How to create a FLOOR PLAN with Dimensions in Blender

in this video I'll show you how to create a precise and detailed flow plan with dimensions and make sure to stick on to the end where I even show you how to export it out of blender so let's get started I'll try to make this as easy to follow as possible so we'll break this down into three steps first we'll create the section box then we generate cross-section elevation drawings and finally add the dimensions and actually there's a fourth step at the end where we export this out of blender so let's start with the first step by creating the section box therefore select all the objects you want to include in our case this building right here so select everything then right click and choose create section box this will create a bounding box around all the objects which you can now use to create the drawings in the next step and by the way if you don't have sect box already there's a link in the description where you can get it so how do we now get a flu plant out of this let me show you first bring the box in shape now case we want cut down to the flu therefore you can use these black handles at each plane of the box to transform the box like that bring it down where you want the cut and I put it a bit more down and this looks good to me so now you can open the section Box menu by going into the sidebar by pressing n and then choosing section box and here you find the main menu of section box but in our case we only need these two sections the section menu and the elevation menu so you can collapse the others by the way if you want to learn more about how section box improves your workflow I'll made a dedicated video about that which I'll leave a link at the end of this video anyway let's create some drawings pull the cross section just go to the create button and click it and here we go we got our crosssection already set up and it's not much harder for elevations so simply press create this takes a moment and here we go but as you notice it didn't take all the edges into account which you can see here for example this because these edges have a very low angle and luckily there's an easy fix for that simply increase the crease angle right here so in our case 175° cre should be fine then you can remove the elevation and recreate it this takes even longer because more edges means more calculations but here it is and it looks perfect all edges are traced and we got our cross-section and elevation setup so to add the dimensions in the next step we need these drawings as meeses and also for that section box makes it really easy to do this by using the export as operator YC so mesh is already selected you can also export them as txf if you want but in all case we need it as mesh so select this and then use this little button here for export so click it then I recommend to check the clean up to remove any unnecessary vertices you really don't want our drawings so enable this and then click okay and here we go to make it bit more better visible we will put this into a new collection so press M leave everything selected as it is right now press new collection name it like you want in our case we need flu plan click okay and now you can disable other collections building and section boxes and here we go here are our drawings as Smashes in blender now we're ready for adding the dimensions therefore we use the free measure it Arch add-on by Kevin Crest and Antonio Vasquez if you don't have it already it's the second link in the description down below after you've installed it like any other add-on simply enable it and that's it so huge thanks to the developers and let's get started so to see better what we do do from now on let's change the background color to white that we can see all the black lines much better so change this to viewport here and then you can select a color here and bump it up fully to White and this looks really great and actually let's change the view to me the orientation we just had four and in our case let's join these both measures as they are separated right now but if you only want to include the cross-section then you can do this it's up to you then you don't have to join anything of course so let's press contrl J to join them and now let's get started with the measured Arch addon so now press end to open the sidebar and here you now find the measured Arch Tab and here is the main menu and first thing you should do is press the show button course this will enable everything we do in a moment and here also all the tools for creating the dimensions and also annotations and more but in this video to keep it as easy and simple as possible we'll only use the aligned feature and the lines features so to now actually add a dimension go to edit mode and select any two vertices you want to create measurement for for for example these both well let's take these both right here and with them both selected press the Align op and here we go our first Dimension but it's way too thin and the font is way too small so let's change this and that's actually really easy because of this style set which is selected right here and you can edit this in the seam properties so navigate to the seam properties and then find the measure it Arch panel right here and here you can see the Styles menu so expand it and here are the different styles as you can see the dimension style one here the dimension style one so select it and then we got all the settings right here and here is the font size so let's change this bump this up to about 30 30 looks fine then the line weight the lines are also weightly thin for this scale so let's let's make two that's good and then there are arrows right here but you actually can't see them because they are so small so let's make them a little bit bigger too so here you find the arrow size to increase it a bit to maybe about 30 this looks really great to me now so let's create another right here again select first vertex then the second press aligned and voila our second dimension and same thing here select both aligned and here we go not gets interesting let's select these both and as you can see this is pointing inwards so to fix this navigate to the object properties right here and here you find all the dimensions we've just added so you can can check this by hiding them like like this when you hide them that disappear and yeah these are representations of all the dimensions so so let's find the last one the one pointing inwards it's this and then you got settings right here and notice the twak distance pointing it outwards let's change this to minus one and this does the trick so I now do this for all the other slides and then we look on how to expon everything and as I already said we are only scratching the surface here so if you want to learn more about the measured Arch addon and what all you can do with it then please let me know in the comments down below actually we got another little issue right here cuz this is way too narrow to fit the text in here it gets blind outside so to fix this just again select the dimension it's let's check it I think it's yeah it's this and then go to the settings again and under alignment select right or select left yeah and left looks much better so that's the easy fix for this tool if we would export everything now we would only see the dimensions this because we have to add a line group to our mesh therefore go to object mode and then select the object and press dynamic make a line group and this adds lines in place of all edges in our mes which will be visible in the final export actually it looks like nothing happened but if you go into the object properties and scroll a bit down to the line groups then you get this new item right here which represents this Dynamic line group we've just created for our plan and you can see these lines are using the style settings therefore because we had the line style one selected right here therefore go to the scene properties then again to the Styles and this time not the dimension style but the line style and then we got a color option here and if you deselect this and now change the color you can see that our whole appearance of the mesh is changing which means there are indeed new lines on top of the mesh great so let's export it therefore we need a camera so press shift a and choose camera now move it up a little bit like that and now head over to the seene properties and you can collapse the Styles Tab and open the views tab right here and you now find the default view and I'll make this bit wider like this and so you can see a camera icon and click into this and choose your camera my case is this and now we can edit the default view settings right here so expand them and again many many settings I know but we only need to change the size and the output PAAD right here so choose the size you want and in my case a z works great and yeah in my case landscape mode looks good okay now change the path to where you want to save the the export in my case I saved in my video folder except and you can try if the path is working by clicking this little button right here and if everything's working if the browser gets open it then the path works fine and you can export it and now for the final step for exporting our plan press F3 or space bar to open the search menu type render vector and with this option we render our plan as an SVG pile there actually should be a button somewhere to do this but to be honest I didn't find it so if you know what it is uh please let me down in the comments below but this this works fine so just execute it right here and voila it worked perfectly here's our floow plan with Dimension if you need the plan as a dxf file you could either convert the SVG file to dxf file or you can bring up the search menu again and search for render to dxf and execute this one here but be aware of some scating issues that might happen and yeah therefore check out the documentation of the measured Arch add-on where they go in detail about how to fix these issues I'll leave a link down below that's how we can create highly precise and detailed plans with their minions in blender if this was helpful for you and you don't want to miss the next ones hit that like And subscribe button it really makes a huge difference now I recommend you to watch my section box beginner tutorial if you haven't already which you can see right here thanks for watching and hope to see you soon

Channel: Ruben Messerschmidt

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Keywords: archviz, blender 4.0, blender tutorial, blender drawing, blender plan, blender elevation, blender cross section, blender architectural plan, Ruben Messerschmidt, architecture visualization, blender section box, blender measureit, blender measureit arch, blender dimensions, blender architecture tutorial

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Length: 14min 50sec (890 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2024