SketchUp Pro 2022 Essential Training
2h 59mBeginner2022-03-30
Authors
Tammy Cody
Interior Designer, Instructor
Course details
Build your 3D modeling skills by mastering the basics of SketchUp. In this course, instructor Tammy Cody helps you get up to speed with this easy-to-use computer modeling application by reviewing the drawing and design tools offered in the latest version of SketchUp and then creating the opportunity to practice what you’ve learned. Find out how to navigate the interface, manipulate objects, draw and organize elements, and work with materials and textures on both Windows and Mac computers. Get tips along the way to apply simple styles and animation techniques to make your 3D projects more polished and presentable.
Skills covered
Sketchup ProTrimbleRenderingMotion Graphics and VFX3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeEssential TrainingAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
Introduction
- Build your design ideas with SketchUp Pro
- What you should know
- 2022 Updates
The SketchUp Interface
- Choose a template
- Basics for using a Windows interface
- Basics for using a Mac interface
- The search icon
- Customize the toolbar for Mac
- The axes
- Standard camera views
- Zoom tools
- Move the camera view with Orbit and Pan tools
- Setting a camera view and the Look Around tool
- Walking around the model
Manipulate Objects
- The Select tool
- The Lasso tool
- The Move tool
- Creating copies and an array
- Resize an object
- Rotating an object
- Flipping and mirroring an object
- The 3D Warehouse
- Why polygons matter
Drawing in SketchUp
- Line tool
- Rectangle tool
- Circle tool
- Push Pull into 3D
- Tape Measure tool
- Protractor tool
- Undo and let go
- Eraser tool
- Dividing lines
- Offset tool
Modeling from a Floor Plan Image
- Import and prep
- Drawing a floor plan
- Extrude walls
- Add doorways and windows
Organization
- Making groups
- Making components
- Isolate a group or component
- Tags and Entity Info
- The Outliner window
Materials
- Apply material using a Mac
- Edit material using a Mac
- Apply material using Windows
- Edit material using Windows
- Apply material using 3D Warehouse
- Import and apply custom texture
- Purging material list
Document and Stylize
- Setting shadows and fog
- Changing the style
- Set and update scenes
- Checking edge alignment
- Create a section cut
- Dimensioning
- Drawing dashed lines
- Labeling
- 3D text
- Animation
- Export in 2D and 3D
Conclusion
- Next steps