Draw a floor plan. Designing a house - is it really possible to do it without specialists? Making your own plan

3D house design is the creation of a three-dimensional model of a house in various programs that specialize in 3D graphics. For example, we can highlight the following programs: 3Ds Max, Autocad, and House Creator. In the future, the created model can be used to create working construction documentation and calculate various estimates for materials and work. This type of design is also used to create a realistic model of a house.

To begin with, the customer must choose the style and size of the house. You need a complete understanding of the number of storeys in the house and the purpose of the rooms inside it.

In Autocad you can make a flat floor plan drawing.

When the location of the premises, the height of the ceilings, and windows have been agreed upon with the customer, the architect draws the façade of the future house and creates several sections. After approval of the flat drawings, you can begin creating a three-dimensional model in the 3Ds Max program.

Creating a visual model of a house in 3DsMax

The 3Ds Max utility allows you to import flat designs, so there is no need to create all the drawings from scratch. Importing floor plans allows you to achieve high accuracy and avoid various mistakes when designing a house. After creating a 3D model, you need to “visualize” this model. In other words, you need to photograph the model from different angles and get a photographic image.

Designing a house in Archicad

Archicad is more complex and less commonly used. Many architects do not like the Archicad program for its lack of flexibility. 3D house design in this program immediately begins with three-dimensional images.

House Creator allows you to easily change the material from which the walls are made (timber, logs), the thickness of the walls, and the type of fastening of the elements of the wall material. In a few seconds you can position windows, doors and all kinds of openings.

Simple 3d project of a private house

The online program will display information about the length of the walls and the area of the designed rooms. The tools that the program offers during the design process are quite enough to create your own project. They will provide an opportunity to look from the outside and evaluate the future.

- the only Russian Planner that is designed for repairs. It allows users to independently make full-fledged working drawings for renovating their apartment.

The most important difference between this Planner and others is the design and presentation of the project in the form of working drawings, as in a classic design project. All information about the project is divided into 16 sheets
For example, a sheet of sockets indicates all the necessary information on sockets and outputs required for workers - the number of sockets, their location (with dimensions), the type of sockets (regular or moisture-resistant), what equipment the socket is intended for.

The installation plan for walls and partitions indicates the location of newly erected walls, wall material, dimensions of doorways, etc.

Also in the Planner there is:

3d visualization;
printing an album of drawings as a pdf file;
calculation of estimates and scope of work for teams;
approximate calculation of rough materials for repairs;
the ability to simultaneously work with several layout options;

From time to time we may need a plan for our own home. And in order to draw up such a layout it is not at all necessary to be a professional architect. In fact, everything is much simpler, and modern software allows you to draw up such plans yourself as quickly and simply as possible.

Repair. If we are undertaking a major renovation, then it is likely that we will need to calculate the consumption of finishing materials. An accurate plan of an apartment or private house will allow you to do this;
Purchase of large pieces of furniture. The layout of an apartment or room with exact distances between walls, the location of doors and windows, makes choosing the same set for the kitchen a much simpler task.

The importance of maintaining proportions

When drawing up a diagram, we transfer the projection of all the walls in an apartment or room to a horizontal surface. At the same time, the plan will be meaningless if, when drawing it up, you cannot maintain exact proportions. The latter are called scale, which shows how much the plan is reduced compared to the original dimensions. For example, a scale of 1 to 100 means that each meter of the apartment will be made on the plan by 1 centimeter (there are one hundred centimeters in a meter). Similar divisions must be made in relation to other scales. In general, there is nothing complicated about this, since sample layouts for a variety of examples of residential and non-residential premises can be viewed on the Internet.

Determining distances

Before we begin drawing up a plan for our home, we need to know the dimensions of the room or the entire home. Previously, tape measures were used for this, but today everything can be made much simpler by purchasing a laser rangefinder, we can simply point it at any wall and find out the distances as quickly as possible. This makes it possible not to waste energy physically moving around the apartment and holding out tape measures, or even moving ordinary meter rulers from place to place. And there is practically no chance of making a mistake.

However, we still can’t do it without a tape measure, since it’s still easier for her to measure the thickness of the walls or the parameters of the room furnishings.

Maintain a draft

Keep a rough draft as you create your plan, constantly making changes as needed. And only when you are absolutely sure that all the calculations are correct can you begin to draw up the final floor plan.

Online services for creating plans and diagrams

Once you know all the distances, you can start drawing up a plan. However, for those who do not have such experience, or have already forgotten their drawing lessons, this will be very difficult to do. In this case, special services come to the rescue, allowing you to do all the work directly on the Internet.

An example is a service like MyFloorplanner. It allows you to create professional-level interiors, and all that is required from the user is to enter your parameters into special fields. The service has many libraries and automatically labels certain items of the room or furnishings accordingly. Even lighting can be installed there. The latter will help you find out which places in the room will remain in the shade. In this case, the layout can be carried out in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional versions. Other online free planning services:

Autodesk Homestyler - as the name implies, this service is provided by a well-known company that provides software packages for modeling. At the same time, in order to be able to send or save your project, you need to go through a simple registration procedure;
Planner 5D – the ability to draw up plans in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional form. In this case, you can choose different textures and even furniture upholstery. There is both the option of creating a layout from scratch, and the ability to select a ready-made option from the library and change it to suit your needs;
Roomle is an attractive planning service where you can create plans for your apartment for free. At the same time, it is highly desirable to have at least some knowledge of English or German, since the Russian version is not present there at the moment.

Creating an apartment layout on a computer

Special programs are either designed exclusively for such actions, or have this functionality along with many other features. First of all, of course, it is worth noting CorelDraw or AutoCAD. There is also Adobe Illustrator, as well as Autodesk 3ds Max, with which you can even create a three-dimensional layout of your apartment.

However, all of the above requires knowledge that you most likely simply do not have. Moreover, all these programs are paid, and some of them are quite expensive. At the same time, many of us have a computer with MSOffice office applications. If you belong to the vast majority and have the latest versions of Windows, then your office suite most likely includes MSVisio. The latest program is free because everyone has it. It’s easy to learn, but the functionality is very rich, and will allow you to create a fairly detailed plan of the entire room. The functionality includes the ability to specify dimensions, as well as drag and drop objects.

Creating a measuring plan for an apartment with your own hands

If you don't have a computer, we can try to create a plan. Drawing it by hand. In fact, there is nothing complicated here either, and now we will give you some tips on how to create a high-quality housing measurement plan:

To work we will need a ruler, a pencil, an eraser and a checkered sheet of paper. Let's leave whatman paper to the professionals, since a regular notebook sheet suits our tasks just perfectly. Starting with the fact that it is already divided into straight lines, which is very convenient, and ending with the fact that each of its cells has a fixed size of half a centimeter. An unfolded double sheet of squared notebook allows us to create a detailed drawing on a scale of 1 to 20;
The plan drawing must be drawn across the entire sheet of paper, starting from the bottom left edge of the paper. First, you should draw a “box” that corresponds on a scale to the maximum length and width of the home. After this, we draw walls and partitions, indicate the location of windows and doors.

Important! The documents for the apartment also contain a plan, certified in accordance with all the rules. If you have such a plan at hand, you can make a copy of it without changing the scale.

Construction and interior creation begins with a project. House design programs in Russian will help you design a cottage of any number of floors, make an unusual layout, and think about what the garden or yard will be like.

Today, an amateur developer does not need to draw primitive diagrams of his future home with a pencil on paper.

On the Internet you can download the simplest programs for designing buildings and structures that do not require experience or special knowledge. They are usually offered to users free of charge. More complex software for the work of experienced professionals, designers and architects costs a lot of money, and it is quite difficult for a beginner to understand all the intricacies of their use.

The choice of software for developing a design project depends on the goal that the user sets for himself.

Selection options:

When designing a bathhouse or cottage, you need to determine whether it is enough to create a three-dimensional image of it. Or you need to see it in a real area, surrounded by existing objects.
Do you need a project estimate?
Would it be useful to use materials from real companies?
Do I need to put dimensions, names and other notes on the layout?
How accurate should the transfer of dimensions be?
Do I need to save the project in the cloud to ensure that other people can access it at any time?
Do you plan to work with ready-made libraries or will you create objects yourself? Do we need separate topics on landscape design?

One tool is better suited for interior design, and another for architectural structure.

House-3D

Any person who is not involved in architecture and design can understand the free Dom-3D program. It is Russified, easy to use, has a clear interface, and does not require special knowledge and experience. Works on the latest versions of Windows and does not require a powerful computer. A large selection of functions allows you to perform tasks of any complexity.

The main function of the program is the design of houses and buildings, as well as three-dimensional visualization of objects designed with its help.

Dom-3D software interface

Features of this editor:

Comprehensive, detailed modeling of residential buildings. The graphic editor has a built-in architectural module for designing walls, roofs, window openings, door structures and others. It allows you to edit them, resize them at the user’s request, and then view them in 3D format, which is very convenient for a preliminary assessment of a future home.
and interior furnishings. Using a software editor, you can come up with a room layout and furnish it with furniture. At the same time, you can experiment with color schemes and furnishings to achieve the greatest coziness and comfort. Each housewife is given the opportunity to walk through a virtual house to see the advantages and disadvantages of the project.
Designing the most diverse. Viewing it on a flat drawing and in 3D format allows you to identify design flaws in order to eliminate them in a timely manner.
View the varieties of ceilings, laying floor and wall tiles.
This is necessary to assess the overall color scheme, texture, toilet, kitchen in order to choose the most suitable option.
Selecting products from the existing catalog. you can add ready-made designs of upholstered or cabinet furniture, as well as various additional accessories that the program has. Selected objects can be arranged, rotated, moved in rectangular or perspective projection.
Design of auxiliary structures: fences, handrails, railings. Not a single mansion, especially a country cottage or villa, can do without them.

Software developers are constantly working to improve it. Users are recommended to download the latest version, which is more functional in operation.

Watch the video: design lesson in House 3D software.

SketchUp

The 3D modeling program SketchUp has functions for creating interiors and landscape design. In it you can make a model of a mansion, sauna, utility rooms, steam room. It was developed as a tool for rapid sketch modeling.

The main task of SketchUp is to create accurate and correct geometric shapes.

New project created in SkatchUp

Software features:

Control over project parameters, for which instead of many windows there is a frame at the bottom right.
Scaling and dividing created projects into sections for convenient adjustment.
Creation of three-dimensional models of houses based on one or several photographs.
Access to various graphic effects that significantly improve the quality of project presentation: the use of watermarks, volumetric text, integration of two-dimensional photographs, texts with three-dimensional models.
Imitation of landscape, ground surface, graphically accurate shadows.
Providing a library of styles, materials, components that you can expand yourself and then load them into the project you are developing.

Thanks to such wide capabilities, the program is used in various fields. It is convenient for developing solutions in architecture, modeling buildings, and interior design. Stove makers use it when constructing stoves and fireplaces, so that they can later view their models in 3D format.

The program of Russian developers is effective for other architectural elements, creating the interior of office, retail premises, apartments. There are basic and professional versions, differing in price and capabilities.

Elements of a design project can be created or selected from a thematic library. The basic package includes more than 100 themes, the professional package includes more than 700.

The objects included in the library are taken from real-life catalogs of Russian companies.

This allows you to record the data of the element used when developing a layout:

vendor code;
Name;
dimensions;
quantity per box;
unit of measurement;
price.

You can change this information and export it to HTML or DOC files for preparing estimates and calculations.

Main themes:

Building construction. The section includes architectural elements, for example, balconies, stairs, windows, columns.
Office. Contains everything needed to furnish workspaces.
Kitchen. The library includes all the necessary elements for designing a kitchen.
Living spaces. We offer a large selection of mirrors, shelves, chairs, and beds.
Retail store equipment. The library has display cases, slides, counters, and cash desks.
Textures. Allows you to change color, transparency and even the reflection of light. This is convenient for creating, for example, glass. By changing its properties you can create real stained glass windows.

Libraries are replenished with independently created objects.

The finished project can be seen on a plane and in a three-dimensional model from different points of view, at different distances

The result is saved to a file or printed on a printer.

Most of us dream of living outside the city, in our own private home, with beds of fresh herbs and a bathhouse.

Currently, all this can be done, only for this it is necessary to draw up a project.

The project can be standard or individual.

If you have already thought through and decided on all the parameters (from geodesy to communications), then there is no point in ordering an individual one; a standard project will be more suitable for you.

Communications

Contact the service organization (cooperative or management company) to clarify the location of the connection to the underground.

If there is no water supply, then it is possible to drill a well.

For gas, please contact your service provider directly.

Materials

It is necessary to decide on the material of the house. What will your house be made of? And start creating a project. To save money, do not come up with complex designs for either the house itself or its roof. After all, each bend requires an additional solution, which means the cost of the project will be higher.

Project development

Project development includes several stages

Stage 1. Urban development plan

The plan involves a drawing of all the rooms. When developing it, all rooms, their dimensions and location are thought through. It also takes into account the materials from which the house will be built, the thickness of the walls, the sizes of windows and doors, the shape of the roof, and the presence of the room.

Stage 2. Constructive plan

Rafter systems must be accurately calculated, because the reliability of the roof depends on this.

What kind of floors there should be, and what layers the walls will be made of, is also revealed at this stage.

Stage 3. Engineering plan

The plan includes the design of all communications of the house.

Currently, there are many programs that allow you to create a house project online.

In these applications, you can independently design a house, select materials, calculate the cost, and most importantly, clearly see the end result.

A common program is Google SketchUp. A free program that allows you to create a 3D model.

Stage 4. Design

The design project is the final stage of design. The house as a whole takes on the color and texture of the material. The rooms are filled with furniture and appliances, interior decoration.

Kitchen project

How to design a kitchen?

Cautions when arranging furniture and appliances in the kitchen:

Think about what you want to get as a result. Before you start creating a plan, think about what kind of home you would like. You need to know in advance how many rooms and floors it will have.

Draw the perimeter of the house with a pencil, thereby marking its outer walls. For convenience, take a large sheet of graph paper.

Having drawn the perimeter of the house, draw a parallel line next to it. This line should be adjacent to the first one, for example, one division away from it, but the exact distance between them is not important. This is done for beauty and to emphasize the thickness of the external walls. If the house has a second floor, take another sheet of paper and place it on top of the first. Thus, through the top sheet of paper you will see the external walls marked on the bottom sheet, which also border the second floor.

Now you can draw the interior walls; as for external walls, use a double line. Be sure to include all the rooms you planned in your drawing. Many people forget about the utility room, designed to house a heater, washing machine, dryer, water filter, and the like.

Draw windows and doors. After you have drawn all the walls, you can start drawing the windows and doors. They may vary in size. For example, the front door is usually larger than the door leading to the restroom.

To draw a window, erase a section of the wall where it will be located. Draw a line between the walls. Give the window thickness by drawing another line extending outward from the first by one division. Since these lines will lie between the graph paper lines, you will need a ruler to draw them. As a rule, rooms facing external walls have at least one window, but the exact number of windows in each room depends on the designer, which means you.
Doors are a little easier to draw than windows. Simply erase the space in the wall intended for the door with an eraser, then connect the walls with a straight line running down the middle. Unlike a window, there is no need to draw a second, external line.

Find a template with templates to use to draw other objects. It's time to move on to the interior details. The house will need running sinks, a toilet, a bathroom, closets, a stove, and a refrigerator. All this can be drawn using special templates. If you don’t have such templates, just mark on the plan the locations of various objects, without going into detail - as long as it is clear where everything is.

To get an idea of what you will get as a result and what the rooms will look like, try drawing pieces of furniture. This step is not necessary, but it is better to imagine what the house will look like from the inside. You can draw beds, TV, sofas, tables and chairs. For furniture, as well as for household objects, there are also special templates. Don't go into too much detail and draw the furniture as squares and rectangles using lines on graph paper.

Go to the layout of the yard. There is no need to add a lot of detail until the next step. Simply mark your porch and driveway. Unlike walls, the thickness of the porch edges does not need to be marked, so use a single line.