SketchUp 2020 Essential Training

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About this Course

Build your 3D modeling skills by mastering the basics of SketchUp. In this course, you can get up to speed with this easy-to-use computer modeling application by gaining a foundational understanding of the drawing and design tools offered in the 2020 version of SketchUp.

Expert covers navigating the interface, manipulating objects, drawing, organizing drawing elements, and working with materials and textures on both Windows and Mac computers.

Plus, learn how to apply simple styles and animation to make your 3D projects more polished and presentable. Throughout the course, expert provides opportunities for you to practice what you've learned.

 

Topics include:

  • Navigating SketchUp in Mac and Windows
  • Customizing toolbars
  • Selecting and moving objects
  • Creating copies of objects
  • Drawing lines and shapes
  • Modeling from a floor plan image
  • Resizing and rotating objects
  • Making groups and components
  • Applying and editing materials
  • Changing document styles
  • Dimensioning
  • Animating drawings
  • Exporting your drawings in 2D and 3D

 

Contents

 

Introduction
Build your design ideas with SketchUp Pro

What you should know

 

1. The SketchUp Interface
Choose a template

Basics for using a Windows interface

Basics for using a Mac interface

Customize the toolbar for Mac

The axis

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

 

2. Manipulate Objects
The Select 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

 

3. Drawing in SketchUp
Line tool

Rectangle tool

Circle tool

Push/Pull into 3D

Tape Measure tool

Protractor tool

Undo and let go

Dividing lines

Offset tool

 

4. Modeling from a Floor Plan Image
Import and prep

Drawing a floor plan

Extrude walls

Add doorways and windows

 

5. Organization
Making groups

Making components

Isolate a group or component

Tags and Entity Info

The Outliner window

 

6. 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

 

7. 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

1. Language: English. 

2. Secure download. 

    Video file format: MP4.

3. Learn anywhere. Switch between

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4. Practice while you learn

    with exercise files.  

5. Secure payment by PayPal.

6. 30 days refund.

7. No subscription needed.

8. Lifetime access.

9. This course without a sponsored ads.

 

Watch. Listen. Practice. Learn.