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In this course, you will learn:
- Solid Modeling
- Advanced Camera tools
- Working with Terrains
- Creating Dynamic components
- Creating documents with layout
- Creating style with style builder
Syllabus:
- Introduction
- Build your design ideas with SketchUp Pro
- What you should know
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
- 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 custom texture
- Purging material list
7. Document and Stylize
- Setting shadows and fog
- Changing the style
- Set and update scenes
- Checking edge alignment
- Create a section cut
- Dimensioning
- Drawing dashed lines
- Labeling
- 3D text
- Animation
- Export in 2D and 3D
