How To Get A Floor Plan From Sketchup Model

When i it comes time to turn your sketches into reality you may want to use sketchup to model your sketched floor plan to 3d in this tutorial we ll show you exactly how to take a floor plan sketch and turn it into a 3d model in sketchup.

How to get a floor plan from sketchup model.

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. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. It s easiest to draw in 2d when you re directly above your work looking down at the ground plane. And in a previous tutorial we had created a 2d floor plan with symbols for windows and doors.

Sketchup 2019 for layout part 1 floor plan and 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. Next under window select the scenes console. You can learn this comp.

You can hide the section plane itself in your layout. Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1. Notice that you ve now provided straight on view for your plan. Construction modeling workflows are hard.

Under the camera menu set the view to parallel projection. Your 3d construction software shouldn t be. If you re going to use sketchup to draw a 2d plan the first thing you need to do is orient your point of view. How to make a floor plan you grabbed off the web or from a designer show house a correctly scaled plan.

You also want to make sure that you re not seeing things in perspective which distorts your view of what you have. This tutorial shows how to draw 2d floor plans in sketchup step by step from scratch. In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. It gets the whole job done.

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. With your model queued up you re ready to slice and dice with the section plan tool.