# Floor plans and topology

> Cablefolio puts the network on the building — drawn floor plans with every device and run pinned where it is — and draws each client’s network as a topology map built from the links you record.

- Floors with rooms, walls, outlets, cameras, access points, devices, and markups
- Set a scale and get a run’s straight-line length from the plan
- Topology, wiring, signal-flow, and layer-3 views of the same devices
- Saved views with their own address, and SVG, PNG, and draw.io downloads

## Floor plans that know what is on them

A property carries drawn floors, ground-up, plus a sheet for the grounds outside. Draw rooms and walls with corners that snap square, place outlets, cameras, and access points, and pin devices into the rooms they belong to. The plan draws the runs and links between pinned devices, coloured by cable type with a key.

Trace over an uploaded drawing or photo, colour rooms by devices or ports in use, and mark the plan up with notes, arrows, revision clouds, and punch pins for work still to do. A room can also carry a simpler plan picture with its devices pinned on it, with revisions that carry the pins over.

## Topology drawn from what you recorded

The topology map draws a client’s network from the internet down — every device beneath what it links to, with the runs between them — from the links already on the map. There is nothing to discover and nothing to poll: Cablefolio is documentation, not monitoring.

Switch the same devices between **Topology**, **Wiring**, **Signal flow** for AV, and **Layer 3** with subnets as lanes. Narrow by room, link kind, or run status, pass through patch panels, rearrange by dragging, and save the result as a named view with its own address.

## Take it with you

Download a map as SVG to edit, PNG to share, or a draw.io file to rework in draw.io. The map and the floor plans also print in the client and property [reports](https://cablefolio.com/features/reports/).

## Questions and answers

### Does Cablefolio discover the network automatically?

No. Cablefolio is documentation, not monitoring: it never scans or polls a network. Its topology map is drawn from the devices and links recorded on the map, and devices can be imported from Fing, Meraki, UniFi, and other exports.

### Can I export a topology diagram to draw.io or Visio?

Cablefolio downloads every topology view as SVG, PNG, and a draw.io file. draw.io can save that file as Visio VSDX.

### Can I measure cable lengths from a floor plan?

Yes. Once a floor has a scale, a run between two pinned devices offers its straight-line distance as the shortest the cable could be; it is filled in only when you choose it.

## How-to guides

- [Floor plans](https://cablefolio.com/help/floor-plans/)
- [Topology](https://cablefolio.com/help/topology/)

## Related features

- [Ports and cable runs](https://cablefolio.com/features/ports-and-cable-runs/): Faceplates, patch panels, end-to-end trace, cable IDs, pathways, and tester readings.
- [Reports and handover](https://cablefolio.com/features/reports/): Customer sign-off on site, and branded HTML, PDF, and Word as-builts from the live record.
- [Racks and elevations](https://cablefolio.com/features/racks-and-elevations/): Front and back elevations at true U scale, drag-to-mount, reservations, and presets.