How to make walls in sketchup. 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. Draw all room boundaries based on a floor plan so that each room is represented by one or more rectangles. Ten mistakes beginners make in sketchup and how to avoid them. Most people want to create two kinds of architectural.
Consider what happens when you build the following. When you draft a floorplan in sketchup it really helps to ignore things like doors and windows where a doorway should be in a wall just draw a solid wall. Cutting holes in cavity walls in sketchup. If youre brand new to sketchup one of the first things youll notice is that your walls are paper thin.
Sketchup 21 small house floors and walls brooke godfrey brooke. Most floors and walls are flat surfaces so its easy to model them with straight edges and flat faces in sketchup. When you are modeling a building in google sketchup you can add interior walls to your building before switching to a 3d view. Start a new project series in which youll model a small house from scratch starting with the walls and floor in this episode.