Overview
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Design your dream kitchen with the 3D drawing tool SketchUp. Learn how to model and demolish your current kitchen to make room for a new design that fits your existing space.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Exploring SketchUp's user interface
- Saving a custom template
- Assigning keyboard shortcuts
- Importing a 2D sketch
- Creating walls based on a sketch
- Modeling the existing kitchen
- Demolishing with layers
- Creating a massing model of the new kitchen
- Altering the kitchen walls
- Designing an island at an angle
- Detailing counter and lower cabinets
- Detailing with the Section tool
- Detailing upper cabinets
- Creating cabinet moldings
- Adding cabinet handles
- Inserting appliances and fixtures
- Assigning materials
- Casting shadows
- Animating a camera to visualize the kitchen
- What we've learned
- Next steps
