#EXPORT IKEA KITCHEN PLANNER TO SKETCHUP FREE#

Also, I found the only thing I could change in the 3D version were my wall colors, so I ended up working in 2D most of the time.īEST USE: In my very humble inexpert opinion, Floorplanner is best if you’re short on time or technical skill and need to create a 2D floor plan (of one room or even your whole house).

I like the look of their 3D rendering, but it’s a bit clunky to navigate around and I had issues with things not showing properly (see below how my counter got wonky and my rug disappeared from the kitchen). Kitchens are probably one of the toughest rooms to design, so Floorplanner is quick to fall short when it comes to trying to precisely layout a kitchen (I could only find one type of base cabinet, for example). You can create one plan for free, but after that you may have to fork over some dough.

2D or 3D: It lets you easily toggle between a 2D and 3D view.

You won’t find perfect matches to your real life items, but you can usually find something similar. Floorplanner comes stocked with dozens of furniture options (chairs, tables, rugs, plants, appliances, etc) to help decorate your spaces. They have a lot of standard finishes, like flooring, with adjustable colors so you can bring more life to your drawing. I find the interface very user-friendly, so if you’ve got your room measurements handy you can have a simple whole house plan done in a matter of minutes. But when I gave it spin last week to render our new kitchen plans, here’s what I observed: Each have pros, cons, and a different scenario where they might take the win.į is what we’ve used to create just about every digital floor plan you’ve seen on our site (like this one), so we’ve got a soft spot for it. But having been a loyal user of in the past and having recently become acquainted with Ikea’s Kitchen Planner, I thought I’d give you my take on how these three 3D modeling tools stack up against each other… because there’s actually not a clear winner in my book. This blog will not be coming to you in any additional dimensions today.Īs you saw in our latest kitchen planning post yesterday, I finally bit the bullet and learned me some Google Sketch-Up (as many of you recommended) to help us plan our kitchen renovation. But for a kitchen it’s great, because you can model it easily with a bunch of rectangles.Break out the 3D glasses! Okay, not really. I would say that SketchUp is less ideal if you’re trying to think about the fully furnished home, because you have to rely on the 3D warehouse to see if someone else has already designed what you want. I can use the tape measure tool to measure my drawing to translate things into real life.

One of the things I really love about it is that I can model in as much detail as I like, and can have plans accurate down to the millimetre. Crucial is “group” and”pull” and to a lesser extent “layer”. To make it usable you really have to learn a few techniques. SketchUp is a bit intimidating at first but really all it boils down to is drawing rectangles in 2D and using the pull tool to add some depth. I tried using some other tools such as the IKEA kitchen planner, but found myself getting a bit frustrated trying to some perhaps more unique features like having two rows of wall cabinets, one above the other.

#EXPORT IKEA KITCHEN PLANNER TO SKETCHUP FREE#

I believe it’s from around 2017, the last free desktop version they had. I’m using an old version of Google SketchUp currently.

Export ikea kitchen planner to sketchup