--- title: SoftPlan Reviews meta_title: 'SoftPlan Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 20 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SoftPlan works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 20 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-14' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # SoftPlan Reviews **Vendor:** SoftPlan Systems **Category:** [Building Design and Building Information Modeling (BIM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/building-design-and-building-information-modeling-bim) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 ## About SoftPlan SoftPlan is a subscription based facility that helps the design process by providing you with a suite of cloud-based services and knowledge to give you access to content, data and more. ## SoftPlan Reviews ### 1. My key is no longer recognized and I get no help from Tech Support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gregory G. | Owner/Contractor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** Ease of use when it's working is nice but let it get old and you're screwed. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** Lack of support if it's not a "Newer" version **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Right now I'm locked out of all my drawings and can not get help ### 2. Softplan is the best program for me designing residentially. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heather W. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** Softplan has come so far in the 20 years I’ve been using it. Can do 3D drawings so much easier, showing clients different views. The design process is quicker with all of the different tools that have been added along the way. The support on the Softplan site is very helpful as well when looking for help/resources. Tech is also amazing if having any issues. Symbols & several other things can be added into softplan to customize. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** The biggest downside, which is probably on my end, is how often the program crashes - possibly bc I’m trying to do too much too fast & too many files open at once. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits far exceed the problems of softplan. Roofs are easier than ever before, 3D renderings are quicker & easier to do. Walk-throughs are nice to show clients how the hone is forming up. ### 3. Easy to learn the basics, customizing can get complicated **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany K. | Architectural Drafter and Construction estimator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2021 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** The ability to customize, the 3D abilities, and the rough estimating that can be done using soft list. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** I find there’s often glitches, or work arounds needed. The softplan forum is very helpful to get users experiences and help. **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** You can’t hold AutoCAD as the standard. These are very different programs. You will need to re-learn commands but it will come easy. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Something as simple and doing a clean sketch for fabrication to house plans. The ability to walk through the 3D home with clients really gets them excited and gives them confidence that things are being taken care of. ### 4. Easy to Use, and Unlimited Options **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris R. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** Softplan easily and quickly allows me to put together a 3d model to show clients what direction we can go in. The renderings really help with customer satisfaction. Not everyone can visualize how something will look based off a 2D drawing. The modeling and rendering capabilities really make the project jump out. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** I have to trick the program on a few occasions to get the exact roof profile I am looking for. Other than that, this does most everything I need it to do. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to draw details on certain projects to help the builder create what the customer is looking for. It also allows me to help the customer visualize what their project will look like. ### 5. A+ Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** J.T. U. | Engineering Technologist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** I like the fact that every symbol and wall its integrated to one another and can be named, modified and adjusted to fit the design criteria you need without necessarily having to create a new block for a custom symbol every time. I also like the manual drafting tools. I find this is a good Solid 3D and 2D CAD Program. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** Sometimes there are minor glitches in the system - typically in my experience this was due to a hardware issue on my end - most things are minor and most likely arise because of a lack of knowledge on how to design something a certain way. I do wish however, that there would be more integration of Canadian companies - But this also could be a package they offer that I am not aware of. Most of everything is U.S. Pricing in material lists. This can be manually inputted. So I guess its more of a convenience thing. **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** I Highly Recommend giving Softplan a try if conventional 2D Based CAD is what you currently are using. It takes time to get comfortable with the commands, but there is enough resources in their manual and online to figure out it in a relatively easy way. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving issues of assemblies of multiple floors. I have the resources available to design a building exactly in 3D as seen in the Plan view. This ensures everything is accounted for in the design before it is built to reduce the amount of unforeseen issues when building onsite. ### 6. The architectural software with the right balance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael C. | Principal, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** Drawings tools, great libraries, 3D on split screens. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** I will it integrated tools to allow more creation of shapes with the ability to rotate solids on a 3D plane. It is rather limited, leaving us to create them in Sketchup and import. It seemed like a natural ability to include this capability within the program. Roof and stair tools can use an upgrade. The roof has a ton of tools but it still makes you trick it more than we would like. **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** Overall, we found every program has limitations. This really gives us control over line weights, and every aspect of the house, including cabinetry, framing, modeling, manufacturer products etc... **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** This gives us control over the stacking of floors, and even add necessary framing. Site plan tools are great. We are able to to add Google earth coordinates and generate the terrain automatically from Google earth data. Construction documents are very solid. ### 7. Softplan is great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily B. | Design Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** The tools are very user friendly and it makes creating floorplans a breeze, much easier than autocad. I love the 3D feature and how easy and quick it is to create floorplan shells. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** No complaints here yet. I have used several programs and this seems to be the most user friendly to me. Programs like Sketchup I have found force close a lot and Autocad can get very complicated **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** Just do it! Other competitors just dont have the ease of use that this program does. Your clients will be delighted at the finished product! **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many benefits. I feel I can use this program in front of a client and give them a 3D feel quickly whereas that would take me a while in AutoCad. ### 8. Residential BIM alternative **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew M. | Design Draftsperson / Drafting Supervisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2021 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** SoftPlan's libraries are highly customizable to suit your preferred construction methods and SoftPlan+ users have access to material content which is frequently added. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** In comparison with ubiquitous BIM packages such as Revit, SoftPlan lacks a solid parametric family editor. **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** If you're primarily doing residential design then SoftPlan for producing documentation efficiently. However if you also require structural engineering detailing then you might need a companion package. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using SoftList to identify correct takeoff quantities which will realize cost savings for our company. Price lists can be maintained in linked MS Excel sheets and changes populated instantaneously. ### 9. SoftPlan review from Brian Curtis **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** The program was fairly easy to learn, even without actual "training" on the software. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** Some of the processes for drafting, dimensioning, etc. seemed as though they intentionally made it to be almost the exact opposite of say, Autocad. For someone who has had over 20 years using Autocad, the SoftPlan software was extremely frustrating at times. While learning the software it would take me 3 or more "extra" steps to produce something I could've completed in minutes in Autocad but in SoftPlan would take much longer to achieve the same outcome. Dimensioning was cumbersome and creating a roof was far more difficult than other programs I've used. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** SoftPlan was somewhat helpful when creating material takeoffs. However, it took quite a bit of trial and error on the front end to have the software produce anything remotely accurate or useful for our procurement department. It definitely required quite a bit of "tweaking" to get to that point. ### 10. Softplan is a very user friendly program. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eli H. | Building Design/Project Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** It is user friendly, has great rendering capabilities. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** It is mostly a residential oriented program and does not do well on large commercial style projects. **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** This is a good, affordable program for residential and small commercial project drawings and renderings. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to create a true to life model that can be interacted with the client. ### 11. great software for all parts of home or commercial construction **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2021 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** easy to create 3D drawings and quickly. Actually drawing a wall instead of just drawing "lines" **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** I do not recall anything that I did not like - program is logical and intuitive **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** Learning curve is quick, make construction and detail drawings quickly **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps you draw like you would actually build. Easy updated dimensions ### 12. Softplan is a Great Drafting Program. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian R. H. | Draftsman / Designer (Part-Time), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** After you have drawn all of the floor plans , you can stack them and create all of the building elevations. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** Not very much. All of the commands are easy to find. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Once you have drawn all of the different level floor plans, you can ensure that the stair openings line up. ### 13. Long time user **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharon M. | Construction Estimator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** The best thing is probably the file size, as in I can fit over a year's worth of work on a thumb drive! **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** The conversion to auto-cad files back and forth is not always reliable. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can produce accurate 3D views to help clients visualize the project. Saves a lot of time in adjusting for people who don't understand plans ### 14. Softplan lacks in manufactures products. 3D modeling is not as good as Chief Architect **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** The auto roof option makes is easier to modify and create desired roof plans. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** Our clients want to see the actual appliances, tile, etc that will be in their spaces and Softplan has a very limited selection. Because of the lack in Manufactures, our cabinet designs and construction designs are in two different software's. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** None that I can say. ### 15. user friendly with nice, quick results **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2021 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** The user interface is really self-explanatory and quick to learn. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** I didn't have anything I disliked about using the software. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Softplan allowed me to 3D model homes and then make quick 2D drawings all in one place and then quickly print those drawings. ### 16. Great for home building **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** That you can create 3d renderings from the plans as you draw. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** Could be better integrated so any change on one page is reflected on all **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** Its very efficient for residential construction **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** SoftReview allows the trades on site to view plans and dimensions etc without reducing the number of mistakes ### 17. I worked in the Engineering field for over 20 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2020 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** after you complete your house design, the software computes all materials needed and cost **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** there are no dislikes, its a wonderful tool! **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** I highly recommend Softplan to anyone who needs a easy and friendly home building software **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** By having Softplan at my finger tip, i can have a complete and detail of the materials needed to build and an estimated cost without paying a professional crazy amount of money. ### 18. Makes Life Easy when you get up to Speed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jo-Anne P. | Owner, Construction, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2019 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** There is a lot of automation that you can setup to make your common materials and details assemble with ease. And the program creates a 3D image automatically that looks realistic enought for customers to visualize the end product easily. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** It took a bit for me to get comfortable with the software (nowhere near as long as AutoCAD though) and at first was frustrated since the library didn't have "exactly" what I wanted from the get go. There are lots of components that I won't eve need in the library which I have to shuffle through to find what I need. **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** Spend the time learning it step by step **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed more than the 2D capabilities of AutoCAD and got really frustrated with learning Revit. Softplan lets me generate 3D images that customers can understand easier. ### 19. Line Tool King **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2018 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** I enjoy that there are hot keys that I can program to a multi-button mouse for speed in changing functions. **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** I dislike the auto-snap. It does not always seem to benefit me when drawing. Some of the auto-functions are not intuitive. I use line tool to draw elevations, floor framing plans, and sections. I believe softplan may do these, but they're not intuitive enough for me to use. It would be better if you had a "draw floor plan" mode, then "foundation mode" then "floor framing mode" " then "roof framing mode" then "elevations mode then "sections". **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** Great for single family home designers that use wood construction, or someone that is looking for a CAD program and likes to use line tools as if you're sitting at the drawing board with pencil. **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to store drawings and make revisions easily versus drawings on paper or velum. ### 20. Excellent Architectural Design Software for Homebuilders **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2018 **What do you like best about SoftPlan?** I like how Softplan is focused strictly towards residential building instead of being a bloated CAD software with features and functionality not relevant to home building **What do you dislike about SoftPlan?** The software uses what seems to be an older style of license authentication by using USB dongles. **Recommendations to others considering SoftPlan:** Inquire about a trial and you will experience the difference **What problems is SoftPlan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Home building design and construction. 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