Kitchen, apartment or tiny house – Plan, develop and visualize your home ideas in SketchUp!
Do you want to easily redesign your apartment, plan your kitchen or build your dream house? Then this course is for you: Using SketchUp Free, the web-based and free version of the popular 3D modeling tool, we will work on the spatial representation of a realistic living situation in just 1.5 hours.
This is not a complete SketchUp course, but a comprehensive exercise to get to know how to work quickly with the simple CAD program on a concrete example, so that you can start your own projects with it.
Instead of a lot of theory, we will start immediately with a practical approach and import an existing floor plan as a template (you are also welcome to work with your own floor plan) and bring it to the right scale. On top of that we will build our 2D plan, including furniture, dimensions and labels. We will also work with tags to bring order and clarity to the plan.
From the finished 2D plan, we’ll move on to building our 3D model. Here we will mainly practice working quickly in SketchUp: How we build different layers in minutes, from the walls to the furniture, and how you can save yourself a lot of work with the pre-built models from the 3D library and customize them as you like. Last but not least, you want the model to look good: You’ll learn how to use colors and textures, and different ways to make your model look appealing in different styles.
