Top 8 Plugins and Extensions for Figma

If you use Figma for architectural presentations, mood boards, or client decks, you know the base tools are designed for UI, not physical space. The right plugins bridge that gap, turning a digital interface tool into a capable workspace for spatial design and documentation.

Here is what actually makes a difference in a professional workflow.

1/ Site and Context

Mapsicle

Generates customizable, high-resolution maps directly inside your canvas.

Why it matters: Architects and real estate professionals constantly need site context. Instead of screenshotting Google Maps (which pixelates when scaled), Mapsicle lets you pan, zoom, and style map data from Mapbox directly in Figma. You get crisp, vector-quality maps that match your presentation’s color palette.

Best for: Site location diagrams, neighborhood context slides, and marketing brochures.

Unsplash

Insert high-quality stock photography without leaving your file.

Why it matters: Speed is critical during early concept phases. Searching for "modern concrete texture" or "office lobby people" in a browser breaks your flow. This plugin drops high-res images directly into your selected shapes, keeping your mood board momentum going.

Best for: Mood boards, material references, and populating entourage in elevations.

2/ Technical Documentation

Redlines

Automates redlining, measurements, and specifications for selected elements.

Why it matters: Figma lacks native dimension tools for physical design. Redlines solves this by allowing you to instantly generate measurement lines, spacing guides, and specs. It turns a visual board into a technical document that contractors or team members can actually read.

Best for: Detailed floor plan overlays, millwork concepts, and handover documentation.

Find and Replace

Searches for text across your entire file and replaces it in bulk.

Why it matters: In a 50-slide client deck, changing "Living Room" to "Great Room" manually is a waste of billable hours. This plugin handles global text changes instantly, ensuring consistency across large presentation sets without manual errors.

Best for: Finalizing client decks and updating project terminology across multiple boards.

3/ 3D and Visualization

Vectary 3D

Loads custom 3D models (OBJ, GLTF) into Figma with adjustable perspective and lighting.

Why it matters: You shouldn't have to render a new image in Rhino just to change the angle of a furniture piece in your presentation. Vectary lets you import 3D assets and rotate them directly on the canvas, saving you from the "export-import" loop.

Best for: Product visualization, furniture selection, and quick massing studies.

Image Tracer

Converts raster images (JPG/PNG) into editable vector layers.

Why it matters: Architects often work with legacy floor plans or scanned sketches that need to be cleaned up. Instead of redrawing lines manually, Image Tracer vectorizes the scan, giving you clean paths you can scale, recolor, and edit.

Best for: Digitizing hand sketches, cleaning up old floor plans, and converting logos.

4/ Image Management

Remove BG

Automatically removes the background from images with a single click.

Why it matters: Creating entourage—cutting out people, trees, or furniture—is tedious in Photoshop. This plugin handles it instantly within Figma. You can drag in a photo of a chair, click one button, and have a transparent PNG ready for your collage.

Best for: Creating entourage, isolating furniture for mood boards, and cleaning up staff headshots.

Similayer

Selects all layers that share specific properties (fill, stroke, font, etc.).

Why it matters: Design files get messy. If you need to change every "blue" line to "black" across 20 artboards, doing it manually is impossible. Similayer lets you select everything with the same property instantly, making bulk edits safe and fast.

Best for: Cleaning up imported CAD files and managing complex presentation styles.

5/ Client Presentation

Pitchdeck Presentation Studio

Exports Figma frames to editable PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides files.

Why it matters: Clients often request "editable" files, and they rarely know how to use Figma. This plugin translates your Figma designs into native PowerPoint slides, preserving text and images so your client can make their own edits later.

Best for: Final client deliverables and collaborative decks where the client needs edit access.

Choosing what fits your work

Not every plugin makes sense for every project. Match tools to your actual bottlenecks, not feature lists.

Start with Redlines if your struggle is documentation, or Mapsicle if you waste time on site diagrams. Add more as your workflow demands it.

Bonus: Speed up rendering without leaving your workflow

If rendering is your bottleneck, Rendair handles visualization faster than most plugins can process.

Upload your Figma exports or rough collages, and get presentation-ready renders in minutes. No new software to learn, no render farm setup.

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