Overview
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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.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Weekly techniques in SketchUp Pro
- What you should know
- 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
- 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
- Measuring roof pitch
- Create an awning using Autofold
- Create site plans on terrain
- Create and place windows
- 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
