zdraw blog
Workflows, guides and tips for designing floor plans, going 3D in the browser, and rendering with AI.
- 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 AI Enhance beats path tracing, how to keep your model recognisable, and where Stability vs Gemini each shine.