Course: Using Blender to Draft CAD-Style Floor Plans and Export Scaled PDF

Learn how to draft 2D floor plans in Blender from scratch: add dimensions, import DWG blocks, render NPR line art, export to scale with this new course by Allan Brito.

Most people associate Blender with 3D rendering, animation, and visual effects. But Blender’s precision modeling tools, real-world unit system, and NPR rendering engine make it surprisingly capable as a 2D technical drafting tool. Capable enough to produce clean, dimensioned floor plans that look like they came out of AutoCAD.

I’m a licensed architect, and I’ve been using this workflow on real projects for years. I just released a complete workshop that teaches it from scratch: Blender for Architects: Floor Plans to CAD-Style PDFs.

The workflow covers the full pipeline: setting up Blender with real-world units and a proper drafting environment, drawing walls, doors, and windows with exact dimensions, importing DWG blocks for furniture and fixtures, adding dimension lines and a title block, rendering with Freestyle/NPR for clean line art, and exporting a scaled, print-ready PDF. All inside Blender.

No prior experience required. The workshop starts from a blank screen and builds up to a finished technical drawing over 7 hours.

If you’re interested, I’ve set up a discount for BlenderNation readers.

Here’s a short trailer showing the workflow and the final output: