Starting with a Basic Floor Plan

Whether you’re designing the interior or exterior of a home, plant, or office building, you start by creating a floor plan. It’s important to begin with the appropriate template. In Visio Professional 2007, that’s any of the building plan templates.

When you start a new drawing with an Office Layout or building plan template, Visio 2007 opens with the stencils you need to define interior and exterior spaces and walls, as well as special tools and commands that aren’t found in other templates.

Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007 includes only one template for floor plans: the Office Layout template in the Maps And Floor Plans solution. This template is also included in Visio Professional 2007, which has many ...

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