Newbie needs to draw house plans and elevations for planning
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Hi there
im a complete newbie to house plans however my wife and I are looking to convert out garage into a extra bedroom, usually this can be done without submitting plans however there is a marker on our property that states the garage must be a garage and the only way to change this is to include full plans
using measurements from when the house was on the market and bits and pieces i have measured, i have created a floor plan for the ground floor in sketchup (using ft and inches) it seemed pretty painless
however the council want it submitted with a scale bar, this is where i get confused... also the prospect of drawing elevations is scaring me.. can anyone offer any advice?
this is the guidance the council gave me http://www.canterbury.gov.uk/assets/planning/Draft%20validation%20checklists%20Final%20April%202011%20(2)%20new%20version2.pdf#page=13
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can you post some photos of the house and perhaps a little more detailed sketch of the house plan? showing doors, windows and such? that would be very helpful for giving advice. I've done a lot of this kind of thing, but from your plan image that you posted it's hard to tell what is what.
D
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Try the online help under "Help" menu in SU: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=114462. See if this article starts you in the right direction for scaled output.
Since you have done a one-line outline of your house, you might at this point go in and measure your windows and doors. measure the width of each and distance from the nearest corner. Use the line tool or tape tool to find the distances along your wall line in your drawing, add short perpendicular lines to each jamb location, to show where they occur. You can write in at each the size of the opening (width and height)and type.
Usually plans develop so the wall thickness is shown-you'd have at least two lines in plan for a wall. You don't have to, if you can make your drawings clear enough for your purposes. Elevations are like plans set up on end. You use your floor plan to give the horizontal(x) dimensions, and make vertical measurements (eaves, roof line, window heights) for the vertical (y) dimensions in the drawing. The elevations are flat projections. Creating a full model in SU is another matter from just using it for making 2d plans. In that case you would use the SU camera in parallel projection to show the exterior views of your 3d model.
You are starting with a measurement sketch. Going on from this point is fairly involved to cover in online posts. Get a set of house plans and see how they look. You should be able to find examples online.
By the way, scale bar is OK, but add marks down to .5 m. Good luck.
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Thanks for your advice, I have submitted the plans, I carried on working on them from that post
I should have added double walls, but i am a complete newbie
the worst that can happen is the council bounce them! So i am going to continue working on them, and try and produce some better plans for future projects etc.!
the problem i can see is, where i have used internal measurements for wall and not allowed for wall thickness one of the windows doesn't look quite rightly positioned!
Its all a learning curve and I have never done anything like this till last night! Thanks for all your help and advice
Alan
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Well I wish you all kinds of luck. . .and i hope your city council is a lot more friendly than mine!
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Many of the plan requirements might be handeled with general notes placed on the plans. Like Note:Existing site drainage to be unaddected by proposed existing garage remodel. For this and any other like projects; you might contact an local builder or architect and ask for an old plan set for use as a guide. Bob
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