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Introduction to SketchUp (online)

Course

Intro to SketchUp description etc. etc.

Welcome and Preliminaries

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Module 1: Introducing the Workspace

In the first section we'll take a look at what you'll see when you open SketchUp - what all the toolbars, menus and palettes are, as well as templates that you can use when you create a new file. We'll also show you how to navigate through the 3D space without getting lost (and what to do if you do!). We'll cover the important tool-specific information shown on screen, and how you input numbers to set the size of shapes. We'll also look at a finished project, so you can see where you'll be at the end of this course.

1.1. Opening SketchUp for the first time and using Templates

1.2. Navigating around the space

1.3. The menus

1.4. The Large Tool Set & Toolbar

1.5. The Status Bar and Numerical Input field

1.6. The Dialog Boxes (aka. palettes)

1.7. An example project

Module 2: Basic drawing

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2.1. Understanding SketchUp's Geometry

2.2. The Drawing Tools

2.3. The Push/Pull tool (aka. starting to make things 3D)

2.4. Moving Edges

2.5. Introducing Groups & Components

2.6. Moving, rotating and scaling

2.7. Exercise: Creating a chair

Module 3: Your first landscape design

3.0. Introduction to this module

3.1. Importing, scaling and creating your base plan

3.2. Drawing to specific sizes

3.3. Grouping (and the best keyboard shortcut!)

3.4. Push/pulling

3.5. Adding Materials

3.6. Editing Materials

3.7. Creating the pergola (and autosave settings)

3.8. Creating the stepping stones

3.9. The 3D Warehouse

3.10. Troubleshooting items from the 3D Warehouse

3.11. Organising content in the 3D Warehouse

3.12. Tips for placing plants

3.13. Setting shadows and exporting images

Module 4: Creating houses

4.0. Introduction

4.1. Drawing a house and roof

4.2. Adding doors and windows

4.3. Doors and windows from the 3D Warehouse

4.4 Drawing different kinds of roofs

Module 5: Creating a more complex garden

5.0. Introduction

5.1. Drawing up the base plan

5.2. More on Materials

5.3. Stepping stones and a bit more on scaling

5.4. The Follow-Me Tool

5.5. Modelling simple terrain

5.6. Adding garden furnishings

5.7. Improving the steps