Guide · Floor plan to 3D
Floor plan to 3D in SketchUp
A floor plan in SketchUp, from a drawing you already made in FloorPlanner. Plattegrond naar 3D here means that handoff: walls with thickness, openings cut in, and a floor slab per storey, in metres. You keep designing on your own model.
From the plan to a model you can edit
Step 1
Start from your own drawing
The model follows the FloorPlanner project you submit. Lengths and wall thicknesses come from that file, not from a traced image.
Step 2
Check floors and rooms first
The free preview shows what we found: floors, and rooms when the file lists them. You pay after that check.
Step 3
Open the shell in SketchUp
The .dae file arrives by email within 5 minutes. File → Import places it in metres. Hide a floor group to work on the one below.
Step 4
Detail it yourself
Joinery, materials and furniture stay your work in SketchUp. One project is €9. A 5-pack is €39, and Pro is €99 per year.
When the 3D model matches the plan
- The project is published, or you upload the .fml export from FloorPlanner.
- The file contains walls. An empty plan has nothing to build, and the preview says so before payment.
- You want the building shell, with room names as groups. Furniture and finishes are not converted.
Questions
Is a SketchUp floor plan the same as a render?
You get geometry: walls, openings, floors and named groups. A furnished render is a later step, in SketchUp, on top of this file.
Are the units metric?
Yes. The model uses metres from your FloorPlanner project, including wall lengths, thicknesses and heights.
What if the project is private?
Publish it and paste the link, or export .fml from FloorPlanner and upload that file. The preview shows what we could read.
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