AutoCAD is a general drafting instrument: you draw every line yourself, and you can draw anything. PLOTVA starts from a plot size, a floor count and a room list and generates the set — plans, elevations, sections, 3D, schedules, a costed BOQ and a native DWG. If your work is custom detail drafting, keep AutoCAD. If your work is turning a plot into a house plan, this is minutes instead of days, and it costs $2 for a day against about $2,095 a year.
| Option | List price, 2026 | What you get for it |
|---|---|---|
| AutoCAD (full) | about $2,095 per year | everything, general drafting, industry-standard DWG tooling |
| AutoCAD LT | about $540 per year | 2D drafting only, no 3D or customisation |
| Revit | about $3,005 per year | BIM authoring, a different workflow and skill set |
| PLOTVA — 1 day | $2 (Rs 550) | design and study, one job |
| PLOTVA — 7 days | $15 (Rs 4,150) | everything unlocked, 200 file downloads, one job, saves and prints |
| PLOTVA — 30 days | $50 (Rs 13,850) | everything unlocked, 900 file downloads use on one machine |
Autodesk list prices are as published in October 2026 and change; the point is the order of magnitude, not the last dollar. A year of this software costs about what five days of AutoCAD costs — and it runs with no internet connection.
the drawing is bespoke — a detail sheet, a refurbishment of a listed building, a site plan survey, a set that must match an existing practice standard exactly, or work that will be edited by five people in an office over months.
you have a plot and a brief, and you need a complete, dimensioned, code-checked set with quantities — today. Or when you are the owner of one plot and cannot justify a CAD licence, a workstation and the training.
that is the normal professional workflow: generate the study set here, then open the DWG in AutoCAD to add practice standards, sections the office insists on, and the architect's own detailing. 30 AIA layers mean nothing has to be re-drawn.
a permit submission without a licensed professional's signature in the country of submission. That is not a software limitation, it is the law, and no CAD package — free or $3,005 a year — signs drawings.
Output is native DWG, not a screenshot and not a re-drawn imitation: real entities on 30 AIA layers, real dimensions, blocks, handles and drawing units, plus DXF in AC1032 (2018) format. It opens in AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD and DraftSight. What it is not is a batch of every drawing type a practice uses — it is the house-plan set, produced properly.
The DWG is generated by the software directly, entity by entity, which is why layers and dimensions survive the trip.
AC1032 / 2018 DXF for tools and scripts that prefer the text-based format.
No cloud conversion service in the middle, no upload of your drawing to anybody's server.
No, and it does not try to be. AutoCAD is a general drafting instrument: you draw every line yourself. This starts from a plot size, a floor count and a room list and generates the set. If your work is custom detail drafting, keep AutoCAD; if your work is turning a plot into a house plan, this gets you there in minutes.
Autodesk lists full AutoCAD at about $2,095 per year and AutoCAD LT at about $540 per year, with Revit around $3,005 per year. Here a day of design work is about $2 and a week with everything unlocked is about $9.
It writes them. Output is native DWG on 30 AIA layers with real dimensions, blocks, handles and drawing units, plus DXF (AC1032 / 2018) — both open in AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD and DraftSight.
Because the amount of work is different. A drafting application has to cover every discipline and every detail; this covers one job — a house plan from a plot — and does only that, offline, as a single file.
Send the plot size, the country and the rooms you want. You get a straight answer with the plan that fits, usually the same day. The button opens a ready-written e-mail — just add your details and send.
No phone number and no e-mail address is printed on this page — the contact button opens Gmail with the address already filled in, so it cannot be scraped.