Make Floor Plans With Google Sketchup

Sketchup free gives me the convenience of accessing all the tools of sketchup s modeler anywhere i have access to the internet.

Make floor plans with google sketchup.

Because sketchup is easy we are actually going to create wall from the floor as you will see. Your 3d construction software shouldn t be. Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing. The easiest way to create floor plans.

It gets the whole job done. Needs to migrate to the openid thingy. To create floors in sketchup design we must sketch them first and then apply materials. You can click on any image in this tutorial to make it larger.

Click and hold down your mouse key as you drag the cursor to rotate the view into perspective. This is one method of many that you can use to create walls in sketchup we will get there in the next tutorial. To begin transforming your sketch to 3d you ll want to make the slab floor. 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.

It allows me to easily visualize my ideas and concepts before turning them into real projects. Activate the orbit tool. Make the slab floor. Open your sketchup model containing your floor plan.

Click on the floor group you just drew and paint it. Now lets create the floors in the the house model. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. It s a brilliant way to travel with sketchup knowing i can access illustrate and collaborate wherever i am.

The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup. 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 you can delete the original image because your floor has all of the plan details on it. If you have parallel projection turned on go ahead and turn it off now.