Then I make the floors and roof as separate entities again. I do each floor separately but on top of each other. You can then Push/pull them up to show the room height. That should create a series of closed loops enclosing surfaces. Personally, I start by laying out the walls on plan. The benefit of doing that in the building you are drawing is that if you made a mistake with a measurement or left out a critical one, you can easily go back and check it.Īs for the model itself and how it is organized, everyone will have their own way. Now you can transfer the data onto your virtual model in SU. You may also want to record critical heights, such as window cill heights, heights of changes of level, and ceiling heights. If you want accuracy, you need to take diagonal measurements too, but most spaces are sufficiently square not to need that. There may be other more unique features you need to record, depending on what you need. This should show walls (represented by a double line so you can measure thickness), openings (windows and doors mainly), steps, and (possibly) downstands. Taking a measured survey of a building is a subject of its own, but essentially you need to start with a reasonable sketch of each floor plan. There are two separate tasks here: one is the surveying, the other is the recording (by making a SU model). This community and group here is very helpful! So many questions but thank you for your advice. I also have to deal with a 2nd floor - and I’m not sure how to handle that either! The goal is to: draw out the layout of the house, and use this framework as a thing to assist with potential remodel ideas (in 3D). And if anyone has a recommended UDemy course for this specific kind of thing, that would be great. I think perhaps if I get these core principles understood, it’ll be easier going forward. And similarly, how do you deal with baseboards? Do deduct 1" here, a 1/2" there? What is the best approach? And mainly - when I measure rooms beside each other how do I piece those together and account for the thickness of the walls? For example I can measure two rooms next to each other, but I can’t put those rectangles exactly together because if I push/pull I’ll rob Paul to pay Peter, or vice versa. Which would affect the next wall, and the dominos kept falling. Ignoring the small detail differences and drawing out the internal rooms in rectangles only - working from the outside in - because I ran into many problems moving from outside to in - lots of measurements were wrong and I was constantly adjusting walls. So now I’m thinking of scrapping the whole thing and doing the opposite approach. Nothing in this house lines up very well (lots of remodels have happened over the years), so it’s quite a challenge. Then moved to try to document the inside rooms. I started by measuring the outside of the house. I’m wondering what folks here would recommend though. I’ve watched quite a few videos so get the main functionality and features of SketchUp (just still a bit confused on managing groups vs. Trying to document our rather complex house floor plan, I find myself down a rabbit hole, and think I need to step back and re-analyze my core practices or approach. OK I’m a long term IT pro, so pretty technical but SketchUp is a new thing outside my core area of expertise.
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