SketchUp for Architecture: Details

Course details

Well-built and organized SketchUp projects allow architects to have greater flexibility at every stage of the design process. This course shows how to build and organize the details of your architectural designs with SketchUp and the companion documentation tool, LayOut. Instructor Paul J. Smith recreates a residential building project, while explaining all the details that go into the design, including insulation and waterproofing. He starts with the foundation and then builds up the external cavity wall with brick and block components, then adds window and door openings and builds the roof. Paul also explains how to generate 2D details from a 3D model using LayOut, and introduces basic visualization techniques for generating simple but professional textured renders with V-Ray and Photoshop.

Learning objectives
What is a construction detail?
Choosing details to show
Selecting the appropriate scale
Layering walls, roof, and floors
Modeling the foundations and groundworks
Building timber stud walls
Inserting windows and doors
Building the roof
Exporting details for CAD and LayOut
Combining plans, sections, and details
Exporting to PDF

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Unpack construction detail with SketchUp
02 - What should you know
03 - Use the exercise files
04 - Layout 2019 vs. 2019

1. The Architectural Detail

05 - What is a detail
06 - How do you show details
07 - Choose a detail

2. Scale and Detail

08 - Understand scale and appropriate sale
09 - The main elements of the house
10 - Wall layering
11 - Roof layering
12 - Floor layering
13 - Openings

3. Modeling the Foundation and Groundworks to Timber Sill

14 - Foundation
15 - Below ground blocks
16 - Concrete slab base
17 - Insulation and membrane placement
18 - Place the reinforcement mesh
19 - Pour the slab
20 - Backfill and grade
21 - Timber sill or sole plate

4. Building the Timber Stud Wall to First Fix

22 - Timber frame and insulation
23 - Timber frame window and door openings
24 - Internal layers and membranes
25 - External layers and membranes

5. Installing the Window and Door

26 - Insert the high-level window
27 - Insert the doors
28 - Build up the rainscreen
29 - Add the three-coat stucco at a high level
30 - Add the flashings and trim
31 - Build up the external levels
32 - Add the low-level stucco
33 - Finish off the internal walls

6. Building the Roof

34 - Wall plate and the cut rafters
35 - Roof deck and insulation
36 - Membrane and shingles
37 - Soffit
38 - Facia
39 - Finish the internal timber ceiling
40 - Self-leveling screed and door trim

7. Exporting Details for CAD and Layout

41 - Export 2D CAD as image
42 - Create group from slice option
43 - Import into AutoCAD
44 - Set up template files
45 - Insert files in LayOut
46 - Work with vector lines in LayOut
47 - Add pattern fills and styling lines

8. Combining Plans, Sections, and Details

48 - Add to LayOut from the Scrapbook
49 - Reference details from views
50 - Set an appropriate scale
51 - Add annotation

9. Materials and Rendering

52 - Add convincing materials
53 - Use the axis for texture alignment
54 - Adjust texture to avoid repetition
55 - Completed model with textures
56 - Load V-Ray render settings
57 - Create the line overlay files
58 - Use blend mode in Photoshop
59 - Combine images in Photoshop
60 - Incorporate 2D with 3D in LayOut
61 - Export to PDF

Conclusion

62 - Next steps