Getting started with VanPlot
Create your account, start your first project, and find your way around the 3D editor.
Read the guide →Browse docs
Docs
Everything you need to plan your camper in VanPlot — short guides with steps you can follow along.
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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 spec the shell build-up — insulation, battens and lining — 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 →Walk mode & the newest planning tools
Drop to eye height and walk your build before you cut anything, then take it to the workshop with the Build Pack, Weighbridge report, packed gear, and the live calculators panel.
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.
Read the guide →Roof planner, weight map & tilt test
Plan the roof from straight above and auto-fill it with solar panels, see where the weight really sits on the floor, and find out how far the loaded van leans before it tips.
Read the guide →Sharing your build
Send your layout as a link anyone can open in 3D, collect notes from the people you share it with, record a build-replay reel for social, and grab your Layout Roast card.
Read the guide →Account
Trial, license & your account
How the 15-minute free trial is counted, what the lifetime license unlocks, how buying and refunds work, and how to manage — or delete — your account.
Read the guide →Help
Troubleshooting & FAQ
The problems people actually write to me about — a blank 3D scene, a slow laptop, an import that looks wrong, a dead share link — and the fix for each.
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