How To Get A Floor Plan View In Sketchup

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How to get a floor plan view in sketchup.

You also want to make sure that you re not seeing things in perspective which distorts your view of what you have. If you re going to use sketchup to draw a 2d plan the first thing you need to do is orient your point of view. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. Unhide the original sketch you imported.

Under the camera menu set the view to parallel projection. It gets the whole job done. If you want the floor plan then the client will have to insert a section plane activate it to show only the floor plan and then send you a new view file with the section plane and plan view saved. To get back to a top down view select camera standard views top make sure parallel projection under the camera dropdown is turned on.

Create a scene and then save. 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. You can hide the section plane itself in your layout document by opening the styles window in sketchup and editing the default style of your scene to hide the section plane. This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra.

Notice that you ve now provided straight on view for your plan. Or do you want to see inside and have a look at the floor plan. Construction modeling workflows are hard. You can also trace an image to model a 2d design that you want to place somewhere in a 3d model.

In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools. You can learn this comp. Whatever you re trying to model here s how to start tracing an image. Your 3d construction software shouldn t be.

Next under window select the scenes console. It s easiest to draw in 2d when you re directly above your work looking down at the ground plane. To finish turning your floor plan to 3d you ll have to add the windows. This tutorial shows how to draw 2d floor plans in sketchup step by step from scratch.

Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1. In su8 create a section plane and place it 4 feet above the floor. Tracing an image is an easy and thus common way to create a floorplan in sketchup and then turn that plan into a 3d model. In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls.