SketchUp 2021 Essential Training

Get started with SketchUp. Learn how to use the latest version of this powerful design software to create 3D models and 2D floor plans.

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
• Eraser tool
• 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 a 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

Conclusion

• Next steps