Great Video Justin. A quick one, when importing an object (In my case, a kitchen set) it won't 'stick' to the wall i want it on. Whenever I orbit the model it disaligns. Locking the object isn't helping either. Kindly assist.
In your video you say that the first walls are not in the same group as the image but by default, following the instructions exactly, my line function is making lines in the same group. When I try to make a new group , the image disappears. How can I start making my walls as a new group without loosing the image?
hi Justin, i really like the videos, but is seems strange to tell us (in the videos and comments) that you want to know about issues/questions, but then ignore genuine questions
With this video, after many failed attempts, I've finally been able to make a good model of a floor plan! Thanks Justin. Again, all the concepts are explained in an easy to understand way, at the right pace.
I picked up on everything you taught in this video, with a few rewinded repeated sections, hehe. Thank you for your clear presentation, much appreciated!
Thank you very much for taking your time to make a tutorial like this. Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore, probably outdated. I was struggling but after reading the commends I've seen other people couldn't scale too.
One of the BEST instructional channels on TH-cam IMHO, thank you so much Justin. Found your channel last night and it inspired me to try this program again. You are making this easier than I thought. KUDOS Buddy. I'll be watching every video, as I plan to build myself my retirement tiny home up here in Ontario :) TY again.
Thank you so much! We are hoping to build in the future and the plans we like don't have 3-d renderings. I was able to follow right along with you to start building the plan we like in SketchUp so we are able to visualize it better than the flat plan and exterior elevations!
Hi Justin - the ability to toggle between guide and measure for the tape measure tool is disabled in Sketchup Free. It’s a widely reported bug. Is there a way of creating a 3D floor plan without using the tape measure tool?
from all of the features sketchup free lost that ive noticed so far from these tutorials this is the one that makes me the saddest alongside, not being able to edit materials anymore
Landscape and terrain are a bit tricky in the online version because I don't believe there is a sandbox set of tools (it's an extension in the desktop version)
I thought it's a different method but it's just the same as tracing and using click points. There should be a much faster way, for example using object recognition to identify lines.
Great video I found it to be quite helpful I'm looking forward to the next video for the doors and windows thank you for explaining it in a simple and easy way to understand
Great video, just wondering when you have your model done. How do remove the original jpg image you used as a guide so you don’t see it anymore? Can you just unclick the layer on/off from view? Thks
Thanks! I’m struggling to annotate a photograph of a room’s interior in order to create a floor plan from a snapshot of the room. I can’t get axes to snap to an interior corner. Can you make a tutorial about how to snap axes to a photo in sketch up free web app?
Can you share the image you use in this video in the description of the video? It would be helpful for us to follow along. Thank you in advance @TheSketchUpEssentials
Hey Justin, why do you need to explode the imported image? Does it have to do with the Free version? E. g. in Make '17 I can just work on the imported image or is there something I have overlooked?
I keep coming back to your tutorials Justin, thank you. Im just starting on the Free online for my own residential project, but the scaling tool is a head scratcher for me. Ive got my drawing imported and tried to scale it to the right measurements but its not working. Every time I type a value in inches it disappears and defaults to the original measurement of the drawing. What am I doing wrong?
nice work, i am very happy with the tutorials, can one make a floor plan with a different software like Revit and use it to building my 3d elevations, what's the work of sketch up layout and style builder?
Great Stuff Justin. I am still struggling hot to learn to make simple organic walls and shapes. (curvy but not too curvy) I teach people at low income communities in Mexico aboyt Natural building. Have you heard about earthbag building or Cob? (let me know if I can post my website to show you what I am doing) I have watched a lot of your geeat tutorials, but I have not fingure out how to do organic shapes. Thank you for all your work.
like some others, I can't get the scale to work. I've rewatched it 5 times and made at least that many attempts. I insert the image, explode it, group it, then use the tape measure to show the spacing while manually entering the distance... it just draws a guide line and i don't the popup asking to confirm the resize
@@Antisfunny in case you didn't see the reply in the other thread... he wrote "You might try this video that gets into the process a bit more in-depth - th-cam.com/video/YRC1gg4tWx8/w-d-xo.html - sometimes people get into create guide mode by accidentally tapping control. Tap control before setting your first point with the tape measure tool then follow the same process."
thanks Justin, i've managed to get the floor plan to scale. i wish i knew what i was doing wrong before (coudl have been ctrl as you suggested), i've even rewatched the orig video and tried to work out what it was. thanks again
Hi, it won't let me scale the plan at all. I follow the steps in the video above but it won't let me scale for some reason. Any fixes are appreciated thank you
I was going nuts with this, i couldn't get me 'face' to appear and offset the walls once i'd drawn the lines. Just worked out it's because I was drawing around a bay window at angles that weren't co-planar. It's a 5-sided bay, not a smooth arc. How do i get around this?
i tried scale it according to my image... but its not asking to scale as in the video.. i did explode the image then made group... followed same steps done it twice or thrice but its not scaling..
Hello, I imported a high res floor plan but the view in Sketchup Free is quite blurry (not so before importing it). Same effect as shown in this video. The walls' lines are not precise. Is there a way to increase the definition of the view? There is no detailed setting menu in the Free version so I cannot find it. It would be important to be able to precisely copy the floorpan. thanks!
I'm a new user running Sketchup 2024. I'm certain there have been many changes since your excellent video tutorials from 4 years ago. However I'm following your instructions on scaling a .jpg image file from existing photos of floor plans. But I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, because it's not doing as expected. After I tape measure a specific dim from the exploded image file, I single click, drag the measuring tool to the other point (without clicking), enter the 24' measurement and hit return, nothing happens. The hint in the lower left box says "Click to create a guide. / Ctrl = Toggle Create". Nowhere have I been able to locate what these mean, thru forums, manuals etc. And no popup screen shows up asking me if I want to resize the active group. Can you kindly advise what I'm missing?
ok, i just uploaded a layout image like you did on the first part of this tutorial, but after that i can't seem to find a way to manipulate the view to make the layout image straight so i can do the next step you did as well which was to scale the image right..help!
@@Thesketchupessentials so after i uploaded my image on an untitled project and dragging it from the origin point i tried to turn the view like u did at 1:23 of ur video and all i get is a rectangle forming as if you’re selecting an area of your screen??? hope i explained it better
On the fence so far with how useful your videos are for a beginner, which I am. Often you gloss over how to do simple things and they take me forever to find. For example I used the hide to see what walls I missed then it took me forever to get my picture back up which I finally managed. You click on your outline and it all somehow hooks together but mine is all separate lines. I agree with people here as well as you, you don't want to repeat removing a window 4 times but if you can go over the first one slowly....Isn't there some way to layer the base photo then the exterior walls then the interior walls so I can find them as well as see if any are missing by easily toggling between them? I'm not sure I will get then hang of it before i quit. I appreciate you trying to make helpful videos but maybe I need more remedial steps. I think sometimes you utilize keyboard shortcuts to do things and then one cannot see how to do it if you aren't familiar with the shortcut?
One frustration I keep running into is how you are keeping the IMAGE of the floor plan down when you bring the walls up...? The writing and everything doesn't stay on the "floor" rather the image text is raised with the walls. How the heck are you doing that? I've rewinded several times and watched a couple other videos of yours but it doesn't seem to be cooperating. Could it perhaps be the image I'm using that is not allowing me to do that?
@@Thesketchupessentials thanks so much for the reply, I noticed that in your ‘21 update video AND I wasn’t hovering over the wall lines when I was using push pull, rather I was clicking on the center of the room and therefore bringing up the floor. Key piece of info. Thanks so much for the quick reply!
HA. I can't get past the 3:15 mark. Tape measure tool just draws a dotted line right across the page. Looks like I'll just go back to drawing manually 😔
You do the window lines so fast is impossible to see what is going on. When I draw them they don't make the lines up the wall - the sections all end up being one wall with just the lines across the top of the wall. Would be great if you could slow down a bit when showing these little details please. We can skip through the non relevant bits ourselves. Anyway your vids are really helping thanks.
I'm pretty sure I tell you exactly what I was doing at about 12:00 in. Then I just repeat the whole thing for the rest of the windows. I'm not going to leave 5:00 of doing the exact same thing over and over in a tutorial video because I get FAR more complaints about that. It sounds like you might have grouped your wall so that when you draw edges across it, it's not splitting the wall face. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question
Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about this process in the comments below! :)
Hi so cool
😎
Great Video Justin. A quick one, when importing an object (In my case, a kitchen set) it won't 'stick' to the wall i want it on. Whenever I orbit the model it disaligns. Locking the object isn't helping either. Kindly assist.
In your video you say that the first walls are not in the same group as the image but by default, following the instructions exactly, my line function is making lines in the same group. When I try to make a new group , the image disappears. How can I start making my walls as a new group without loosing the image?
hi Justin, i really like the videos, but is seems strange to tell us (in the videos and comments) that you want to know about issues/questions, but then ignore genuine questions
With this video, after many failed attempts, I've finally been able to make a good model of a floor plan! Thanks Justin. Again, all the concepts are explained in an easy to understand way, at the right pace.
Glad to help!
I picked up on everything you taught in this video, with a few rewinded repeated sections, hehe. Thank you for your clear presentation, much appreciated!
I have finally discovered my Sketchup teacher. Thank you for the great work. I wish to learn and use SketchUp in Boat and furniture designing.
Best video ever! I watched two another videos and didn't get almost anything (I'm totally new in Sketchup). This one is extremely clear, thank you!
Thank you very much for taking your time to make a tutorial like this. Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore, probably outdated. I was struggling but after reading the commends I've seen other people couldn't scale too.
Definitely still works...
It's now called import rather than insert I believe
On my first day of using this app, Thanks to your tutorial, i was able to create a model from an image. Thank you. Will subscribe for more. 😍
Awesome!
great , well explained. some things slightly fast to catch, but i give you 9/10.
super helpful! I am excited to use SketchUp to visualize my new house build! thanks for the help!
Wow.. many thanks!! Best tutorial I found until now! Was very good to understand, sometimes little bit too fast but very good
:)
One of the BEST instructional channels on TH-cam IMHO, thank you so much Justin. Found your channel last night and it inspired me to try this program again. You are making this easier than I thought. KUDOS Buddy. I'll be watching every video, as I plan to build myself my retirement tiny home up here in Ontario :) TY again.
Very clearly narrated step by step. Ideal for a newbie like me! Thanks for sharing!
As always, an easy to follow and informative tutorial
If you know the wall thicknesses then you can add these and the internal dimensions to get fairly accurate overall measurements.
very enjoyable to watch. I'm going to try to use sketchup to put virtual furniture into our new place before moving in.
Thank you so much! We are hoping to build in the future and the plans we like don't have 3-d renderings. I was able to follow right along with you to start building the plan we like in SketchUp so we are able to visualize it better than the flat plan and exterior elevations!
Glad I could help!
Can you do a video on adding a second floor?
Hi Justin - the ability to toggle between guide and measure for the tape measure tool is disabled in Sketchup Free. It’s a widely reported bug. Is there a way of creating a 3D floor plan without using the tape measure tool?
Justin this is really cool.
And the process is simple.
Glad you liked it!
Sure 😚
Thank you for this! I wanted to interior design my room by myself and this will help me a lot. Liked and subscribed ❤️
Thank you very much for sharing. All the way from Philippines🇵🇭..
:)
from all of the features sketchup free lost that ive noticed so far from these tutorials this is the one that makes me the saddest alongside, not being able to edit materials anymore
It is very exciting and clear would you please explain how to design the landscape and make terrain also different roof types
Landscape and terrain are a bit tricky in the online version because I don't believe there is a sandbox set of tools (it's an extension in the desktop version)
I thought it's a different method but it's just the same as tracing and using click points. There should be a much faster way, for example using object recognition to identify lines.
wow great video i have watched about 7 in a row and now have a great idea how to use this software
Glad it helped!
Excellent video !. Waiting for the second part of it.
Coming soon!
Great video I found it to be quite helpful I'm looking forward to the next video for the doors and windows thank you for explaining it in a simple and easy way to understand
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, just wondering when you have your model done. How do remove the original jpg image you used as a guide so you don’t see it anymore? Can you just unclick the layer on/off from view? Thks
super helpful video. it was so easy to follow
Thank you so much! You've just made it look so simple! 🤯🙏
Thanks! I’m struggling to annotate a photograph of a room’s interior in order to create a floor plan from a snapshot of the room. I can’t get axes to snap to an interior corner. Can you make a tutorial about how to snap axes to a photo in sketch up free web app?
Great tutorial. Loved the demo with the free version.
Thank you!
Very Nicely explained
Thanks
Verry helpfull! Thank you for making this video. I feel lucky.
Can you share the image you use in this video in the description of the video? It would be helpful for us to follow along.
Thank you in advance @TheSketchUpEssentials
Hey Justin, why do you need to explode the imported image? Does it have to do with the Free version? E. g. in Make '17 I can just work on the imported image or is there something I have overlooked?
Superb lesson.Thanks
I would love it if you could repeat this tutorial with the pad version
So so useful! Thank you!
Well done. I'm new and these are great.
Glad you like them!
Great and easy to follow
Glad it was helpful!
I keep coming back to your tutorials Justin, thank you. Im just starting on the Free online for my own residential project, but the scaling tool is a head scratcher for me. Ive got my drawing imported and tried to scale it to the right measurements but its not working. Every time I type a value in inches it disappears and defaults to the original measurement of the drawing. What am I doing wrong?
After selecting the measuring tool, try pressing "option" or "ctrl" (depending on PC or Mac) so that the "..+" next to the measuring tape goes away.
Sooooooo helpful! Thank you
Great video. thank you
Great video dude ! I really like your videos ! thanks for sharing huge help !
nice work, i am very happy with the tutorials, can one make a floor plan with a different software like Revit and use it to building my 3d elevations, what's the work of sketch up layout and style builder?
I don't really do Revit...
Great Stuff Justin. I am still struggling hot to learn to make simple organic walls and shapes. (curvy but not too curvy) I teach people at low income communities in Mexico aboyt Natural building. Have you heard about earthbag building or Cob? (let me know if I can post my website to show you what I am doing) I have watched a lot of your geeat tutorials, but I have not fingure out how to do organic shapes. Thank you for all your work.
like some others, I can't get the scale to work. I've rewatched it 5 times and made at least that many attempts. I insert the image, explode it, group it, then use the tape measure to show the spacing while manually entering the distance... it just draws a guide line and i don't the popup asking to confirm the resize
Same here
@@Antisfunny in case you didn't see the reply in the other thread... he wrote "You might try this video that gets into the process a bit more in-depth - th-cam.com/video/YRC1gg4tWx8/w-d-xo.html - sometimes people get into create guide mode by accidentally tapping control. Tap control before setting your first point with the tape measure tool then follow the same process."
thanks Justin, i've managed to get the floor plan to scale. i wish i knew what i was doing wrong before (coudl have been ctrl as you suggested), i've even rewatched the orig video and tried to work out what it was. thanks again
Great Video!
thanks for the video
What version of sketche up are you using? I am having trouble with some of the features and extensions.
Hi, it won't let me scale the plan at all. I follow the steps in the video above but it won't let me scale for some reason. Any fixes are appreciated thank you
I have the same issue. It won't resize.
Same here
Like it. Very useful
i need this image for learning purpose
Thanks.
Justin I need the photo link please so I can follow up with you
I was going nuts with this, i couldn't get me 'face' to appear and offset the walls once i'd drawn the lines. Just worked out it's because I was drawing around a bay window at angles that weren't co-planar. It's a 5-sided bay, not a smooth arc. How do i get around this?
Interesting I'm watching this on my android cell. Can I use this program on my cell?
For anyone looking for the house plan, www.hiddencreekapartment.com/brochure/brochure.aspx, Clic on Floor plan D4. Your welcome.
thanks !
it would be nice if you also import this model in twinmotion 2020 and render it their.
Thank you so much! Great lesson! 🙏
insert is now called import
Ok
how do you find the floor plan
thx you are the best
You're welcome!
I guess you needed to download an plugin for offseting a line. You could have mentioned that.
When I insert the first wall dimension. Mine is 11'4 inches, it doesnt bring the prompt about the group and move it to scale. Why?
I have found this same problem - any ideas yet?
Unfortunately it seems the push pull tool does not work as shown. The is only the option to extrude, not to remove material.
I can't scale my floor plan I have no idea what's going on? Any tips?
measure the wall and click, after click then enter 11 feet I think that should work.
He. Thank you fort the video. Im having problem to do inside walls. I do the lines and etc but i cant faceup.
Sounds like you didn't close them in before trying to push pull
Muito bom!
Sir which pc is best for using sketchup
Did you look at SketchUp's system requirements page?
where can we get that image to practice it
love from india
im struggling with the removal of the doors, im not sure how to make them disappear to make a doorway?
How to make Stadium?
Why is it when I insert the image it does not allow me to move or scale it?
same problem here...did u get it figured out?
i tried scale it according to my image... but its not asking to scale as in the video.. i did explode the image then made group... followed same steps done it twice or thrice but its not scaling..
Hello, I imported a high res floor plan but the view in Sketchup Free is quite blurry (not so before importing it). Same effect as shown in this video. The walls' lines are not precise. Is there a way to increase the definition of the view? There is no detailed setting menu in the Free version so I cannot find it. It would be important to be able to precisely copy the floorpan. thanks!
try chopping the image into smaller images and import them as multiple tiles - it's something to do with your video card texture size limitations
I'm a new user running Sketchup 2024. I'm certain there have been many changes since your excellent video tutorials from 4 years ago. However I'm following your instructions on scaling a .jpg image file from existing photos of floor plans. But I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, because it's not doing as expected. After I tape measure a specific dim from the exploded image file, I single click, drag the measuring tool to the other point (without clicking), enter the 24' measurement and hit return, nothing happens. The hint in the lower left box says "Click to create a guide. / Ctrl = Toggle Create". Nowhere have I been able to locate what these mean, thru forums, manuals etc. And no popup screen shows up asking me if I want to resize the active group. Can you kindly advise what I'm missing?
Click to set the second point before typing in the new value
hi, i cant seem to rescale my image. i have followed your tutorial step by step but still cant seem to get it to work
Excellent!
still stuck on 2:00. Did you click on make group? the window asking me to resize the active group does not appear (3:19)
I can't type in the value in length.
ok, i just uploaded a layout image like you did on the first part of this tutorial, but after that i can't seem to find a way to manipulate the view to make the layout image straight so i can do the next step you did as well which was to scale the image right..help!
What do you mean "Make the Layout Image Straight?"
@@Thesketchupessentials so after i uploaded my image on an untitled project and dragging it from the origin point i tried to turn the view like u did at 1:23 of ur video and all i get is a rectangle forming as if you’re selecting an area of your screen??? hope i explained it better
Bam C to turn the view press down on the mouse scroll wheel not the mouse button :)
On the fence so far with how useful your videos are for a beginner, which I am. Often you gloss over how to do simple things and they take me forever to find. For example I used the hide to see what walls I missed then it took me forever to get my picture back up which I finally managed. You click on your outline and it all somehow hooks together but mine is all separate lines. I agree with people here as well as you, you don't want to repeat removing a window 4 times but if you can go over the first one slowly....Isn't there some way to layer the base photo then the exterior walls then the interior walls so I can find them as well as see if any are missing by easily toggling between them? I'm not sure I will get then hang of it before i quit. I appreciate you trying to make helpful videos but maybe I need more remedial steps. I think sometimes you utilize keyboard shortcuts to do things and then one cannot see how to do it if you aren't familiar with the shortcut?
If you're struggling that much with basic things, you should probably start at the beginning here - th-cam.com/video/I_bJPNnO3HQ/w-d-xo.html
Hello I am new on sketshup 2023 pro , i dont know we're to get Plant material, car, ect can someone help me please thank you
How come mine doesn't have the scale figure?
can u make concise tutorial?
What do I have to do if I already deleted all the faces before extruding the walls?
make a rectangle on them?
I wanted to see what happened when you chose EXPLODE damn it
One frustration I keep running into is how you are keeping the IMAGE of the floor plan down when you bring the walls up...? The writing and everything doesn't stay on the "floor" rather the image text is raised with the walls. How the heck are you doing that? I've rewinded several times and watched a couple other videos of yours but it doesn't seem to be cooperating. Could it perhaps be the image I'm using that is not allowing me to do that?
The floor plan image is a grouped image. I'm not inside the image drawing on the raw face, but rather drawing on the outside of the gorup
@@Thesketchupessentials thanks so much for the reply, I noticed that in your ‘21 update video AND I wasn’t hovering over the wall lines when I was using push pull, rather I was clicking on the center of the room and therefore bringing up the floor. Key piece of info. Thanks so much for the quick reply!
how big are the windows
Sadly, you cannot import JPEG/PNG in the free version anymore. (1-July-2022)
I tried several times to follow step by step but having issues getting to where you are..
Hello sir my sekchp 2017 version auto cad file problem please help me .
could you please share the floor plan with me?
HA. I can't get past the 3:15 mark. Tape measure tool just draws a dotted line right across the page. Looks like I'll just go back to drawing manually 😔
good
Nice!
Thanks!
You do the window lines so fast is impossible to see what is going on. When I draw them they don't make the lines up the wall - the sections all end up being one wall with just the lines across the top of the wall. Would be great if you could slow down a bit when showing these little details please. We can skip through the non relevant bits ourselves. Anyway your vids are really helping thanks.
I'm pretty sure I tell you exactly what I was doing at about 12:00 in. Then I just repeat the whole thing for the rest of the windows. I'm not going to leave 5:00 of doing the exact same thing over and over in a tutorial video because I get FAR more complaints about that. It sounds like you might have grouped your wall so that when you draw edges across it, it's not splitting the wall face. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question