Furnitures

Furniture is what turns an empty plan into a room someone can read. This collection holds furniture blocks and cutouts for plan, elevation and perspective work: seating, beds, tables, storage, sanitaryware and the loose objects that make a layout look inhabited rather than diagrammed.

The value of a furniture library is dimensional honesty. A sofa at 2.1 m tells you whether the circulation behind it survives; a sofa drawn at a convenient size hides the problem until someone dimensions the drawing. Clearances matter as much as the objects themselves: roughly 900 mm to pass behind a seated diner, 1200 mm for a comfortable corridor, 750 mm minimum in front of a wardrobe.

How a piece is drawn depends on where the cut plane falls. In plan the cut sits about 1.2 m above floor level, so a bed or table is seen from above while a full height wardrobe is cut and takes a heavier outline. Get that hierarchy wrong and everything reads at the same weight.

free CAD block sets, drawing scales and line weight conventions cover the rules in detail.