People in a plaza
5 blocks of this library · row 27' 8"
Overall
People library · 53 blocks
People silhouette CAD blocks in front view
People silhouettes CAD blocks for elevations, sections and presentation drawings: 53 human silhouettes, 45 in front view and 8 from the side, with men and women standing and walking, couples, families with children, a person pushing a wheelchair, seated figures and simple rounded scale figures. Each is drawn 1:1 in front or side view and comes as DWG and DXF in meters and in inches, SVG and PNG.
- Blocks
- 53
- Types
- 5
- View
- Front
- Units
- m · in
In a plaza
All 53 silhouette blocks
Every size side by side
All 53 at one scale, packed like a sheet of blocks, 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 library on one sheet
The silhouette drawings side by side, as on the library sheet.
Download the whole library
All 53 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.
About the people silhouettes library
What is in the library
53 blocks of 5 kinds, every figure at the height of a real person; the sizes below are the drawings' own, in feet and inches (switch units at the top of the page). By figure: 20 with a pointing or reaching arm, 14 with a long coat, 5 with a dress or a skirt, 2 with a bag or a briefcase.
| Type | Blocks | Width | Height | Narrowest … widest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Couples and families | 5 | 2' 11" – 8' 6" | 5' 3" – 5' 7" | Couple standing close with arms around each other2' 11" … Two adults and a child holding hands8' 6" |
| Children | 2 | 2' 0" – 2' 5" | 2' 11" – 3' 2" | Child in shorts pointing up and outward2' 0" … Small child playing with arms spread wide2' 5" |
| Walking | 12 | 21" – 3' 3" | 5' 1" – 5' 10" | Rounded figure in long coat stepping forward21" … Person in jacket walking with long stride3' 3" |
| Standing | 23 | 20" – 3' 3" | 4' 9" – 6' 4" | Blocky figure standing straight with feet together20" … Tall figure posing with hand on hip, legs crossed3' 3" |
| Seated, pointing and reaching | 11 | 2' 4" – 4' 0" | 3' 10" – 5' 10" | Stooped person reaching forward with one hand2' 4" … Person pushing wheelchair with seated passenger4' 0" |
Drawings you can use them in
Presentation elevations and sections, renderings and diagrams: façades, lobbies, plazas, station platforms, parks and streets, where a simple outline figure reads at a glance and does not compete with the linework of the building.
Rules of thumb for scale figures: put them where people would really be (at the door, on the stair, at the counter); keep their eye line at about 5 ft 3 in (1.6 m) across one drawing; group them in twos and threes, with a child or two; and keep them lighter than the architecture, in a grey or a tint.
Questions
How tall are the silhouettes?
The adults stand 4' 9" to 6' 4" (1.44 m to 1.94 m) tall and the children about 2' 11": drawn at full size, so they need no scaling in a drawing at 1:1.
How much detail do the silhouettes have?
Very little, on purpose: each one is a single outline without faces or folds, so it reads at 1:100 and 1:200 and stays light beside the building. Fill it with a hatch or a tint in your drawing to make it solid.
Are there children and groups?
Yes: couples, a family of two adults and a child, an adult and a child hand in hand, and children playing on their own.
Can I use them in Revit, SketchUp or Photoshop?
Yes. The DWG and DXF blocks open in any CAD program, and the SVG and PNG go into Photoshop, Illustrator or Figma.
Are they free for commercial projects?
Yes. Every file is free for personal and commercial work, with no account and no watermark.
How designers use these blocks
- Presentation elevationsSilhouettes in front of a façade give it scale and life with a few lines, without faces or folds.
- SectionsPeople on each floor of a section show the ceiling heights and how the spaces are used.
- Renderings and diagramsSVG and PNG drop into Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma or Canva over a render or a diagram.
- Accessibility drawingsA person pushing a wheelchair shows the space a ramp, a lift or a door needs.
- BIM and other CAD programsThe DWG and DXF blocks import into Revit, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, BricsCAD and SketchUp as 2D linework.
- Groups and familiesCouples, families with children and people walking together fill a plaza or a platform in one insert.
On every block page
Open any card above and you get these, for free and with no account:
- Drawing at scaleThe block beside a person, both at the same scale, and at its mounting height when it hangs or sits on a counter.
- Explore at scaleDrag and zoom the drawing on a grid at real size and measure any distance on it.
- How big is it?Next to a person and a door, with its footprint in square meters or square feet.
- On your sheetHow it prints at 1:20, 1:50 or 1:100 on A4, A3 or Letter, before you place it.
- In the roomRoom scenes built from the library, with the clearances checked.
- Every formatDWG and DXF in meters and in inches, SVG and PNG.
- DimensionsWidth and depth in both units, and every drawing to the same scale.