How To Draw Floor Plan In Sketchup

Create floor plan using ms excel.

How to draw floor plan in sketchup.

In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools. The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup. Excel is ideal for entering calculating and analyzing company data such as sales fig. Your 3d construction software shouldn t be.

It gets the whole job done. In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. It s easiest to draw in 2d when you re directly above your work looking down at the ground plane. Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.

You also want to make sure that you re not seeing things in perspective which distorts your view of what you have. Ms excel being a spreadsheet program is used to store and retrieve numerical data in a grid format of columns and rows. 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. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project.

Want to support the sketchup essentials. Everyone is familiar with ms excel right. 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.