SketchUp Training

Course details

Visualizing in three dimensions is critical to the success of the design of architectural spaces. The interplay of light, color, space, and form make exciting spaces function successfully. Traditional methods for exploring these issues are very labour intensive. Use of computer software has enabled quicker (and sometimes more accurate) study models to be generated, explored, and iterated more times in the design time available. The SketchUp Essentials Training course provides delegates without prior experience, with a grounding in the use of SketchUp.

Topics covered in the Sketch Up course include:

• Create your own Template
• Create Basic Geometry in 2D (Lines, Arcs, Circles, and Rectangles etc.)
• Understand the Stickiness of Geometry
• Create Basic Geometry In 3D
• Understand Stickiness In 3D
• View a model in 3D
• Create geometry with the Push/Pull Tool
• Move entities to manipulate geometry
• Maintain coplanar geometry
• Connect and generate forms
• Lock inferences
• Generate forms quickly
• Restore/Heal a surface
• Mirror and array a model
• Apply materials
• Create 3D Text
• Import Component models from 3D Warehouse
• Display Options and Styles
• Position and export models to Google Earth
• Overcoming Stickiness in Your Model
• Use Component Nesting for Efficient Modelling
• Effect of Scaling on Similar Components
• Use Groups and Components to Isolate Geometry
• Component Browser
• 3D Warehouse - Getting Components & Sharing Your Model
• Dynamic Components
• Understand Component inferencing & editing

Updated on 31 October, 2019