Floor Plan Drawing Symbols

This list can and should be expanded by each office to include symbols generally used by it but not indicated here.

Floor plan drawing symbols.

You have to get familiar with these floor plan symbols when you are drawing or reading floor plans. Floor plan symbols are always shown in plan view that is as though you have removed the house roof and are looking down at the floor from above. You ll need to get familiar with floor plan symbols if you re looking at floor plans a floor plan is a picture of a level of a home sliced horizontally about 4ft from the ground and looking down from above. Bottom line sheet number.

Top line drawing number. Column grid call out. Below is a concise glossary of the most often used blueprint symbols free for your use. Plan detail call out.

House plans like floor plans site plans elevations and other architectural diagrams or blueprints are generally pretty self explanatory but the devil s often in the details. Floor plan generally in lower right hand corner of drawings 111 2 t the symbols shown are those that seem to be the most common and acceptable judged by the frequency of use by the architectural offices surveyed. Blueprint symbols glossary the most common floor plan symbols. How to build a house.

Look at the symbols below and try to make a floor plan of your own. Every office has their own standard but most symbols should be similar to those shown on this page. It s not always easy to make an educated guess about what a particular abbreviation or symbol might mean.