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SketchUp: Tips & Tricks

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Overview

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Get tips that can help you use SketchUp to efficiently create 3D models.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • How to use the exercise files
1. SketchUp: Tips & Tricks
  • Get terrain data from Google Maps
  • Animate a camera turnaround
  • Create bevels with Follow Me
  • Create revolved and lathed geometry
  • Use math functions to create arrays
  • Texture curved objects
  • Export to Blender 3D for rendering
  • Create two-sided window components
  • Work with the Extensions Manager
  • Use 1001 bit tools extensions
  • Create construction sequence animations
  • A novel way to create a hip roof
  • Modeling to photographic reference
  • Woodworking joints: Grooves and dovetails
  • Woodworking joints: Mortises and tenons
  • Use SketchUp for 3D printing
  • Use background images
  • Export SketchUp scenes to Revit
  • Create custom shortcuts
  • Create stretched fabric effects
  • Draw a proper helix
  • Make upholstery using Sandbox
  • Mirror objects
  • Make a tree component
  • Draw gears
  • Draw parabolas
  • UV mapping with SketchUV
  • Create a spiral staircase
  • Create more realistic glass
  • Create shells
  • Export to VR using IrisVR
  • Draw columns
  • Create decorative arches
  • Save time with templates
  • Draw standard staircases
  • Create roof trusses
  • Make trees and grass with 3D Tree Maker
  • Change axes to draw at odd angles
  • Create skydomes
  • Group layers using Scenes
  • Create depth of field effects
  • SketchUp Viewer for desktop and mobile
  • Polygonal modeling with QuadFace extension
  • Animate better walkthroughs
  • Introducing SketchUp Free
  • SketchUp to 3ds Max
  • Model to orthographic reference
  • Create exploded views
  • Snap inside models
  • Change colors on materials
  • Create dovetail joints with Intersect
  • Model corrugated metal
  • Draw walls efficiently
  • Create a chain link fence
  • Position textures interactively
  • Quick chamfers using Unfold
  • Using view modes to check models
  • New section plane features in 2018
  • Advanced attributes in 2018
  • Generate reports
  • Create a time-lapse effect
  • New 3D Warehouse features
  • Model wheels and pulleys
  • Geolocate models in 2018
  • Section planes as an editing tool
  • SketchUp to Unity
  • Edit textures externally
  • Work with FBX files
  • Advanced camera tools

Taught by

George Maestri

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