Modeling A Home From Floor Plan In Sketchup Make

If you have parallel projection turned on go ahead and turn it off now.

Modeling a home from floor plan in sketchup make.

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. Activate the orbit tool. Part 1 of this 2 part series will focus on using the line and offset tools to create a floor plan in sketchup. You can click on any image in this tutorial to make it larger.

In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools. Construction modeling workflows are hard. Open your sketchup model containing your floor plan. It s a brilliant way to travel with sketchup knowing i can access illustrate and collaborate wherever i am.

Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. 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. It gets the whole job done. Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.

Your 3d construction software shouldn t be. The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup. In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. Part 2 will focus on modeling a floor plan fro.