How To Draw Floor Plan In Sketchup Layout

In this video we re going to create a floor plan in layout for our apartment model using sketchup 2018 s new section tools.

How to draw floor plan in sketchup layout.

If you want to use the scaled drawing feature to draw over a sketchup viewport you need to lock the viewport on a separate layer. Now that the floor area has been established. 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. I started with the bedroom and living room area next i worked with the bathroom and closet at this moment i added shapes from the shape toolbar to create figures on the layout for the lavatory faucet bowl etc.

Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1. Then on a new layer over the viewport you can create a scaled drawing. I partitioned it by putting walls inside creating rooms in the layout. It gets the whole job done.

Adding a floor plan to a real estate listing can increase click throughs from buyers by 52. 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. In addition we ll have different lineweights for the walls. How to draw a floor plan.

Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing. You can also use a floor plan to communicate with contractors and vendors about an upcoming remodeling project. 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.

Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project. Determine the area to be drawn. You can learn this comp. This tutorial shows how to draw 2d floor plans in sketchup step by step from scratch.

If you import a cad file into layout you might be able to adjust the scale of your imported data to fit your layout document. The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup.