Designing your own house with SketchUp is easier. If you plan to make changes to the design of your house, having the SketchUp model can make this significantly easier. Changes can’t easily be made to a set of printable plans. If a change is desired, the plans will generally need to be recreated. This can be complex since a change to one page of a set of plans (or section of a house) may impact other pages (and so on). By instead modifying the model for which the plans are based on, you can immediately see how your changes will impact the other parts of the house and then recreate the plans with the new changes.
Even if you don’t plan on making changes to the design, having the SketchUp model can be extremely helpful. SketchUp can be used to visualize and understand how the house is assembled, and to get additional details and measurements during construction.
You do not need to spend much time to learn SkecthUp. Using by basic tools, you can build your house in a day our hours. If you just want to navigate an existing model and perhaps take some measurements, you’ll only need to know a very small subset of the available features in the program.
Even if you don’t plan on making changes to the design, having the SketchUp model can be extremely helpful. SketchUp can be used to visualize and understand how the house is assembled, and to get additional details and measurements during construction.
You do not need to spend much time to learn SkecthUp. Using by basic tools, you can build your house in a day our hours. If you just want to navigate an existing model and perhaps take some measurements, you’ll only need to know a very small subset of the available features in the program.