How To Make A Floor Plan Sketchup
Open layout and access your sketchup model by selecting file insert.
How to make a floor plan sketchup. It gets the whole job done. To begin transforming your sketch to 3d you ll want to make the slab floor. Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1. Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.
Your 3d construction software shouldn t be. Now click on the button and create a scene called plan. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. This tutorial shows how to draw 2d floor plans in sketchup step by step from scratch.
You can learn this comp. The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup. In this series we re going to create a start to finish model in sketchup that can then be exported to layout to create a set of plans. Click on the floor ctrl c to copy exit the group and select edit paste in place then use the offset tool and type in 7 to offset the exterior walls.
In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools. This includes using different fills for exterior and interior walls unfortunately sketchup 2018 still can t do hatching in the walls but the fills are nice. From here simply right click on the sketchup window and select scenes.
Click on the floor and use the push pull tool to extrude it down 8 inches. Then right click and go to scale 1mm 50mm. I know that my drawing probably isn t scaled accurately enough for me to use it as a reference so i just work from the dimensions. Construction modeling workflows are hard.