The Definitive Sketchup Course. From Beginner To Expert

Learn to model in a professional way and have fun during the process

What you'll learn

Modeling an architecture, landscape, interior design or industrial design project from scratch to detail.

Assignment of materials in the project for subsequent rendering

Creation of technical plans: floorplans, elevations and sections as well as 3D images of the project

Creation of animations in video format to tell the final project in a more interactive way

Requirements

No prior program experience is necessary. If you’ve never used CAD or any other 3D modeling program, you are at an advantage because you will not have habits ingrained from other software. You’ll be able to learn the fundamentals quickly, and you’ll be encouraged by the quick progress you are making. Don’t be intimidated if you’ve tried other complicated CAD software, only to become overwhelmed. SketchUp is one of the easiest 3D modeling programs to get started with, and I will help you learn the basics

Description

In this SKETCHUP course we will start from an initiation level to end up mastering the program at an expert level. We will learn all the SKETCHUP tools such as: materials, styles, scenes, animations, sunlight, connection to Google-Earth, photomatch, dynamic components, terrains, plugins and much more.It is a very complete course equivalent to 30 teaching hours where theory and practice go hand in hand through numerous exercises that will increase in complexity as more knowledge is acquired. It is designed to end with expert knowledge about the program that will allow us to face any project successfully, no matter how complex it may be.The course consists of different blocks:Workspace block. We will start with a presentation of the program, we will see how to install it correctly, we will adjust our preferences as well as the units and we will begin to familiarize ourselves with the workspace. We will learn how to navigate in the three-dimensional environment of Sketchup, how to move using the different views, we will see the selection tools and the keyboard shortcuts that will make our workflow much faster.Theory and concepts . We will begin to learn important and slightly more complex concepts such as the difference between lines, surfaces, groups and components within Sketchup. We will also see the importance of inverting faces at specific moments Drawing in 2D. We will explore all the drawing tools in 2D. Drawing in 3D . It will be time to delve into the most complex tools of the program such as the extrusion tools, move, copy, rotate, scale, follow me or equidistance. In this block we will also see  operations between solids.Measure and text. Which will focus on the use of other types of tools more focused on measurement, such as dimensioning tools, distance and angle measurement, change of position of the coordinate axes or the text tools and of section.Defaut trays. We will see the so-called ¨default trays¨. We will learn how to use the material tray, entity information, components, layers, styles, scenes or sunshine.Special tools. We will see some other Sketchup tools of special importance. We will study the use of the wharehouse library, the creation of terrains, the geolocation of our projects through the use of Google Earth, the very interesting photomatch tool, the creation of animations, dynamic components and the use of plugins that extend the capabilities of Sketchup to be able to model everything that is in our imagination.Utilities. Will deal with functional aspects of the program such as: importing dwg files, exporting images in different formats, as well as useful tips to improve our workflow based on my experience. Finally, the last chapter will make a comparison between Lumion and Vray, the two main rendering software that the market offers us to obtain photorealistic images from our models made in Sketchup.Layout. We will learn a new software attached with Sketchup. Layout is connected in real time with Sketchup and will allow us to make professional presentations of our 3D model. Each of these blocks will be accompanied by practical exercises at the end of each block to establish the theory explained with specific exercises on those specific topics.Also to consolidate knowledge, at the end of all the blocks, a 30-question multiple choice questionnaire is proposed, where the student will test their theoretical knowledge of the program.Updates block. The course is made in the 2021-2022 version.The truth is that there are hardly any differences with the previous versions. In this block I will update a new class every year explaining the most important improvements in the latest Sketchup version.To complete the course, the 3D modeling of the iconic Barcelona Pavilion by the German architect Mies Van der Rohe is proposed as a WORK PROJECT. We will work on it during all the course using the tools that we learnt in the previous block. Through this project you will learn:Control the scale of the model, correct use of groups and components, using dynamic components, model order through the use of tags, correct use of materials, correct use of furniture and elements outside SKP, correct placement of the north and sunlight of the scene, artistic use of styles, use of sections, dimensions and text and making animations in mp4 format from our scenes.Finally you should know that you will have my guidance during the course. Any doubt you have, you can ask me and in less than 48h I will respond you with the answer.  Thank you for enrolling in The definitive SketchUp course!Best regards,Manuel Pallarés

Overview

Section 1: Workspace

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Installing the software

Lecture 3 Templates

Lecture 4 Preferences

Lecture 5 Model info

Lecture 6 Opening different skp files at the same time

Lecture 7 Workspace

Lecture 8 Navigation+ views+perspective and parallel projection

Lecture 9 Selection tools

Lecture 10 Shortcuts

Lecture 11 Exercise: navigation

Section 2: Theory and key concepts

Lecture 12 Lines and surfaces

Lecture 13 Groups and components

Lecture 14 Outliner

Lecture 15 Reverse faces

Section 3: Drawing in 2D

Lecture 16 Tape measure tool: guide lines and points, measure and scale

Lecture 17 Line and freehand tools

Lecture 18 Rectangles, circles and polygons

Lecture 19 Arcs

Lecture 20 Styles

Lecture 21 Eraser: erase, select, hide, soften and smooth + soften edges tray

Lecture 22 Exercise: drawing polygons

Lecture 23 Exercise: chess pawn

Lecture 24 Exercise: house floor plan

Section 4: Drawing in 3D

Lecture 25 Push/pull tool

Lecture 26 Move tool

Lecture 27 Copy tool

Lecture 28 Rotate and copy tool

Lecture 29 Scale and mirror tool

Lecture 30 Follow me tool

Lecture 31 Offset tool

Lecture 32 Solid tools

Lecture 33 Exercise: swimming pool

Lecture 34 Exercise: vase

Lecture 35 Exercise: drill

Lecture 36 Exercise: greek column

Section 5: Work Project

Lecture 37 Introduction to the work project: Barcelona Pavillion

Lecture 38 Barcelona Pavillion 1/10. Podium and walls

Section 6: Measure and text tools

Lecture 39 Measure distances and angles

Lecture 40 Text

Lecture 41 Dimensions

Lecture 42 Changing axis

Lecture 43 Section

Section 7: Work Project

Lecture 44 Barcelona Pavillion 2/10. Pillars

Section 8: Default trays

Lecture 45 Entity info

Lecture 46 Materials. Part 1

Lecture 47 Materials. Part 2

Lecture 48 Materials. Texture libraries

Lecture 49 Materials. Projected texture

Lecture 50 Components

Lecture 51 Components. Creating our own figure

Lecture 52 Styles 1

Lecture 53 Styles 2

Lecture 54 Tags

Lecture 55 Tags. How to use them correctly

Lecture 56 Scenes

Lecture 57 Shadows

Section 9: Work Project

Lecture 58 Barcelona Pavillion 3/10. Roofs

Lecture 59 Barcelona Pavillion 4/10. Glassmakers

Lecture 60 Barcelona Pavillion 5/10. More glassmakers

Lecture 61 Barcelona Pavillion 6/10. Textures

Section 10: Special tools

Lecture 62 Wharehouse library

Lecture 63 Terrains. The sandbox tool

Lecture 64 Geo-location. Google Earth

Lecture 65 Photomatch

Lecture 66 Dynamic components

Lecture 67 Animations

Lecture 68 Best Plugins. Part 1. Introduction

Lecture 69 Best plugins. Part 2

Lecture 70 Best plugins. Part 3

Lecture 71 The special one: Fredo6 Animator plugin

Section 11: Work Project

Lecture 72 Barcelona Pavillion 7/10. Stairs

Lecture 73 Barcelona Pavillion 8/10. Bench and toilets

Section 12: Utilities

Lecture 74 Import DWG file

Lecture 75 Export JPG file

Lecture 76 Advanced exercise: auditorium from a dwg file

Lecture 77 How to avoid that our file becomes slow?

Lecture 78 Best rendering software nowdays

Section 13: Work Project

Lecture 79 Barcelona Pavillion 9/10. Furnitures

Lecture 80 Barcelona pavillion 10/10. Escenes

Lecture 81 Exporting our 3D model. JPG or PDF?

Section 14: Last updates

Lecture 82 Sketchup 2022

Section 15: LayOut

Lecture 83 What is LayOut?

Lecture 84 Preparing our document to layout

Lecture 85 Setting up our document

Lecture 86 Adding and editing dimensions

Lecture 87 Adding labels

Lecture 88 Hybrid mode

Lecture 89 Adding lineweight and fill

Lecture 90 Clipping mask

Lecture 91 Drawing titles and scrapbook items

Lecture 92 On every page and titleblocks

Lecture 93 Updating and relinking the Sketchup model

Lecture 94 Exporting a Layout document

If you are an interior designer, architect, kitchen designer, woodworker, project engineer, project manager, or other design professional, this is your course