Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.
How to draw floor plans in sketchup free.
In our last tutorial we used a pdf floor plan of a small house to create a simple three dimensional model of the walls with openings for the doors and windows in sketchup.
It allows me to easily visualize my ideas and concepts before turning them into real projects.
Sketchup free gives me the convenience of accessing all the tools of sketchup s modeler anywhere i have access to the internet.
Your 3d construction software shouldn t be.
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.
It gets the whole job done.
Construction modeling workflows are hard.
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.
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And in a previous tutorial we had created a 2d floor plan with symbols for windows and doors.
The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup.
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