Create and edit floor plans

Available with the ArcGIS Indoors Spaces extension.

With Indoor Floor Plan Editor, you can create floor plans and edit floor plan data to reflect real-world physical changes to your workplace.

You must have privileges associated with the default role of Publisher or higher to create plans and privileges associated with the default role of Data Editor or higher to open and edit floor plans. If you're using a custom role, you must enable the Edit privilege for features in ArcGIS Online to open and edit floor plans.

New floor plans can be kept private or shared with your organization. You can also update the sharing level of existing floor plans at any time.

Create a floor plan

You can use Floor Plan Editor to make edits to your existing floor plans or create new floor plans from scratch. All updates are made in a plan, which is a working copy of your indoor data. You can review the updates made in a plan with others and merge them into the default plan to make the updates available in the indoor data shared to your organization.

Complete the following steps to create a plan in Floor Plan Editor:

1. Verify that you are signed in to your ArcGIS organization and have privileges to create content.
2. Open the Floor Plan Editor app.
3. Click New Plan.

   The Create Plan panel appears.

4. In the Create Plan panel, provide a title, and optionally add tags and a summary describing the plan.
5. Click the Save in Folder drop-down arrow and choose a Folder to save the plan in.
6. Choose the appropriate Share With option:
   • Private—The plan will not be visible to anyone other than you.
   • Organization—The plan will be visible to other members of the organization.
7. Optionally, configure Group Sharing.
8. If your floor plan data contains more than 200,000 features:
   1. Click Next.
   2. Select a plan type:
      • Blank Plan—Best for adding new facilities. No features will be imported from the floor plan dataset.
      • Focused Plan—Best for working on a select number of facilities. Selected facilities and their associated features will be imported from the floor plan dataset. If you select Focused Plan, a Facilities drop-down list appears with a list of facilities in the floor plan dataset. Select one or more facilities from the drop-down list to import their features.
      • Full Plan—Best for working on all indoors data. All features will be imported from the floor plan dataset.
9. Click Create Plan.

   Note:

   Creating a plan can take up to a minute or longer if your floor plan data contains more than 100,000 features.

The new plan opens in Floor Plan Editor and is ready for floor plan editing.

Open an existing floor plan

In Floor Plan Editor, you can open floor plans created by others if the floor plans are shared with the organization.

After opening the Floor Plan Editor app, a list of available floor plans appears. You can open a floor plan from the list, or create one.

Note:

If you have trouble opening a floor plan, ensure that you have the necessary permissions. Contact your ArcGIS Online organization administrator to request access.

To delete a floor plan, click the Delete button next to the plan. You can only delete a floor plan if you created it, unless you are an administrator. Administrators can delete all plans. A plan cannot be deleted while it is open.

Tip:

Consider deleting floor plans that have been merged to efficiently manage file storage in your organization and lower storage credit costs.

Floor plan editing

After creating or opening a floor plan, you can access the navigation pane containing a variety of tools for editing floor plan data from within a web browser.

Any saved changes to a floor plan exist only in that plan until they are pushed to the default floor plan.

The following functionality is available when editing floor plans:

• Plan—Create, delete, open, and update sharing of plans.
• Edit—Select a feature on the map, and access the editing tools by clicking Edit on the pop-up.

  Note:

  Editing feature attachments is not supported.

• Draw—Draw new units or walls, and set attributes.
• Split units—Split a unit into two units and insert a wall where you want to split the unit. Available options for the new wall are determined by the configuration option that defines walls.
• Add—Draw a new site, facility, or level and set its attributes.
• Place—Place entryways, windows, floor transitions, and furniture from the palette.
• Copy and paste—Copy and paste objects in the drawing.
• Merge—Merge multiple Units or Details features into a single feature.
• Manage plan—Push changes from the current plan to the default plan, or pull changes from the default plan to the current plan.
• Grid—Customize the grid spacing, rotation, and placement.
• Images—Add floor plan images and adjust their transparency to trace over while drawing features.

Credit usage

Creating a floor plan in Floor Plan Editor creates a copy of the indoor data in your organization content, which adds storage credit costs. Feature layer settings, such as Enable Sync and Keep track of created and updated features can increase storage size and costs over time. For example, a plan with 100,000 features could be approximately 75 MB in size and consume approximately 18 credits for a given month.

For more examples of credit consumption costs, refer to credits by capability in ArcGIS Online.