Drafted vs Planix

Drafted is a web and Windows tool for generating and refining AI floor plans and renders. You provide rooms, house shape, lot size, and design preferences, and it generates five layout options. Walls, doors, and windows can be edited in 2D while a matching 3D model updates. Furnished floor-plan views and exterior renders support selectable materials, colors, and architectural styles. Plans can be downloaded as PDF, AutoCAD DXF, or IFC files, and the Revit add-in generates native editable building elements that sync to a Drafted account. Projects can be shared with invited collaborators using Full-Access, Review, or View Only permissions. Imperial and metric units are supported. Drafted and its Revit add-in are free. Revit generation is limited to single-family, single-story residential designs. Output is schematic, does not check building codes, and requires qualified professional review before construction.

Planix turns a plain-English project brief into dimensioned 2D floor plans, an interactive 3D model, and preliminary engineering outputs. A mathematical solver places walls, rooms, and columns. The pipeline supplies country-aware structural defaults, a bill of quantities, a cost estimate, and engineering notes for review by a licensed engineer. Users inspect walls and openings in a browser WebGL viewport and download AutoCAD-compatible DXF and PDF files; listed export formats also include IFC, OBJ, and STL. Planix Analyze accepts IFC, PDF, DXF, Excel, image, CSV, and DWG files for preliminary structural or civil analysis. Planix Connect is a Windows desktop agent for installed AutoCAD, with AutoCAD 2018+ and Revit 2021+ compatibility listed; Revit and SketchUp support is beta. Connect does not yet support structural drawings inside AutoCAD or Revit, mixed-use buildings, or irregular plots. Files use private storage and signed download URLs. The Free plan costs nothing and allows 10 plan generations monthly.