SketchUp Interior Design for Layout 4 - Creating Our First Floor Plan in Layout

What's up guys Justin here with the SketchupEssentials.com back with another Sketchup quick tutorial for you So in this video, we're gonna continue working on our apartment model that we're gonna take in the layout in this video We're probably gonna finish generating our floors and then we're gonna work on setting our views up and getting our first Plan exported in the layout and before we get started I do want to take a second and thank my supporters on patreon Patreon as you know is the website where you can support creators on YouTube that you you like what they're doing so if you like what I'm doing on this channel if you want to support me everything that uh All the support I receive on patreon just goes right back into the show in the form of new extensions and new things to help Make the show better. So if you want to check that out, make sure you check out the link in the notes below now Let's go ahead and just jump into it Alright, so the first thing I want to do is I want to go ahead and come in here and model my actual floors So if you remember we modeled this using a reference image, so this image is in here It's something that we imported if I make a copy of it off to the side Which I'm gonna go ahead and do because I want to make sure I have that copy of it I just use the move tool and copy mode right there But what I what I don't have is I don't really have like floor Geometry in here. So like an actual floor where I can apply a material that sort of thing and so what I'm gonna do now that I've made this copy off to the side and I'm gonna go ahead and make that a Group and we can hide it Or we'll probably put it on like an always off layer or something like that a little bit later But in either case what we're gonna do with this is we're just gonna come in here real quick and we're just gonna trace out our floors and So that's not gonna be a super difficult thing to do, especially for these rectangular rooms I can just come across and just draw a box across them and What I do need to be careful of when I do this I'm doing this on the bottom because you can see a lot better But you do need to be careful that you're not accidentally erasing out walls or that sort of thing You want to make sure that all you're doing? You want to make sure that all you're doing is drawing along this face and you can kind of tell just by clicking between these two faces that they're their own individual face and So all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna finish tracing all of this out just so I have faces in here that I can apply a floor material to and So you can see what I just did is I just came in here and I just turned off all of my layers so that I'm not accidentally messing around with that geometry, so if I Rotate up. All I have now is just my walls in here and so that way this will be a lot easier for me to come in here and just Generate all of this geometry Without accidentally merging with other things that sort of thing and you can see how I'm kind of stopping my faces Wherever the materials stop because what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna apply Materials like wood floors and other things like that To this model. So anywhere where there's a transition I stop this face and I start a new one So I'm gonna go ahead and skip ahead You don't need to watch me just trace along this face But we'll come back in just a second and I'll have all these faces ready to go and we'll keep going All right. So what I've done and I made this copy over here but I came in and I just traced the edges of all of these that took a little longer than I expected it to but You can see if I zoom or if I flip this around and I click on these various things from the bottom You can see how they're in here as individual geometry Well now what we can do and because we've already modeled our walls and everything else I'm probably gonna leave this stair texture in here right now, but I'm actually gonna apply materials to these different faces So we have actual accurate flooring in here and So what I'll do is I'll just come in here in the material section and I'll just pull Various different materials in order to apply to this. I mean, there's like wood floor textures and There's tile. There's carpet. So Basically everything you need to get started and you can definitely bring in other You can definitely bring in other material types as well, but I'm just gonna use Sketchup's built-ins for right now And so we'll apply this kind of white Tile in here. I don't know if this limestone is gonna look much better. I don't think that it is We'll go ahead and leave it as this white square tile for right now So now what we have and you can see how I turned all my layers off in order to do all of this now I can turn my layers back on and I actually have an apartment in here that has That has all of my different materials in it and everything else. So now I think we're pretty much ready to start Generating our floor plan. So the first thing I'm gonna do real quick is I'm gonna create a layer and we're just gonna call it conceptual Always off And so that's a layer where you can put things if you don't if you don't ever expect to actually use them in your model And you're always gonna want them turned off, but you don't want to delete them out of your model So I'm gonna go ahead and put this On that layer so that I have my backup of this flooring right here, and then I'm gonna delete out oops My base shape in just a second. The first thing I'm gonna do is We'll go ahead and just draw a box around all of this So I'm gonna go ahead and erase out all that extra so all I have now is I basically have my floor plan shape and One thing happened when I did that as I lost my stairs and I don't want to lose my stairs So because I'm probably gonna model those a little bit later so There we go so now I have my floor plan in here and somehow at some point hidden geometry got turned on in my model So I'm gonna go ahead and turn that off So now what we're gonna start doing is we're gonna start generating some views that are kind of appropriate for the layout So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna generate a working view and this is probably something I should have done a long time ago But this is just kind of an overall view that you can use in order for actually working So everything's gonna be kind of turned on and you can use that to make adjustments in your model So in this case, what I'm gonna do is we're gonna use the scenes In the animation section in order to save our viewpoint. So I'm just gonna go to view animation add scene and so Most of you know with scenes basically what that means is now I've got this little tab up here And if I click on it, it'll just go back to the view So no matter where I go if I get in here if I get lost in my model Whatever if I click on this scene, then it'll come back To whatever I save that as initially so when I first created the scene and you can also update those by right-clicking on your scene and clicking update and the Other thing we're gonna want to do is we're gonna want to keep our scenes organized using the scenes manager So that can be found over in your tray And so I'm just gonna go over to the scene section and you see where it says scene one We're just gonna rename that we're just gonna call that working view so now It's not a big deal right now, but as you go you're gonna have a whole bunch of different stuff in here and Labeling Your views is gonna be really important. And so what we're gonna do now is we're going to start generating our floor plan views and so the way that we're gonna do that is We're going to start by adding a section cut on our walls So we're gonna create our very first section plane and I actually already have one in here But if you don't you're just going to go to tools Section plane or there's a little icon for it over here You can see how as I move my mouse over my model it locks to various faces depending on which one you put this over Well, what I want to do is I want to tap the up key because that's gonna lock me to the up and down So you can see how when I lock up and down that's gonna allow me to take a section cut of this whole building Straight up and down and so that gives me my cut through my walls Which gives me what I can export to layout in order to create my floor plan And so you can see how this this works pretty well if I click this top down button There's a few things that I want to note The first is you can actually see the section plane and it's giving everything kind of this gray Color and so what we're gonna do is we're gonna go to view and we're gonna uncheck section planes So don't uncheck section cuts because then your section won't be there anymore. You're gonna go to view Section planes to turn that off and you're gonna leave section cuts on So that's the first thing is you've got kind of a floor plan view With your section cut and you can see that this gives you a floor plan view But it's not very good because it's not straight up and down because your model has the perspective view So you can see how like if I look at this wall This isn't a straight up and down view of this wall And so the way that we're gonna fix that and the way we're gonna get just a straight up and down view is we're gonna turn Perspective off. So you're just gonna go to camera and Instead of perspective you're gonna go to parallel projection and you can see how when I went to parallel projection what that did Is that generated? Or that took the perspective out of my model. So now you can see inside this wall That there's no longer the perspective view of it when we go straight up and down So you can see how this gives us more of a floor plan view And so now what we're gonna be able to do with that is we're gonna be able to export that to layout So we're gonna take that view and that's gonna be the first view We want to save is just our floor plan just our general floor plan And so all I'm gonna do is I'm just going to add a scene So I'm gonna click the little plus button over here and we're just gonna call this floor plan Overall and so now we've got an overall floor plan view that we can reference when we go over to layout So we can open that up and we can go over here to just pull this general floor plan view And there's some things that probably need to be done in this model Like for example, I've got some lines inside my walls that need cleaning up that I didn't get before because they're inside the walls So you can't really see them So you can come in here and do some stuff like that to clean everything up To make everything a little smoother So now my line weights pretty smooth. You can see how I double-clicked inside my walls group in order to do that. And so Let's go ahead and take this view and export it into layout. And so in order to do that First of all, you're gonna want to save your model And so when you save your model what that's doing is that's updating everything in your in your model file so that you can reference that In layout so now when you import this into layout It's gonna reference back to this file And so you can also take a look at your model and see if there's anything in here that you think is problematic So like for example, I'm gonna go ahead and move this stove Back against the wall. So there's no gap in here. And then the other thing is This refrigerator model that I imported looks like it's kind of Clashing with this floor a little bit. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna move that up just a bit Just enough that these faces aren't really merging anymore. Now if I go back to my floor plan view You can see that again instead of the wood floor showing through so just some quick cleanup things The other thing that isn't in here and I'm gonna have to do this later is I'm gonna have to model in these stairs so for right now They're not in here. We're not we're not gonna worry about that for right now. We'll come back in and add that a little bit later but basically what we're gonna do now is We're gonna save our model one more time and what we're gonna do and and you need to remember that layout is a pro version feature So what you can do is you can click on the send a layout button. Well if you have the layout License if you have a pro version license, then it'll just automatically open this in layout so let's go ahead and click send to layout and there's other ways to do this to get this stuff out of a Sketch up model and into layout. We'll go with this for right now So this is gonna pop up in layout and the first thing it's gonna ask you is what template you want So there's a bunch of different built-in templates. And so basically these are your page sizes so you can get a 3 a 4 standard architectural sizes Tabloid there's a lot of different stuff kind of built in here Some of these have some of these are just basically the graph paper And then some of them actually have a title block on the side so you can add things like project information That sort of thing and so like for example, I'm gonna scroll down and I'm gonna select We'll select this art architectural D landscape and click OK And so when I click on that what that's gonna bring in is that's gonna bring in an architectural landscape Size page with your title block and then that's gonna bring your image in as well. Because if you remember we told it to Bring that in To layout and so, you know just generally speaking there's a whole bunch of different title blocks in here Things like project names and who drew it that sort of thing. And so we've got kind of our first Plan view in layout and so you can see immediately one of the first issues you have is your scale Your your image isn't brought in at a certain scale. So it's just brought in at a scale of like an image and so And I may create a whole nother video just going through The different scrapbooks and line types and all this stuff off to the side for right now What we specifically want to focus on is this section called sketch up model So I'm not gonna worry about patterns or anything like that We've also got our pages in here But for right now, let's focus on our sketch up model And so this is basically where it has all the information for the stuff that you've brought in From a sketch up model. So if you look there's things like which scene You want this to show? So if I click this working view then this window in layout is gonna show my working view scene If I click my floor plan overall, this is gonna show my floor plan overall scene so those are gonna correspond with these in sketch up and So the other thing you can see is it's got the standard views in here And it's also got a scale and that's kind of what we want to focus on for right now is we want to actually bring This in at a scale because this is kind of a weird scale. It's in at 1 1 to 24 Generally speaking things like this come in at one of these architectural scales be that like a quarter inch or a half inch or an eighth inch an eighth inch seems to be pretty common for bigger commercial projects, so we'll go ahead and try that first and See how big that is that's probably gonna be pretty small on this page because it's not a very big apartment so maybe we'll bring that in in a quarter inch and So now we've got our view in here We may actually be able to bring that into a half inch because that architectural D sheet is a pretty big sheet So we'll go to the half inch So now we've got more of an architectural scale in here And so now what we want to do is we want to move this around on our page And so one thing that's going to be important is you want to make sure this box for preserve scale on resize is checked Because otherwise what's going to happen is if you resize this you see how the scale is changing as I go So that's what you don't want is you don't want to try to move this around on your page and start losing your scale Because you need to print these all at a certain scale and so what you're gonna Do is you're gonna go to this we'll go back to the half inch and we'll check the box for preserve scale on resize And so now when I click and drag this you can see how my image stays the same size It's just a question of how big this box is. So now you've got your floor plan in here As kind of a window into your model So now you can click and drag and make this fit and fit on your page without having to worry about your scale All right. So in the next video, we'll probably talk a little bit more about the different line weight types and that kind of thing one thing I'm noting With my model and the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna save so the first thing we'll do is we'll save this and One interesting thing. I'm noting right now is this is actually still bringing in that old texture And I think the reason for that on the floors is because if you look on the back side And we can look in the entity info. Yeah, all of these faces are still in here It looks like that texture is still in there So it looks like for whatever reason we had two faces sitting in there we had the one We had the one that actually has our faces that we applied on the front side and you can see how on the back side It was still retaining that original texture What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go fill all of that in on this back side So there's no more confusion about that, but you can see how there's actually a second layer It's kind of sitting in the same place that has that texture on it for some reason I'm not really sure why but we'll go ahead and delete that out So now I've got this so that my materials are on the front side and there's nothing on the back side now if I go back to my floor plan And I click Save Then we can go back to layout and update our model to show that So you can see I went in and saved my model well, then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna update my reference file in layout once that's done and You'll see these textures will change So if I come in here and I right-click on this and I select update model reference What that's gonna do is that's gonna go back and that's gonna pull from Sketchup the most recent version of that So if I click update model reference This should change to my current set of textures. There you go So you can see how that adjusted based on the changes that I made in my model So now we've created kind of our first page in layout. We've got everything set up in the next video I'm going to talk a little bit more about some other views. So doing some things like line weights and So doing some things for like the doors and the windows come in here with a different line weight that sort of thing So that's where we're gonna wrap up this video. Leave a comment below. Let me know what you thought Is this helpful to you? Am I leaving stuff out or skipping stuff? 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