How To Draw Floor Plans In Sketchup

Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.

How to draw floor plans in sketchup.

An illustrated floor plan presented in a modern format. If you are using a drawing without measurements drag the line tool to the edge and try and round to the nearest inch or foot if possible. One of the most efficient features of sketchup is the ability to edit the style settings. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project.

2d furniture and appliance symbols are provided and will be instrumental in all of your design projects. Sketchup 2019 for layout part 1 floor plan and walls. It gets the whole job done. We ll let sketchup explain.

Starting at your reference point use the line tool to trace the floor. Your 3d construction software shouldn t be. The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup. And in a previous tutorial we had created a 2d floor plan with symbols for windows and doors.

In this course you will learn how to draw a floor plan in sketchup while keeping your drawing organized for easier editing. Sketchup makes it fast and easy. 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. 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.

Modeling from floor plan to 3d. If you have exact measurements type those in for each line. This means you can create a floor plan and produce different styles depending on the requirements of the audience. Construction modeling workflows are hard.