SketchUp Pro 2022 Essential Training

Get ready to start using SketchUp Pro with this overview of essential tools, proper modeling technique, and organization.

Introduction

• Build your design ideas with SketchUp Pro
• What you should know

1. The SketchUp Interface

• Choose a template in SketchUp
• Basics for using a Windows interface with SketchUp
• Customize SketchUp toolbar for Windows
• Basics for using a Mac interface with SketchUp
• Customize the SketchUp toolbar for Mac
• Understanding the axis in SketchUp
• Search function
• Standard camera views in SketchUp
• Zoom tools in SketchUp
• Camera view and Pan tools in SketchUp
• Using the Position Camera tool in SketchUp
• Walking around the model in SketchUp

2. Manipulate Objects

• Exploring the Select tool in SketchUp
• Exploring the Lasso tool in SketchUp
• SketchUp Move tool: How to preselect and move objects
• Creating copies and arrays with SketchUp
• Resizing objects in SketchUp
• Object rotation in SketchUp
• Flipping and mirroring objects in SketchUp
• Unlocking the full potential of the 3D Warehouse in SketchUp
• Optimizing 3D models: Understanding polygon counts

3. Drawing in SketchUp

• Drawing with the Line tool in SketchUp
• Creating custom-sized rectangles in SketchUp
• Creating circles and ellipses in SketchUp
• Creating 3D shapes from rectangles in SketchUp
• Using the Tape Measure tool for precise drawing in SketchUp
• Angle measurements and guidelines in SketchUp
• Undo and Cancel actions in SketchUp
• Understanding the SketchUp Eraser tool
• Edges vs. faces in SketchUp
• Dividing lines to create new endpoints and midpoints
• Crafting inner and outer shapes with the Offset tool

4. Modeling from a Floor Plan Image

• Importing and prepping floor plans for drawings
• Drawing a floor plan in SketchUp
• Working with walls in SketchUp
• Add doorways and windows in SketchUp

5. Organization

• Making groups in SketchUp
• Understanding components in SketchUp
• Isolate a group or component with SketchUp
• Making use of tags and entity info in SketchUp
• Outliner hierarchy in SketchUp

6. Materials

• Apply material using a Mac and SketchUp
• Edit material using a Mac and SketchUp
• Apply material using Windows and SketchUp
• Edit material using Windows and SketchUp
• Apply material using 3D Warehouse
• Import and apply custom texture in SketchUp
• Purging a material list in SketchUp

7. Document and Stylize

• Setting shadows and fog in SketchUp
• Changing the style in SketchUp
• Set and update scenes in SketchUp
• Checking edge alignment in SketchUp
• Create a section cut in SketchUp
• Dimensioning in SketchUp
• Adding labels in SketchUp
• Adding 3D text in SketchUp
• Drawing dashed lines in SketchUp
• Animation in SketchUp
• Export in 2D and 3D in SketchUp

Conclusion

• Next steps