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SketchUp Tutorials for Interior Designers: How to Model a Simple 3D Window

January 22, 2016 By Jillian 2 Comments

SketchUp Tutorial: How to Model a Simple Window

In our last tutorial, we used a PDF floor plan of a small house to create a simple three-dimensional model of the walls with openings for the doors and windows in SketchUp. And, in a previous tutorial, we had created a 2D floor plan with symbols for windows and doors. In this tutorial, we will […]

November 20, 2015 By Jillian 2 Comments

Interior Design Tools to Help You Get Organized and Be More Productive

Every interior designer knows that running a business requires investing in a set of tools to help them operate more efficiently. Over the past several years, I’ve come to rely heavily on a small handful of tools that I use almost every single day in some capacity. Some of them help me to stay organized, […]

SketchUp Tutorials for Interior Designers: How to Draw a 3D House Model from a Floor Plan

November 16, 2015 By Jillian 6 Comments

Draw a 3D House Model in SketchUp from a Floor Plan

In this blog post, I will walk you through how you can to draw a 3D house model in SketchUp from a 2D floor plan image. You can use a PDF version of a floor plan or a sketch you created of the field dimensions. I will be using the same floor plan from my the previous tutorials. […]

SketchUp Tutorials for Interior Designers: Add Windows and Doors to a 2D Floor Plan

October 25, 2015 By Jillian 9 Comments

How to Add Doors & Windows to a 2D Interior Floor Plan in SketchUp

In our last tutorial, we added the interior walls to a basic 2D floor plan that we drew in SketchUp from a PDF plan file. In this tutorial, we’re going to identify the opening locations for the windows and doors and create 2D symbols for both. We will also learn the following techniques: Creating components. Using […]

October 12, 2015 By Jillian 20 Comments

How to Draw a Floor Plan to Scale in SketchUp from a PDF

In my everyday experience, I usually start drafting a floor plan in SketchUp one of two ways. Either I start from scratch using measurements I’ve taken at the home, usually in combination with a basic floor plan that I drew from the assessor’s site, or I work from a PDF floor plan provided by an architect […]

SketchUp Interior Design Tutorials: Draw a 2D Floor Plan from Field Measurements

March 21, 2015 By Jillian 14 Comments

Draw a Floor Plan in SketchUp from Field Measurements

In this tutorial, I will explain how to draw a floor plan in SketchUp accurately and to scale from measurements taken on site of an existing space. I will demonstrate the technique I use with measurements I took of the floor plan from my own house. In the last two tutorials, I explained how I […]

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