How To Get A Floor Plan View In Sketchup

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How to get a floor plan view in sketchup.

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. In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools. You can hide the section plane itself in your layout document by opening the styles window in sketchup and editing the default style of your scene to hide the section plane. It s easiest to draw in 2d when you re directly above your work looking down at the ground plane.

This will cut off everything above. Whatever you re trying to model here s how to start tracing an image. You can also trace an image to model a 2d design that you want to place somewhere in a 3d model. This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra.

Construction modeling workflows are hard. To get back to a top down view select camera standard views top make sure parallel projection under the camera dropdown is turned on. To finish turning your floor plan to 3d you ll have to add the windows. In su8 create a section plane and place it 4 feet above the floor.

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. Under the camera menu set the view to parallel projection. This tutorial shows how to draw 2d floor plans in sketchup step by step from scratch. Create a scene and then save.

Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. You can learn this comp. Navigate to the top view click on parallel projection and you will see a floor plan. Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1.

If you want the floor plan then the client will have to insert a section plane activate it to show only the floor plan and then send you a new view file with the section plane and plan view saved. Unhide the original sketch you imported. In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. Your 3d construction software shouldn t be.

Notice that you ve now provided straight on view for your plan. Or do you want to see inside and have a look at the floor plan. Next under window select the scenes console. You also want to make sure that you re not seeing things in perspective which distorts your view of what you have.