Arti Guides
Learn Arti, and learn to plan
Two kinds of thing here: how to drive the app, and how to do the underlying job properly — measuring a room, choosing a scale, deciding what a plan is actually for. The second half matters more than the first.
Your first plan, step by step
Arti opens on an empty plan and creates it for you — there is nothing to set up and nothing to save. From a standing start this takes about ten minutes.
Floor Plan Software With No Sign-Up: The Short List
Almost every floor plan tool wants an email address before you can draw a single wall. Here are the ones that don't, and what you give up by choosing them.
Free Floor Plan Software for Mac: What You Actually Get
Six floor plan tools that run on a Mac and cost nothing to start. What each one actually gives you for free, and where the wall is — checked August 2026.
Offline Floor Plan Software: What Still Works Without Internet
Which floor plan tools genuinely work with no connection, which only pretend to, and why it matters more than it sounds when you are standing in an empty house.
Sweet Home 3D Alternatives for Mac: An Honest Comparison
Sweet Home 3D is free, capable and twenty years old. Here is what it still does better than anything else, and the three cases where something else genuinely suits a Mac better.
How to Draw a Floor Plan of Your Home (No Architect Needed)
A seven-step method for drawing an accurate floor plan of your own home, including the diagonal check that reveals your rooms are not rectangles.
How to Measure a Room Properly (and the Check Everyone Skips)
A method for measuring a room accurately enough to draw it: what to measure, in what order, and the diagonal check that reveals your room is not a rectangle.
Will It Fit? How to Check Before the Sofa Arrives
The three measurements that decide whether furniture fits — and the one almost everyone forgets, which is why sofas end up stuck on staircases.
Do Floor Plans Help Sell Property? Tracing the Statistics
Every statistic about floor plans and property listings traces back to one Rightmove survey from 2013. We followed the citations. Here is what the original actually said.
Standard Furniture Dimensions: 244 Pieces, Measured
Width, depth and height for 244 pieces of furniture, from beds and sofas to radiators and worktops. The dimensions Arti draws with, published in full.
Kitchen Layout: Choosing Between Galley, L, U and Island
Five kitchen layouts, the room dimensions each one actually needs, and why the work triangle is still useful even though it was invented for a 1940s housewife working alone.
Room Clearances: How Much Space to Leave Around Everything
The gaps that decide whether a room works: in front of a wardrobe, beside a bed, between kitchen runs, around a dining table. One reference table, with what each number is for.
What Makes a Good Floor Plan: Nine Things That Decide It
A good plan is not a pretty one. Nine principles that separate a layout people enjoy living in from one that merely fits — circulation, zoning, wall length, light and the door swing nobody checks.
Still stuck?
Write to us. Arti is made by one person, so you reach the person who wrote the code.
Arti is not made for a phone yet
Open this on a desktop and you can use the whole editor in your browser — nothing to install, no account. The Mac app is free on the App Store.
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