SketchUp Weekly

Get a weekly infusion of SketchUp Pro tips and tricks, so you can spend less time fussing with the program and more time designing amazing things.

Introduction

• Weekly techniques in SketchUp Pro
• What you should know

1. Settings and Efficiencies

• Replace groups with components
• Make your own template for a great start
• Lose a face? Bring it back
• Three ways to keep your SketchUp model running quickly
• Smart selection with X-ray and back edges
• Position axis on angled components
• Isolating your view of geometry within groups
• Moving groups and components easily and smoothly
• What is a tag?
• Face orientation tips

2. Interiors

• Tips for tracing floor plans efficiently
• Creating an opening for a sink
• Building a detailed kitchen cabinet
• Scale using the FredoScale extension
• Creating a framed out-of-perspective image of artwork
• Seeing more in a small space
• Show two different options in the same space
• Measuring and drawing stairs
• Divide function
• Paste in place
• Align view to face

3. Exterior / Shell

• Measuring roof pitch
• Create an awning using Autofold
• Create site plans on terrain
• Create and place windows

4. Materials

• Applying materials from the 3D Warehouse
• Best practices for applying materials
• Replace materials with and without an extension
• Sampling a material from outside of SketchUp
• Sampling an edited material to apply to another surface
• Applying a material to multiple surfaces at once
• Changing the color of texture
• Add more segments to circle or arc
• Nesting a group using the Outliner
• Turn off animation for faster modeling
• Check axis alignment
• Healing two edges
• Mixing styles for a custom look
• Move the axis to rotate your top view
• Isolate section plane to one group
• Creating copies more efficiently
• Using multiple section planes
• Hiding edges in adjacent groups