This article was originally published by RenderPlan as "How to Render an AutoCAD Floor Plan with Photoshop."

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This article was originally published by RenderPlan as "How to Render an AutoCAD Floor Plan with Photoshop."Rendering plans in Photoshop is an essential part of presenting your work to your client or to convince a competition jury to pick your design as a winner. Whenever you publish your work for books, websites or presentations the design quality of your plans will be your business card to future clients and the audience you build around your practice. Let?s start step by step.1. Structuring your CAD drawing in AutoCAD

The raw AutoCAD floorplan. Image Courtesy of RenderPlan
In this article, we will cover the principle steps of how to export a floor plan drawing from AutoCAD and render it with Adobe Photoshop. The art is to create aesthetic looking plans that are not too overloaded with colors and textures. In order to speed up your workflow, you should already structure your CAD drawing in a way that helps you to be faster in Photoshop later.The graphic above shows the principle drawing style of a simple office floor plan in AutoCAD right before exporting. Here are the things you should do in your AutoCAD DWG:1.1 Structure you drawing on different layersThis is of course not a magical advice but it really critical to do so and to be able to export different parts of you drawing to single PDF fil...