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LinkedIn Learning

SketchUp Weekly

via LinkedIn Learning

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Overview

Get a weekly infusion of SketchUp Pro tips and tricks, so you can spend less time fussing with the program and more time designing amazing things.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Weekly techniques in SketchUp Pro
  • What you should know
1. Settings and Efficiencies
  • Replace groups with components
  • Make your own template for a great start
  • Lose a face? Bring it back
  • Three ways to keep your SketchUp model running quickly
  • Smart selection with X-ray and back edges
  • Position axis on angled components
  • Isolating your view of geometry within groups
  • Moving groups and components easily and smoothly
  • What is a tag?
  • Face orientation tips
2. Interiors
  • Tips for tracing floor plans efficiently
  • Creating an opening for a sink
  • Building a detailed kitchen cabinet
  • Scale using the FredoScale extension
  • Creating a framed out-of-perspective image of artwork
  • Seeing more in a small space
  • Show two different options in the same space
  • Measuring and drawing stairs
  • Divide function
  • Paste in place
  • Align view to face
3. Exterior / Shell
  • Measuring roof pitch
  • Create an awning using Autofold
  • Create site plans on terrain
  • Create and place windows
4. Materials
  • Applying materials from the 3D Warehouse
  • Best practices for applying materials
  • Replace materials with and without an extension
  • Sampling a material from outside of SketchUp
  • Sampling an edited material to apply to another surface
  • Applying a material to multiple surfaces at once
  • Changing the color of texture
  • Add more segments to circle or arc
  • Nesting a group using the Outliner
  • Turn off animation for faster modeling
  • Check axis alignment
  • Healing two edges
  • Mixing styles for a custom look
  • Move the axis to rotate your top view
  • Isolate section plane to one group
  • Creating copies more efficiently
  • Using multiple section planes
  • Hiding edges in adjacent groups

Taught by

Tammy Cody

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