Creating Floor Plans from Images in SketchUp - The SketchUp Essentials #23

[@M5tworude]

Thanks Justin, I watch this video every year or so. I really appreciate it.

[@rickyfriend6939]

Great video Justin. I have immersed myself into this program for 3 days to learn everything in creating a floor plan. Unfortunately it is too much architectural orientated, and not enough marketing orientated. I need to produce a product that is very good, without spending a lot of time on it. Sketchup can deliver superb results, but it takes way too much time to do it. Believe me - I have drilled down to the core of what this does and how it works. Nevertheless, I must compliment you on your videos. So very well done! And your voice is like a fine bourbon. Smooth, rich, and mellow. Never get tired of listening to you. Your skills are so ideally suited to making videos. Nobody can come close to you in that regard. Keep up the good work!

[@retr0381]

This tutorial is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for free knowledge

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rahdad1]

If you temporarily make the floor plan texture semi transparent, it makes it much easier to know what you've traced over and it goes much quicker.

[@diesw5519]

How do you do that?

[@ericuk9481]

Hi, cannot explode the outside of the floor plan, everything is included.

[@anhtram6553]

U made it simple man ur subscribers are well deserved

[@brightangelss4187]

this is the best tutorial i ever had Thank you!

[@flakkofc]

Like 2 minutes in and you've solved the issues I was having. I didn't realize that box for showing what was going on was there, I didn't

[@MMALAB]

This trick when pull doesn't work was great for cutting a door!

[@kmlanham1]

Once again some very helpful tips on how to use sketchup quickly and efficiently.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much!

[@josejaramillo909]

You are the best my friend, especially you have a very clear English.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much! I really appreciate this :)

[@gilpcgamer5629]

Thanks for the motivation. I wasn't sure if I could do it, but I might try it eventually.

[@jameskennethartajo6153]

Excellent video ...............................Thank You !!!

[@rinabellemae4385]

Thank you so much, I really love your tutorials because it's easy to understand :>

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you like them!

[@Anta-mno]

you have about the software. I personally enjoy learning so it was a little bit easier to do it over ti. But you’ll get there brother

[@rafsan12366]

ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE

[@free-energy-systems]

It's 38'7" from the front porch to the patio. Also x-ray let's you see the floor plan while you're working on it.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

X-Ray is a good idea - would let you see through the walls to the image - thanks!

[@jbonegw]

The explode image tip was awesome.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@jacintocosta]

i was having the exact same problem with door and windows (10:42). i'm a noonie so this video helped me loads! thanks!

[@contesaidou.e.m503]

I used this method too but I prefer to make a group with the image and lock it so I can't delete it mistakenly,and then draw on top of it by turning the transparency on and off when it's necessary.;),but thanks for sharing your knowledge like usual,your videos are really useful

[@Thesketchupessentials]

That works too! :) There's really not a "right way" or a "wrong way" in this case as much as there's "Find the way that works best for you and do that!" Thanks a lot for watching!

[@arbuildingservices]

That was extremely helpful. Thanks so much pal...

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@ARRUKO]

and i wish you good luck with your future endeavors ❤

[@darksephyro856]

That was great. Thank you.

[@akshaybentlee8954]

thank you so much dude you're a god

[@ajphotography1167]

Very helpful Video as always .

[@dj1211]

Hey Justin, These videos are awesome! I am new to this and really enjoy it so far. From Washington DC

[@MassimoG]

Great content as always but how you could manage imperial units it's a mystery for me. Cheers.

[@vtbn53]

Well once upon a time every one managed quite well with it, or at least it's equivalent, yes there were variations, with different words in different languages, but the principle was the same.

[@sentino68]

I ponder the same question to metric users.

[@lilyl8002]

@@sentino68 Yeah, but at least metric kind of adds up and makes sense. I'm sure if I took an hour I'd be able to understand it and be fluent in it without any trouble. But inches to feet to yards? I grew up with it, so it makes sense to me. But to those who didn't, I imagine it's like learning the conversion from knuts to sickles to galleons. 😂

[@nedaaahmed4066]

Would you be able to help me? The offset for the walls cannot be made. When I try, I get an offset for the image

[@annepioquinto7497]

Just found the out this channel recently as i was searching a video about sketchup tutorials and i swear anything i need is in your channel. This is really helpful for me thank you so much for this videos♥️♥️ btw im aspiring architecture student and i wanted to practice early, so far this is the best channel swear. Already subscribed to your channel, im you're new fan from philippines 🇵🇭🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped! :)

[@MrLuftwaffeAS]

Thanks so much for the content, I did imported an image (jpg) and started drawing rectangle over it to define the floor of the room but when I extruded it, it took the texture of the image as a map! How can I get rid of this texture?

[@obitoxmacro3020]

thank you so much. tNice tutorials helped a lot

[@averyflynn123]

struggled with an 7000sq project for more than 10 hours and this just took me 1 hour . wish Id found this sooner

[@dennisabernethy4850]

Thanks for this! Opened up all kinds of potential. Just what I was looking for. You do great work if you get what I mean!

[@phoebusricardo3100]

very very good tutorials it helps me a lot

[@catallaxy]

Love your videos! They are really clear and helpful.

[@blusoultv8963]

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[@ChronosCooper]

Earned my like, Sub and respect

[@bodhifennell3542]

Hi Justin! I have done everything in the video(with the floor plan and bringing the walls up), and I was just wondering whether you know how to copy this model into a previous model I have made of my house (with my shed, fences, garden etc)?

[@brightangelss4187]

Hi,Can you please put the link of the photo of the image

[@karinsanto560]

I don’t succeed to color just the the limit of the house in the plan without the back when im doing explode .. do u know why is that?

[@gaganad4680]

Thanks a lot for this video ❤️

[@nothingbesweet]

hey there, thanks for the video. How did you turn off guide mode when measuring the side? Whenever I hit CTRL nothing happens and it stays in guide mode.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

By hitting CTRL with the tool active. You may want to try it again

[@nothingbesweet]

@@Thesketchupessentials Hey thanks for replying, i solved this by installing the 2017 version. The web version still remains broken for me.

[@2CrazyBlueEyes]

Hi, I've been searching through your videos and do you have anything on how to use a spot elevation drawing to make a terrian?

[@luisarteaga5036]

Very helpful

[@akshatagb1968]

Hey justin..thanx.. how did you trace that wall line n give offset while placing the walls..please guide @5.21

[@basilthecavy]

Super tutorials. I am having problems putting in some of my doors. IfI want some walls shorter (like non load-bearing walls that run around top of stairs- how can Set these to be a different height. Apologies if I have missed this/ feel free to pointmetocorrecttutorial. Thank you, without these tutorials I would be lost. Off to make a contribution.

[@productiontouring9884]

Hopefully not too dumb a question for a newbie... My serious old building is far from square and I'm trying to get it all into sketch up to visualisation and ideas, any guidance here greatly appreciated. @JUSTIN super video and introduction, look forward to going more in depth. Great stuff.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Not dumb, but I don't really understand what you're asking

[@productiontouring9884]

@@Thesketchupessentials apologies, you’re correct, I wasn’t very clear. I’m trying to draw some floor plans for an 18th century barn conversion and I’m finding it a challenge because obviously nothing is square, so I’m having to go off axes all the time. Do you have any suggestions here please? Anyway great tutorials and I’ve subscribed.

[@kellieguerriere3649]

Hello - great channel! Question: I bring in a jpg plan & tried to explode it but nothing happened. Any tips? Much appreciated!

[@denisgilev4046]

Hi Man, thanks for sharing. I'm working on similar staff, and it is still takes long to make walls (like 20 min or so). I'm thinking of a developing ruby script for automating this kind of routine. Any thoughts on this?

[@bertrandpeckre7892]

I Justin, Thank you so much for all your wonderfull videos. We moved to an house where we want to move walls and windows places. I draw the actual plans but I find very difficult to move wall places. I probably should place walls and windows in component but I find very difficult to organise myself ...would you a video to help me doing that?? thank so much and all the best from France

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hi Bertand! You may actually want to watch this series - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJOqpIyqjs99osk - It's a series where I organize a model for Layout, but you'll probably find the organizational structure useful as well - thanks!

[@Maxima-]

Thank you so much our engineer Justin Geis

[@Thesketchupessentials]

👍

[@swarangideorukhakar2320]

hi thanks for making this tutorial, I had a doubt, how did you change the dimensions while scaling up. I tried hitting the tab key but its not letting me change the value. Could you pls help?

[@sudeepshrestha8689]

Excellent Tutorial! Very helpful.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@essaessa6889]

liked the video ... great job honestly ..... but on 1:20 what did you click on to get close to the right dimensions ... please held me follow your instructions

[@Thesketchupessentials]

The top down view button?

[@weronika198780]

That's great! Thank You a lot, Justin, huge help - coz before I was just doing oo many mistakes, learned it wrong and stucked with the wrong methods, what was just complete mess (to my shame) You can imagine...coz even if I have Architecture bachelor degree and used this programme there for years:-O...so these rganized smart clear fast lessons are even life saving, thanks, cheers!

[@ashtonmark24]

Really useful tutorial, thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@mmadison1972]

Did you mention you reference is the overall dimension on the left side? You need to go back to check because the dimensions for that bedroom in that bathroom is not the one that you scale it to.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

What? I don't understand what you're getting at

[@JohnColgan.]

I think he's saying the length of the 2 rooms combined did not equal the overall length that you set the for the scale of 38'7" when the bedroom is 16' max length

[@sebxlopez]

Fantastic video, thanks a ton!!

[@joward9353]

I have the floor plans for my house but everything is on opposite side, they were not able to provide me with another one, so I'd like to know if there is a way to change the floor plan so that all the rooms are on the opposite side.

[@Bobbo662]

Hi - I must did something wrong, when I imported a floor plan, measured it out with tap measure and then asked me to resize, then I right clicked to exploded, the whole entire floor plan (including outside the floor plan, the white part turned purple, but your floor plan , only the inside of the floor plan turned to purple), did I do something wrong?

[@ampengineeringandconstruct9377]

Great tutorial

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you! :)

[@knipsdings]

schöne idee, danke fürs zeigen! 👍👍😉😉🖖🏻

[@sepmega4256]

Justin，　on 3.17. how do it do that? i want to just select the floor plans. instead of selecting explode all the paper size?

[@VH7420]

This tutorial is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks and well done!

[@s3designs358]

Hello Justin, I appreciate your efforts in making many Sketchup tutorials. However, for this particular one of importing an image, as I follow along the process, after I Explode the image , I am unable to select just the floor on the plan. Instead the entire image gets selected along with the bounding box. This is making it difficult to continue further. I am fairly new to Sketchup, are there any other settings that you may have to take care of , for this particular process?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

If it has a bounding box, it hasn't been exploded down to the individual geometry - a bounding box indicates a group within SketchUp. Thanks!

[@s3designs358]

Agreed ,so what can be done next .. right clicking does not show any options to ungroup .. and explode shows muted

[@s3designs358]

I have retried the process several times, also with any random sketch, No Success!! .. I am sure there is a glitch or something is missing .. Please all viewers are free to help !!!!!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I don't understand the issue you're having. If you right click on the image and a bounding box shows up, you click the button for explode. If you right click on the image and there's no bounding box, the image is already exploded and it should just be in there as a face with a texture applied to it. Either way, it's not absolutely vital for the image to be exploded anyway, it just makes seeing the floor plan easier while you draw your walls. Just draw your walls on top of the image and extrude them up.

[@s3designs358]

"If you right click on the image and there's no bounding box, the image is already exploded and it should just be in there as a face with a texture applied to it." This is what I see .. Here I am not able to select just the floor part of the image within the walls .... My issue is the same as Derek Heisler and paige1622 below..

[@SandyBaldwin2000]

What is the easiest way to put in a floor? or Base?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Floor - just draw a rectangle. Maybe extrude it with push pull. Base - Use the follow me tool - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXKQiIaMbZ5oasU

[@ginafabiola2897]

how did you get the walls in? traced? also how do you move all the walls up at once?

[@Basedvash]

Just right click on the image and click explode, then wherever u click gets selected

[@edameleksagiroglu9662]

thank you very much my friends

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@jw3971]

Hi that rescaling with the tape measure tool is very handy, but can it also be used to only scale the image, and not the complete model?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Yes - if the image is in a group, you can go inside the group and resize it - just select "No" when it asks you if you want to resize the whole model - let me know if it works!

[@jw3971]

Yes that worked! Just explode the image, group it again, and go into the group before changing the scale. It will still ask, but only to rescale that group! Very convenient when you add a reference image when there's already geometry in the model. Thanks!

[@niralajmeri1196]

I am confused on how I only select the floor plan part not the whole image with the white bg. When you where measuring the exploded size at 3:10 the whole image is highlighted, but at 3:28 you said it is going to make it a face, which only has the floor plan part of the image highlighted. That is the part that I am confused with, how did you go from the whole image highlighted to just the floor plan highlighted? please help! (also I can't explode the image after I already resized it).

[@RazerinRi]

same question!

[@RazerinRi]

@thesketchupessentials

[@YoungLady97]

How to know the thickness of thr wall where can i find it

[@lowmana1501]

what do you do if after you explode the image and set it to scale, it doesn't recognize the exterior of the floor plan as the face, but the whole image? i assume you just draw the exterior lines by hand + offset. is there a faster way?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I'd draw them by hand and offset

[@Jsallette99]

Great video

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BCCAcademicTech]

How did you get the tape measure tool out of guide mode? Everytime I follow along with what you're doing it creates a guide, I can't get it to resize the floorplan.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

You should be able to turn guide mode off by tapping the Control key - I didn't realize that affected the ability to resize the floor plan - let me know if that works!

[@USNERDOC]

Excellent tutorial!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks!

[@alit2693]

Hello, I've watched this video over and over and I'm still lost. At 1:34 you explode the image. The entire image has been exploded, including all the areas outside the walls. But at 3:29 suddenly just the area INSIDE the walls appear to have been exploded. You never say how you did that. How does Sketchup know to select just areas inside the walls? I wish you explain that. There are other comments below asking the same thing. Again, when I right click on my image and select Explode, the ENTIRE image becomes selected. It doesn't matter where in the image I do this. The entire image becomes exploded. I am using Sketchup free version (on web).

[@Thesketchupessentials]

If you're on the free version, there's an updated tutorial here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKSmcoN6nL5gZ5I

[@sporvath]

ty

[@elindseykey]

for some reason the offset tool doesn't work the way it did for you, it doesn't recognize my floorplan's shape and is just a rectangle. is there a way to fix this or do i have to draw out all the lines and walls myself? T~T

[@elencrime]

how you selection only the draw? mine select all the plan

[@cintiasenna4959]

great information!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you!

[@lesgeriron]

Hi. at the first time exploded it, even the outside white part was blued, and then after that when you clicked inside, only the interior was blued? what happened? and how do I do that?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Trace the perimeter of your object first - not sure how I managed to leave that out of the video - then it should work fine

[@MarkoMotley]

I'm not even able to type in the numbers in the length bar after I use the measuring tape tool

[@laylasaleh5596]

What soo or website used to create this

[@alisonwatson8848]

Hi I have exploded this and still can't scale. I have used Ctrl button when the scale is active but I when entering the measurement and hitting enter the scale does not change - help frustrated:(

[@jonathanfluet2354]

Everythings good except the exploding part. I exploded my floor plan but the whole image is still selected. I cant select the inner part of my floor plan like you do. Is the problem from the line of my jpeg isn't seen by sketchup?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Try exploding it again - sounds like it's a nested group? Maybe save first before trying it?

[@habiuskorpus9329]

Tried this and when Exploding is doesn't recognize the internal facing like yours does. It just selects the entire rectangle of the image, inside and out, so then the offset doesn't work.

[@derekheisler2058]

Hi, When I explode it does not give me the ability to select only the interior as a face as you have here. When I click the whole image is selected not sure what or if I'm doing something wrong here. Please help. Thanks.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hi Derek - just want to make sure I'm clear - you exploded the image file, which turned it into an editable SketchUp face, right? Did you draw lines on top of that face? Thanks!

[@s3designs358]

Try "Shift Click" on the image and it should work ... Worked for me after ...

[@PSAvideo4u]

I have the same problem. In your video, it looks like the plan you are importing may have already been outlined so that when exploded the house is the only thing greyed in vs the whole outline of the image.

[@bodhifennell3542]

use the tool that looks like a pencil and draw around the outlines of your model-this is not shown in the video, and it seems crucial.

[@mumtrader]

@@bodhifennell3542 At what point though? This does seem a crucial step to omit. Meanwhile I'm stuck extruding the area *around* my floor plan :-)

[@fafatop5]

muito bom! obrigado!

[@johnwilfredsaylon9131]

Hi sir. I have a question. Is it possible to make a floor plan without architecture knowledge? I just want to learn how to make a floor plan and design a house.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Sure...is there something about the video that isn't clear?

[@johnwilfredsaylon9131]

@@Thesketchupessentials i didn't watch it yet. Someone say if you don't have architecture knowledge or not an architect student is it impossible to make a floor plan or design your own house

[@Thesketchupessentials]

@@johnwilfredsaylon9131 People say a lot of things - what you can learn is 100% up to you and how much work you're willing to put in

[@johnwilfredsaylon9131]

@@Thesketchupessentials ow i see. May i know what is the first step to design your house? Is it floorplan? And tbh i don't know how to measure like what you did. I didn't get the number text like 38ft in the left side.

[@jonathansikkema8520]

Thanks for the video, It works great when I us it. Only one small problem, when i import a floor plan and scale it up it becomes blurry. What can i do to fix this? Thanks.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Really depends on the resolution of your image. One thing you could try is going up to "Window," "Preferences," then going into "OpenGL," and checking the box for "Use maximum texture size." This will allow you to import higher resolution textures, but you need to be careful not to bring a ton of high resolution textures in because SketchUp doesn't always handle them well. Thanks!

[@bodhifennell3542]

I had the same problem, and I just had the original image next to my sketchup tab to see the measurements etc clearer👍

[@sanjanamahesh6354]

I am not able to scale my models using measurement tool. Is there a way to solve it?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Did you make sure "create guide" mode was off by tapping the control key?

[@legendary65]

Thanks very much for the help ive subscribed to your channel great help mate thanks again

[@bangy55]

Justin, I've tried several times to select only the area within the drawing after exploding the entire image, but it still selects the entire image. I've been importing images from my property appraiser's website for a long time to measure for roof estimating. This makes it better by avoiding the faces over the image below, but I can't understand why I can't select inside the sketch itself without the need to trace the whole thing first. Thanks.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hi Chris - I'm trying to envision what you're doing a little better - you're right clicking on your image and selecting explode? And then when you draw on top of the image, the lines aren't splitting the face? If that's the case, the image isn't exploding properly, but I have a feeling I'm not understanding your question properly.

[@bangy55]

I'm importing a jpg of a floor sketch by screen grab and it has the blue lines around it. I then right click, select explode and I can tell it explodes because if I don't I can't use the measuring tool to resize, but after resizing, and clicking again to select inside the sketch of the house, it selects the entire face of the image including outside the walls of the house.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hi Chris - are you making sure to close off the lines you're drawing on the face? If they're not closed, it will select the entire face.

[@bangy55]

That must be the problem because I haven't drawn any lines when doing this. I could have sworn I saw you select the inside of the sketch before drawing any lines. I was amazed that Sketchup could recognise the perimeter lines in an image! lol

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Ha! Unfortunately it's not quite there yet - glad we figured out what it was though. Thanks for watching!

[@thomasavinash72]

Can I just drape a image file of floor plan instead. Is it even possible? ??

[@MUHAMMADALI-kd7po]

Sir there is any vedio on your channel about making 2d weldment drawings and detailed cut list from 3d model in sketchup?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I don't know what a weldment drawing is. I don't really have a cut-list video either - I just use either the outliner or a generate a report

[@sb11385]

Do you have an updated tutorial? My floor plan image does not become a face like you show here when exploded.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

What do you mean "updated?" The method hasn't changed - if it doesn't become a face, you might need to explode it again

[@sarahb120]

TheSketchUpEssentials I tried but it won’t give me the option after the first explode - I tried on the desktop and web versions... thanks for the quick response! 🙏

[@Vanderloo5]

I'm not seeing a layers panel in Sketchup for ipad. Is it not available?

[@Vanderloo5]

I see now they were replaced by tags.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Yup - same basic function, new name

[@MrStewartmw]

Does this also work with the free version?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Not sure if you can import images into the free version or not - I don't believe you can

[@gordonstewart5774]

Yes, I just did it.

[@Epskie]

where did you get your floor plan?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Honestly I don't remember - most likely I just downloaded a floor plan image from Google images. Thanks!

[@Epskie]

Thank you! This vid, helped my a lot. Subbed by the way.

[@SajjaTJacob]

At 1.21, You can capture the floor plan and try to follow the clip. ^ ^

[@czestochowski4357]

Perfect very usefull - thank You for lesson - Your cheers !

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much - glad you found it helpful!

[@wishmastertr]

I can measure but I can't enter any number it doesn't allow to type anything, why?