Schedule of features

What Plotlay does

Everything Plotlay does today, grouped by the job. Every tool and every export is free in your browser; plans add cloud projects, more sharing, your logo and a team space (fees). Almost all of it can also be done by an AI agent.

Map and site

Projects on the map or on paper. Live street and satellite maps, any image as the map, or a blank metre grid for a floor plan with no address yet.
Your own imagery. Add a Mapbox, Google, MapTiler, Esri, Nearmap or Stadia key, or any XYZ or WMS layer (cadastre, zoning, flood). Keys stay in your browser.
The site boundary. The land parcel from the state cadastre in SA, VIC, QLD and TAS, or the OpenStreetMap boundary. OSM building outlines in view as shapes.
Terrain. Contours and spot levels from open terrain data; the ground in 3D.
Design codes. Design codes for every Australian state, New Zealand, England, Ireland, the US and Canada, or your own template of checks. Pick the codes per project, import a rule pack (JSON, YAML or CSV), and pin the version each project uses. Every rule reports PASS, WARN, FAIL or UNKNOWN with its clause and source. Design codes. Reference only: verify with your council or certifier.
Development applications. Site details, setbacks, carports with gutters, downpipes and stormwater, driveways, verge items, soft landscaping, cut and fill, and tree protection, checked against the codes you choose.
Landscaping. 184 garden plants and 18 indoor plants at mature size, as single plants, rows or filled beds, with a plant schedule. Paving, decks, pools, fences and gates in many styles.
Levels. Basement, ground and upper floors, each with its own drawing.

Drawings and CAD

Put a drawing on the ground. PNG, JPG, WebP, SVG, PDF (any page) or DXF. Pin 2 or more matching points; each pin shows its error and the fit shows RMS. DXFs drawn in MGA or UTM place themselves. Save DWG as DXF first.
Clean it up. Recolour linework, dim the base map, erase or crop title blocks, cut a room out to its own layer, swap in a revision and keep the placement.
Trace and draw. The magic wand outlines a room in one click. Lines, shapes, text, symbols, leaders, dimensions and hatches; sketch by hand and it straightens up.
Precision drafting. 50 commands (move, copy, rotate, mirror, array, offset, trim, extend, fillet, chamfer and more), typed lengths and snapping to ends, midpoints and crossings.
History. Undo up to 100 steps, plus restore points kept on your device.

Building

Rooms, walls, doors and windows. Draw rooms corner by corner or by typed lengths; walls at set thicknesses; hinged, sliding, bifold, stacker, barn and awning openings with marks D01 and W01. Square up a scanned or sketched plan in one step.
Finishes. 128 tiles by type, colour, size and finish; floors, wall linings, benchtops, paint, skirting and cornices; the house’s brick, render, cladding, roof and Colorbond colours.
The fit-out library. 804 real-sized things on 14 shelves: furniture, kitchens, bathrooms, appliances, lighting, joinery, sheds, site items. 234 of them are built in 3D.
Design options. Two vanities, three kitchen layouts: each option set shows one at a time, on the plan, in 3D and on the sheets.
Fit to tape. Tape measurements from site fit the plan to the house as built; measurements that can’t all be true are reported, not hidden.
Schedules, elevations and sections. Doors, windows, rooms, finishes, plants and materials, on screen or as CSV; every wall of a room and every side of the house.

3D and walk-through

See it in 3D with the sun where it really is for the site, and its shadows.
Walk through it in first person: doors and windows open, blinds and curtains move, lights switch on. Materials show as they are specified.
Export the model as IFC for Revit and ArchiCAD, or glTF for SketchUp and Blender.

Walk mode in the Showroom example: a lawn, garden beds, a palm, festoon lights, a glass pool fence and sun loungers beside the pool. — Walk mode in the Showroom example (in the app: Projects, Examples).

Field capture

Import a register. CSV, Excel, GeoJSON, KML, KMZ, GPX or a zipped Shapefile; latitude and longitude or MGA/UTM; every other column kept.
Work the list on a phone. Nearest first, with distance and direction; confirm, record where it really is, mark it not found, or skip. GPS accuracy on every record.
Forms, tags and photos. Questions for each asset type, barcode and QR tags, condition, notes and photos.
Raise the work. Corrective actions, extra work, hazards and follow-ups with priority, due date and photos.
Ask someone on site. Send GPS points to capture or rooms to scan; what comes back is applied to the drawing.
Receivers and offline. Bluetooth and USB GNSS receivers that send NMEA, in Chrome and Edge (not yet tested with every model). Install it on a phone; save map areas before you go where the imagery’s licence allows.

Plotlay Scan for iPhone and iPad

LiDAR room scanning, corner capture on other AR devices, and outdoor capture of trees, fences and beds. Sends the scan to a Plotlay project with a QR code or an 8-character code. More about Plotlay Scan. It is free and is on its way to the App Store.

Documents

Make a document from one chooser: plans to lodge, a drawing set, a room pack, schedules, a picture, data, or a link.
Room packs. The rooms you choose, before and after: plans at scale, every wall, views inside rendered with their materials, and finish and fit-out schedules, in one PDF with a ZIP of the pictures.
Plans to scale. Vector PDF or SVG at 1:20 to 1:5000, A4 to A1, with areas, wall lengths, GPS corners and your title block. DXF in local millimetres, metres or MGA grid.
GIS and data. GeoJSON, Shapefile, KML, KMZ, CSV and Excel, ready for ArcGIS, QGIS and Power BI.
Your documents. Save a document’s settings by name and make it again in one click. Every document made is listed: download it again, make it again on the project as it is now, or share it with named people for a set time.

A room pack sheet: the Showroom kitchen plan at 1:50 with elevations A and B, cabinets, appliances and tiles dimensioned in millimetres. — A room pack sheet, made from the Showroom example: the kitchen at 1:50 with two of its walls.

Sharing

Invite people by email to view, to comment and pick design options, or to edit. Choose where each person starts and what they see.
The client view. A simple screen for people you share with: the plan, the 3D walk-through, the design options to pick from, the documents you allow, and comments. Viewing needs no account.
Connected copies. Someone you share with takes a copy, works on it, and sends changes back as a proposal; you accept or reject each change side by side.
Activity. Recent changes by person, and notifications for comments, picks and joins.

Teams and plans

Free, Project pass, Pro and Team. A team shares projects and registers, with owner, editor and viewer roles. Prices and limits are in the schedule of fees.

Security and privacy

Projects stay in your browser until you sign in and sync them; synced projects are stored in Sydney.
Sign in with an emailed link or code; no password. Each account sees only its own projects and the ones shared with it, enforced in the database.
Limits on invites, emails, link opens and agent calls keep shared links and the connector from being abused.