SketchUp for Architecture: Details

Learn the principles of architectural detailing with SketchUp and LayOut. Discover how to create professional 3D visualizations and 2D construction drawings.

Introduction

• Unpack construction detail with SketchUp
• What should you know?
• Use the exercise files
• Layout 2019 vs. 2019

1. The Architectural Detail

• What is a detail?
• How do you show details?
• Choose a detail

2. Scale and Detail

• Understand scale and appropriate sale
• The main elements of the house
• Wall layering
• Roof layering
• Floor layering
• Openings

3. Modeling the Foundation and Groundworks to Timber Sill

• Foundation
• Below ground blocks
• Concrete slab base
• Insulation and membrane placement
• Place the reinforcement mesh
• Pour the slab
• Backfill and grade
• Timber sill or sole plate

4. Building the Timber Stud Wall to First Fix

• Timber frame and insulation
• Timber frame window and door openings
• Internal layers and membranes
• External layers and membranes

5. Installing the Window and Door

• Insert the high-level window
• Insert the doors
• Build up the rainscreen
• Add the three-coat stucco at a high level
• Add the flashings and trim
• Build up the external levels
• Add the low-level stucco
• Finish off the internal walls

6. Building the Roof

• Wall plate and the cut rafters
• Roof deck and insulation
• Membrane and shingles
• Soffit
• Facia
• Finish the internal timber ceiling
• Self-leveling screed and door trim

7. Exporting Details for CAD and Layout

• Export 2D CAD as image
• Create group from slice option
• Import into AutoCAD
• Set up template files
• Insert files in LayOut
• Work with vector lines in LayOut
• Add pattern fills and styling lines

8. Combining Plans, Sections, and Details

• Add to LayOut from the Scrapbook
• Reference details from views
• Set an appropriate scale
• Add annotation

9. Materials and Rendering

• Add convincing materials
• Use the axis for texture alignment
• Adjust texture to avoid repetition
• Completed model with textures
• Load V-Ray render settings
• Create the line overlay files
• Use blend mode in Photoshop
• Combine images in Photoshop
• Incorporate 2D with 3D in LayOut
• Export to PDF

Conclusion

• Next steps