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From Prompt to Blueprint: My Workflow with an AI Floor Planner and an Image-to-DWG Converter

I've been poking at AI tools that produce useful output (not just pretty pictures), and this week's find genuinely fit that bar: Floor Planner, an AI floor planner that turns text descriptions into dimensioned floor plan

I've been poking at AI tools that produce useful output (not just pretty pictures), and this week's find genuinely fit that bar: Floor Planner, an AI floor planner that turns text descriptions into dimensioned floor plans — and a companion image to DWG converter that turns scanned architectural drawings into editable CAD files.
I ran both through a real task: re-planning our apartment layout and digitizing an old paper plan. Here's the workflow.
The generator: describe it, don't draw it
The floor planner has three input modes:
Mode
What it does
Room
Single-space design (one bedroom, one kitchen)
House
Full layout — set room counts, kitchen type, floors, total area
Custom
Free-text prompt, e.g. "compact 2-bedroom apartment, 58 m², open kitchen, laundry closet"
You set dimensions in m² or ft², choose one of 10 rendering styles (Technical, Blueprint, 3D Isometric, Realistic, Hand-Drawn, Watercolor, Marker Pen, Colored 2D, ...), and hit Generate. A high-res plan comes back in seconds — as 2D, 2.5D or 3D. Results auto-save to a History tab, and you can change dimensions or switch styles without starting over.
Two things stood out from a workflow perspective:

  1. Style is decoupled from layout. The same plan renders in 10 styles, so one floor planner output becomes ten artifacts — Realistic for stakeholders, Technical for contractors, Hand-Drawn for concept decks.
  2. Image + prompt input. You can upload a photo of the existing space and prompt for changes. The floor planner reinterprets the image into a new plan, which is exactly the ergonomics you want for renovation work where "current state" is the starting point. The converter: image to DWG The second page handles the opposite direction — legacy assets. If you have a scanned or photographed architectural drawing (JPG/PNG), the image to DWG tool converts it into DWG, the format AutoCAD and most CAD pipelines use. I fed it a 20-year-old paper plan I'd photographed with a phone. Conversion produced a DWG that opened in a CAD viewer with walls and annotations as vector objects — selectable and editable, not a flat image. Why this matters in practice: scanned plans are usually dead ends in a digital pipeline. You can view them, but not modify them. An image to DWG step converts an archive into an asset. And it composes nicely with the generator — old plan goes in one end as an image, comes out the other end as DWG, then the AI floor planner can iterate new versions of it from a prompt. The combined pipeline paper plan → photo (JPG/PNG) → image to DWG (editable CAD file) → iterate with AI floor planner (prompt → 2D/2.5D/3D) For anyone building products around renovation, real estate, or interior design, this is a cheap way to prototype the "before → after" experience. No sign-up to try the floor planner, no CAD knowledge required, and the output is presentable enough for early-stage client conversations. Verdict Not a CAD replacement — it's a front-end for the ideation phase that used to cost hours. The floor planner handles generation; the image to DWG converter handles digitization. Together they cover both halves of a renovation workflow. Links:
  3. AI Floor Planner: https://floor-planner.ai/
  4. Image to DWG converter: https://floor-planner.ai/image-to-dwg
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