Make Floor Plans With Google Sketchup

Activate the orbit tool.

Make floor plans with google sketchup.

Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing. If you have parallel projection turned on go ahead and turn it off now. Now lets create the floors in the the house model. Make the slab floor.

It s a brilliant way to travel with sketchup knowing i can access illustrate and collaborate wherever i am. Click and hold down your mouse key as you drag the cursor to rotate the view into perspective. Click on the floor and use the push pull tool to extrude it down 8 inches. To begin transforming your sketch to 3d you ll want to make the slab floor.

To create floors in sketchup design we must sketch them first and then apply materials. Click on the floor group you just drew and paint it. Because sketchup is easy we are actually going to create wall from the floor as you will see. It allows me to easily visualize my ideas and concepts before turning them into real projects.

This is one method of many that you can use to create walls in sketchup we will get there in the next tutorial. It looks like a great app but as of april 2015 there is a new google sign in method for better security and this application has not went through the steps to start using it. You can click on any image in this tutorial to make it larger. Construction modeling workflows are hard.

Open your sketchup model containing your floor plan. 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. Your 3d construction software shouldn t be. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project.

Sketchup free gives me the convenience of accessing all the tools of sketchup s modeler anywhere i have access to the internet. The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup. Now you can delete the original image because your floor has all of the plan details on it. The easiest way to create floor plans.