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.
How to get a floor plan from sketchup.
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.
You also want to make sure that you re not seeing things in perspective which distorts your view of what you have.
The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup.
It s easiest to draw in 2d when you re directly above your work looking down at the ground plane.
Now click on the button and create a scene called plan.
Now you can delete the original image because your floor has all of the plan details on it.
It gets the whole job done.
Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project.
Open layout and access your sketchup model by selecting file insert.
Sketchup 2019 for layout part 1 floor plan and walls.
Click on the floor and use the push pull tool to extrude it down 8 inches.
Want to support the sketchup essentials.
Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1.
Your 3d construction software shouldn t be.
You can learn this comp.
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.
Click on the floor group you just drew and paint it.
Construction modeling workflows are hard.
This tutorial shows how to draw 2d floor plans in sketchup step by step from scratch.
Make the slab floor.
From here simply right click on the sketchup window and select scenes.
Then right click and go to scale 1mm 50mm.
To begin transforming your sketch to 3d you ll want to make the slab floor.
Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.