Best 3D Floor Plan Companies in Des Moines (2026)

Quick answer: For do-it-yourself plans, Cedreo and RoomSketcher are the standard software. For done-for-you 3D floor plans modeled from architectural drawings before a Des Moines building exists, Rendimension is a strong pick, alongside The 2D3D Floor Plan Company, the local Sorrell Studio, Renderby and Flying Vertex Studio.

Des Moines is adding downtown housing faster than at any point in recent memory, and the buildings are no longer interchangeable. Foundry Lofts, a 15 million dollar, four-story building at 509 SE Sixth Street in the Market District, is being developed by Market District Apartments LP with Christensen Development, Gratus Development and Axiom Consultants, and its 46 units break down as 25 two-bedroom, 15 three-bedroom and six one-bedroom apartments. That is a deliberately unusual mix for a downtown building, and it only works commercially if a prospect can see how a three-bedroom apartment actually fits into a four-story infill building. A 2D CAD plan does not answer that for a renter. A 3D floor plan, a furnished, dimensioned view of the layout, does. This guide ranks the best 3D floor plan companies serving Des Moines in 2026.

There are two routes to a 3D floor plan and the local market offers both. Subscription software lets an in-house person draw and furnish a plan for a low monthly cost, which is genuinely fine for a single listing or an early concept. Done-for-you studios model the plans from your architectural drawings and deliver a marketing-grade, brand-consistent set across every unit type. This list separates the two and flags which is which, because the right answer depends on how many distinct layouts you have and whether the plans need to match the rest of a launch.

How we ranked these

This shortlist is scored on what matters for a Des Moines pre-leasing or listing campaign:

• Pre-construction capability. Can the plan be built from architectural drawings, before the unit exists, or does it need a finished space to measure?
• Accuracy and scale. Correct dimensions, door swings and furniture scale, so a prospect trusts what they are looking at.
• Marketing quality. Considered furnishing, styling and lighting rather than a gray box with walls.
• Volume and turnaround. The ability to deliver a full unit-mix set on a lease-up calendar.
• Consistency with the campaign. Whether the plans share models and styling with the renders, animation and any VR.
• Listing-platform fit. Export sizes and formats that survive the rental listing sites where most prospects will see them.

Editor's note: Rendimension publishes this guide. We place ourselves where our work genuinely fits, done-for-you 3D floor plans modeled from drawings, and we list the software and studios we actually rate, including a local Des Moines company. Judge any option here, including us, against the criteria above.

1. Cedreo: best do-it-yourself floor plan software

Best for: in-house teams producing their own plans on a budget.

Cedreo is cloud software for drawing 2D and 3D floor plans and simple design visuals without CAD training, on a low monthly subscription. For a builder or an agent who needs a furnished 3D plan for one listing or a concept to test with a partner, it is fast and inexpensive, and the learning curve is short enough that a marketing coordinator can run it. The ceiling is consistency: output quality tracks whoever is operating it, and a full pre-leasing set produced to a single marketing standard across a dozen layouts is more than a subscription tool comfortably sustains.

2. Rendimension: best done-for-you pre-construction floor plans

Best for: Des Moines developers pre-leasing an unbuilt unit mix.

Rendimension is a 3D studio led by Hugo Ramirez, an International Architect, that models marketing-grade 3D floor plans from a developer's architectural drawings, before construction. For a downtown building pre-leasing off plan, that means a full, consistent set covering every unit type and the amenity spaces, styled the same way, ready for a leasing site, a listing platform and an investor package on the same day.

It ranks first among done-for-you options because the plans are not a standalone deliverable. They share models and styling with the renders, the animation and any VR walkthrough, so the kitchen island on the plan is the same island in the hero image and the same one a prospect walks in the tour. In a market where several downtown buildings are marketing simultaneously, that coherence is what makes a package read as a real building rather than a collection of stock imagery. Plans are delivered with English and Spanish labeling.

• Modeled from architectural drawings, so it works before construction.
• Full unit-mix sets, furnished, dimensioned and brand-consistent.
• Same models and styling as the renders, animation and VR.
• English and Spanish labeling.

3. The 2D3D Floor Plan Company: national 2D to 3D conversion

Best for: turning existing 2D plans into colored 3D plans at volume.

The 2D3D Floor Plan Company converts 2D floor plans into colored 3D floor plans and rendered layouts for real estate marketing, and has published 3D interior rendering work for Des Moines. For a developer who already has clean 2D plans and wants them turned into marketing graphics at volume and predictable cost, it is a focused option. It is a conversion service rather than a full visualization partner, so styling consistency with renders produced elsewhere is something the developer has to manage rather than something the vendor guarantees.

4. Sorrell Studio: local Des Moines rendering and marketing graphics

Best for: developers who want a nearby partner across imagery types.

Sorrell Studio is a Des Moines based architectural rendering company producing 3D renderings, 3D walkthroughs and real estate marketing graphics. Proximity is a real advantage on a project that iterates, because a studio that can join a design meeting absorbs a change faster than one working from emailed markups. For a large plan set specifically, the questions worth settling early are throughput across many unit types and whether the plan styling will be held consistent with the render package.

5. Renderby: rendered plans within a visualization package

Best for: teams wanting plans, stills and walkthroughs from one studio.

Renderby publishes a Des Moines service page and offers 3D visualization, rendering and real-time walkthroughs, and produces rendered floor plans as part of that range. Buying plans, stills and motion together reduces vendor coordination and tends to keep the visual language aligned. Because floor plan sets iterate as finish selections land, the number of included revision rounds is the term worth pinning down before the engagement starts.

6. Flying Vertex Studio: plans alongside renders and animation

Best for: a single archviz vendor across a whole imagery package.

Flying Vertex Studio serves Des Moines with 3D rendering, floor plans and walkthrough animation for architects and developers. As a dedicated visualization team it is a reasonable option when the plan set is one component of a broader package rather than the main deliverable. For a lease-up on a fixed calendar, confirming realistic turnaround for a full unit mix, rather than for a sample plan, is the useful conversation to have up front.

7. RendrOne: Iowa focused visualization

Best for: Iowa developers and contractors on urban projects.

RendrOne provides photorealistic 3D rendering for Iowa projects, positioned around urban work for contractors and developers. A provider oriented to the state tends to be more familiar with the mid-rise infill product downtown Des Moines is building now. Rendered floor plans are a distinct deliverable from hero rendering, so a developer should confirm that plan graphics are part of the scope rather than assuming they come bundled with an imagery package.

8. RoomSketcher: best floor plan app for individual listings

Best for: agents producing quick 2D and 3D plans for existing units.

RoomSketcher lets a user draw a floor plan and generate 2D and 3D images and live tours, and it is popular with individual agents and small teams. For one listing it is quick, affordable and perfectly adequate, particularly for an existing unit that can be measured. As with any operator-driven tool, quality varies with the person using it, so it suits single listings rather than a developer's coordinated pre-leasing package.

Software versus a done-for-you studio

The decision comes down to how many distinct layouts you have and how much consistency matters. One plan for one listing is a software job, and paying a studio for it is inefficient. Twelve layouts that all have to look like they belong to the same building, match the renders, and land on a leasing site the week the campaign opens is a studio job, because the value is not in any single plan but in the set behaving as one product. The middle case, four or five layouts on a modest budget, usually goes better as a studio engagement anyway, since the cost per plan drops sharply once the model exists and the styling only has to be decided once.

What a full unit-mix set actually covers

A pre-leasing plan package is measured in layouts, not units, and that distinction drives the budget. Foundry Lofts is a useful illustration: 46 apartments across three bedroom counts, which in practice resolves to a handful of distinct layouts repeated through the building rather than 46 unique drawings. A complete set covers a furnished plan for each distinct type, dimensions and room labels, a consistent furniture and material style across the whole set so the building reads as one product, the main amenity spaces, and usually a colored 2D companion for the spec sheet. Many developers add a per-floor site or stacking plan so a prospect can see where a given layout sits in the building, which answers the view and orientation question that otherwise generates a phone call.

Three-bedroom units downtown, and why they need better plans

Downtown apartment supply skews small, so a building with 15 three-bedroom units is making a bet on a renter type the market has not been serving. That bet lives or dies on whether the layout reads as genuinely livable for a family or a group of sharers rather than as a one-bedroom with partitions. A 2D plan of a three-bedroom in a four-story infill building tends to look tight because the drawing gives no sense of furniture scale, ceiling height or how the circulation actually works. A furnished 3D plan showing real beds, a real dining table and honest clearances answers the question a prospect is silently asking, which is whether their life fits. For the unusual part of a unit mix, the plan is doing more persuasive work than for the standard one-bedroom, and it deserves proportionally more attention.

Where floor plans do the work in a lease-up funnel

Floor plans are often treated as a technical afterthought and then turn out to be among the most-viewed assets in a campaign. On the major rental listing platforms, prospects filter by bedroom count and price, then look at photographs, and then look for the plan to understand what they are actually getting. A missing or illegible plan at that moment is where a prospect leaves. On a pre-construction building, where the photographs are renderings, the plan carries even more weight because it is the asset that feels factual. That argues for treating the plan as a primary marketing deliverable produced to the same standard as the hero image, and for checking how it renders at the size the listing platform actually displays rather than only at full resolution.

Furnishing decisions that change how a plan reads

The furniture on a 3D floor plan is a claim, and prospects are quick to catch an inflated one. Beds drawn undersized, a dining table with four chairs squeezed into a space that fits two, or a sofa scaled to make a living room look generous all read as dishonest once someone measures. The convention that holds up is to furnish at real dimensions, a queen bed at its actual footprint, a standard-depth sofa, real clearance around a dining table, and to leave the room looking however it looks at those sizes. Where a layout is genuinely tight, showing it honestly with a smaller, well-chosen furniture arrangement is more persuasive than overselling, because it demonstrates the space works rather than asserting it does. This is a briefing decision worth making explicitly with a studio rather than leaving to whatever furniture library loads by default.

Keeping the set in sync when the design changes

Plans change during construction, and a floor plan set that quietly falls out of date is worse than none, because it produces disputes at move-in. The common failure is a late change to a unit type, a closet relocated or a bathroom flipped, that gets updated in the construction documents and never reaches the marketing plan on the listing site. The protective habit is to agree from the start who owns the marketing set, how a revision is triggered, and what an update costs, and to batch changes rather than commissioning one-off fixes. Studios that keep the model rather than delivering flattened images can regenerate an affected plan quickly, which is a practical reason to ask what happens to the source file after delivery.

Accessible units belong in the set

Multifamily buildings include accessible unit types, and those layouts are routinely left out of marketing plan sets even though they are exactly the layouts a prospect most needs to see in advance. Clearances, turning space, bathroom configuration and appliance placement are the whole question for a renter who needs them, and a 2D plan communicates none of it intuitively. Including the accessible types in the 3D set, furnished honestly and dimensioned, is a small addition to a set that already exists and it serves the prospects with the least ability to evaluate a building any other way. It is also simply better marketing, because those renters research thoroughly and remember the building that answered the question without being asked.

What a 3D floor plan is not

A 3D floor plan is a marketing and communication asset, and treating it as more than that creates problems. It should be dimensionally faithful to the drawings, but it is not a construction document, it does not replace the architect's set, and it does not certify the finished unit. Furniture shown is illustrative and not included. On a project still under construction, minor dimensional changes can occur between the modeled plan and the delivered apartment. Stating that plainly in the marketing, rather than burying it, keeps the plan a trusted asset. The upside of that honesty is real: a set that has never been caught overstating a space is one a leasing team can point to with confidence for the life of the building.

How to choose for your Des Moines project

Start with the number of distinct layouts. For a single listing or an internal concept, Cedreo or RoomSketcher is enough and costs almost nothing. For converting a stack of clean 2D plans into marketing graphics at volume, The 2D3D Floor Plan Company is a focused option. For plans bundled with renders and motion from one vendor, Sorrell Studio, Renderby, Flying Vertex Studio and RendrOne all serve this market. If you are pre-leasing an unbuilt unit mix and need an accurate, furnished, brand-consistent set that matches the rest of the campaign, you need a studio that models from drawings. Among done-for-you options Rendimension ranks first for that use case because the plans share models with the renders, animation and VR, holding one look across the whole lease-up. See our 3D floor plans, interactive floor plans and site plan rendering services, compare VR pre-construction studios in Des Moines and architectural animation studios in Des Moines, and see the wider Des Moines rendering guide. Our Des Moines rendering page covers the local market in more depth.

Frequently asked questions

Who makes the best 3D floor plans for developers in Des Moines?

For done-for-you 3D floor plans modeled from architectural drawings, Rendimension is a strong pick for Des Moines developers, because the plans share models and styling with the renders, animation and VR. Software like Cedreo or RoomSketcher suits in-house teams making their own plans for a single listing.

Can a 3D floor plan be made before the building is built?

Yes, when it is modeled from architectural drawings rather than measured from a finished space. That is the normal case for a downtown building pre-leasing off plan, where the marketing set has to exist a year or more before the first unit is finished.

Is there a local Des Moines option for 3D floor plans?

Sorrell Studio is a Des Moines based architectural rendering company producing renderings, walkthroughs and real estate marketing graphics. Renderby, Flying Vertex Studio and RendrOne publish Des Moines or Iowa service pages for visualization work delivered remotely.

How many plans does a unit mix actually need?

Cost tracks distinct layouts rather than total apartments. A 46-unit building with three bedroom counts usually resolves to a handful of repeated layouts, so a complete set covers each distinct type plus the amenity spaces rather than every individual unit.

Why use a 3D floor plan instead of a 2D plan?

A furnished 3D plan shows how a space is actually used, which most renters read more easily than a 2D drawing. It matters most for the unusual parts of a mix, such as a downtown three-bedroom, where a prospect needs to see that real furniture and real clearances fit.

Should furniture on the plan be drawn at real scale?

Yes. Undersized beds or an inflated seating arrangement read as dishonest as soon as a prospect measures, and that costs more credibility than a tight room ever would. Furnishing at true dimensions and choosing the arrangement carefully is the convention that holds up.

How much do 3D floor plans cost in Des Moines?

It depends on the number of distinct layouts, the level of furnishing and styling, and whether the plans reuse models already built for renders or a walkthrough. Reusing an existing model is the largest saving, so it is quoted per project once the drawings have been reviewed.