Plan to render — floor plans and site plans
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Plan to render — floor plans and site plans
This is the tool for any plan you already have, at any scale: a single apartment floor plan comes back as furnished, lit rooms; a building layout as a massing view; a site plan as a photorealistic aerial. Roads, blocks, greenery, water and context appear — while your plan's actual layout and proportions are preserved.
Masterplans are the hardest thing to sell, because clients and committees struggle to read them. An aerial render of the same plan closes that gap in a single image.
How it works
- 1
Upload the plan
A site plan, CAD export, massing diagram or aerial viewport capture.
- 2
Describe the context
Density, greenery, roads, water, time of day, region — set the world your plan sits in.
- 3
Get the aerial
A photorealistic masterplan visualisation of your actual layout, ready for a board or a submission.
Who it's for
- —Planning submissions and committee presentations
- —Developer pitches for large sites
- —Competition boards that need an aerial hero image
- —Urban design studies with several layout options
AI masterplan render vs traditional visualisation vs a flat plan
| Approach | Input needed | Time to output | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI masterplan render (this tool) | A site plan, CAD export, massing diagram or aerial viewport capture | Seconds, in the browser | Turning a plan you already have into a photorealistic aerial for a board or submission, without building out context and materials by hand |
| Traditional visualisation (Lumion, Enscape, V-Ray, Twinmotion) | A full 3D site model with terrain, blocks and surrounding context | Hours to days per board, often a render farm | Fully art-directed masterplan renders with exact control over camera, light and material grade |
| Generic AI image generators (Midjourney, DALL-E) | A text description only, no plan required | Seconds | Aerial "mood" imagery for inspiration — the layout is invented rather than read from your plan, so it cannot stand in for the actual site |
| Flat 2D plan or GIS export (no rendering) | The plan itself, no extra step | Immediate | Technical review and measured drawings — clear for planners, but hard for a lay board or committee to read at a glance |
Who should pick which
- Want a new layout designed, not an existing plan rendered: This tool renders the plan you already have — road structure, block layout and proportions are read from your upload, not invented. If there is no plan yet and the layout itself still needs designing, that is a different kind of tool.
- Only restyling one building, not a wider site or aerial view: For a single building rather than a full site, exterior is the more direct tool — same geometry-preserving approach, framed on one facade instead of a masterplan.
- Architects and planners preparing committee or board submissions: Masterplan sits in the same account as 14 other tools, so the same aerial can move on to a walkthrough video or a 4K upscale for a printed board without switching apps or re-uploading.
- SketchUp or 3ds Max users working from a 3D site model: The free SketchUp or 3ds Max plugin sends the active viewport straight through, so an aerial viewport capture never needs a manual screenshot step.
Frequently asked
Does it keep my site layout?+
Yes. Road structure, block layout and proportions are preserved. Materials, greenery, context and lighting are added on top.
What input works best?+
A clean plan with clear line work, or an aerial viewport capture from your 3D model. Cluttered CAD drawings with heavy annotation give weaker results — export a clean version first.
What is Imagine AI rendering?+
Imagine is Archome’s text-to-render engine for architecture: describe a building or interior in plain words and get a photorealistic architectural render in about 30 seconds - no photo, no model, no CAD file needed.
How is Imagine different from Midjourney for architecture?+
Imagine is tuned for architectural output and sits inside a full workflow: the render can go straight to upscaling, video, 3D export or material identification. General image tools stop at the picture.
Can it render large sites?+
Yes — from a single block to a full district. Say the scale in your prompt so the level of detail matches ("aerial view of a 20-hectare mixed-use district").