By the time you read this, there may be some dedicated floor plan applications sized for the iPad screen. But, there weren't any the second week after the iPad was released. This forced me to look around a bit, and I might have found something with more power, though not just for floor plans. Intaglio Sketchpad is a vector drawing application for the iPad, and it will allow you to draw all sorts of things, make designs, save them as images and more.
With no experience with the Mac version of Intaglio, I just installed and opened the app on the iPad. I was able to draw to scale and label a simple floor plan. The graph paper background facilitated drawing to scale, as I just designated each small block to be two feet. This is a quick tip, not a tutorial. I wanted to put together a series of tips about iPad apps that can be used in the real estate business, and I do like this one for drawing. You'll find more uses for it in brochure and ad design I'm sure. It's expensive by iPad app standards at $14.99. But, it can do other things, as one engineer and a flow charter mentioned in the reviews.
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