How do I export my floor plan as a PDF?
In the web editor, click Export and choose "PDF". Pick the levels to include, the sheet size, the scale ("Auto" picks the largest standard scale that fits, or choose one such as 1/4" = 1'-0" or 1:50) and a title block (Standard, Adjuster, Realtor or Architect), then choose what shows on the drawing: room names, sizes, areas, ceiling heights, exterior dimensions, door and window sizes or marks, appliance labels and furniture. Click "Export PDF" and the file downloads. PDF export is available on every plan; Free exports one level on Letter or A4 with a watermark. To get the sheets as files instead, change File type to SVG (a true-scale vector file per sheet) or PNG (an image per sheet); several sheets download as one .zip. If you have laid out your own sheets in the Sheets view (Pro), "Use my sheets" is ticked and the PDF prints those instead.
How do I lay out my own sheets?
Click Sheets at the top of the web editor (next to 2D and 3D). The sheets your PDF prints are listed on the left; the open one fills the middle, drawn exactly as it exports. Use the bar above it to add a plan of any level, the 3D view, room, door and window schedules, a grid of the project photos or a box of notes. Drag a box to move it (it snaps to the edges of the drawing area and the other boxes) and drag its handles to resize it; double-click a plan to slide the drawing inside its box, and press Esc when done. On the right, set a plan's level, scale and what it shows (Fit picks the largest scale at which the whole level fits), or type a position and size. For an enlarged detail, such as a bathroom at 1/2" = 1'-0" or 1:20, duplicate a plan and use Detail crop: "Crop to area" and drag a rectangle over the drawing, or "Fit to room" and pick a room; only that area is drawn, at the largest scale that fits (or pick one), and the level's other plans show it as a dashed box tagged with its drawing and sheet number, such as 1/A3.1. "Clear crop" shows the whole level again. The list on the left shows a small picture of each sheet. The same panel sets the paper size and orientation for every sheet, the title block (Standard, Adjuster, Realtor or Architect), a revision, the photo appendix, and the client, address and date the title block prints. Add a blank sheet, a sheet for a level or a cover sheet with the + button, drag sheets (or use the arrows) to put them in order, and duplicate or delete them. Delete removes the selected box, the arrow keys nudge it (Shift for 1/8 in), Ctrl+D (⌘D) duplicates it, Ctrl+Z (⌘Z) undoes and Page Up / Page Down open the previous or next sheet. Sheets save with the project, so after you change the plan, Export → PDF prints the updated drawings on your layout. Laying out sheets is on Pro and Business; on Free, the Sheets view shows the sheets your PDF prints. "Reset to the default sheets" goes back to a sheet per level (and a cover for several levels), and Undo brings your layout back.
How do the photo links and QR codes in a PDF work?
When you include the photo appendix, each photo prints with a "View full image" link, a short web address and a QR code. Clicking the link or scanning the code opens the photo in a browser, with its caption, room and date and a Download button, so a printed copy still leads to the photo. If the photo is pinned on the plan (or added to a room), the page also shows a small plan of that level marking where it was taken, with the way the camera faced. People with the link get photos at up to 2560 pixels on the long edge (360° photos up to 6144 pixels wide); when a photo is stored larger, for example with "Keep original photo resolution" on, you see a "Download original" button on the page while signed in. Photos are numbered in the appendix, and the plan shows matching markers in each room. To stop old links working, use "Reset photo links" in the project's Photos panel; new exports then get new links.
Does vPlan AR have an API?
Yes, on the Business plan. Create a key in the web app under Settings → API & Developer (it is shown once, so copy it then) and send it as a bearer token. The API lists your projects, returns a project's measured summary (each room's area and square-footage category, wall area less doors and windows, baseboard, doors, windows, finishes and recorded damage, with stair code checks), the room-by-room Measurement Sheets as JSON, CSV or Excel, the plan itself as JSON, and the same PDF plan set and DXF, IFC, glTF, OBJ and XML files the editor exports. With the projects:write scope it can also create a project from plan JSON (send an Idempotency-Key header so a retry can't create it twice) and rename a project or change its details, such as the address or claim number; drawing and deleting stay in the app. When you create a key you choose its scopes (read projects, create and edit projects, download exports) and when it expires (30, 90 or 365 days, or never); existing keys can't write until you make a new one with that scope. Each key can make 60 requests a minute, 10 of them writes, and print 10 PDFs every 10 minutes, and revoking a key, its expiry or leaving Business stops it at once. Webhooks (Settings → API & Developer → Webhooks) send your server a signed POST when a project is created or changed or an export finishes, with a test button and a log of recent deliveries. The full reference is at vplan.ai/developers.
How do I pin a photo where it was taken?
In the web editor, open the Photos tab, pick the room and click a photo, then click "Pin on plan". Click the plan where you stood when you took it, then click the way the camera faced (press Enter to leave it without a direction, or Esc to stop). The pin shows on the plan with the photo's number, the same number it has in the PDF photo appendix, and a wedge for the direction. Click a pin to see the photo, open it full size or remove the pin. Drag a pin to move it; it keeps its direction. To aim it again, click it and choose Move (two clicks again). Pins belong to the level you placed them on, and plan sheets exported with photos print them at the same spot. Turn pins off with "Show photo pins on the plan" in the Photos tab. Every plan can pin photos.
Can I add 360° photos?
Yes. Add a 360° photo like any other in the Photos tab: an equirectangular image, twice as wide as it is tall, as 360° cameras such as Ricoh Theta and Insta360 export it. vPlan marks it 360° in the grid. On Pro and Business, select it (or click its pin on the plan) and choose "View 360°" to look around inside it. It opens looking the way the camera faced; drag (the photo follows the pointer) or use the arrow keys to turn, scroll or press + and − to zoom, and Esc to close; "Flat image" opens the whole panorama. Once you pin it with a direction, the viewer says which way you are facing on the plan as you turn (aim the pin the way the centre of the panorama faced). On Pro and Business 360° photos are kept at up to 6144 pixels wide so they stay sharp up close; on Free they are stored like other photos, and the PDF prints them flat either way. Pin it on the plan where the camera stood, like any photo. On a share link from a Pro or Business project, 360° photos are marked 360° and open in the same viewer.
What size are the photos I add on the web?
Photos you add in the web editor are stored at up to 2560 pixels on the long edge (360° photos on Pro and Business: 6144 pixels wide), about a quarter of the size of a phone's original and still sharp in a printed PDF, with a small preview copy for the photo grid and share pages. Resizing also drops the camera details stored inside the file (such as GPS location and camera model). Each photo's SHA-256 fingerprint is recorded when it is uploaded. On Pro and Business you can keep originals instead: turn on "Keep original photo resolution" under Settings → Preferences, and photos you add from then on are stored exactly as taken. Photos added in the iPhone app are not resized yet.
How much storage do I have, and what happens when it is full?
Room photos (with their small preview copies) and mood board images count toward your storage; floor plans and project details do not. Free includes 1 GB, Pro 50 GB and Business 250 GB. Settings → Storage shows how much you have used, split into photos and mood board images, and warns you from 80%. When it is full, nothing is deleted: your plans still save and every project stays viewable and exportable, but new photos and images can't be added until you delete some you no longer need or upgrade. On the Free plan each room holds up to 3 photos; Pro and Business have no per-room limit. Deleting a photo or a project frees its space; deleting a project removes its photos and mood board images with it.
What can the AI assistant work out from my plan?
Open the assistant (the chat button at the top of the editor) and ask in plain words. In the web editor it measures your plan before it answers, every level at once, with the same numbers the takeoffs and exports use: square footage by room, by level or by category (Gross Living Area apart from garage, basement, unfinished and covered space, as you classified each room); paint, drywall, flooring and baseboard for any rooms you name, from the wall faces inside each room less doors, windows and openings, with gallons, sheets or square feet to order (it says the coats, coverage and waste it assumed, so ask again with yours); each stair's risers, treads, width and headroom against the IRC or IBC limits set on the stair; and each room's length, width, ceiling height, wall area, doors, windows, finishes and recorded damage. Under the answer, "Measured from your plan" names what it measured. Code checks use the model codes; your local code may differ. Each question is one AI message (20 a month on Free, 100 on Pro, unlimited on Business). The iOS app's assistant gets these measurements in a coming update.
How do AI damage suggestions from photos work?
On Pro and Business, select a room in the web editor and open Condition & Damage in its properties. Once the room has photos (add them in the Photos tab), click "Suggest from photos": Claude, an AI model from Anthropic, looks at the room's newest six photos with its name and size and anything you have already recorded, and suggests a condition, damage types, severity, affected materials and a short scope note, with what it saw in each photo and how confident it is. Nothing changes until you click Apply, which adds the suggestion to what you recorded without removing anything (Undo takes it back). Each suggestion uses one of your monthly AI messages. It reports only damage it can see, and says so when the photos don't show enough of the room, so wide, well-lit shots work best. Always check a suggestion against the room before relying on it.
How do I write a scope of work, and can AI draft it?
On Pro and Business, open the Scope tab in the web editor's inspector. Each room with recorded damage gets a narrative and line items, each priced from your rate card (Settings → Estimate Rate Card): pick what the line is (drywall, flooring, baseboard, paint and so on), describe the work and set the quantity. "Draft with AI" writes the whole level's scope from the damage you recorded and each room's measured floor area, wall area, perimeter and ceiling height: a summary, a narrative per room, and lines with quantities scaled to the damage (a 2 ft flood cut is the perimeter times 2 ft of drywall, not the whole wall), each with how it was worked out, plus a list of things to check on site. Quantities can never exceed what the room has. Everything stays editable, and Undo takes back any change. The cost estimate prices these lines instead of whole rooms, and the Damage / Scope Report prints the summary, narratives and lines. A draft uses one of your monthly AI messages.
How do I name rooms that have no name?
Rooms from a scan usually arrive named. When some don't (a scan without room labels, or rooms you drew), the web editor suggests names: click an empty part of the plan and the Properties tab lists the level's unnamed rooms under "Name rooms", each with a suggestion from what stands in it (a toilet and a tub make a bathroom; a stove, a kitchen; a bed, a bedroom) or, when it's empty, its shape (long and narrow is a hallway). Repeats are numbered (Bedroom, Bedroom 2). Edit any name, untick the ones you don't want and click Apply; Undo takes it back. Selecting an unnamed room also shows its suggestion under its Label. On Pro and Business, "Ask AI" sends the level's rooms (sizes, contents and which rooms connect) and up to two photos of each unnamed room to Claude, an AI model from Anthropic, which names the rooms it can tell and says when it can't; it uses one of your monthly AI messages. Guesses are marked and left unticked.
How do I export to CAD/DXF format?
In the web editor, click Export and choose "DXF". The file is drawn at real size, in inches or millimetres to match your units setting, on AIA layers (A-WALL, A-DOOR, A-GLAZ, A-FLOR-STRS and more): walls, doors, windows, wall openings, stairs, floor openings (open to below), furniture, room outlines and names, and exterior dimensions that CAD can edit. With more than one level, pick Levels: this level, all levels stacked (a layer set per level, L1-, L2-) or all levels side by side. Choose the plot scale in your CAD program. DXF export is on Pro and Business.
How do I export a 3D model (GLB, USDZ or OBJ)?
In the web editor, click Export and choose "3D Model". Pick a file type: GLB (glTF) for Blender, Unity, Unreal and web viewers; USDZ to view the model in AR Quick Look on an iPhone or iPad; or OBJ + MTL for older 3D tools. Choose all levels (stacked at their heights) or just this level, and whether to include floors, ceilings (off by default, since they hide the inside from above) and furniture. Walls have their doors and windows cut out, and floors have stair openings. When rooms have finishes, floors, wall paint and ceilings come out in their colours: each wall face is its own object with its paint, and every finish is a named material (untick Finishes for a plain model). The model is in metres. 3D export is on Pro and Business.
How do I export schedules to Excel or CSV?
In the web editor, click Export and choose "Schedules". You get every level's rooms (width and length for rectangular rooms, area, perimeter, ceiling height, floor finish, wall paint, ceiling finish and GLA category), doors and windows (with the same marks as the plan sheets) and, where rooms have a damage assessment, damage, as numbers in feet and square feet or metres and square metres. Pick an Excel workbook (a tab per schedule) or CSV files (a .zip with one file per schedule). Schedules are on Pro and Business.
How do I export room-by-room measurement sheets?
In the web editor, click Export and choose "Measurement Sheets". Every room on every level is laid out room by room in the order estimators key them in: each wall run of the room's outline with its length, the ceiling height, floor and ceiling area, wall area gross and net of doors, windows and openings, the perimeter, and each door, window and opening with its size (and a window's sill height). Rooms are listed by name within each level, and doors and windows carry the same marks as the plan sheets. Pick a PDF (a room totals table per level, then a table per room), one CSV file laid out room by room, or an Excel workbook that adds a room totals tab. Spreadsheets are in feet, square feet and LF or metres and square metres; the PDF gives lengths in feet and inches (or metres). An open side of a room (no wall) counts in the perimeter but not in the wall area. Measurement sheets are on Pro and Business.
Can I send a plan straight to Xactimate or Symbility?
Not yet. vPlan AR has no direct connection to Xactimate, Symbility, CoreLogic / Cotality or other estimating platforms, and isn't affiliated with them. To tell us which one you use, click Export in the web editor, choose "Send to Xactimate / Symbility / …" and send a request; requests decide which connection we work on first. Meanwhile, the Measurement Sheets export lists each room's measurements in the order estimators key them in.
How do I export an IFC model for Revit or ArchiCAD?
In the web editor, click Export and choose "IFC (BIM)". vPlan AR writes an IFC4 file with a storey per level at its height, walls with their doors and windows cut in, a floor slab per room with stair openings, every room as a space with its name and area, and stairs and furniture. Open it in Revit, ArchiCAD or any IFC viewer. Each element keeps the same ID when you export again, so BIM tools that compare versions can match them up. IFC export is on Business.
Can I export to multiple formats at once?
Currently each export generates one file at a time. To get multiple formats, tap Export, generate each format separately, and use the share sheet to save or send each one. On Business, the REST API (included, see vplan.ai/developers) can download PDF plan sets and DXF, GLB, OBJ, IFC and XML for many projects from a script.