SketchUp Pro Bootcamp

SketchUp Day 1

Introduction to SketchUp

• SketchUp for Web: requirements
• SketchUp Pro: Hardware and software requirements
• Welcome screen and templates
• Interface overview: how to navigate: title bar, menu bar, getting started toolbar, drawing area, status bar, measurements box, default panels.
• Panels menus and tools overview: How to use SketchUp tools (Quick Reference Card)
• Setting up tools panels and preferences
• Saving and reopening a model (Backing up)

Quickstart: Creating 3D Elements

• Drawing shapes
• Adding volume
• Moving elements
• Transforming elements
• Adding textures and colors
• Navigation with tools keys and mouse
• Orbit, zoom, pan
• Saving and exporting

Core Concepts 1

• Select elements
• Modifiers keys
• Working with axis
• Managing units of measurement (set units and precision in the model info window)
• Camera
  • Standard views
  • Perspectives
  • Walk
  • Look around
  • Field of view
  • Zoom extends
  • Position

SketchUp Day 2

Creating a 3D Model (Drawing Lines, Shapes, and 3D Objects)

• Inference types and engine
• Drawing lines
• Creating and dividing faces
• Working with edges
• Healing deleted faces
• Finding and locking an inference
• Linear inferencing toggle
• Locking inferences with the keyboard
• Ensuring edges are aligned to axes
• Model and entity info

Working with Shapes

• Drawing a rectangle, square, circle, ellipse, polygon, and shape
• View styles for edges and faces
• Selecting
• Editing shapes
• Adjusting the drawing axes
• Pushing and pulling shapes
• Drawing arcs
• Drawing freehand shapes
• Measurement tools
• Measuring angles and distances to model precisely
• Dividing, splitting, and exploding lines and faces
• Sticky modifiers 
• Flipping, mirroring, rotating, and arrays
• Scaling and slicing models
• Using the follow me tool
• Softening, smoothing, and hiding geometry
• Offsetting a line from existing geometry

Working with Solid Tools

• Applying colors, photos, materials, and textures
• Reference images
• Match Photo
• Grouping
• Components
• Layers
• Outliner: Working with Hierarchies

Working with Text

• Fonts
• 3D text Layers

Core Concepts 2

• Exporting and rendering
• Cast realistic shadows 
• Location and times of day
• View the model in Google Earth
• Watermarking a model
• SU Podium photorealistic rendering
• Sandbox Tools
• Modeling terrain
• Geolocated terrain
• Importing
• Creating Terrain
• Sculpting
• Placing models and objects 
• Exporting

Warehouse

• 3D warehouse
• Searching for models
• Category, properties, and filters
• Extensions warehouse
• Extensions manager