Windows and doors for sketchup

Your plan should look like this when you are finished. If you remember from the last tutorial, we created two groups for our interior walls — the fireplace walls and the remaining walls. And then we grouped them together into one group. It can help to think of groups like nested containers. We have a big container called Interior Walls holding two smaller containers for each of our wall containers. And each of those containers holds the lines and faces that create the walls.

First, double click on one on the interior walls. This opens up the bigger group. In order to work with the walls, we need to make sure we have the right group open. Double click again on one of the walls not the fireplace walls. There are no dimensions indicating the openings of the interior doors, so this is where we can use the PDF to estimate.

Zoom in so you can see it better and the activate the tape measure. With your tape measure, click on the top wall of the closet and drag a horizontal guideline down. As you hover towards the center of the wall, you will notice a blue dot appear. The blue dot indicates the center point of the line segment. Click to set the guideline. Now we can draw guidelines from the center guideline to establish the edges of the door opening.

This will require some estimating. Click on the center guideline and drag up. Repeat the process to set the bottom guideline. Then use the Line tool and Eraser tool to create the opening just like we did for the exterior openings.

Delete the guidelines before moving on to the next opening. Then you can use another guideline to estimate the opening width. Use the Line tool and Eraser tool to create the opening.

Repeat this process for the remaining openings. Now your plan should look like this image below. I noticed a couple of mistakes in the model. First, there are two extra walls that we need to delete. Use the Line tool to segment the extra wall in the hallway, then erase the top and bottom edges that make up the extra wall.

Zoom in on the bottom wall of the hall bathroom. Activate the Selection tool by hitting the space bar. From left to right, draw a box around the wall to select it. Click on the Move tool in the top tool bar. Then click on the bottom edge of the wall and drag upward. Now select the top edges of the two bedroom door openings.

Hold down the shift key and click the left one and then the right one. Click outside the group in the workspace to close the group. Then click again to close the Interior Walls group. In the Layers window, turn on the Walls-Interior layer and edit the interior walls to delete those two extra walls and move the bathroom wall.

Turn off Walls-Interior. Start by drawing a rectangle over the window opening. Click on the top edge of the window rectangle to select it. Then right-click on it and select Divide from the pop-up menu. The Divide tool can break up a line into a specified number of equal segments. You can choose the number of segments by dragging your mouse until you see the correct number of red dots or you can type in the desired number and hit enter.

Type 3 and hit enter. Now the line segment is divided equally. Draw a guideline at each of the points. The guides will snap to the points we created with the Divide tool. Our last step for this window is to turn it into a component so that we can reuse it in the living room. But, a component can be reused over and over again and any changes you make to one component will take effect in all instances of that component.

With the Selection tool, draw a box around the window from left to right. Then right click on the window and select Make Component from the pop-up menu. A window will pop up. Name the new component Window and type in a description. Then click the Create button. Now you have a new component that you can reuse. Click on the Move tool in the toolbar. Then click on the top left corner of the window component. Hold down your option key Alt for PC and drag to the right.

You will see a copy of the window moving with your cursor. Delete the guides. Repeat this process for the remaining windows. You can make a window component for the window in the left bedroom and then copy it to the right bedroom. This will reflect the window along the red axis so the sill is facing the interior. Zoom in on the front door opening on the bottom wall. Next, select the Circle tool from the toolbar. Click on the top left corner of the door opening and then click again at the top left corner of the door rectangle.

You can see that the circle is segmented and looks faceted. We want to smooth the arc for the door swing. The following are the three setups available. There is not much difference between the 3D and double walls. Using these options, you can cut openings in both single and double walls in SketchUp. After the selection, you just click on your model to place your objects. In the case of double-wall selection, you will notice that it seems to wait to cut the hole until you have completely closed out of the tool which you can do by using the space key.

There are a number of different parameters which you can use to edit, such as the main size, the detail around the windows, the mullion size, and many others.

You can even choose various trim profiles for the different windows. You can even custom the trim profile if you wish to. You can choose from a vast library of windows to choose from such as well which includes standard, arched, corner, and bay windows.

In case you wish to change your openings all you have to do is just draw a selection box across your window, you have to make sure that you pick up the geometry of the hole that gets created. This will allow you to move your whole window the way you want to. The Instant door and window contain a vast number of door options. This option works in a similar way much like the window options do, along with a few added features.

This will allow you to add a door arc for a plan view which is handy if you want to create architectural plans. The options present here are all editable such as the trim, much like the windows.

The doors will also allow you to edit the hardware that is created. By just selecting the material and deleting it out in these instances you will be able to fix the problems. If you just want to adjust the materials, there is also a tool just for that contained on the toolbar. With all these components you can draw indoor image as well as landscape designing. From a small component like camera to large component like bridge all things are available in this warehouse.

The users can select from several preset styles. Reprocess a single door leaf component in numerous individual assembly component configurations.