Buildings With Several Floors, Stacked In 3D

A house with an upstairs or a basement is now one model. Add each floor from its own sketch, and Sketch2Space stacks them into a single building you can walk around, spread apart, or edit one floor at a time.

What shipped#

• Add floors. Click Add floor in the new Floors list under the source sketch and pick the next floor's sketch. It's analysed like any upload, then stacked on top.
• Lined up for you. Each floor is placed so its walls land on the walls below, and its stairs on the stairs below when both floors have them. A note under each floor says how it was placed.
• View all, or one floor. View all shows the whole building. Spread floors pulls the floors apart so you can see into each one. With View all off, you see one floor alone, with the floors below it faint.
• Edit one floor at a time. Click a floor to edit it, and click it again to stop. While you edit in View all, the other floors turn see-through.
• Fine-tune the stack. Turn a floor until it lines up, drag floors into a different order, hide a floor with its eye, or raise and lower the whole building against the ground. Lower it below the ground to make the bottom floor a basement. Turning and raising can be undone.
• One button for the floors' look. The bar above the model now has a single Sketch / Flooring / None button. Each click moves to the next: your drawing on each floor, real flooring on every floor, or no floors at all so you can see down through the building.
• Ceilings. With flooring on, the underside of each floor looks like a ceiling, painted like the walls.
• Balconies count. Balconies are part of their floor now, so they get the drawing and the flooring too.
• The sketch follows the 3D view. The source sketch panel shows the part of the drawing you're looking at, and moves, zooms and turns with the model. In walk mode it shrinks to a small round map.
• Floors on your phone. A round map of the sketch sits in the top corner of the 3D view and follows the camera. Under it, round floor buttons let you pick a floor, drag it to a new place in the stack, delete the one you picked, or add a floor with +.

Why it matters#

Most homes have more than one floor, and a ground floor on its own doesn't tell the whole story. Seeing the floors stacked shows how the stairs meet, where an upper floor overhangs and how the building really stands. You get it from the plans you already have, one sketch per floor, with no redrawing. See turn a multi-floor building into one 3D model for the full guide.

How to use it#

1. Open a project whose 3D model is ready (see getting started).
2. In the Floors list under the source sketch, click Add floor and pick the next floor's sketch.
3. When its analysis finishes, the building shows all its floors stacked.
4. Click a floor in the list to edit it. Click it again when you're done.
5. If a floor sits wrong, turn it with its slider or drag it into the right order.

Each floor counts toward the floors in your plan. See plan terms.

FAQ#

Do I need a separate sketch for each floor?#

Yes. Each floor is built from its own drawing, the same way a single-floor project is. Add them one by one with Add floor.

Can I export the whole building?#

The CAD export downloads the floor you have open. Open each floor and export it to get them all. See export to CAD.

Does it work on my phone?#

Yes. Pick, reorder, add and delete floors from the round buttons in the 3D view. Hiding and turning floors are done on a computer. See use Sketch2Space on your phone or tablet.