Design Floor Plans Quickly And Easily With Blender

Learn how to use Blender to quickly create stylized architectural floor plans

What you'll learn

Basic to advanced point-to-point 3D modeling techniques in Blender.

Various techniques for creating walls that are useful for floor plans and architectural design in general.

Different methods for creating furniture blocks. This includes creating them from scratch and importing them from external DWG, DXF, and SVG files.

Use the "Asset Browser" feature in Blender to organize assets for quick use in different projects.

Requirements

A computer capable of running Blender application.

Have a standard mouse with a scroll wheel.

A full-size keyboard with a numpad.

Description

Blender is a well-known free and open-source 3D software used by many professionals to create stunning 3D animations. You may also have seen a lot of 3D architectural visualizations created using Blender. But, not many people realized that Blender is also capable of producing beautiful floor plans quickly and easily. If you are tired of creating the same boring-looking floor plans. Or perhaps, you want to stop wasting too much money on expensive software, web-app, or AI credits just to deliver nice-looking floor plans to your clients. Well, look no further. In this course, I will guide you through the complete process, from start to finish, to design and create floor plans using Blender.About the instructorMy name is Widhi Muttaqien, founder of Expose Studio. For more than 20 years, I have been involved with hundreds of projects, including architecture, interior design, master plans, and so on. I have worked with many clients all over the world. Besides doing projects, I have also been teaching 3D and computer graphics academically since 2000. In short, I have both professional expertise and teaching experience.Why use Blender for creating floor plans?So, why do you want to use Blender to create floor plans? There are at least 6 reasons. First, Blender is free or more cost-efficient. With Blender, you can replace a lot of expensive tools, such as CAD software, image editing software, 3D modeling software, rendering plugins, and so on. I know that some web apps can help you create floor plans, and they offer free tiers or versions. But most likely, you will end up paying a lot of money, as the free tiers are so limited in features and or furniture library. You may rely on different AI tools to generate floor plans. But those also can cost you a lot of money, as you need to purchase credits to be able to use them.Second, Blender is precise. Unlike many 2D vector graphic software that are not geared towards architectural drawings, Blender can handle measurement units precisely. The floor plans you created in Blender will not only be useful for conceptual drawings or for client presentations. These floor plans can be used later in the 3D design process as the basis to model the digital tween of the building or the project in general.Third, rendering a floor plan in Blender is insanely fast. You can render a 4K resolution in just a fraction of a second. The fourth reason is that the workflow or the process of creating a floor plan is also very fast. Why? Well, this is because Blender has a feature called the “Asset Browser”. Essentially, it allows you to create a library of assets such as furniture blocks and materials. Once you have them set up, you can quickly drag and drop the assets into your scene. So, most of the time, when creating floor plans, what you need to create are only the walls and the floors.The fifth reason is that you don’t even need to create all of your furniture blocks from scratch. You can download them from the web in DWG, DXF, or SVG formats. And the sixth reason, you can easily generate a nice-looking line effect that has a hand-drawing feel to it. Don’t worry, you do not need to draw these lines manually. These lines are actually grease pencil strokes with a "line-art" modifier. You can easily specify their thickness, colors, line styles, and so on, to match your own style.So join now and make Blender your unfair advantage in the architecture or interior design fields! Have fun learning.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Exercise files and conventions

Lecture 3 Macro overview

Section 2: Point-to-point modeling basics

Lecture 4 Preparations

Lecture 5 Point-to-point modeling basics

Lecture 6 Point-to-point modeling intermediate

Lecture 7 Point-to-point modeling advanced

Section 3: Walls, windows, and doors

Lecture 8 Creating walls method 1

Lecture 9 Creating walls method 2

Lecture 10 Windows and Doors

Lecture 11 Adding depth and color

Lecture 12 Workbench render settings

Lecture 13 UV Mapping and texture

Section 4: Furniture blocks

Lecture 14 Wardrobe

Lecture 15 Bed, nightstands, and lamps

Lecture 16 Line Art effect

Lecture 17 Adding surfaces to furniture blocks

Lecture 18 Tables and counters

Lecture 19 Creating a toilet using a reference

Lecture 20 Creating a bathroom sink using a reference

Lecture 21 Importing CAD drawings part 1

Lecture 22 Importing CAD drawings part 2

Lecture 23 Importing CAD drawings part 3

Lecture 24 Glasses and mirror

Lecture 25 Transferring data across files

Lecture 26 Using the Asset Browser part 1

Lecture 27 Using the Asset Browser part 2

Section 5: Labels and dimensions

Lecture 28 Camera settings and adding labels

Lecture 29 Adding dimensions

Architects and interior designers who need a free alternative software solution for designing floor plans.,Lecturers in architecture or civil engineering who want to quickly and easily create floor plans without paying expensive subscription fees.,Students of architecture or interior design who want to learn how to use Blender to create floor plans.