I am using Sketchup Free (on the web) to make a 2-D floor plan of a building and want to add a scale bar to it. Something like this:
It’s easy to import the image: Simply choose [Hamburger icon] → Import… and select my file.
Next, I want to scale that image so that its marks represent actual measurements in the rest of the sketch.
I’m feeling dopey. I searched the forum and watched a a bunch of Youtube videos, but don’t find an answer to my question. I have seen a bunch of references to using the Tape tool to measure and adjust its dimensions, but none of these seem to work. (I never get the “Do you want to scale this…” dialog.)
Would someone give me a concrete set of steps for doing this? Many thanks.
It would have been much faster and you’d have better quality if you had just modeled it like I described to you yesterday. But I guess you’ve got it now.
Yes, but… I’m a newbie with Sketchup, so I’m kind of hanging on by my fingernails just to complete the 2-D floor plan.
But I would be delighted to learn how to model a scale bar if you could list concrete steps. (Yesterday’s description is too abstract for me - I don’t know enough about Sketchup to understand how to follow the steps.)
Not only would that help me, but all the other newcomers to Sketchup…Thanks again.
That’s about the procedure I imagined. As a newcomer, this feels like a lot of fussy work that I would work hard to complete. (The image above has 13 rectangles across the top row, I’d need to duplicate that row, then color it in.)
As for the intended use, we are improving a rustic cabin. We don’t have an existing floor plan, so I have measured the exterior of the cabin and its interior dimensions. I then dropped those dimensions into Sketchup to get a rough floor plan. We’ll then envision how moving partitions, etc. could make the cabin work better. The scale bar helps to understand what “will fit” and what won’t. Here’s a sample that’s “good enough” for us to proceed. Thanks again.
