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.
Drawing floor plans with sketchup layout.
Sketchup free gives me the convenience of accessing all the tools of sketchup s modeler anywhere i have access to the internet.
Watch and you ll avoid problems people run int.
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.
It gets the whole job done.
Need to create a floor plan for a client.
Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project.
Then on a new layer over the viewport you can create a scaled drawing.
Annotate document and communicate clearly so you can move your project forward.
It s a brilliant way to travel with sketchup knowing i can access illustrate and collaborate wherever i am.
It allows me to easily visualize my ideas and concepts before turning them into real projects.
You can learn this comp.
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.
Construction modeling workflows are hard.
Take your sketchup 3d model into 2d space with layout.
Some designers prefer to draw on top of the sketch drawing.
In this video we ve shared a technique from a paid course we teach.