Sketchup Tutorial Drawing Walls Floors

In this video tutorial you will learn how to create walls and floors in sketchup.
Sketchup tutorial drawing walls floors. All contractors build based upon dimensions set to the face of stud or masonry. Transform each rectangle into a 3 dimensional block by pulling its face to a height that consists of the wall height and the floor raise. Brooke godfrey 2013. Most floors and walls are flat surfaces so it s easy to model them with straight edges and flat faces in sketchup.
You can also draw lines. There are many ways to draw exterior walls in sketchup. You can also draw lines to signify where one floor ends and another begins. We will also learn the following techniques.
Sketchup gives you a few ways to create walls and floors. This is a series of video tutorials for sketchup. And in a previous tutorial we had created a 2d floor plan with symbols for windows and doors. These are the steps i normally do to make walls and floors in google sketchup.
If you establish the wall based on the centerline you will always have to adjust your line to compensate for half the wall thickness unless you don t care. In fact chances are good that the first thing you ever model in sketchup looks a lot like the floor and walls of a building. I draw all my floor plans in sketchup but i would never set them up based upon the centerline of the wall. This video highlights a few methods that you can use when drawing walls based on an imported image fi.
You can differentiate between interior and exterior walls and add features such as columns windows and doorways. By aidan chopra. 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. In this tutorial we re going to identify the opening locations for the windows and doors and create 2d symbols for both.
Drawing floors and walls in sketchup. Draw all room boundaries based on a floor plan so that each room is represented by one or more rectangle s.