Getting started with VanPlot
Create your account, start your first project, and find your way around the 3D editor.
Read the guide →Docs
Everything you need to plan your camper in VanPlot — short guides with steps you can follow along.
Reference index
Looking for one specific control? The reference lists every button, field, and shortcut in the app — what it does, its limits, and the guide that covers it.
Open the reference →Getting started
Projects, autosave & version history
How your builds are stored: the dashboard, automatic saving, snapshots, and restoring older versions.
Read the guide →Editor
Choosing your van
Pick the right vehicle and size · drive variant, and set the insulation thickness your layout will be planned against.
Read the guide →The van body & openings
Control the shell you're building in — show or hide panels, switch body style and paint, and cut windows, roof fans, and holes exactly where they'll go.
Read the guide →Scene states — bed up, bed down
Capture named arrangements of your layout — bed down for night, stowed for day — and flip between them with one click.
Read the guide →Photo mode
Hide the UI, frame your build with one-click camera angles, and download clean PNG shots for build threads and sharing.
Read the guide →Keyboard shortcuts
Every editor and designer shortcut on one page — the same bindings the in-app cheatsheet (?) shows.
Read the guide →Components
Placing components
Add furniture from the library, then move, rotate, duplicate, group, and snap it into place with the editor's placement tools.
Read the guide →The component designer
Build your own furniture from box, cylinder, sphere, cone, and wedge parts — then save it to your library and place it like any catalog item.
Read the guide →Create components with AI
Describe an object in plain language and AI builds it from low-poly parts — saved to your library and placed in the van, ready to refine.
Read the guide →Importing 3D models
Bring GLB, STL, OBJ, or SketchUp Collada files into your build — optimized automatically and sized to fit your van.
Read the guide →Planning
Wiring & plumbing runs
Route cable and water lines through the van by clicking waypoints — runs pin to the shell like real conduit, and their lengths price straight into the Build Sheet.
Read the guide →The Build Sheet
Turn your layout into numbers — budget, materials shopping list, payload, power budget, fuel impact, and a stud-by-stud cut list you can export as CSV.
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