SketchUp Free - All you need to know!

Learn the essential tools and techniques to design your own projects in 3D

4.67 (386 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Interior Design
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1,588
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4.5 hours
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Mar 2022
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$74.99
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What you will learn

You'll discover how intuitive SketchUp is and how much fun it can be to work with the program.

You will learn the most important tools and functions to start your own projects in SketchUp.

You will learn the difference between groups and components and how to build professional models.

Learn how to save time and find great models and textures using the 3D model library.

Usefuls SketchUp-Hacks and Tricks that save you time and enable you to create special shapes and geometries.

Import models, edit them and present them in an appealing way for customers or friends and family.

Description

Do you want to design your own furniture on the PC in an effective way? Do you want to plan your new kitchen or redesign your apartment and visualize it immediately in 3D? Or just creatively express yourself in 3D?

Then SketchUp is exactly the right program for you. SketchUp is an intuitive, powerful 3D modeling software built for professionals and creatives of all kinds. With no other software can you build impressive 3D models so quickly, which immediately convey a spatial effect of your project. The advantages of SketchUp:

  • there is a free, web-based version

  • it's probably the easiest of all CAD programs to use

  • you are instantly in 3D

  • you can do very quick rough sketching or professional, accurate, detail rich objects

  • there is a huge library of pre-built 3D-models

  • from tiny details, to your own garden to the whole building - there is nothing you can't visualise

How is this course structured?

In this 4-hour course you will learn how SketchUp works and how to use the most important tools. Using real examples, you will become confident step by step in using line, rectangle, circle and the push/pull tool. We will learn how to work with groups and components, we will take a look at the practical model library, use various special tools and learn how to present and visualize our projects in an appealing way. Ultimately, the course should get you ready to implement your own ideas in SketchUp and bring them to life.

To make sure you don't get bored and see results right away, everything is based on learning by doing - so we won't spend a lot of time on theory, but will always draw real objects directly. This is project-based learning, starting from a simple box, to a desk, staircase, a complete interior situation and more. This way you learn to approach the sketching process in a wholistic way and always apply new knowledge directly to enhance your learning experience.


What do you need?

Not much! With the following tools you can start 3D modeling right away:

  •  a PC or Mac

  •  a computer mouse with clickable mouse wheel (you can also use the trackpad but with the mouse it will be faster)

  •  nice to have: a large screen

Content

Introduction and Setup

Welcome to this course!
How to get SketchUp
The hidden, free Desktop Version of SketchUp
The Home Screen

The Basics: Line, Rectangle and the Push/Pull Tool

How to navigate in SketchUp
Just try it!
A quick look at the User Interface
Line, Face, Object
The Select Tool
The Rectangle and Push/Pull

Making a Box with a Dovetail Joint

Helpful Guides and Offset
Making a Dovetail Connection
Addition vs Subtraction Method

Round Shapes and Objects

The Standing Table
Drawing accurately and faster with Reference Points

The first Piece of Furniture

Importing a Model
Building the Box
Move and Copy
Sampling and Applying Colors
Building the Bench and smoothening Edges
What we've learned so far...

The SketchUp Shortcut Training Course

Introduction
Materials for Download
Shortcut Training Course - Part 1
Shortcut Training Course - Part 2
Assign and Change Shortcuts

Groups and Components

Build to Look vs. Build to Build
The Desk - Intro
The Model for Download
Building the Desk
The Cabinet
Building the Drawers
Applying Colors and Texture
How to quickly present your Model

Geometry in SketchUp

How to Multiply and Divide
Using the 3D-Text
Special Geometries

Building a Staircase

Quick Floors
The Steps
The Stringers
How to intersect Objects

A special Tool: Follow Me

What is the Follow Me Tool?
A Cone
Building a Picture Frame
Edges on a Tabletop
Woodturning with the Follow Me Tool

The 3D Warehouse

Intro
Better Textures
Cleaning Up our Workspace
Textures from other Sources
Working with Live Components

How to Scale an Object or your Model

The Scale Tool
Scale an Object
The Floor Plan to Import
Bringing a Floor Plan into the right Scale

Staircase 2.0

Intro
The Staircase 1.0 for Download
Modifying existing Components
Building the Storage Room
Adding the Railing

Presentation

Intro
Technical Drawing and Perspektive
Creating a Section
More Structure with Tags
Putting the Desk into Context
Shadows and Fog Effects
Create Animations with Scenes

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Reviews

Nicholas
October 5, 2023
The course showed a lot of great examples and touched on everything that I needed to know to work in SketchUp. The instructor went way to fast for someone who never used SketchUp before. He needs to know his audience and slow way down! Give people a chance to build there own projects.
Marie
August 26, 2023
I like the pace of the course where I can take as little time as I have available and still progress in my learning.
Kellea
July 29, 2023
The lessons and how he's teaching is great, he's just going a little too quick. Thank goodness for the pause button!
Johanna
July 7, 2023
This was a great course for me. It was my first time using Sketchup. When I made a mistake, I was able to figure it out by replaying parts of the video. I also loved the quick reinforcements of basic skills throughout the course so I did not have to refer back to earlier videos to refresh my memory.
Richard
June 16, 2023
I knew nothing about Sketchup and found it overwhelming in the past when I tried to use it. However, after following this course, within a week I gained a lot of skills and knowledge within the software. It's a great course for a beginner, and now I feel very happy to have put some time in going through this course. It's a fun course too!
Anderson
May 16, 2023
This is a really good course. I was looking for a comprehensive Sketchup basic trainning to decide if I should invest more time on it or move to another tool. This course helped me understand Sketchup free offers pretty much what I needed for my personal project. Also, the examples are quite good and straightforward. I strongly recommend for those who want to understand all important conectps on Sketchup and get started in a very short time.
Susan
May 10, 2023
I’m following along with his course on my iPad while I run the app on my PC. So far it’s been easy to follow along.
Mark
April 24, 2023
A very good introduction to the basic tools of Sketchup. This course should allow you to get started very quickly thanks to the fluid teaching style.
Nico
April 2, 2023
I enjoyed learning with this course because I learned how to use most all of the tools very quickly. With just a short video, I knew how to use a tool very well. I was very glad I took this course, and I was glad it was brief! It was great for learning so many of the SketchUp tricks. Thank you! Viellen Dank!
Despoina
March 10, 2023
Well organized course to learn Sketch up step by step (even from scratch with no previous knowledge), helpful examples, focus on tools just as much to learn the basics and then various tips to get that extra something! All in all, a really great course and instructor! Definitely recommend it and I will keep in mind to choose more classes by the same instructor!
David
February 25, 2023
Good for the basics & to the point. Thanks. Can you do more with Sketchup Make 2017 (as that is also free but might have extended functionality)?
Zane
February 20, 2023
This is really good because it is easy to understand and everything is interesting, even if these are basic steps, for someone like me it is a lot and important. Thank you.
Robert
February 13, 2023
The shortcuts (like control) are for windows machines. For Mac users, it is Command+Option, I think? Great help and well organized!
Adri
February 12, 2023
Wonderful course to understand how to create lovely 3D models and really utilize the tools in SketchUp!
Ingi
November 25, 2022
Very very good. Exactly what I was looking for. Good speed of teaching and great to learn this tool in such a short time.

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