The key is to think of each level as a separate tray consisting of interior walls a floor surface and the ceiling of the level below.
How to insert floor plans in sketchup.
This tutorial shows how to draw 2d floor plans in sketchup step by step from scratch.
Select the file icon.
Sketchup floor plan tutorial for beginners 1.
You can learn this comp.
Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.
The method that i m about to explain certainly isn t the only way to draw a 2d floor plan in sketchup.
Your 3d construction software shouldn t be.
Make the slab floor.
It gets the whole job done.
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.
You can also trace an image to model a 2d design that you want to place somewhere in a 3d model.
How to add doors windows to a 2d interior floor plan in sketchup in our last tutorial we added the interior walls to a basic 2d floor plan that we drew in sketchup from a pdf plan file.
Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project.
Whatever you re trying to model here s how to start tracing an image.
You can select the trimble connect icon or the computer icon for a local file.
An file menu appears select insert.
By aidan chopra.
Optional you can also drag drop a file from an explorer or finder window directly into sketchup shop.
In this tutorial we re going to identify the opening locations for the windows and doors and create 2d symbols for both.
To begin transforming your sketch to 3d you ll want to make the slab floor.
In sketchup shop open the sketchup model into which you want to import your dwg or dxf file.
Click on the floor and use the push pull tool to extrude it down 8 inches.
Now you can delete the original image because your floor has all of the plan details on it.
Adding a second and third and fourth floor to your model in google sketchup isn t as hard as it may seem.