Floor plans - Docs

Import a plan, calibrate it to true scale, and place every device at its real footprint.

A floor plan is where a design starts. Upload an architectural drawing, calibrate it to true scale, then place every device where it will actually go. Everything downstream, the bill of materials, the quote, rack plans, and wiring, reads from the placements you make here.

Before you start

You do not need anything set up first. If you want devices to render at their real footprint instead of a plain icon, add a DXF outline and width and depth (in mm) to the product in your catalog first.

Import or start blank

Open a project's floor plans and choose Upload floor plan.
Drop in an architectural drawing as a PDF or an image (PNG, JPG, or WEBP). A PDF's first page is converted to an image automatically.
Or choose Start with a blank sheet to draw your own layout from scratch on a plain page.
Pick a page size from the standard paper sizes, portrait or landscape, or set a custom size.

Calibrate to true scale

Select the Set scale tool and drag a line along something on the drawing with a known real length, a wall, a door, a marked dimension.
Enter that length in metres or feet.
Avitly works out metres (or feet) per pixel from the line you drew and marks the plan as calibrated.

Calibration is what makes every other measurement on the plan real: cable lengths, the SPL heatmap, and camera range all read directly off it. Until a plan is calibrated, those features stay blank or unavailable, and the toolbar reminds you to set scale.

Place devices

Search the product catalog in the side panel and drag a product onto the canvas.
A product with a DXF outline and a width and depth renders at its true footprint on the plan, scaled to what you calibrated. A product without one renders as a category icon at a fixed badge size.
Rotate, tilt, and roll a placement from the properties panel, drag it to reposition, or use the alignment and distribution tools to line several up.
Snap-to-nearby-devices is on by default: dragging near another device or shape shows a red match line so edges and centres line up without eyeballing it.

Repeating rooms

If a plan represents several identical rooms, for example a run of matching meeting rooms, set the BOM multiplier on that plan instead of drawing every room. It scales the plan's device and cable quantities by that number everywhere they are counted: the bill of materials, the quote, and installed-item seeding.

Tips

Vendor DXF files are often messy: dimension lines, hatching, and text alongside the real outline. Avitly keeps only the largest closed loop it finds, so decoration does not turn into visual noise on the plan.
Switch the size unit in the properties panel between px and mm once the plan is calibrated, to enter a device's size directly in real-world millimetres.
A plan that is not yet calibrated still lets you place devices and draw layout, but wait to calibrate before you rely on any measurement it shows.