SketchUp: Tips & Tricks

Get tips that can help you use SketchUp to efficiently create 3D models.

Introduction

• Welcome
• How to use the exercise files

1. SketchUp: Tips & Tricks

• Get terrain data from Google Maps
• Animate a camera turnaround
• Create bevels with Follow Me
• Create revolved and lathed geometry
• Use math functions to create arrays
• Texture curved objects
• Export to Blender 3D for rendering
• Create two-sided window components
• Work with the Extensions Manager
• Use 1001 bit tools extensions
• Create construction sequence animations
• A novel way to create a hip roof
• Modeling to photographic reference
• Woodworking joints: Grooves and dovetails
• Woodworking joints: Mortises and tenons
• Use SketchUp for 3D printing
• Use background images
• Export SketchUp scenes to Revit
• Create custom shortcuts
• Create stretched fabric effects
• Draw a proper helix
• Make upholstery using Sandbox
• Mirror objects
• Make a tree component
• Draw gears
• Draw parabolas
• UV mapping with SketchUV
• Create a spiral staircase
• Create more realistic glass
• Create shells
• Export to VR using IrisVR
• Draw columns
• Create decorative arches
• Save time with templates
• Draw standard staircases
• Create roof trusses
• Make trees and grass with 3D Tree Maker
• Change axes to draw at odd angles
• Create skydomes
• Group layers using Scenes
• Create depth of field effects
• SketchUp Viewer for desktop and mobile
• Polygonal modeling with QuadFace extension
• Animate better walkthroughs
• Introducing SketchUp Free
• SketchUp to 3ds Max
• Model to orthographic reference
• Create exploded views
• Snap inside models
• Change colors on materials
• Create dovetail joints with Intersect
• Model corrugated metal
• Draw walls efficiently
• Create a chain link fence
• Position textures interactively
• Quick chamfers using Unfold
• Using view modes to check models
• New section plane features in 2018
• Advanced attributes in 2018
• Generate reports
• Create a time-lapse effect
• New 3D Warehouse features
• Model wheels and pulleys
• Geolocate models in 2018
• Section planes as an editing tool
• SketchUp to Unity
• Edit textures externally
• Work with FBX files
• Advanced camera tools