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In this course, you will :
- Get started with this simple computer modelling application by learning the drawing and design tools included in the most recent version of SketchUp.
- On both Windows and Mac computers, this course covers navigating the interface, manipulating objects, drawing, organising drawing elements, and working with materials and textures.
- Learn how to use simple styles and animation to improve the polish and presentation of your 3D projects.
- allows you to put what you've learned into practise
Syllabus :
1. The SketchUp Interface
- Choose a template
- Basics for using a Windows interface
- Basics for using a Mac interface
- Customize the toolbar for Mac
- The axis
- Standard camera views
- Zoom tools
- Move the camera view with Orbit and Pan tools
- Setting a camera view and the Look Around tool
- Walking around the model
2. Manipulate Objects
- The Select tool
- Locked content
- The Move tool
- Creating copies and an array
- Resize an object
- Rotating an object
- Flipping and mirroring an object
- The 3D Warehouse
- Why polygons matter
3. Drawing in SketchUp
- Line tool
- Rectangle tool
- Circle tool
- Push/Pull into 3D
- Tape Measure tool
- Protractor tool
- Undo and let go
- Eraser tool
- Dividing lines
- Offset tool
4. Modeling from a Floor Plan Image
- Import and prep
- Drawing a floor plan
- Extrude walls
- Add doorways and windows
5. Organization
- Making groups
- Making components
- Isolate a group or component
- Tags and Entity Info
- The Outliner window
6. Materials
- Apply material using a Mac
- Edit material using a Mac
- Apply material using Windows
- Edit material using Windows
- Apply material using 3D Warehouse
- Import and apply a custom texture
- Purging material list
7. Document and Stylize
- Setting shadows and fog
- Changing the style
- Locked content
- Set and update scenes
- Checking edge alignment
- Create a section cut
- Dimensioning
- Drawing dashed lines
- Labeling
- 3D text
- Animation
- Export in 2D and 3D
