I’m designing an interior space with angled walls and an angled ceiling. I started with a 2D top view and laid out the four walls how I wanted them, then did a profile 2D view of the front wall and ceiling angled.
Angling any walls in one layout effects how the two would combine. I tried making them both 3D by push-pulling the walls up, as I would in any rectangular design, then tried combining and intersecting. This allows me to remove some lines and walls, but does not take into account angles properly.
Is there a way to take a 2D floor plan, and intelligently combine it with a 2D profile plan? Or is there a proper manual way of combining these that I am not doing?
Can you upload a screenshot or the file so we can better understand your issue.
If I understand correctly, you have the floor plan and an elevation drawing. You can draw out the floor plan with the walls, and then push/pull the walls up. As for the elevation drawing, I wouldn’t suggest you try to draw it out in 2D, rather build it in the model. Because SketchUp is a 3D model, you’re building more than drawing 2D Objects.
Example:
Floor plan: a 2d plan
Elevation:
Rather than draw and merge the two, I ‘built’ it as someone would who reads your plan:
Naturally, to build off just one elevation is difficult as you may be missing some details.
In what way? It’s not clear exactly what you’re trying to achieve.
It’s an interesting project. Adding a bit more description will help us help you.
This is what I’m able to glean from your description and screenshots.
• You want to specify the angle of each wall surface.
• You want to specify the angle of each ceiling surface.
• You want the break points of the wall surfaces to align with the break points of the ceiling surfaces.
Is that correct?
If that’s the goal…
Then arrange the initial 2D geometry of ceiling and walls such that you can verify their alignment.
Shep, you nailed it! How did you accomplish this?
I don’t really need the side walls to curve up toward the ceiling, but definitely that front wall. You even have the speaker holes that I’m after. Awesome.
What Shep is demonstrating very well here are the manual steps of what SketchUp’s native tool ‘Follow Me’ would do for you.
In Shep’s example you do have a profile (the cross sectional face of the room) and the path, the segmented base line. Apply boyh with the ‘Follow Me’ tool and you have your acoustic room.