How To Get A Floor Plan From Sketchup

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How to get a floor plan from sketchup.

In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. It gets the whole job done. 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. Now click on the button and create a scene called plan.

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. Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1. Your 3d construction software shouldn t be.

Construction modeling workflows are hard. Now you can delete the original image because your floor has all of the plan details on it. Click on the floor group you just drew and paint it. Sketchup 2019 for layout part 1 floor plan and walls.

You can learn this comp. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools. Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.

Make the slab floor. It s easiest to draw in 2d when you re directly above your work looking down at the ground plane. You also want to make sure that you re not seeing things in perspective which distorts your view of what you have. Then right click and go to scale 1mm 50mm.

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. From here simply right click on the sketchup window and select scenes. 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. Click on the floor and use the push pull tool to extrude it down 8 inches.