Creating Floor Plans FROM IMAGES in SketchUp Free! 

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about this process in the comments below! :)

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!

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 have finally discovered my Sketchup teacher. Thank you for the great work. I wish to learn and use SketchUp in Boat and furniture designing.

Thank you for this! I wanted to interior design my room by myself and this will help me a lot. Liked and subscribed ❤️

One of the BEST instructional channels on RU-vid 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 enjoyable to watch. I'm going to try to use sketchup to put virtual furniture into our new place before moving in.

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 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!

Very clearly narrated step by step. Ideal for a newbie like me! Thanks for sharing!

super helpful! I am excited to use SketchUp to visualize my new house build! thanks for the help!

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

Thank you so much! You've just made it look so simple! 🤯🙏

Excellent video !. Waiting for the second part of it.

Wow.. many thanks!! Best tutorial I found until now! Was very good to understand, sometimes little bit too fast but very good

As always, an easy to follow and informative tutorial

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. 😍

Great tutorial. Loved the demo with the free version.

If you know the wall thicknesses then you can add these and the internal dimensions to get fairly accurate overall measurements.

Great video dude ! I really like your videos ! thanks for sharing huge help !

Justin this is really cool. And the process is simple.

Thank you so much! Great lesson! 🙏

Verry helpfull! Thank you for making this video. I feel lucky.

So so useful! Thank you!

This is amazing! Thank you!

Very Nicely explained Thanks

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

Superb lesson.Thanks

It is very exciting and clear would you please explain how to design the landscape and make terrain also different roof types

Thank you very much for sharing. All the way from Philippines🇵🇭..

Can you do a video on adding a second floor?

Sooooooo helpful! 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.

Great video. thank you

wow great video i have watched about 7 in a row and now have a great idea how to use this software

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?

Well done. I'm new and these are great.

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?

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?

Excellent!

great , well explained. some things slightly fast to catch, but i give you 9/10.

Like it. Very useful

Great Video!

thanks for the video

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

What version of sketche up are you using? I am having trouble with some of the features and extensions.

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.

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?

thx you are the best

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?

it would be nice if you also import this model in twinmotion 2020 and render it their.

Thanks.

Interesting I'm watching this on my android cell. Can I use this program on my cell?

Nice!

Justin I need the photo link please so I can follow up with you

I would love it if you could repeat this tutorial with the pad version

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

He. Thank you fort the video. Im having problem to do inside walls. I do the lines and etc but i cant faceup.

i need this image for learning purpose

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

im struggling with the removal of the doors, im not sure how to make them disappear to make a doorway?

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..

where can we get that image to practice it

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!

how do you find the floor plan

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?

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

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)

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!

Hello sir my sekchp 2017 version auto cad file problem please help me .

Sir which pc is best for using sketchup

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

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

how big are the windows

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?

What do I have to do if I already deleted all the faces before extruding the walls?

good

Why is it when I insert the image it does not allow me to move or scale it?

How come mine doesn't have the scale figure?

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I guess you needed to download an plugin for offseting a line. You could have mentioned that.

can u make concise tutorial?

I can't type in the value in length.

could you please share the floor plan with me?

For anyone looking for the house plan, www.hiddencreekapartment.com/brochure/brochure.aspx, Clic on Floor plan D4. Your welcome.

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?

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 😔

When creating my perimeter it creates a face then covers up the image what am I doing wrong.

Sadly, you cannot import JPEG/PNG in the free version anymore. (1-July-2022)

Why isn't it resizing for me?

I tried several times to follow step by step but having issues getting to where you are..

Why does your face come out transparent whereas mine is full white and blocks the image below.

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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?

insert is now called import

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 feel, i am the only one having problem seeing your video budy.. It's like you are using an encodage unknown to my Pc (windows 10, Chrome browser) and only your video. i'm having no problem with all youtube content. strange. the sound is good though

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