# Start a plan

> Open a furnished template, a ready plan at a common size, or one blank room, as a guest or signed in to your account.

You can start a plan three ways: from a furnished template for your kind of business, from a ready plan at a common size, or from one blank room you size yourself. You don't need an account to start.

## Start from a template

A template is a furnished starter plan for one kind of business, such as a [restaurant](https://floorplancraft.com/planner?template=restaurant&view=showcase), a [dental clinic](https://floorplancraft.com/planner?template=dental&view=showcase) or an [indoor playground](https://floorplancraft.com/planner?template=playground&view=showcase). It also decides which catalog **Add items** shows, so pick the one closest to your business.

1. On the website, open **Solutions** and pick a kind of space, or press **Explore the planner** to open the restaurant template.
2. The plan opens in the 3D view. Drag to turn it and scroll to zoom.
3. Press **Make it yours** at the top right to edit the plan in 2D.

> **Note:** Looking at a template saves nothing. Once you change it, it is your plan, ready to save.

## Choose from the template gallery

Inside the planner, the template gallery lists a starter for every kind of space.

1. Open **More** (⋯) in the top bar and choose **Templates**. On a new blank plan you can also press **Start from a template**.
2. Pick a card. The template your plan came from has a **Current template** badge.
3. Press **Use template**. To start empty instead, pick **Blank plan** and press **Create blank plan**.

The plan you have open does not change. If it has unsaved changes, the button reads **Open in new tab**: the new plan opens in another tab and your changes stay where they are.

![The Choose a template dialog with the Restaurants card marked as the current template.](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/screenshots/template-gallery.webp)

## Start from a plan sized for your space

[Floor plans by size](https://floorplancraft.com/floor-plans) has ready plans at common sizes, such as a 1,500 sq ft restaurant, a 3-chair dental clinic or a classroom for 25 students. Each is furnished from the catalog for its kind of space.

1. Open [Floor plans by size](https://floorplancraft.com/floor-plans) and choose a plan.
2. Press **Open this plan in the planner**. It opens in the 3D view.
3. Press **Make it yours** to edit it.

Each size page also offers the plan as a PDF to download.

## Start with a blank room

A blank plan asks one question, **How big is your space?**, and draws one room of that size.

1. Open a [blank plan](https://floorplancraft.com/planner?start=blank): **Start with a blank canvas** on the homepage, **Start blank plan** on the planner's first panel, **Start a blank plan** on [Floor plans by size](https://floorplancraft.com/floor-plans), **New plan** in the account bar, **Create plan** in your [plan library](https://floorplancraft.com/library), or **Blank plan** in the template gallery.
2. Type the size into **Width (m)** and **Length (m)**. In feet the fields read **Width (ft)** and **Length (ft)**. The card starts at 12 × 10 m.
3. Press **Create room**. The planner draws the room and says “Room created. Add items next.”

Sizes run from 0.5 m to 100 m (1.64 ft to 328 ft). To draw the rooms yourself instead, press **Draw it myself**: the **Add room** tool starts. See [Rooms and walls](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/rooms-and-walls.md#add-a-room).

![A blank plan asking How big is your space?, with Width and Length fields, Create room and Draw it myself.](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/screenshots/blank-start-card.webp)

> **Warning:** A blank plan always uses the indoor playground catalog, so **Add items** shows playground equipment. For a restaurant, clinic, shop or any other business, start from that business's template instead and change its rooms to fit your space.

## As a guest or signed in

Without an account you get the whole editor. An account adds saving and a view-only link.

| Feature | Guest | Signed in |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Draw, furnish, 3D and walkthrough | Yes | Yes |
| Save image and every export | Yes | Yes |
| Save the plan | No | Yes, as a new version each time |
| View-only share link | No | Yes |
| Where the plan lives | Only in the open browser tab | Your [plan library](https://floorplancraft.com/library) |

> **Warning:** A guest's plan lives only in the open browser tab. Reload or close the tab and the plan is gone, after the browser warns you. An exported file cannot be opened in the planner again, so sign in before you close the tab if you want to keep working on the plan.

To keep a guest plan, press the status chip that reads **Local draft · not saved**, or choose **Sign in** in **More**. Sign in or create an account in the same tab, and your draft reopens in the planner, ready to save. See [Accounts and signing in](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/accounts-and-signing-in.md#bring-a-guest-draft-with-you) and [Save your plan](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/saving-your-plan.md).

## Related

- [A tour of the planner](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/planner-tour.md)
- [Rooms and walls](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/rooms-and-walls.md)
- [Add and arrange items](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/add-and-arrange-items.md)
- [Save your plan](https://floorplancraft.com/docs/saving-your-plan.md)

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Source: https://floorplancraft.com/docs/start-a-plan · Updated 2026-11-07