Office Layout Planner
Plan a whole office before anyone moves a desk. In this online office layout design tool you draw the premises to scale, divide them into work areas and rooms, fill them with desks and meeting furniture, then count, zone and number the seats and check the walkways, in meters or feet and inches. Everything runs in your browser without an account.
Start from a complete office
Why start from the template
The template is a furnished 14 × 10 m (45′ 11″ × 32′ 10″) floor that already has the parts most offices need, from a furnished open workspace to a meeting room, a reception and a break room, so you begin by adjusting a plan rather than drawing every wall. Open it and it becomes your own project: every wall, door and desk can be moved, resized or deleted, even when your premises look different.
Planning an office, step by step
Draw the shell
Trace the outside walls with the wall tool, typing each measured length, or reshape the template's walls to your measurements. Add columns where the building has them; they are easy to forget and they decide where desks can go.
Divide it into areas
Draw internal walls for meeting rooms, offices and storage. Each enclosed space becomes a room you can name, and its area appears in the properties panel and the area schedule.
Furnish
Select a room and furnish it from a room preset, or fill it with desks using desk auto-fill. Place anything else from the office library, set each item's width and depth to match your own furniture, and duplicate an item to repeat it.
Check and share
Read the office checks for narrow aisles, blocked chair zones and doors, and seats without a route to an exit door. Look at the result in 3D, then export a PDF with a room and seat schedule or send a share link for feedback.
Editor features that matter for offices
Layers you can lock
Lock the Architecture layer and walls, doors and rooms cannot be selected or moved while you rearrange furniture. Hide the Furniture layer to see the empty shell.
Copy, paste and duplicate
Duplicate a desk or chair with Ctrl+D (⌘D on a Mac). Copying a room copies its walls, which is handy for a row of identical offices.
Measure and dimension
The measure tool reads any distance and angle. Dimension lines stay attached to wall corners and update when walls move.
Doors, windows and openings
Drop doors, windows and plain openings onto walls, set their widths, and flip a door's swing so it does not open into a desk.
Room names and areas
Name every room. The area schedule lists each one with its area and the total for the floor or the whole building.
Several floors
Add a floor above or below for a multi-storey office and connect the floors with a stair.
Room presets and desk auto-fill
Room presets
Furnish a selected room as a meeting room for 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 people, a phone booth, a reception, a pantry, a print area or a storage room. Each preset shows the clear area it is designed for and warns when the room is smaller.
Bench desks
Add a 2, 4 or 6-person bench desk from the library: desks back to back with a screen between them and a task chair at each.
Desk auto-fill
Fill a selected room with single desks, 2, 4 or 6-person benches, L-shaped desks or pods of 4. You set the desk size, chair zone, aisle widths and the margin from walls; a dashed preview shows the seat count before you place anything, and one undo removes the lot.
Office furniture library
Compact, workstation, large and L-shaped desks, task and visitor chairs, mobile pedestals, low and tall storage, lockers, meeting tables for 4 to 12 people, a reception desk, a pantry counter, a printer, desk screens, partitions and a 1 × 1 m (3′ 3″ × 3′ 3″) phone booth.
Advisory office checks
The plan panel flags aisles narrower than your primary and secondary widths, chair zones and door clearances blocked by furniture, and seats with no route to an exit door as wide as the exit route width you set. The checks are advisory planning aids, not a building-code compliance check.
Seats, team zones and seat numbers
Desks that count as seats
Workstation desks from the library, bench desks and auto-filled desks count as seats as soon as they are on the plan; switch on “Counts as a seat” for any other item. The Seats panel shows the seats in each room, on each floor and in the whole project as you edit.
Capacity from the floor area
Set an area per person and how many desks you provide per person. The panel works out how many people the drawn floor area holds and how many the seats support with desk sharing.
Colored zones for teams
Create a zone for each team, pick its color and assign a desk, all the seats in a room, or a whole auto-filled bench or pod to it. Seats are tinted on the 2D plan and the panel doubles as the legend.
Seat codes
Number seats with a pattern such as {level}-{zone}-{n:3}, which gives codes like 1F-SAL-001. Numbers run per floor and zone in reading order, stay unique, and can be shown on the plan.
Seat schedule
List every seat with its code, zone, floor and room, then download it as a CSV file for a spreadsheet, as a PDF of its own, or as extra pages of the plan PDF.
What the editor does not do for you
Seat counts, capacity figures and seat codes are planning aids. The capacity is the floor area, measured to wall center lines, divided by the area per person you choose; it is not an occupancy limit for the premises.
The office checks only measure the drawn plan against the widths you set, and exit routes are found on a coarse grid. They do not apply building, fire or accessibility regulations: exit routes, door widths and escape distances are set by the rules where your office is, so check them with your landlord, building manager or a qualified professional before you commit to a layout.
Plan each part of the office
- Small office layout for a team of fourOne room, four desks, storage and the space to move between them.
- Open office layout with desk clustersGroup desks in clusters and keep a clear aisle between them.
- Meeting room layout and table sizesFit a table and chairs with room to get in and out.
- Reception area layoutA counter, staff space behind it and somewhere for visitors to wait.
- Coworking space layoutDesks, a shared meeting table and a lounge in one room.
- Office floor plan template, room by roomEvery room of the office template with its size, and the furniture in it.
- Office capacity calculatorDesks that fit a floor area at your area per person, and the people they support with desk sharing.
- Floor area calculatorAdd up several rooms to get the total floor area of a home or office.
Frequently asked questions
Is the office layout planner free?
Yes. Every feature is free and you do not need an account. Projects are saved in your browser on your own device.
How does desk auto-fill decide how many desks fit?
It packs the desk layout you pick into the selected room, keeping the chair zone behind each desk, your primary and secondary aisle widths and the margin from the walls, and it avoids doors, columns and stairs. Change any setting and the dashed preview updates its seat count before you place anything.
Do the office checks mean my layout meets building codes?
No. They measure the drawn plan against the widths you set, by default a 1.2 m (3′ 11″) primary aisle, a 0.9 m (2′ 11″) secondary aisle, a 0.6 m (2′) chair zone and a 1.1 m (3′ 7″) exit route. Fire, building and accessibility rules depend on where the office is, so have a qualified professional check the final layout.
Can I draw my real office from measurements?
Yes. Type each wall length as you draw, in metric or imperial units, and lock the lengths you have measured so later edits keep them.
Can I plan a home office layout?
Yes. Draw the room to its measurements and place a desk, task chair and storage from the office library.
How do I share the layout with colleagues?
Send a share link, which carries the whole plan in the link, or export a PDF, SVG or PNG. For large plans, send the .fp3d project file instead.