SketchUp Tips

Add some clever new techniques to your SketchUp repertoire. Tune in to discover a tip or trick that helps you work smarter with this popular 3D modeling software.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

SketchUp Tips Weekly

• Best practices for importing CAD drawings
• Clean up CAD drawings with extensions
• Model walls with outer shell
• Use math to model precise forms
• Control softening and smoothing
• Composite SketchUp 2D graphics
• Make photographic entourage
• Create depth-of-field effects with fog
• Animate section planes
• Master arrays
• Use the tape measure and protractor
• Create flights of stairs for any rise and run
• Work with drawing axes
• Add functionality to SketchUp
• Explore Fredo6's Bezier Spline tools
• Model pottery with a Bezier spline
• Loft a handle with Curviloft
• Cycle materials in dynamic components
• Control object visibility
• Keyboard shortcut strategy
• Animate a door as a dynamic component
• Prepare and save dynamic components
• Work in interiors
• Mirror options
• Frame artwork
• Best practices with layers
• Explore sketchy styles
• Explore linetype
• Walk-through and flyover animations
• Render with Twilight
• See through ceilings and walls
• Urban context
• Work with stereograms
• Generate tensile membranes
• Cloth simulation
• Using SketchUp and Revit together via IFC
• Reporting on advanced attributes in components
• Using the Sandbox tools
• Bonus Sandbox tools
• Architectural moldings
• Rounded countertop edges
• Upholstery and pillows
• Using FredoScale
• Intersect Faces with Model
• Using Section Plane to slice geometry
• AmbientOcclusion
• Artistic renderings with SketchFX
• Advanced camera tools
• Making woodworking joints with solids
• Creating grungy surfaces for realism
• Using watermarks with scenes