Modeling A Home From Floor Plan In Sketchup Make

Activate the orbit tool.

Modeling a home from floor plan in sketchup make.

If you have parallel projection turned on go ahead and turn it off now. Construction modeling workflows are hard. You can click on any image in this tutorial to make it larger. Click and hold down your mouse key as you drag the cursor to rotate the view into perspective.

Sketchup free gives me the convenience of accessing all the tools of sketchup s modeler anywhere i have access to the internet. Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing. 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. It allows me to easily visualize my ideas and concepts before turning them into real projects.

In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. 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.

The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup. It gets the whole job done. It s a brilliant way to travel with sketchup knowing i can access illustrate and collaborate wherever i am. Open your sketchup model containing your floor plan.