Architectural Modeling In Blender Part 1 - Modeling from a FLOOR PLAN

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below! Also, remember to download the example image at www.thecgessentials.com/floorplan !

[@michaelwerkov3438]

do you have any experience or thoughts on photogrammetry for room scanning? the new iphones have a lidar-esque function that with the camera can scan rooms reasonably accurately. while i'd love to know about a cheapish camera with this functionality, next up to consider would be photogrammetry. but... ive only seen it used when circling AROUND an object... never "within" a space. any clue on if its possible? a combination of a scan to build proxy objects and textures along with measurements/floorplans would be a hell of a head start

[@lucutes2936]

thx for the vid

[@blood.mirror]

Did not receive the floor plan when I signed up for emails from your website. 😕

[@LocNgVIZ]

I can't received the floor plan after signed up by my emails

[@eamonnmcbride4908]

Is there a way to lock the floor plane image while using the plane edit?

[@ChrisStevens-vv8jq]

Hey dude. There are some people who are charging insane money for their ‘products’ but the fact that you share your knowledge for free is a reflection of your great character. Thank you so much for your superior being

[@stevefrazee227]

I purchased an 1875 house. I have used Blender some over the years. This video really got me thinking what possibilities I now have using Blender to help me restore this grand old home. Thank you for the series.

[@melfredolf]

You are great at explaining all the shortcuts. When you repeat saying "press E than Z" it helps so much in learning the shortcuts

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@craigritchie8470]

My image came in as a gray square (Solid). After researching I learned to press Z then pick Material Preview. I could then see the plan.

[@sinisterwall9714]

I'm so glad I read through the comment, I was about to delete the image and redownload it.

[@eddeig]

THANK YOU!!! You saved my day!

[@LetsDoItFromScratch]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!

[@aswinikumar8633]

Thanks bro

[@333deltasa2]

Thank you for that!

[@structurescience]

Thank you so much for this! Just finished this part. What a fantastically satisfying feeling, seeing all these walls take shape. They should do this in therapy. It's so rewarding.

[@MaigeTheWizard]

oh my god its you!!!!! you taught me how to uses sketchup like years ago!!! and here you are again!!! still kicking!! what a delight

[@fotuoh]

Thank you Justin and CG Essentials - this is easily one of the most cohesive and easy to listen to tutorials. Extremely beginner friendly since this one of my first attempts at learning Blender and I've really enjoyed the Part 1 of this tutorial. I'm currently modelling a 3D version of my family home we're building. My father passed away a few years ago and I'd like to think he'd really enjoy seeing this. Much love and keep up the great work my friend

[@VinMoses]

how's learning journey so far ?

[@multiengineer9199]

No one Can teach better from this great great Sir....

[@rinneganmastery3035]

by far the best videos for beginners

[@TheCGEssentials]

Love it!

[@Holm55]

That's funny, this week I started modeling out my apartment in blender. But I measured out the walls by hand with a measuring tape. This seems easier.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Well, I suppose that depends on if you have a 2D plan view of your apartment or not. If you do, definitely easier

[@michaelwerkov3438]

i measured everything in one room and wrote a python script to build the proxy object from the coordinates. i tired myself out from all of that and haven't finished the project in a year :(

[@Holm55]

@@TheCGEssentials I actually have the floor plan hanging on the wall by my entrance. You don't suppose a snapshot from my phone camera would be enough for this? My 3D model with measuring tape has some gaps, I think some corners in the apartment aren't 90 degrees, at least from what I can tell of the floor plan.

[@TheCGEssentials]

@@Holm55 Should be fine as long as you're not trying to be like super laser accurate. Just make sure the image is as flat as possible in your picture - don't take it at an angle

[@rinathamidulin3781]

@@Holm55 Use an app for scanning documents, that should help.

[@ramanrafiq7888]

Thank you so much man seriously this has helped me alot not in just modeling floor plans but also in modeling in general, thanks alot.

[@valeriyay1610]

Amazing tutorial, thanks a lot! And about 13:55I just figured out that the easier way would be to connect the upper dots and extrude the second part of the wall above the window down from the top. Like this you won't have to connect the faces by pressing f. That is of course if you approximately know the size of the wall above the window.

[@VinMoses]

thanks ure the only youtuber who i find usefull and skillful in teaching.....We would love to see a full tutorial for Blender dedicated to designers and architects with all the shortcuts ofcourse 😁

[@VideogameVibez]

I need to learn blender quick for game dev. And being a carpenter and understanding blueprints.... this might be the series i have been looking for.... thanks brother. Cheers

[@KhaledAhmedYounes]

Sir, your channel is criminally underrated!

[@celiolima604]

Wow, you're doing an awesome job spreading your knowledge! Thanks a bunch for that. Keep up the great work, and may you always stumble upon some cool stuff to learn along the way.

[@craigbaker6382]

Love this! I am doing some reno and have a desire to make some renders but also I am a huge fan of basics being so carefully and thoroughly demonstrated like this.

[@parseeek]

Wow, just what you need! I was just putting together a room myself yesterday in a similar way, but now thanks to your video I can see shorter and more accurate ways to recreate rooms from the blueprints faster.

[@zhagman]

I hear that blender is open source but if you have the budget I would buy Archicad. By the time he explains how to add a line I can draw in 3D the whole plan including Furniture in Archicad.

[@ziadlayous5118]

Hi, After you extruded the wall to 10 ft hight, you could make loop cuts at 3, 7 & 8 ft and then delete window & door openings, it is much easier this way. Thanks

[@sulphurous2656]

It would also help incase you ever wanted to convert those to curves to put tiles or trims or anything of that sort along those walls.

[@mmed4508]

I used to do this way but it creates problems if you want to make a lot of changes afterwards, in my experience

[@And.r_Art]

@@mmed4508 yeah, that was the method I was using before watching this video and it was giving me some issues and it creates unnecessary vertex points making it a longer render

[@justawolfbunny9971]

Thank you for these tutorials! I'll definitely use this info on blender

[@JohnnyBobs3DDesignz]

I love your videos dude, your like the one of the best instructors, if not the best. My opinion... I think it matters ;) Definitely helped me learn Blender fast... It was a smooth transition from 3Ds & MAYA. I love Blender... Took me a minute to get past the GUI but have since modified it to my liking. The best 3D app. The addon support community is the absolute greatest

[@christianerudition]

Hi Justin, doing this tutoring now, thanks so much for your great videos! I've got it all blocked out and loving it!

[@hamzahshuaib4528]

Wow, this is amazing

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks!

[@alexandre_le_kebab9869]

Thanks, i wanted to create a 3d map for one of my drawing and it help a lot. Also, your voice weirdly sound like health ledger joker and i loved it.

[@munundam8781]

good evening guys i follow the steps properly but yet i can't scale out as it is done in the video. once i start scaling, it scales the floor plan and neglects the line

[@vivianwarran8804]

Love this video - very easy to understand and follow. Thank you.

[@zeestudio3604]

I've started learning blender from zero and complete my home model in two days, 2-3 hours/day. And what i do with walls, i use cube object and measure with hand, scale x, y, z 😂, and shift+d, shif+d ........ 😅😅. Now I'll recreate with drawing by using this method.

[@tzevele7920]

thank you dude, this tutorial was exactly what i was looking for.

[@stevesculptor1]

Once you bring in your drawing, you can scale it by bringing in a plane from basics shapes make it 12ft square, turn it on edge, then just scale the drawing up or down. Another tip is lower the opacity of the drawing so you can see what your drawing.

[@Cineinsaner]

Bro I love your intro 😄 it's funny for me😂😂 every time

[@aerofart]

Another great way to cut out the windows and doors is to build your walls all the way up (including where the doors and windows are) and then building objects to use as cutters to boolean the wall geometry. This allows for all shapes, sizes and bottom heights of windows, and the cutters can be reused as many times as needed. You can also assemble groups of cutters together, align and distribute them as arrays, rotate them, etc.

[@TheLordG0at]

I love blender. I remember trying it years and years ago and just being completely overwhelmed. I’m still so overwhelmed, it’s so versatile which is great but I feel like I’m about to climb Mount Everest in a wheelchair. I know I need to break it up into small chunks but I don’t even know where to start. Sculpting I can do. Texturing and shading makes me want to cry 😂😂😂 when watching people model things though I can see learning all the shortcuts really opens the door to being able to quickly rough out what you need. But then furniture??! Fuuuuu….dge

[@TheCGEssentials]

Really depends on what you need to do - start with skills aligned with your goal in mind. If you want to do hard surface modeling, you probably shouldn't start with sculpting - that kind of thing. Learn to do one thing. Then another. Then another :)

[@TheLordG0at]

@@TheCGEssentials that’s where I struggle ahaha. I have been painting portraits for years, carving, some sculpting, so I enjoy that, BUT I also love to build stuff, creations/inventions etc. I will have to flip a coin. I’m leaning toward hard surface modelling first though. Did a tutorial yesterday, the sword in the stone. Went really well! Anyways, thanks for the reply! And all the content!

[@RedzwanulHuq]

You could've set origin of image to the starting point of the 12 feet then scale, it would've been easier to scale to image more accurately. Was looking for such tutorials thanks a lot

[@grilldj]

For the initial ref image scaling, I recommend switching to plan view (top view, NumPad 7). This should avoid any perspective errors. Also, the add vert method didn't work for me on 3.3, so I used a cube and set the X length to 12 feet. After moving the ref image pivot point to a corner on the (now) box, the scaling was one and done. Thank you for the videos.

[@AbductionDevlog]

Excellent tutorial. I was building the house from Signs for my alien game in unity but needed something more in depth if it was gonna look the part and this video alone will get me like 50% of the way there good job!

[@jasonjamerson]

I need Blender to add some line drawing tools, my work revolves around specific measurements like this. You can also draw your ground plan in AutoCAD and use Blender's import DXF addon, or similarly in Sketchup export a basic model.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Agree - it's very odd to me that there's no "Line tool" in Blender. There are workarounds, but a simple tool drawing lines to set lengths would be a VERY welcome addition

[@MrTahref]

snap utilities addon can do that

[@aronbijl4109]

@@TheCGEssentials I agree!

[@damien.digital]

Hi Justin! Instead of deleting the faces twice and then filings the gaps. You should : select the two faces that you want to delete and right clic bridge faces

[@Cytud]

ohh i need this thankyou sir

[@pierre-luc8400]

for the doors and the windows, you could have used the bridge option. otherwise, great tutorial

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks!

[@catallaxy]

Excellent video. Nice to see you doing Blender, with your inimitable bed side manner!!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks! :)

[@andeniem]

Y am just learing how to work with blender. This video's are very helpful. Thank you very mutch.

[@NancyMerlos]

I just want to give a quick thank you for this video. So much great information and very easy to follow! I am currently trying to teach myself how to use blender and this was awesome, keep up the great work!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@ahamedshahib8945]

thanks bro...as an budding architect this helps me a lot to learn blender as a beginner...and in this video its just a startup for me and i hope the next class video will be uploaded soon...and also i just start practising parametric architecture i hope soon you will teach as to make parametric designs asap....thank you soo much and keep doing lot of videos like this...

[@AlmondChocolateMilk]

0:40 You don't have to do that, just do Layout > Add > Image > Reference

[@McorpGroupofCompanies]

great work thank you

[@jonhjosephperez-qm2sp]

WOW thanks very helpful VID i just understand how to use BLENDER best VID thanks bro more VID for blender

[@nougadt]

So valuable -Thank you!

[@DavesChaoticBrain]

I'm really liking the Archipack add-on. Check that out if you're looking for some good tools.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Yep - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ol7EoKBvhd6iqa8

[@kansascitycomputers]

you are coming along good with your skills

[@letscompose8560]

Bridge edge loops on your windows instead of deleting or dissolve vertices. You won't have to spend time filling in faces and flipping normals.

[@thebookkeeper3508]

A helpful tutorial, thank you. As someone new to Blender, it would be helpful if you could explain what your keyboard shortcuts were doing, and how to access these commands using the menus. For example 'E, X' is very abstract and it's not clear what kind of extrude is happening. I found that the Extrude Region command does something different with a yellow + on the screen.

[@monix373]

It's nice how you have your dog with you in the thumbnail. :)

[@TheCGEssentials]

She's my best buddy!

[@hodgeutoo-aPoetsBlues]

Great video, saved me a lot of time! Thank you!

[@Birkkromann]

Instead of deleting the faces and creating a new face for the gap, you could bridge them instead. I think it's called bridge edge loops 😊

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - I think I've even talked about this in other videos - makes sense :)

[@Birkkromann]

@@TheCGEssentials it's very possible 😉 There are so many different approaches so I don't blame you. I'm really looking forward to the next parts in the series!

[@Eichetheking]

Another solution would have been to go into vertex select mode, type k for the knife and knife through the short edge between floor and wall to separate the faces.

[@effeeffe6281]

at 4:25 you can "Set Origin" (of the image) -> "Origin to 3D cursor" to avoid any other Scale adjustments

[@davidhudson3695]

I would recommend scaling to the largest dimensions, preferably in both axis by using a plane, to ensure the most accurate results and check the original plan is proportional.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Fair comment

[@igorthehusky7734]

I love being taught blender by mark Zuckerberg!

[@YashBait-j5n]

😂

[@thebookkeeper3508]

I see that for the interior walls new planes are added, which appear as new layers in your Scenes Collection. When I do it, the plane is added to the same plane layer. I then had the issue you had where the plane appeared at 10ft above the Z axis, but could move individual plane down as they are all connected! Edit: It's because I added the new planes in Edit mode, not Object mode.

[@diegoarce490]

I just loved when you said "We are in America so we are going to change to Imperial scale"" or something like that. I am sooo tire of having to use a converter program to switch from Metric to Imperial .... THANK YOU

[@icandoit6155]

Never thought I could use Blender to model Architecture! This is great, well if I can get it to work. When I import your floorplan using Images >>> Images as Planes, I just import a blank grey plane. When I use Image >>> Reference or Image >>> Background, the floor plan imports with the details visible. What am I doing wrong?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Sounds like you might only be in shaded mode in your viewport for the first one. Switch it to material preview

[@danzarlengo7127]

Great vid series - thanks!

[@thebookkeeper3508]

The dissolve edges part at 11:05 leaves me with a light grey wall remaining in that part. If I try to select the smaller edges, too, then dissolve, the wall begins to become angular and messed up.

[@ddddelfina]

great intro

[@alicemystery5332]

Nice tutorial. Keep up the good work !

[@emmaslow]

Is it as imprecise as it seems to add the vertex? It's making me twitch after being used to precision. Maybe I'm missing the details.

[@kppunkx]

is there any addon like sweep tool in blender? i know bewel profile but doesnt fullfil the desire results

[@arunikacandramawa5384]

you not explaining how you scale the picture from the point of your crusor. not from the center of the picture as the object. kinda confuse about this

[@zeitstudios]

On the top, where the snap button is, just beside that, you can see a pointer symbol. Click on that and change it to 3d cursor. Now when you try to scale it will consider the 3d cursor as the origin.

[@brittney6103]

This is so amazing!!!

[@rustandbleed]

I think during the initial scaling part, its much easier/faster to put in a 1'x1' square in the floor plane and then match it up with a 1' square mesh in blender.

[@ManoCraftas3]

Hello, great tutorial, tho I think that some overlapping faces were created during the wall extrusion (when you extruded walls and then windows or doors seperately). Any idea how to avoid or fix that?

[@zeitstudios]

Instead of extrude you could try creating loop cuts and bridge edges so that there will be no overlapping faces..or else you could use boolean modifier. It's way easy to apply boolean modifier with bool tool enabled from preferences.

[@paladin995893]

how did you scale from the vert point without exchanging planes pivot point. when I scale its scaling from 0,0,0 point!

[@joefromfocuspictures5894]

I love this! Nice work

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thank you!

[@silengeng9259]

How do you make those plane opacity down so i could see the plan through it?

[@Delta-el8fd]

I noticed that, when he Scales or moves a mesh, a small square on his upper left corner of the screen says the Scale AND, the dimensions being updated between parentheses. Mine only says the Scale, how can i get blender to also tell me the dimensions while scaling?

[@zeitstudios]

For dimensions, it's always better to go to edit mode. In edit mode, you can turn on edge length from the overlays menu on the top right of the modeling interface. Once you turn on edge length in edit mode, when you select any of the edges it will show you the dimension.

[@mr.hashundredsofprivatepla3711]

Can you please do a video on how to design a floor plan?

[@revitnews]

Sir, please make a short into video on Rhino modeling and blender cycle rendering workflow

[@jack19995]

so heres my issue right now. i add the plane and it creates more vertices without me asking, is there a way to stop that?

[@levon024]

Thank You!

[@muhammadalqadi1392]

If I want to assign a material to the inner walls different to the outer ones will this method be helpful for me? and if not how can I separate them?

[@zeitstudios]

You can assign multiple materials in the same mesh. Within edit mode, you can apply different materials to different faces from the material slot.🙂

[@polskaprince]

I was wondering how would you go about applying pbr materials to the external walls and different ones for the interior walls?

[@simonixio]

I think that on edit mode, using the face selection, you can select an exterior wall and then click on the material properties tab and assign it one of the materials you’ve already made.

[@blood.mirror]

This was good! Thank you!!

[@SgtMajor82]

Great video... thanks!

[@liketobe2743]

total blender noob here but 14:00, A for select all while beeing in edit mode then F for fill? or Wire frame, A select all, F fill? I tried btw your wall tutorial and i was like damn thats complicated, so i started doing it just by trying and now i see this tutorial and its like i just did it :D

[@testtest1art]

that was amazing

[@Palaber]

When i load an image as a plane, it downt work. but when i load just a picture than i can see the floor. how to fix it?

[@aguilarcesar9750]

Thanks for this amazing tutorial!! I just getting started with blender and I got to the part where you import the image as plan, but the image is shown just as a grey square, don't know what to do

[@johannak2675]

Click Z when you have the square selected, then select "Material Preview"

[@aguilarcesar9750]

@@johannak2675 Thanks! 😀

[@thebookkeeper3508]

I had the same issue.

[@Allinone_2052]

For 3d modelling which is better blender or sketchup please answer me

[@ThePlugTurtle]

This was very helpful, thank you mr. zuckerberg

[@thebookkeeper3508]

In Blender 4.1 the snapping menu looks quite different, and unfortunately the vertices are not snapping as shown in the video at around 08:57. Therefore, my bottom left corner joins are not aligned and this is going to cause me some problems in the next part I'm guessing.

[@matiastemesio893]

well, if you do it in autocad, it will import the plane with perfect dimensions, also it makes vertices where you can snap with your 3d mesh

[@andy0245]

Is this suitable for a Beginner (me lol) whose interested in basic architecture?

[@aprizuniverse]

having hard time downloading the image

[@normangale3159]

What I want to know is how to let the 0,0 point let go of my model please?

[@mrd0t188]

not sure if it is the new version of blender but i tired the first step and when i shift a the image option doesn't appear. can someone help

[@sbutler860]

I'm afraid I'm falling at the first hurdle. When I import image as planes, the jpeg is just a blank grey square. x

[@jassimrabia3071]

Thank you,,,,

[@gyorgyvarszegi]

I have tried to create a 3D printout of our house. I have followed your instructions carefully. 1. I have found that Blender accumulates errors (may be rounding errors). Despite carefully inserting snapping vertices, coordinates start to mismatch. Faces can not be added without correcting the vertex positions. The result is visually ok. But a closer look shows a plenty of problems. 2. The design contains only vertical walls and archimesh doors and windows. But the 3D printing Add On checker and the Creality Slicer reports errors. I think creating a design from vertices is not a real option.

[@TheCGEssentials]

I've not witnessed errors in the precision of the model so far, though I do find the whole thing pretty clunky. Blender really hasn't focused on adding great precision modeling tools to the program. I'm not sure how there would be rounding errors unless you're trying to model to very high levels of detail, like to the 10th or hundredth of a unit.

[@bungei91]

What key board shortcuts are you using? because non of the key shortcuts are working for me and I am not sure why and I have a mac that I did convert my keys back to windows keys because well i am switching to mac now but i still use my pc keyboard. But I did download the mac version of blender and non of my hot keys work or maybe i messed up somewhere i am not sure ?

[@golias1979]

Do you prefer archipack or this method?

[@2000Dnard]

can I use jpg file or does it require psd? I'm unable to use jpg file in Blender, no error, just blank plane.

[@grilldj]

try just dragging in the JPG or PNG. Blender will treat it like any other image and you should see it fine. For some reason, "Images as planes" doesn't work for my 3.3 install.