hand, and compare it with FloorGen's figure. | A blank plan |
| Design a tiny home (design and technology) | Fit a kitchen, bath and sleeping area into 400 ft² or less, furnish it, and present it to the class as a 3D walkthrough. | The garage-to-studio ADU: 361.3 ft² of rooms |
| Accessible design (CTE, architecture) | Plan a bathroom with a 60 in turning circle and clear space at each fixture, then compare it with a standard bath. | The accessible bathroom (63.1 ft²) and the 5 × 8 ft bath |
| Reading plans (any level) | Open a finished house, name every symbol, and find each room's area and the size of the stair. | The cabin with a sleeping loft |
Background reading for students: how to read a floor plan, floor plan symbols, floor plan scale and ADA bathroom dimensions.
Showing work
Students present on the device they drew on: the 2D plan with its room areas and dimensions, then the same design in 3D, walked through room by room.
What FloorGen doesn't do
- No class tools. There is no roster, teacher dashboard, assignment hand-in or LMS integration.
- No shared editing. Two students cannot edit one plan at the same time; for group work, one draws and the others review.
- Plans stay in one browser. On shared or managed Chromebooks that clear data at sign-out, a plan does not survive to the next lesson, so plan projects that fit in one sitting.
- The AI chat needs sign-in, so it is not part of an account-free class. Nothing in the lessons above needs it.
- Code checks teach, they do not certify. The IRC and other profiles flag small rooms and steep stairs; they are not a plan review.