Sketchup Session 2

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

Todays objectives

• Revision of basic navigation and drafting in SketchUp

• Strengthening basic skills

• Sending to SketchUp file to LayOut

• Basics of LayOut for presentation

• Basics of LayOut as a drafting tool

1. Revision

Link to Video Tutorials

Use this file in conjunction with this activity

• Help

• Navigation - Pan, orbit, zooms

• Selection

• Mac Shortcuts

• Move

• Basic shapes - Line, rectangle, circle to scale

• Basic Modifying Tools - Offset, move, pushpull

• Components - Component warehouse

• Paint Bucket

• Eraser

• Offset

2. Assessment task catch-up

Where are we at? What problems have arisen?

3. Strengthening basic Skills

Link to Video Tutorials

Link to File

• Arcs

• Freehand

• Intermediate moving

• Follow me tool

• Text

• 3d Text

• Rotate

• Styles

• Position Camera and Walk with Camera

• Geolocation and Shadows

• Scenes

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.