People library · 54 blocks
People CAD blocks of sitting and standing figures, in plan and in elevation, to give floor plans, sections and interior elevations their human scale: 15 seated people, upright, reclining or with their legs crossed, and 12 standing and walking figures, mannequins among them, one with a jacket over the shoulder and one with a shopping bag: the same people in elevation and in plan. Each is drawn 1:1 in plan or in elevation and comes as DWG and DXF in meters and in inches, SVG and PNG.
4 blocks of this library and 1 from another library · row 13' 10" × 3' 3"
Overall Each piece, width
All 54 at one scale, packed like a sheet of blocks: standing and seated, in plan and in elevation, the tallest first. Click a drawing to open its block; the width is under each one, the height and every format are on the block page.
The person drawings side by side, as on the library sheet.
All 54 drawings of the library in one ZIP, one AutoCAD 2013 DWG per block, drawn 1:1, in meters or in inches. Each block page has its own files too, with DXF, SVG, PNG.
54 blocks of 4 kinds, every figure at the size of a grown adult; the sizes below are the drawings' own, in feet and inches (switch units at the top of the page). By pose: 33 with a mannequin body, 14 with legs crossed, 8 with a suit or a shirt and tie, 6 with a reclining pose, 4 with something carried. The table gives the figures in elevation, width by height; the figures in plan give the floor they take on their own pages.
| Type | Blocks | Width | Height | Narrowest … widest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seated, in elevation | 15 | 16½" – 4' 0" | 3' 7" – 5' 5" | Mannequin figure seated with legs crossed, hands on knee16½" … Man in shirt and tie reclining with legs crossed4' 0" |
| Standing and walking, in elevation | 12 | 15½" – 2' 11" | 5' 8" – 6' 1" | Mannequin figure standing with feet turned outward15½" … Man in shirt walking with long stride2' 11" |
Dining rooms, lounges, waiting rooms, offices, classrooms and auditoriums, where a seated figure shows the knee room, the reach to a table and the eye line; lobbies, corridors and shops for the standing and walking ones. The figures in plan show the floor a seated person takes in front of a chair or a bench.
Seating numbers that work for most rooms: 18 to 20 in (46 to 51 cm) of seat width per person on a bench; 24 in (61 cm) of table edge per diner; 30 in (76 cm) from a table edge to the back of a pushed-back chair, 36 in (91 cm) to pass behind it; and a seated eye height of about 3 ft 9 in to 4 ft (1.15 to 1.2 m) for sight lines.
The seated figures in elevation measure 3' 7" to 5' 5" (1.09 m to 1.66 m) from the floor to the top of the head, upright or reclining, against 5' 8" to 6' 1" (1.73 m to 1.85 m) for the standing ones.
No: they sit on nothing, so they fit any chair, sofa, bench or step of your drawing. Place the seat line of the figure on the seat of the furniture.
Yes: both the seated and the standing people are drawn from above as well, for floor plans and seating layouts.
Yes. The DWG and DXF blocks open in any CAD program as 2D linework, in meters or in inches, and the SVG and PNG go into any graphics program.
Yes. Every file is free for personal and commercial work, with no account and no watermark.
Open any card above and you get these, for free and with no account: