This course is designed for students who have a basic knowledge of SketchUp. Students should be intermediate to advanced in SketchUp proficiency. Building on your existing experience we will take your skills even further with the Pro Tips Topics. I have been using SketchUp for many years and have found some simple yet very useful techniques that can help you use your SketchUp models for construction documents, presentations and more. In this course if have summed up the top uses I have found for SketchUp. We will go over several practical applications of SketchUp in Todays professional architectural world.
Students should have access to : SketchUp online, SketchUp Pro, Layout and Autocad to fully follow along in this course.
Course Topics include:
- Adding and creating materials in SketchUp
- Adding texture to curved surfaces
- Editing SketchUp Styles and how to export .jpg images in SketchUp
- How to export a SketchUp 3D model in to a Autocad .dwg file
- How to create a (scene) tab in SketchUp and how to create a animation video. We will also discuss how to adjust the animation settings
- How to add a fog effect in SketchUp
- How to import your SketchUp model into Layout to create scaled elevations
- How to export your Layout document pages.
