zdraw blog
Workflows, guides and tips for designing floor plans, going 3D in the browser, and rendering with AI.
- Oct 5, 2026 · roofs · detail · balcony · gutters
Finishing a roof: gutters, downpipes, balconies and parapets
Rainwater goods that follow the eave and come down on the wall, and a flat roof you can put a railing or a solid parapet round, side by side.
- Oct 5, 2026 · 3d · tools · travel · roofs
The 3D view is where you work now
Fly to where you are looking, draw roofs on the walls they sit on, place doors and windows by clicking the actual wall, and put the model in weather with fog.
- Oct 5, 2026 · publish · viewer · embed · sharing
Publish a model, share a link, embed it anywhere
Put a scene in the public library, send someone a URL that opens in a real 3D viewer, and drop the same model into your own site with an iframe.
- Oct 5, 2026 · generator · house-builder · 3d
House Builder: a whole house, every time you click
One button draws a complete exterior — plan, storeys, walls, windows, doors, porches, roofs and rainwater goods — and a different house on every click.
- Aug 5, 2026 · assets · staging · workflow · glb
Collapse a whole scene into one reusable asset — and stage a street
Merge a whole scene into one GLB asset, save it locally, then drop saved houses back to stage a street. Textures capped, furniture optional.
- Aug 4, 2026 · windows · doors · curtain-wall · tutorial
Chunky or slim — adjustable frames for windows, doors and curtain walls
Set border thickness up to 200 mm on any window, door or curtain wall. Only the outer frame scales — inner sash bars and muntins stay put.
- Aug 3, 2026 · ui · workflow · productivity
Scrub any value — drag number fields to dial them in
Every number field in zdraw is now a slider: drag left or right to change it, click to type. Shift for fine control, and it never stops at the screen edge.
- Jun 1, 2026 · auto-populate · furniture · tutorial
Auto-populate rooms — full furniture sets in one click
Turn a labelled slab into a furnished room instantly. Auto-populate fills kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms and hallways with the right fixtures, anchored to walls and snapped to floors.
- May 28, 2026 · multi-floor · workflow · building
Build a 3-storey house in 3 clicks — auto-walls, auto-furniture, auto-roof
Block out floors as rectangles, then let zdraw do the rest: walls on every floor, furniture in every room, gable roofs flush with the perimeter — all from three buttons in the Design panel.
- May 22, 2026 · cladding · exterior · tutorial
Exterior wall cladding — battens and siding in one toggle
Turn flat exterior walls into vertical battens or slat siding with a single dropdown. Per-wall overrides, plinth-aware bottoms, and openings cut cleanly — no manual modelling.
- May 15, 2026 · materials · painting · tutorial
Drag-and-drop paint — colours and textures on any face
Drop a colour swatch onto a single wall, a slab top, a cabinet door, or a GLB model. zdraw paints only that face, with undo, world-unit UV tiling for slabs, and per-floor isolation.
- May 12, 2026 · floor-plan · tutorial · free
How to draw a floor plan online for free (no install)
A 5-minute guide to drawing your first floor plan in zdraw — set up rooms with the rectangle tool, build walls, add doors and windows, then view it in 3D.
- May 11, 2026 · 3d · workflow · tutorial
Floor plan to 3D model in minutes — the zdraw workflow
Turn a 2D floor plan into a fully-furnished 3D model in under 10 minutes. Walls, doors, windows, furniture, lighting and AI rendering — all in your browser.
- May 10, 2026 · ai · rendering · interior-design
AI rendering for interior designers — what works, what doesn't
A practical look at AI rendering for interior design: when Render (AI) beats path tracing, how to keep your model recognisable, and where Stability vs Gemini each shine.