It gets the whole job done.
Import floor plan to sketchup.
In this article you also discover how sketchup data is exported into cad format.
If you re exporting a sketchup pro file to a cad format how you import a cad file depends on whether it s a 2d file such as a floor plan or a 3d model.
You can also trace an image to model a 2d design that you want to place somewhere in a 3d model.
Lots of these 2d drafts will come in the form of pdf documents.
Either i start from scratch using measurements i ve taken at the home usually in combination with a basic floor plan that i drew from the assessor s site or i work from a pdf floor plan provided by an architect or builder i ve already covered how to start your floor plan from field.
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.
Sketch floor plan to 3d in sketchup.
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.
Sketchup can take you from floor plan to finished project.
Your 3d construction software shouldn t be.
Pdf is a very common file format and you ll find many architectural drawings are shared in pdf format as well as most product.
In this sketchup tutorial we ll introduce a free tool that you can use to convert pdf s to dxf files which you can import into sketchup pro.
Construction modeling workflows are hard.
Whatever you re trying to model here s how to start tracing an image.