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 […]
New on the Blog
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 […]
How to Print a 2D Floor Plan to Scale Directly from SketchUp
In our last tutorial, we learned how to draw a floor plan of a house to scale using the image found on the assessor’s page for the property. Today we’re going to learn how to print that basic plan to scale so that we can use it as a starting point for taking our field […]
How to Draw a 2D SketchUP Floor Plan from an Image
In this beginner tutorial, we will learn step-by-step how to create a basic 2D SketchUp floor plan from image files such as the ones found on most property assessor websites. Before I visit a client’s home to take measurements, I always visit the assessor’s webpage for their property. Here in Iowa, the assessor’s page includes […]
Welcome!
Welcome to Design Student Savvy! I started this site because I wanted to share all of the technical knowledge I’ve accumulated with other interior designers and design students. I started using my first home design software on our old Dell PS2 when I was in seventh grade. My dad bought it so he could play […]