I will say as an interior designer floor planning in adobe is not the norm it s comfortable convenient and quick for me so it feels like like second nature at this point but i was honestly.
Making floor plans in illustrator.
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.
Adobe illustrator cs4 is pretty neat for close to accurate illustrations as it has dynamic smart guides to speed up positioning and alignment of objects.
In this tutorial i ll show you the process i use for creating a 3d floorplan from scratch in 6 easy steps.
Use adobe illustrator to plan a room layout.
Illustrator is great for making shapes and measuring exact sizes.
It is the perfect tool to plan a room layout.
Adobe illustrator and it is much simpler to use.
Create a new document in illustrator and in the new document dialog set your document size to 24 x 36 1 12th scale where 1 1.
Illustrator isn t just used for sketching and drawing it can also be used for drawing maps and floor plans.
Below is the final image we will be working towards.
Such as the height from the floor to the ceiling in several places around the room.
This is how i create floor plans.
House kitchen 4.
I scan my graph paper sketch import this into a new illustrator document and begin tracing it using the great set of tools illustrator provides.
Almost any version of this product will do.
With even the most rudimentary illustrator skills you can draw floor plans with illustrator.
Every measurement is on there.
Download and open the free art file in illustrator.