Sketchup Session 1

This is aimed at helping students wishing to learn SketchUp for garden design

Todays objectives

• Introduction: what is SketchUp and LayOut

• Strengthen basic skills

1. INTRODUCTION

Link to Video Tutorials

Link to File

• Help

• Navigation - Pan, orbit, zooms

• Selection

• Mac Shortcuts

• Basic shapes - Line, rectangle, circle to scale

• Basic Modifying Tools - Offset, move, pushpull

• Components - Component warehouse

• Paint Bucket

• Drawing to a known size

• Components and Groups

• Move Tool

• Locking to an axis

2. Layout Introduction

• Help

• Navigation

• Selection

• Basic Shapes

• Importing SketchUp Files

• Scale Drawings
  
  

3. Sketchup - Strengthening basic Skills

Link to Video Tutorials

Link to File

• Arcs

• Freehand

• Intermediate moving

• Follow me tool?

• Text

• Rotate

• Styles

4. Moving from Sketchup to layout

Continue with file from previous exercise

LayOut is an second program that comes with the SketchUp Pro License. The focus of LayOut is on 2d outputs from printing and PDFing. This function is built into many of the other CAD programs and is the major focus. SketchUp prioritises 3d conceptual drafting and LayOut’s 2d is a more rudimentary addition. That said there are still a lot of great things that can be done in LayOut and it is streamlined and intuitive like SketchUp.