Sketchup Session 3

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

1. Revision - Sketchup

Link to Video Tutorials

  • Arcs

  • Freehand

  • Intermediate moving

  • Follow me tool?

  • Text

  • Rotate

  • Styles

Session objectives

  • Revision of last sessions content

  • Talking about assessment task

  • Starting in SketchUp with a satellite image and a CAD file

  • Using SketchUp in context

2. Assessment task catch-up

Where are we at? What problems have arisen?

3. SKetchUp - Putting it together

Link to Video Tutorials

Link to Exercise File

  • Importing base plan image

  • Importing a CAD file

4. Moving from Sketchup to layout

  • Sending a 3d file from SketchUp to LayOut

SketchUp Layout. How to insert, scale and choose views for of a SketchUp file in Layout.

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.

5. Layout Revision

  • Navigation

  • Lines and shapes

  • Text

  • Pattern Fill

  • Scrapbook

  • Pages

  • Layers

  • Style Picker

  • Drawing to scale

  • Arranging pictures

  • Viewports

  • Styles

6. LayOut Skill Building

Moving a CAD file to LayOut

  • Arcs

  • Offset

  • Split and Glue

  • Freehand

  • Layers

  • Drawing Plants