LayOut Floor Plans in SketchUp – Line Weights, Furniture & Door Symbols

Описание: This lesson refines architectural floor plan drawings in LayOut, focusing on clean linework, graphic hierarchy, furniture symbols, and door swing annotations based on an existing SketchUp building model.
🔹 What you will be able to do after this lesson
• Create clear black-and-white architectural plans in LayOut
• Control line weights and section cuts for better readability
• Add and edit 2D furniture symbols per level
• Insert and adjust door swing symbols aligned to real openings
• Organize drawings using layers for model, symbols, and annotations
✔ Plans become readable architectural drawings, not screenshots of a model.
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🔹 Course context
This video is part of the course
Complete Architectural Workflow in SketchUp – From Urban Plan to Drawings & Renders
It continues the Project Drawings workflow after initial LayOut setup and page creation.
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🔹 What this lesson covers
• Refining SketchUp scenes specifically for plan drawings
• Simplifying plans by hiding non-essential elements
• Using section cuts and section fills for architectural hierarchy
• Switching viewports to vector or hybrid mode for sharp linework
• Adding 2D furniture symbols for:
o Underground floor
o Ground floor
o First floor
• Editing and reusing grouped furniture layouts
• Creating and adjusting door swing symbols per door type
✔ Graphic clarity is achieved through scene control, not manual redrawing.
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🔹 What you will learn
• How to separate model geometry from 2D annotations
• How to use LayOut layers safely for drawings
• How to maintain consistent graphic style across all floor plans
• When to simplify drawings for scheme design clarity
✔ A good plan drawing shows structure and space — not materials.
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🔹 Problems this lesson solves
• Overloaded plans with textures and entourage
• Inconsistent line weights between floors
• Furniture and door symbols that don’t match real geometry
• Risky editing when everything sits on one layer
✔ Most drawing problems come from poor layer and scene discipline.
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🔹 Who this video is for
• Architects preparing scheme-design plans
• Interior designers creating furnished layouts
• SketchUp users moving into professional LayOut documentation
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🔹 Place of this lesson in the course
• Develops architectural plan drawings after page setup
• Establishes graphic standards for the entire drawing set
• Prepares plans for dimensions, hatches, and annotations
✔ From here on, the focus is drawing quality, not model geometry.