Can I use the drawing for a real project?

As a starting point for layout and layers, yes. The ratings, settings and cable sizes are made up, so the diagram has to be checked and changed for your project before it is used for design or construction.

Why are the layers coloured?

Colours and line weights follow the layers: power circuits are red and heavy, control is cyan, signal is green. The plot style table in the ZIP prints everything black and keeps the line weights, so you can plot in black and white as well.

Which CAD programs open it?

The drawing and the template are in AutoCAD 2018 format, which AutoCAD 2018 and later open, and so do other CAD programs that read this format. The browser viewer needs nothing installed.

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Dental clinic floor plan: sample DWG file with operatories, X-ray room, sterilisation and lab

A complete floor plan of a 16 x 9 m dental practice at 1:100. Patients come in through the entrance door into the reception and waiting area with a desk, sofa, chairs, a kids corner and a check-in kiosk, and walk along the corridor to three identical operatories, each with a reclined dental chair, light, delivery unit, dentist and assistant stools and a cabinet with sink. Next to them are the sterilisation room with two autoclaves and an ultrasonic cleaner, and an X-ray room with a panoramic unit, a control screen and lead-lined walls. The dental lab has a bench, plaster trimmer, furnace and scanner; the staff room has a kitchenette, fridge and table; the plant room holds the compressor and suction unit. The plan also carries room tags with net areas, overall dimensions, a room schedule, a dental equipment schedule with the supply each unit needs, notes, a north arrow, a scale bar and a filled-in title block. Every item is a block at real size, and the equipment carries power and supply as attributes.

Free to use and modify in your own projects, including commercial ones. The ZIP holds the sample drawing, a template, a plot style table and a README; no add-in needed. The data in the drawing is made up, so it is not for design or construction. Provided as is, without warranty.

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This sample uses these resources

The symbols are blocks from our own libraries, with their attributes filled in. The sheet and its title block come from our ISO A3 title block template. Download them to draw your own diagrams.

What is in the ZIP

Dental-Clinic-Plan-Sample.dwg
Sample drawing (DWG, AutoCAD 2018 format)
Architectural-Template-ISO-A3.dwt
Template (DWT) that the drawing was made on
CADXChange-Monochrome.ctb
Plot style table (CTB) that prints every colour black
README.txt
README with the layer list and how to use the files

The template

The architectural template has 10 layers with colours, line weights and linetypes (walls, floor finishes, hidden elements, column grid, symbols, escape routes, tags, dimensions, text and notes), the text styles ISO-2.5 to ISO-5, the dimension style ISO-25 and an ISO A3 layout with a title block and revision table. The layer names are a common convention, not a standard; rename them to match your company's rules.

Layers defined

Every layer in the template with its colour, line weight and linetype, and how many objects of this sample are on it. Layers the sample does not use are still defined, ready for your own drawing.

Layer	Colour	Line weight	Linetype	Used for	Objects here
Architectural layers
ARCH-WALL	7	0.50 mm	Continuous	Walls and partitions in plan	31
ARCH-FLOOR	9	0.13 mm	Continuous	Floor finishes, rugs and floor patterns	not used here
ARCH-HIDDEN	8	0.18 mm	HIDDEN	Elements above or behind the cut plane	not used here
ARCH-GRID	1	0.13 mm	DASHDOT	Column grid	not used here
SYMBOL	7	0.25 mm	Continuous	Symbols (the layer the symbol libraries use)	75
ARCH-ESCAPE	3	0.35 mm	DASHED	Escape routes	not used here
ARCH-TAG	7	0.18 mm	Continuous	Room, door and window tags	not used here
ARCH-DIM	3	0.18 mm	Continuous	Dimensions	3
ARCH-TEXT	7	0.18 mm	Continuous	General text and tables	138
ARCH-NOTES	7	0.18 mm	Continuous	Notes and legends	5
Sheet and symbol layers
0	7	default	Continuous	Default layer, keep it empty	not used here
FRAME	7	default	Continuous	Sheet border	5
TITLEBLOCK	7	default	Continuous	Title block and revision table	1
VIEWPORT	8	default	Continuous	Layout viewport frame (does not plot)	2
DRAWING-AREA	8	default	Continuous	Boundary of the model drawing area (does not plot)	2

Styles defined

The text styles, the dimension style and the linetypes that the template defines, so you do not have to set them up in each new drawing.

Kind	Name	Settings
Text style	ISO	isocp.shx, 15°, variable height
Text style	ISO-2.5	isocp.shx, 15°, 2.5 mm high
Text style	ISO-3.5	isocp.shx, 15°, 3.5 mm high
Text style	ISO-5	isocp.shx, 15°, 5 mm high
Text style	TB-en	Arial, used by the title block
Dimension style	ISO-25	Text 2.5 mm, arrows 2.5 mm, extension lines 1.25 mm beyond the dimension line and 0.625 mm from the object, dimension lines 3.75 mm apart, 0 decimals
Linetype	Continuous	Solid line
Linetype	DASHED	Dashed
Linetype	DASHDOT	Dash-dot
Linetype	CENTER	Centre line
Linetype	PHANTOM	Phantom line
Linetype	HIDDEN	Hidden line

Sheet and drawing setup

How the sheet is set up, so your own drawings print the same way.

Sheet: ISO A3 landscape, 420 × 297 mm.
Layout: One layout named ISO-A3, plotted at 1:1 on full-bleed A3 media, so the sheet has no printer margin.
Border: 20 mm from the left edge (binding side) and 10 mm from the other edges; the drawing area inside is 390 × 277 mm.
Model space: Units are millimetres. The drawing area is shown at 1:1, so 1 mm in the drawing is 1 mm on paper.
Title block: 160 × 79 mm at the lower right, with a four-line revision table above the company, project, title and approval fields.
Text size: 2.5 mm for labels and notes, 3.5 mm and 5 mm for headings.
Linetype scale: 1, so dashes are sized for plotting at 1:1.
Plot style: None set. Pick the CTB from the ZIP in the page setup for black-and-white plots.

Title block fields

The attributes of the title block. Double-click it to fill them in, or write them for a whole set of drawings with BlockSync.

Attribute	Field on the sheet	Value in this sample
COMPANY	COMPANY	CADXChange
PROJECT	PROJECT	Smile Dental Clinic
AREA	AREA	Ground floor
SYSTEM	SYSTEM	Architecture
CLIENT	CLIENT	Sample
TITLE	DRAWING TITLE	Dental clinic floor plan, layout and rooms
DRAWING_NO	DRAWING NO.	A-804
CONTRACT_NO	CONTRACT NO.	—
REV	REV	A
DRAWN	DRAWN	—
CHECKED	CHECKED	—
APPROVED	APPROVED	—
DATE	DATE	2026-10-22
SCALE	SCALE	1:100
SHEET	SHEET	1
SHEET_OF	OF	1

Revision table: R1 to R4, each with REV, DATE, DESCRIPTION and BY (16 attributes, empty in this sample).

Blocks in the drawing

The equipment list of the drawing: block name, symbol and how many times it is placed. BlockSync exports the same list from your own drawings.

Symbol	Block	Placed
Room tag	ARCH_TAG_ROOM	11
Door, single swing, 900	ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE	9
Window, fixed, 1800	ARCH_WINDOW_FIXED_1800	4
Operatory cabinet with sink 1800	SDV_DN_CABINET_1800	4
Dental chair with light	SDV_DN_CHAIR_LIGHT	3
Dentist stool	SDV_DN_STOOL_DENTIST	3
Assistant stool with arm rest	SDV_DN_STOOL_ASSIST	3
Delivery unit, swing arm	SDV_DN_DELIVERY	3
Window, sliding, 1200	ARCH_WINDOW_SLIDING_1200	2
Autoclave on bench 600 x 600	SDV_DN_AUTOCLAVE	2
Lead-lined wall 1500	SDV_MK_LEAD_WALL	2
Door, entrance with step, 1000	ARCH_DOOR_ENTRANCE	1
Window, fixed, 2400	ARCH_WINDOW_FIXED_2400	1
Reception desk 2000 x 700, chair	SDV_RC_DESK_2000	1
Waiting sofa, 3 seats 2000 x 850	SDV_RC_SOFA_3	1
Coffee table 900 x 500	SDV_RC_COFFEE_TABLE	1
Magazine rack 600 x 300	SDV_RC_MAGAZINE_RACK	1
Waiting chairs, row of 4	SDV_RC_CHAIR_ROW_4	1
Kids corner, table and 2 chairs	SDV_RC_KIDS_CORNER	1
Coat stand, round 450	SDV_RC_COAT_STAND	1
Check-in kiosk 500 x 450	SDV_RC_CHECKIN_KIOSK	1
Water dispenser 350 x 400	SDV_RC_WATER_COOLER	1
Ultrasonic cleaner 500 x 300	SDV_DN_ULTRASONIC	1
Panoramic X-ray unit	SDV_DN_XRAY_PANO	1
Lead screen, mobile 1000	SDV_DN_XRAY_SCREEN	1
Dental lab bench 1500, stool	SDV_DN_LAB_BENCH	1
Plaster trimmer, sink 1000	SDV_DN_PLASTER	1
Casting furnace 450 x 450	SDV_DN_FURNACE	1
Intraoral scanner cart 500 x 500	SDV_DN_SCANNER	1
Kitchenette 1800 x 600	SDV_BH_KITCHENETTE	1
Fridge 600 x 650	SDV_BH_FRIDGE	1
Staff table 1200 x 800, 4 chairs	SDV_BH_STAFF_TABLE	1
WC, floor-mounted, close-coupled	ARCH_WC	1
Wash basin, pedestal, 550	ARCH_BASIN_PEDESTAL	1
Air compressor cabinet 600 x 600	SDV_DN_COMPRESSOR	1
Suction pump cabinet 500 x 500	SDV_DN_VACUUM	1
Supply shelving 900 x 450	SDV_BH_SHELVING_900	1
Hot water cylinder, round 500	SDV_BH_WATER_HEATER	1
North arrow	ARCH_NORTH_ARROW	1
Scale bar, 5 m	ARCH_SCALE_BAR	1

Equipment schedule

One row per placed symbol, read from the attributes of the blocks in the drawing: what is shown on the sheet, and the schedule attributes that were filled in but are not shown. BlockSync exports these same attributes from your own drawings.

Tag	Description	Shown on the sheet	Filled in, not shown
D1	Door, entrance with step, 1000ARCH_DOOR_ENTRANCE		WIDTH_MM = 1000HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Entrance doorMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D2	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D3	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D4	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D5	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D6	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D7	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D8	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D9	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
D10	Door, single swing, 900ARCH_DOOR_SINGLE		WIDTH_MM = 900HEIGHT_MM = 2100DOOR_TYPE = Single swingMATERIAL = TimberFIRE_RATING = NoneFINISH = PaintedHARDWARE_SET = HS-1
W1	Window, fixed, 1800ARCH_WINDOW_FIXED_1800		WIDTH_MM = 1800HEIGHT_MM = 1350GLAZING = Double, low-E
W2	Window, fixed, 2400ARCH_WINDOW_FIXED_2400		WIDTH_MM = 2400HEIGHT_MM = 1350GLAZING = Double, low-E
W3	Window, sliding, 1200ARCH_WINDOW_SLIDING_1200		WIDTH_MM = 1200HEIGHT_MM = 1350GLAZING = Double, low-E
W4	Window, sliding, 1200ARCH_WINDOW_SLIDING_1200		WIDTH_MM = 1200HEIGHT_MM = 1350GLAZING = Double, low-E
W5	Window, fixed, 1800ARCH_WINDOW_FIXED_1800		WIDTH_MM = 1800HEIGHT_MM = 1350GLAZING = Double, low-E
W6	Window, fixed, 1800ARCH_WINDOW_FIXED_1800		WIDTH_MM = 1800HEIGHT_MM = 1350GLAZING = Double, low-E
W7	Window, fixed, 1800ARCH_WINDOW_FIXED_1800		WIDTH_MM = 1800HEIGHT_MM = 1350GLAZING = Double, low-E
RECEPTION	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = RECEPTION
CORRIDOR	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = CORRIDOR
OPERATORY 1	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = OPERATORY 1
OPERATORY 2	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = OPERATORY 2
OPERATORY 3	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = OPERATORY 3
STERILISATION	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = STERILISATION
X-RAY	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = X-RAY
DENTAL LAB	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = DENTAL LAB
STAFF ROOM	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = STAFF ROOM
WC	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = WC
PLANT ROOM	Room tagARCH_TAG_ROOM	ROOM_NAME = PLANT ROOM

Manufacturer, model and remarks are left empty on every block, ready for your data. The values are examples.

How to use it

Open the sample drawing to see how layers, text and the title block are used, or open it in the browser first, nothing to install.
Start your own drawing from the template (NEW, then pick the DWT file). Copy the CTB file to your plot styles folder if you want black-and-white plots.
Insert blocks from the symbol library into your drawing. The blocks in the sample are copies; they do not change when a library changes.
Double-click the title block to fill it in, then export the equipment list with BlockSync.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use the drawing for a real project?: As a starting point for layout and layers, yes. The ratings, settings and cable sizes are made up, so the diagram has to be checked and changed for your project before it is used for design or construction.
Why are the layers coloured?: Colours and line weights follow the layers: power circuits are red and heavy, control is cyan, signal is green. The plot style table in the ZIP prints everything black and keeps the line weights, so you can plot in black and white as well.
Which CAD programs open it?: The drawing and the template are in AutoCAD 2018 format, which AutoCAD 2018 and later open, and so do other CAD programs that read this format. The browser viewer needs nothing installed.