Interior Design Tools to Help You Get Organized and Be More Productive
Every interior designer knows that running a business requires investing in a set of tools to help them operate more efficiently. Over the past several years, I’ve come to rely …
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Draw a 3D House Model in SketchUp from a Floor Plan
In this blog post, I will walk you through how you can to draw a 3D house model in SketchUp from a 2D floor plan image. You can use a PDF …
How to Add Doors & Windows to a 2D Interior Floor Plan in SketchUp
In our last tutorial, we added the interior walls to a basic 2D floor plan that we drew in SketchUp from a PDF plan file. In this tutorial, we’re going …
How to Draw a Floor Plan to Scale in SketchUp from a PDF
In my everyday experience, I usually start drafting a floor plan in SketchUp one of two ways. Either I start from scratch using measurements I’ve taken at the home, usually …
Draw a Floor Plan in SketchUp from Field Measurements
In this tutorial, I will explain how to draw a floor plan in SketchUp accurately and to scale from measurements taken on site of an existing space. I will demonstrate …
How to Print a 2D Floor Plan to Scale Directly from SketchUp
In our last tutorial, we learned how to draw a floor plan of a house to scale using the image found on the assessor’s page for the property. Today we’re …
How to Draw a 2D SketchUP Floor Plan from an Image
In this beginner tutorial, we will learn step-by-step how to create a basic 2D SketchUp floor plan from image files such as the ones found on most property assessor websites. …
Welcome!
Welcome to Design Student Savvy! I started this site because I wanted to share all of the technical knowledge I’ve accumulated with other interior designers and design students. I started …