How To Scale A Floor Plan In Illustrator

Two sides have to be 12 ft and one side is 32.

How to scale a floor plan in illustrator.

Open the illustrator file of the floor plan and zoom out to see the entire drawing. When the blueprint looks the way it should thicken the weight of the strokes depending on the scale you re working at. Before we even open up illustrator let s talk about the scale we ll be using for our floor plan. Once the artboard is setup select the.

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. This is the second video in a series of three that focus on placing a hand drawn landscape plan into illustrator. 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. It demonstrates how to take the vector linework of a floor plan in autocad and render it using illus.

I ve used illustrator for simple 2d room layouts plans and elevations and it works fine. I wouldn t use it if i had a dedicated cad application to hand. 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. Setting up a border and title block https youtu be.

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. Don t mind the doors or windows yet we re just looking for the basic layout. Then i just joined all the paths to make it a closed shape and transformed it from there. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

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. I ll be referring to the scale i m using a couple of times. This is the second of two lectures on adobe illustrator.