Overview
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Learn the principles of architectural detailing with SketchUp and LayOut. Discover how to create professional 3D visualizations and 2D construction drawings.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Unpack construction detail with SketchUp
- What should you know?
- Use the exercise files
- Layout 2019 vs. 2019
- What is a detail?
- How do you show details?
- Choose a detail
- Understand scale and appropriate sale
- The main elements of the house
- Wall layering
- Roof layering
- Floor layering
- Openings
- Foundation
- Below ground blocks
- Concrete slab base
- Insulation and membrane placement
- Place the reinforcement mesh
- Pour the slab
- Backfill and grade
- Timber sill or sole plate
- Timber frame and insulation
- Timber frame window and door openings
- Internal layers and membranes
- External layers and membranes
- Insert the high-level window
- Insert the doors
- Build up the rainscreen
- Add the three-coat stucco at a high level
- Add the flashings and trim
- Build up the external levels
- Add the low-level stucco
- Finish off the internal walls
- Wall plate and the cut rafters
- Roof deck and insulation
- Membrane and shingles
- Soffit
- Facia
- Finish the internal timber ceiling
- Self-leveling screed and door trim
- Export 2D CAD as image
- Create group from slice option
- Import into AutoCAD
- Set up template files
- Insert files in LayOut
- Work with vector lines in LayOut
- Add pattern fills and styling lines
- Add to LayOut from the Scrapbook
- Reference details from views
- Set an appropriate scale
- Add annotation
- Add convincing materials
- Use the axis for texture alignment
- Adjust texture to avoid repetition
- Completed model with textures
- Load V-Ray render settings
- Create the line overlay files
- Use blend mode in Photoshop
- Combine images in Photoshop
- Incorporate 2D with 3D in LayOut
- Export to PDF
- Next steps
