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Can Floor Plans display fractions of inches?

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September 1, 2026
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I’ve gone through all of the help settings to try to draw floor plans to the 1/2” or even 1/8” but apparently without tricking it, Lucid can’t do this? Am I missing something? I just can’t see how a floor plan designer can be that useful if you can’t make those adjustments. I’m evaluating the software now and definitely won’t continue past the trial period unless there is something I’m missing. I even tried to trick it to display 1/8” as 0.125 but that doesn’t seem to work either. I mean, I know this isn’t a CAD program but that functionality should be built in.

Best answer by Humas1985

Hi @JayP

Lucidchart’s Floor Plan tools support creating plans to scale and using inches as the measurement unit. However, if you need wall dimensions displayed or entered specifically as fractional inches such as 1/2″ or 1/8″, Lucidchart may have limitations compared with dedicated CAD applications. Entering a decimal such as 0.125 may not provide the expected fractional-inch display.

To learn more:

Create floor plans to scale in Lucidchart – Lucid

Adjust document and board settings – Lucid

Hope this helps !!

Humas1985

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Lucid Legend Level 10

Hi @JayP

Lucidchart’s Floor Plan tools support creating plans to scale and using inches as the measurement unit. However, if you need wall dimensions displayed or entered specifically as fractional inches such as 1/2″ or 1/8″, Lucidchart may have limitations compared with dedicated CAD applications. Entering a decimal such as 0.125 may not provide the expected fractional-inch display.

To learn more:

Create floor plans to scale in Lucidchart – Lucid

Adjust document and board settings – Lucid

Hope this helps !!

Huma || Lucid Legend

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JayPAuthor

Thanks I understand that from reading the articles. I just think it’s a really big shortcoming. Noone builds plans that way. Even the most basic competing software can do this. I canceled my subscription.

alison cheney

Lucid community team

Hi @JayP,

Thank you for posting in the Lucid Community and appreciate @Humas1985 for sharing about Lucid’s floor plans feature. I’m really sorry to hear that you decided to cancel your subscription, but I completely understand where you’re coming from. Fractional inches are such a common way to measure floor plans, and I completely understand that it's a real gap when the tool doesn't support it.

Feedback like yours is critical for our product teams to understand where our specialized features fall short. I’ve shared this feedback directly with our floor planning product team so they can evaluate for future updates.

Thank you for taking the time to trial Lucid and share your candid thoughts. If your workflow needs ever change in the future, we’d love the opportunity to welcome you back. Best of luck with your project and whichever tool you choose moving forward!

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