#Demo of sketchup kitchen design software#
#Demo of sketchup kitchen design trial#

I am not taking their specific dimension it is just for explaining you. Now i will take Line tool and draw lines from top edge of slab to bottom edge of it for dividing sections like this. You must remember that each time you make any object first make it group or component. For dividing make double click on slab area so that it will converts into edit mode because i have made it as group. You can divide sections in the slab that will be draws for placing stuffs of kitchen. For moving it i will take move tool and assign moving plane then move it like this. Assigning rotating plane to this cooktop and rotate it in the direction of slab.Īnd then move it at the place of Cooktop according to layout. Now i will change to Top view of this kitchen model then take Rotate tool from tool panel. For hiding wall i will again select this wall and then make right click to choose hide option from drop down list. Now i will place it anywhere on working screen first like this and change to x-ray mode.Īnd also hide side wall so that i can properly place this cooktop on slab. I will first search for kitchen cooktop here in the search box of this dialog box. For that, go to Window menu and click on 3D Warehouse option. Now let us have some 3D model of kitchen accessories from 3D Warehouse. Now i will add some height to it according to required dimensions. Or also make a fresh area with line or rectangle tool like this. You can select this area with line tool on the layout plan. Now let us make slap area of this kitchen. Then make a rectangle in this area and push/pull it with push/pull tool. Then again mark height of window itself by the same way. For that i will mark height of this window from ground with the help of Tape measurement tool. Now i will make window at this area according to layout. If you want to unhide hidden objects then go to Edit menu and go to Unhide option of drop down list and choose All or Last. Now after making other section of wall i will make it group also by the same way as we did in previous. You can hide any drawn section for creating other components properly and for hiding component select that component then make right click and choose Hide option. So for making group make triple click on this wall and whole geometry of this wall will be selected then make right click on choose Make Group option. Once you done make sure you make group to the wall sections for separating it from other designed object.

Now you can take Line tool for creating walls of this kitchen or rectangle tool for this purpose.Īfter creating it i will take Push/Pull tool and add height to this wall according to required dimensions.

Now let us explode this image layout and for exploding it select it then make right click and choose Explode option.Īfter exploding it you can use it as base rectangle for this layout. But hey, if you have $600 to burn, knock yourself out.Once you hit enter button it will ask you whether you want to scale it or not so click on Yes button of this pop up box. It’s more fun to play with and isn’t absolutely necessary unless you’re dying to know what the space will look like in reality. You also have to wait a couple of hours for each image to render.

#Demo of sketchup kitchen design software#

The software is incredibly powerful which also makes it pretty expensive.

#Demo of sketchup kitchen design trial#

I used a free trial version of Indigo Renderer for the images you see.

This is really helpful to see how light will work in a space. Within Sketchup you can easily assign different materials to various objects so that they appear realistic in the rendered image.

One of the cool things about 3D models is that you can render them to create the photorealistic images. There are plenty of great tutorials on youtube from beginner to advanced that will guide you through the modeling process. They sent the model to me and I was able to modify it. The couple I’m designing for actually created their own basic Sketchup model based on the measurements of their kitchen. However, modeling in Sketchup is relatively easy especially if you’re just making basic shapes. Since I studied architecture in college, 3D modeling comes a lot more naturally to me than the average user. It will give you a better grasp of what the final result will be so you’re less likely to end up with any nasty surprises. I recommend doing some 3D modeling especially if you plan on doing a major renovation like a kitchen. You also have access to entire library of 3D models that you can easily drop into your model. It’s incredibly intuitive and best of all it’s free! I use Sketchup all the time to mock up furniture designs and room arrangements. I’ve recently been helping some friends design a new kitchen and Google Sketchup has been my goto 3D modeling program. After posting my kitchen renovation, I’ve been getting a lot of requests from people to do more kitchens.