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Do you have electronic plans or paper plans? All the architects I have worked with don't like providing raw CAD files (typically .dwg for AutoCAD) and will normally provide pdf files or printed output. To amend these you normally need to scan in the paper copies as a pdf, then you have to import these pdf files as a layer into a CAD program - typically as an image rather than a vector drawing. Then you would trace over these in your CAD program and modify them. PITA and cheaper and quicker to get someone who has and knows architectural software to do it for you. I'm not aware of any CAD programs that vectorise from pdfs, but there might be one out there.But you don't need to submit full CAD-produced plans for planning. You can draw them freehand even, but it is also acceptable to draw the changes onto the existing paper plans, scan them and submit those. As long as the planning officer can see the proposed alterations to the existing building, you should be fine. You also ned to submit a site plan and a location plan, you can buy these for a few quid online, IIRC the planning portal has a link.Unless you are already experienced in CAD software, it's a steep learning curve, and I have not been too impressed with any of the so-called house design and floor-planning software out there.
Do you have electronic plans or paper plans? All the architects I have worked with don't like providing raw CAD files (typically .dwg for AutoCAD) and will normally provide pdf files or printed output. To amend these you normally need to scan in the paper copies as a pdf, then you have to import these pdf files as a layer into a CAD program - typically as an image rather than a vector drawing. Then you would trace over these in your CAD program and modify them. PITA and cheaper and quicker to get someone who has and knows architectural software to do it for you. I'm not aware of any CAD programs that vectorise from pdfs, but there might be one out there.
But you don't need to submit full CAD-produced plans for planning. You can draw them freehand even, but it is also acceptable to draw the changes onto the existing paper plans, scan them and submit those. As long as the planning officer can see the proposed alterations to the existing building, you should be fine. You also ned to submit a site plan and a location plan, you can buy these for a few quid online, IIRC the planning portal has a link.
Unless you are already experienced in CAD software, it's a steep learning curve, and I have not been too impressed with any of the so-called house design and floor-planning software out there.
