Exterior Architectural Modeling in Blender FOR BEGINNERS - Part 1 - Getting Started!

In this series, learn how to create an architectural model in Blender! In the first video, we talk about how to start modeling our house model - we'll create floors, roofs, support posts, and start creating the openings in our model!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - Project Introduction
0:38 - Changing model units
0:55 - Creating our support posts
2:11 - Extruding our posts to 3D
2:44 - Adding our Floor
5:03 - Adding the interior walls
7:09 - Adding support framing to our posts
8:11 - Adding our flat roof
8:54 - Adding our sloped roof
11:20 - Adding Roof Openings with Booleans
13:48 - Adding Doors and Windows
14:45 - Adding a boolean to cut our window opening
15:45 - Adding our window object
17:25 - Linking the movement of the window and boolean

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone - let me know what you think about this series and if you have any questions in the comments below! :)

[@chickandpea7020]

Can you upload a quick video creating metal roofing from scratch? Types Mechanical Lock AND Snap-lock Metal Roof

[@E.T.S.]

Thank you, these are helpful.

[@WheresThaHate]

i love that you always have your doggo in the scene 🐶😍

[@FluxStage]

Fantastic! Looking forward to all of these!

[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

Great video! It covers all the basics!

[@AFLAutoBlendz3DCarCreations]

Very good tutorial Justin

[@MrGoggler]

I like it! 😃👏

[@rogersbuck6602]

Hah,I like your opening , amazing course!

[@fidibsp]

Such a good tutorial! But, I wanna give some tips... 1. Instead of use 3d cursor then adding plane, you can duplicate main floor to make the main house 2. Do boolean on first roof first, then duplicate 3. Same with number 1, you can insert the main wall and duplicate it to make windows

[@patrykgrzyb2776]

I was using blender and tested maya before 2015 it was very hard to model to scale so I decide to start with sketchup, now many years later I'm looking for alternative for sketchup as development stopped few yesrs ago and do not see any improvements. It looks like shortly blender will be kitchen design alternative for sketchup, fingers crossed.

[@krystallosg.3227]

Last month I literally started a project of recreating a house both inside and out for an online roleplay campaign... It was really fun but also oh my god trying to figure out how to do the architecture... I cant wait to see more of these videos!!

[@betohmj]

Is a ADDON The tools at the bottom left (line, circule,arc, etc.)?

[@tedarnlund1293]

Do you think that ArchiPack Pro can do a home with a walkout basement with 2 levels above it. I bet your followers would like to see that even if it is in 3 videos.

[@Sander_Hollo]

btw did you know that these primitive vids are not rly primitive 🤣 Thank you m8,you helped a lot 😋

[@kothiha5479]

❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@larrymortimer4833]

As you said in your other Sketchup vs Blender videos, Blender is not a good choice for a project like this. As an architect I typically use Sketchup for conceptual models and Vectorworks for construction drawings. I have considered using Sketchup & Layout for both conceptual and construction documents but I find Layout is lacking many of the tools I'm used to in Vectorworks. I know there are other architects that carry a project all the way through using Sketchup and Layout, but I'm just not there yet.

[@MichaelFlynn0]

Layout is soo slow for large scale drawing sets. A 4 story building with 50 references and 29 pages becomes a monster very fast.

[@larrymortimer4833]

@@MichaelFlynn0 The only projects I've seen done in Layout are high end residences. You're probably right, Layout would be too slow for a complex project. Also I suspect you would have a hard time getting an engineer to work with Layout, which means a lot of exporting to DWG files..

[@MichaelFlynn0]

@@larrymortimer4833 yer.. it’s a great design tool.. terrible for documentation…

[@ciliaana3389]

Where is the snapping tutorial ?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Added to notes

[@rjwh67220]

Does the big dog just like to watch?

[@aj6807]

Imperial 🤮, great video though 🤗

[@MichaelFlynn0]

That window shows you how appalling Blender is for hard surface modeling... the fact you need to inset and extrude and delete the face twice and it leaves a hole in the solid is simply tragic. So complicated for so little result.

[@Samana009]

Blender is too complex for architectural designs. It is not worth it