Already, I’ve saved tons of time and headaches! I look forward to even more ways to expand my SketchUp arsenal. You have a good thing going for sure. Get started by learning the right way to use the fundamental drawing, editing and navigation tools. Learn to create well organized 3D models, plus learn techniques to avoid common pitfalls for new users. You know the fundamental tools in SketchUp. Learn to apply your skills to everyday modeling problems.

Discover the lesser known features of SketchUp that make it possible to create just about anything you want. I look forward to watching more courses! Walk step-by-step through a complete rendering with plenty of rendering Recipes for common elements.

I’ve told quite a few interior designers and the initial response is always, ‘I can just watch videos on youtube. Find out how to set-up sunlight and artificial lights, and how to balance them with your camera’s exposure. Learn how to quickly set-up common material types, and how to edit basic properties to get the right look.

Find out the recipe for setting-up a daytime, exterior rendering set within a realistic landscape. Learn how to convert your rendering from day to night, and how to relight with artificial lights.

Setup the framing for your rendering up-front so that you understand what to focus on and what to ignore. Learn the simple yet effective techniques for lighting both interiors and exteriors for day or night. Put it all together to create realistic renderings of interior and exterior scenes for both day and night.

They get right to the important stuff and more importantly, how to use it correctly. Render a simple interior, plus learn tips and tricks to turn a partial model into a beautiful rendering. It was well taught in terms of the pace, clarity, individual attention, and length.

I like the way you tell what is going to be taught, show it, then summarize as review. I actually have a Masters Degree in Education so, from what I have learned, I would say your approach is right on!

I am telling everyone I know that if you want to become a Sketchup wizard, you need to learn from the best!!!! Learn the workflow for creating your construction drawings, and the best methods for keeping them accurate. Discover tips and tricks in LayOut that make it possible to create and manage complex drawing sets. The way you deliver the information is at a cadence where you feel like you’re being taken along the journey of learning and being exposed to the true capabilities of the program and the plugins.

Learn the fundamental subdivision and sculpting tools, plus strategies for working efficiently with Artisan. Good job! Have a question?

Chat with us. Serious about learning SketchUp? How much time can you afford to waste? Recently, a Residential Architect named Tom told me an all too familiar story about trying to teach himself SketchUp:.

Architects like me clearly love using it, so one day I finally decided it was time to give it a try. Going into things, my goal was to be able to design homes in SketchUp and then create construction documents with LayOut.

And I was doing pretty well until I hit a snag trying to model the roof. After struggling in SketchUp for a bit, I searched the internet for some help, and found a video tutorial. I was able to follow the steps in the tutorial and get something close enough to what I wanted, so I moved on, and continued to model my house. But progress got slower and slower. The closer I got to completing the model, the more often I got stuck and had to search the internet for how to get unstuck.

Eventually though, I got to a point where my SketchUp model was pretty much done. And I thought, ‘Not too bad for my first time with SketchUp. I was on a deadline, everything in the model needed to be right, and when design changes came up, I needed to be able to make them in SketchUp.

I was in way over my head. We have been teaching SketchUp in person and online for over a decade and I’ve personally taught SketchUp in the classroom to thousands of professionals.

In our advanced classes, we meet students all the time that have taught themselves SketchUp. Those students inevitably struggle in our classes because they’re trying to build professional skills on a weak foundation. This is one of the the most costly mistakes people make when learning SketchUp. So what ever happened to Tom? After getting in over his head on his first real world project, Tom realized he needed to get serious about learning SketchUp.

As soon as he signed up, one of our instructors reached out to him, and they had a conversation about what he needed to learn and how much experience he had with SketchUp. Tom had planned to jump straight into one of the more advanced courses, but the instructor recommended that he start by reviewing the lessons in our intro course, The Complete Intro to SketchUp.

Instead of wasting time drowning in an advanced course, Tom filled in all the holes in his understanding of SketchUp. And, as soon as Tom got through the fundamentals, he jumped into the course that had originally caught his eye. Now, Tom does all his projects in SketchUp and life is good.

We helped Tom get the skills he needed and we can do the same for you. So, which sounds like a better approach for reaching your goal? Bottom Line: You’ll have the skills to do what you need to do. In addition to getting the video courses, we also have an awesome bonus that will save you time and money:. Sign up for a Membership.

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Then you see black bars that indicate which parts of your model will be in the shot given the position of your camera. Artisan Plugin for SketchUp is a graphic add-on destined to enhance the functionality of SketchUp by enriching it with subdivision manipulations, brush tools and Vertex transformations. Ekscentar je struni asopis kojeg izdaju studenti. That makes it the most popular 3D design tool in the world.

 

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Learn to apply your skills to everyday modeling problems. Discover the lesser known features of SketchUp that make it possible to create just about anything you want. I look forward to watching more courses! Walk step-by-step through a complete rendering with plenty of rendering Recipes for common elements.

I’ve told quite a few interior designers and the initial response is always, ‘I can just watch videos on youtube. Find out how to set-up sunlight and artificial lights, and how to balance them with your camera’s exposure. Learn how to quickly set-up common material types, and how to edit basic properties to get the right look. Find out the recipe for setting-up a daytime, exterior rendering set within a realistic landscape. Learn how to convert your rendering from day to night, and how to relight with artificial lights.

Setup the framing for your rendering up-front so that you understand what to focus on and what to ignore. Learn the simple yet effective techniques for lighting both interiors and exteriors for day or night. Put it all together to create realistic renderings of interior and exterior scenes for both day and night.

They get right to the important stuff and more importantly, how to use it correctly. Render a simple interior, plus learn tips and tricks to turn a partial model into a beautiful rendering. It was well taught in terms of the pace, clarity, individual attention, and length. I like the way you tell what is going to be taught, show it, then summarize as review.

I actually have a Masters Degree in Education so, from what I have learned, I would say your approach is right on!

I am telling everyone I know that if you want to become a Sketchup wizard, you need to learn from the best!!!! Learn the workflow for creating your construction drawings, and the best methods for keeping them accurate. Discover tips and tricks in LayOut that make it possible to create and manage complex drawing sets. The way you deliver the information is at a cadence where you feel like you’re being taken along the journey of learning and being exposed to the true capabilities of the program and the plugins.

Learn the fundamental subdivision and sculpting tools, plus strategies for working efficiently with Artisan. Good job! Have a question? Chat with us. Serious about learning SketchUp? How much time can you afford to waste? Recently, a Residential Architect named Tom told me an all too familiar story about trying to teach himself SketchUp:. Architects like me clearly love using it, so one day I finally decided it was time to give it a try.

Going into things, my goal was to be able to design homes in SketchUp and then create construction documents with LayOut. And I was doing pretty well until I hit a snag trying to model the roof.

After struggling in SketchUp for a bit, I searched the internet for some help, and found a video tutorial. It covers the 10 SketchUp Pro features that design professionals depend on to get the job done. If you see a feature you need, then you know you need SketchUp Pro. Want to know what extensions you should install? Tell us what you’re using SketchUp for and we’ll make some recommendations.

For advice about how to learn SketchUp, jump to Chapter 3. First, it’s important to note that SketchUp Pro works on desktop or laptop computers that are running either Windows or MacOS operating systems. Whether you have a desktop or laptop computer, here are the recommended specifications for running SketchUp Pro:.

If your computer doesn’t meet the recommended specifications above, check the SketchUp website to see if it meets their minimum requirements.

If you need any help installing or authorizing SketchUp Pro, go here. It has a feature set designed to meet their needs e. A major difference between Shop and Pro is that SketchUp Shop is a web application that you run in a browser while connected to the Internet whereas SketchUp Pro is a downloadable application that you can use offline.

Here’s a list:. No, not for SketchUp Shop. However, you do have 14 days from the date of purchase to request a full refund for your SketchUp Shop subscription. You’ll lack some features that come with SketchUp Shop, but can get an idea of what it feels like to create a 3D model of your project. Check the table below to see the feature differences. First, it’s important to note that SketchUp Shop is a web application that runs on most internet-connected computers via a recommended browser e.

We can help you figure out which version of SketchUp you need. Just click here for help. We’ve all heard somebody say that SketchUp is ridiculously easy to learn. The truth is that if you plan to use SketchUp professionally, you should plan to invest some time and money into learning how to do things the right way. We created a free SketchUp tutorial that we recommend you watch before you get started with SketchUp Pro. The video tutorial covers 7 critical concepts that self taught users either don’t know or have had to learn the hard way.

Before we do that, we want to share a story that one of our former students, a Residential Architect named Tom, told us before he took a class with us:. Everybody told me that SketchUp was easy to learn. But the closer I got to completing the model of my house, the more often I got stuck and had to search the Internet for help. Eventually though, I got to a point where I decided my SketchUp model was done and felt good about what I had accomplished. I was on a deadline, everything in the model needed to be right, and when design changes came up, I needed to be able to make them.

I was in way over my head. You need take a well-structured class with a curriculum designed to give you a comprehensive introduction to SketchUp. It’s in our Video Course Library, along with other courses on more advanced professional topics. We’ve just broken them down into bite-sized video tutorials that provide a more convenient and economical way for professionals to take our classes. You can find out more about our Video Course Library here.

Now, if you’re the kind of person that needs to be sitting in a classroom with an instructor, tell us where you’re located and we’ll see if we can make a recommendation. We’d recommend starting with the free tutorials on SketchUp’s website.

You might also want to check out YouTube. Just be careful: When you’re new to SketchUp, it’s hard to tell the difference between a good tutorial and one that teaches you the wrong way to do something. SketchUp has an Import feature that allows you to bring these sorts of reference files right into your 3D modeling environment.

Bring-in a site plan or a floor plan and build your SketchUp model right on top of it. Add images that you can trace over or just use as a reference right inside your 3D model. Or work with folks using other CAD programs by importing files they created in another application. Also, SketchUp knows exactly where the sun will be shining for any date and time given the location you choose.

Beyond knowing how your 3D model will situate into the environment around it, it can be important to know what will be in sunlight or in shadows for a given date and time. And then you can make design decisions that will provide more shade, or let more sunlight in.

Want to see how sunlight and shadows will track across the environment over the course of the day or year? You can create shadow studies that animate the path of the shadows from morning to evening. You probably have an app on your phone that comes with photo filters, where it takes just a single tap to give your picture a whole new look and feel. You can pick from a gallery of pre-made Styles. Not when you can grab 3D models of almost anything you could possibly need from the 3D Warehouse.

You can even search for brand names – many companies offer their entire product catalog, and other SketchUp users contribute real-world products as well.

To start browsing and downloading 3D models, you can visit the 3D Warehouse website , or access it directly inside SketchUp:. One of the things that makes SketchUp so popular is that it works well with other tools you or your colleagues are already using.

Specifically, SketchUp can export many different file types that can be used by other applications. So an architect can export a. If you need to get your SketchUp model into another program, this feature will be especially important for you.

You can add Extensions that do simple, useful things like round or bevel corners. Or you can find ones that do harder things like create complex, organic shapes. Or even ones that analyze the energy performance of your model.

One of the most popular kinds of animations to create is a walking tour through each room in a building, guiding a client to imagine what it would feel like to walk through the real space. But some SketchUp users really push the boundaries, creating animations that show changes in the model – for example, showing the phases of construction over time.

And whether you need to create a dimensioned floor plan, a series of labeled diagrams and details, or a full set of detailed construction documents – LayOut is the tool for the job.

And in LayOut, you also have tools for creating custom graphics, importing photos, creating title blocks Note: If you want to learn more about using LayOut to create detailed construction documents, jump to Chapter 6. LayOut is a powerful application in-and-of-itself and we highly recommend that you invest time into learning the fundamentals well.

With the Sandbox tools, you can create 3D terrain from scratch or generate it from imported topography files. But they can also be used to create other organic or undulating surfaces, making them useful to SketchUp users across most industries.

A solid model is commonly described as a watertight model. This sort of thing is important when you want to create a 3D model that can be 3D printed. Enter the Solid Tools: They help you take existing solids and combine them to create more complicated solid models.

Or you can take an object made of several parts and combine them into a single, solid outer shell for 3D printing.

In SketchUp, objects that you might use more than once, in the same 3D model or in a future project, are typically turned into Components. The types of objects that become components might even represent real-world products – things like cabinets, fencing or sliding glass doors.

In the real world, those sorts of products usually come in a variety of configurations of color, shape, size, material and more. But SketchUp components can only represent one configuration. At the same time, it can also be programmed to show different color and material options, different door and drawer configurations and even different styles.

You also can program behaviors that tell the doors to swing open or the drawers to open when clicked. And you can add information like the product name, price, description, links to the product website and more. A fence might be programmed so that when someone uses the Scale tool to stretch it across the yard, it automatically adds extra slats and posts rather than warping.

And a Dynamic Component of a sliding glass door system might let the user enter a custom width and height that will dynamically change the component to fit the opening in their house model. Many people and companies have uploaded their Dynamic Component models to the 3D Warehouse. You can download them into SketchUp Pro just like you would with a regular component, then use the Dynamic Component tools to interact with and configure them.

These tools allow you to specify the exact camera type you want to look through – say a 35mm digital camera for example. Then you see black bars that indicate which parts of your model will be in the shot given the position of your camera. And they place a physical camera in your model so you can actually see where the camera would sit.

You can take a photo of the existing condition and then use it to help you overlay your 3D model into the context of the environment. You take a picture of the building, then use Match Photo to set-up the photo so you can quickly build a 3D replica. SketchUp is a tool for creating geometry.

We use SketchUp to create geometry that represents real-world stuff. And naturally, we desperately want SketchUp to understand what our 3D models represent! It thinks the dresser is just a bunch of geometry. Then, you can generate a report of the objects in your model and it will include the information you added. Really, how you use these features will depend heavily on the type of work you do. So long as you input the right kind of information into your model, you can output reports that help you get the job done.

SketchUp comes preloaded with the IFC 2×3 schema. You could create a Furniture schema that allowed you to standardize the tagging of objects. When you’ve finished adding data to your SketchUp model, you can create a report template and generate a. It will contain all of the information you added, plus other things SketchUp already knows about your model such as quantity, length, volume and more.

If they have the SketchUp Viewer app , they can take the controls and orbit around, walk through or fly over your model anyway they like. Email your model to a client who has the SketchUp Viewer app installed and they can navigate around your design on their own time.

If you own the Hololens device , you can purchase the SketchUp Viewer app for Hololens and use them together to step into an Augmented Reality AR version of your SketchUp model and walk through it at scale. As you can probably tell by now, SketchUp is a very powerful tool that can do a number of amazing things. For starters, you can program SketchUp to automate the kinds of tasks where you find yourself clicking hundreds of times in a fairly repeatable pattern.

For example, a project might require you to Push Pull thousands of shapes to various, specific sizes. A little bit of Ruby code could save a ton of time.

For example, an contractor might want to program SketchUp to push bill of materials information into another project management software. Finally, you can write Ruby code to help you produce “computational geometry” or 3D shapes and patterns that are nearly impossible to create by hand. For example, an Architect might want to create and use mathmatecally derived patterns in their design.

Rather than figure out how to create these types of complex patterns by hand, it’s far easier to write Ruby code that uses math functions to automatically create perfect patterns. If writing custom Ruby scripts is your kinda thing, be sure to take a look at the SketchUp Ruby API documentation and this list of helpful learning resources.

This chapter will give you a clear idea of how rendering in SketchUp works, will help you choose the right rendering extension, and includes some helpful advice about an important step in the rendering process that people often miss. After you watch the video, you’ll be ready to give rendering a try but you’ll be faced with a challenging decision. To start, you have 30 different extensions to choose from. But since you’re just getting started with rendering, you won’t know which features are important.

And to top it off, you won’t be able to easily evaluate the kinds of factors that will make a big differences to you.

Like how easy an extension is to learn So how do you choose?!? Once you’ve figured out which extension you’re going to use, you’ll be ready to give rendering a try. We created a free SketchUp tutorial that you should watch before you start rendering. We talk specifically about V-Ray for SketchUp in the video but it applies to all rendering extensions.

Watch it and you’ll learn 5 things to do in this step to avoid getting underwhelming results. As you set out to learn your rendering extension, I want to share what our students say they wished they knew when they first learned how to render:. Be careful not to make the mistake of heading down the wrong path and trying to learn everything on your own. Watching free tutorials on YouTube and elsewhere will make you feel like you know how to use your extension’s tools and features.

And you won’t find tutorials for every unique issue you run into. Worse, you end up wasting a ton of time watching videos only to find that you are still struggling. You need to take a well-structured class with a curriculum that not only gives you a comprehensive introduction to your extension but also teaches you how to apply that knowledge when you are on a deadline on a real world project.

Good news: For several rendering extensions, we have courses that do exactly that! They are all in our Video Course Library, along with other courses on professional topics. If you need to create design presentations or construction documents, you’re going to want to use LayOut.

It has all of the features you need to get the job done and its tight integration with SketchUp will save you A TON of time. This chapter will give you a quick overview of how SketchUp Pro and LayOut work together to make your life easier, and help you figure out if LayOut can do what you need it to do. While still in SketchUp, you set-up the exact views of your model that you need to document, and you save those views as Scenes.

You can set-up as many Viewports as you need, making sure to set each to show one of the Scenes you set in SketchUp. And while you’re at it, you set the Scale of your floor plan and elevation Viewports too. Whether you need to produce simple 2D plans and drawings, or a full set of detailed construction documents, LayOut has all the tools you need to get the job done. And, for many of you, there are extensions you can use that will make your workflow even easier.

Have a conversation with us. We can also let you know if there are extensions that you may want to take a look at. There are 7 features you need to master in SketchUp first to be successful in LayOut later:. Once you know the ins and outs of these key features, you’ll be ready to take LayOut out for a test-drive. But, also like SketchUp, as soon as you try to use LayOut on a real project you’ll discover that doing things the wrong way sends you down a path you’ll wish you had avoided.

You need to take a well-structured class with a curriculum designed to give you a comprehensive introduction. It’s in our Video Course Library, along with a number of other courses on professional topics.

We’ve just broken it down into bite-sized video tutorials that provide a more convenient and economical way for professionals to take the class. Professionals use SketchUp’s reporting tools to create estimates, takeoffs as well as all sorts of other reports. And we’ll also show you some popular extensions that can make your job easier and save you a ton of time. What it has are general purpose reporting tools that you have to know how to use to be able to get what you want.

And it even knows the material that has been applied to the surfaces – plywood in this case. For one, when you make an object a Component you have the option to add a name and open the Advanced Attributes to specify things like price or an associated website URL.

And then you can set-up your own custom report type to generate a new report that pulls all the new information about your sheet of plywood. SketchUp may not have a Bill of Materials tool, or tools for other specific report types. But often you’ll find an extension that will have the more specific tools and features you need.

Have a conversation with us! This chapter will help you figure out if SketchUp is the right tool for the kinds of models you need to 3D print.

You’ll also gain a high level understanding of how to create 3D printable models in SketchUp. Let’s start by saying that SketchUp can be used to successfully create nearly any type of 3D printable model you might need. However, it is not the very best tool to use when you need super precise curvature or perhaps more mechanical, functional real-world objects.

You can use SketchUp to create curvy or organic looking 3D models to be 3D printed. And they can turn out nicely. But if you need mathematical precision and accuracy to those curves, perhaps a tool like Blender, Rhino or 3DS Max would be a better choice. Similarly, you can use SketchUp to design 3D models of more mechanical, functional things to be 3D printed.

And they can turn out nicely as well. But if you’re an engineer, perhaps a tool like Inventor or SolidWorks would be better for the task. So long as you’re aware of SketchUp’s limitations in the more advanced scenarios above, you can be confident that SketchUp is a great choice when you’re just getting started with 3D printing. And for many, even as they become experienced 3D printers, SketchUp can continue be the right tool for all of their needs. The key is to learn the fundamentals for how to use SketchUp to create models that can be 3D printed.

You’ll run into all sorts of trouble later if you don’t invest some time learning the right way to use the basic tools and features up front.

And second: You need to make sure you know the design requirements for the 3D printer or 3D printing service you’ll be using.

With those things covered, there are a few rules to keep in mind for designing a 3D printable model in SketchUp:. Most objects you design to be 3D printed will be somewhat small, as most printers have a limit to how large an object they can print. In SketchUp, when you design small things, it can be easy to create issues that prevent your model from being 3D printable.

Simply create your model at a larger scale – say x or x the size it should be – and then scale it down by the same factor at the end. To continue with the example, once you’ve built your watertight cube, you should make it into a Group or Component. It’s now a 3D printable solid model. You can be sure by checking the Entity Info dialog for “Solid”.

Of course, your model may need to have a hole or opening in it. Along the way, make sure that all of your white surfaces are facing out and your blue surfaces are facing in. There are a number of extensions that can help you either create the shape you want, or help you turn that shape into a 3D printable solid. If you need help finding the right extension for your specific situation, let us know and we’ll gladly help.

Once you’ve created a 3D printable solid model in SketchUp, you can either print it on your own printer or use a 3rd party 3D printing service. In this chapter, we’ll show you how SketchUp fits into your existing CNC fabrication workflow, including how to export to a file format you can use to create your router’s toolpaths. This will allow you to build an accurate, organized SketchUp model that will make or break your success later. Also, it may be necessary to add extensions that help you design and prepare your model specifically with CNC fabrication in mind.

Once you have a sound SketchUp model, you’ll need to export a file that can be imported into your CAM program. If you need a.

 
 

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Fortunately, you can filter by price. It fetches geographical data and generates streets Google SketchUp Pro Crack is an expert software program utility designed to of hundreds of sketchup extensions and plugins. If you’re not sure you need Pro, just check out the video below. This means that you also need to use some special effects to reach your goal. SU Podium V2. SketchUp for Architecture with Paul J. However, it is not the very best tool to use when you need super precise curvature or perhaps more mechanical, functional real-world objects.