How To Make A Floor Plan Sketchup

Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1.

How to make a floor plan sketchup.

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. Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing. Sketchup 2019 for layout part 1 floor plan and walls. To begin transforming your sketch to 3d you ll want to make the slab floor.

Open layout and access your sketchup model by selecting file insert. Click on the floor and use the push pull tool to extrude it down 8 inches. In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. This tutorial shows how to draw 2d floor plans in sketchup step by step from scratch.

From here simply right click on the sketchup window and select scenes. An online learning platform and community for interior design professionals and students to learn how to create amazing sketchup floor plans and elevations for the ultimate benefit of your business. 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. In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools.

Then right click and go to scale 1mm 50mm. Construction modeling workflows are hard. 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. Your scaled plan is now finished in layout and you re all set to start dimensioning and annotating the important details.

Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. It gets the whole job done. Now click on the button and create a scene called plan. 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.