Modeling From Scanned Floor Plan In Sketchup

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Modeling from scanned floor plan in sketchup.

George starts by aligning the floor plan to the scene and then uses the sketchup drawing tools to trace over the reference image. Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing. 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. Construction modeling workflows are hard.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a floor plan in sketchup using an image as a basis. 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. Whatever you re trying to model here s how to start tracing an image. When i it comes time to turn your sketches into reality you may want to use sketchup to model your sketched floor plan to 3d in this tutorial we ll show you exactly how to take a floor plan sketch and turn it into a 3d model in sketchup.

You can also trace an image to model a 2d design that you want to place somewhere in a 3d model. 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. Sketch floor plan to 3d in sketchup. In this video george shows how to model a building in sketchup using a floor plan as reference.

You also want to make sure that you re not seeing things in perspective which distorts your view of what you have. And in a previous tutorial we had created a 2d floor plan with symbols for windows and doors. 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. Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project.

He uses opacity as a tool to view the drawing better and then uses the push pull tool to extrude the walls of the building. It gets the whole job done. It s easiest to draw in 2d when you re directly above your work looking down at the ground plane.