Just looking for some advice on the best way to organize my model for future construction drawings. I have a 4-story office buildings with each floor as its own component and each exterior wall as its own component. However, I was looking for ideas for when I am ready to do sections, plan details, etc. I have watched the videos with Nick Sonder and I know he uses 2 different models, one the client sees and one for construction documents. I was just wondering if that is the most efficient way to do it. If the client makes changes, it seems like you would have to change two models instead of one.
Any comments or thoughts would be appreciated.
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Matt and Nick’s book walks through this exact thing, in great detail!
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Some users have posted some tutorials here in the forum’s Tutorials category:
How to make a siteplan from a model.
This is my checklist, hope it can help.
TenFundamentalsAboutLOForArchitects.pdf (777.0 KB)
Prepare the model in SU with scenes for every floorplan and section cuts you need for your project. Change camera to Parallel Projektion. (Maybe you want to ad a scene with grids to trace in LO by dashed lines.)
Prepare LO with pages according to SU scenes. Choose a paper size by → Document Setup-Paper
Insert the model to LO. Use a seperate layer for the view…
A. Tools
The first thing in a new software is to look at the toolbar and playing with it. The Quick Reference Card (one sheet !) is a great help. By the time you will know 100% of it.
SU is so fast, because you can work with both hands: one for the mouse (camera, view, pan, zoom, double click or right click to get the kontext menu, etc.) and one for the keyboard shortcuts (Toolbar functions: [L]ines -means edge, [R]ectangle, [C]ircle are areas -means faces, etc.). Start modeling with easy obje…
Architects need the pro version of SketchUp for LayOut.
To make floorplanes and sectioncuts make scenes in the model as shown in the screenshot below.
Change the Camera-View from “Perspective” to “Parallel Projektion” for Elevations and Floorplanes.
After that you can use the Extention from the SketchUp-Team “Create LayOut File from Scenes”.
That’s all, have fun
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(You can find the model in 3d Warehouse. Find the exported images from LayOut at
cad-office.de )
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October 13, 2017, 10:31am
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