Overview
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Get started with SketchUp. Learn about the essential tools offered in the 2019 version of this powerful software, and explore techniques for modeling and organization.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Build your design ideas with SketchUp Pro
- What you should know
- Choose a template
- Basics for using a Windows interface
- Basics for using a Mac interface
- Customize the toolbar for Mac
- The axes
- Standard camera views
- Zoom tools
- Move the camera view with Orbit and Pan tools
- Setting a camera view and Look Around
- Walking around the model
- Select tool
- Move tool
- Creating copies and an array
- Resize an object
- Rotating an object
- Flipping and mirroring an object
- The 3D Warehouse
- Why polygons matter
- Line tool
- Rectangle tool
- Circle and Ellipse tools
- Push/Pull into 3D
- Tape Measure tool
- Protractor tool
- Undo and let go
- Eraser tool
- Understanding faces and edges
- Dividing lines
- Offset tool
- Import and prep
- Drawing a floor plan
- Extrude walls
- Add doorways and windows
- Making groups
- Making components
- Isolate a group or component
- Layers and Entity Info
- The Outliner window
- Apply material using a Mac
- Edit material using a Mac
- Apply material using Windows
- Edit material using Windows
- Apply material using 3D Warehouse
- Import and apply custom texture
- Purging material list
- Setting shadows and fog
- Changing the style
- Set and update scenes
- Checking edge alignment
- Create a section cut
- Dimensioning
- Drawing dashed lines
- Labeling
- 3D text
- Animation
- Export in 2D and 3D
- Next steps
