Illistrator Floor Plan Design Drawing Scale

Draw a blueprint of the building that you would like to create using the pen tool or line segment tool holding shift for straight lines.

Illistrator floor plan design drawing scale.

I have done a lot of architectural and constructional drawings and find illustrator immensely useful amongst other things for calculating timber requirements and that sort of thing. When the blueprint looks the way it should thicken the weight of the strokes depending on the scale you re working at. Create your drawing at a simple scale probably 1 100 and worry about output scaling only when you need to print so if you need 1 50 print at 200. For today s purposes the scale for our drawing will have one foot equal to one inch so if we have a room that s 16 feet long it ll take up 16 inches in illustrator.

Before we even open up illustrator let s talk about the scale we ll be using for our floor plan. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Space proportions and navigation 0 01 setting up floor plan document 2 25 information included in title block 3 06 drawing external walls 5 28 internal wall. Don t mind the doors or windows yet we re just looking for the basic layout.

When producing these drawings by hand the scale of floor plan or elevation for example must be chosen and drawn in that scale. Alright friends after sharing a designer trick post all about flooring planning back in february i promised i d follow up with my personal process for floor planning in adobe illustrator. You may want to represent a site plan at a scale of 1 500 but perhaps show floor plans at 1 100 for example. I wouldn t use it if i had a dedicated cad application to hand.

In addition to creating floor plans you can also create stunning 360 views beautiful 3d photos of. I ll be referring to the scale i m using a couple of times. Draw a floor plan add furniture and fixtures and then print and download to scale it s that easy. I ve used illustrator for simple 2d room layouts plans and elevations and it works fine.

When your floor plan is complete create high resolution 2d and 3d floor plans that you can print and download to scale in jpg png and pdf. The image above shows an example of a drawing set with different scales to demonstrate different aspects of the design. Here s drawing of a balcony and a photo of the finished article after i d done the carpentry.