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Add some clever new techniques to your SketchUp repertoire. Tune in to discover a tip or trick that helps you work smarter with this popular 3D modeling software.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
SketchUp Tips Weekly
  • Best practices for importing CAD drawings
  • Clean up CAD drawings with extensions
  • Model walls with outer shell
  • Use math to model precise forms
  • Control softening and smoothing
  • Composite SketchUp 2D graphics
  • Make photographic entourage
  • Create depth-of-field effects with fog
  • Animate section planes
  • Master arrays
  • Use the tape measure and protractor
  • Create flights of stairs for any rise and run
  • Work with drawing axes
  • Add functionality to SketchUp
  • Explore Fredo6's Bezier Spline tools
  • Model pottery with a Bezier spline
  • Loft a handle with Curviloft
  • Cycle materials in dynamic components
  • Control object visibility
  • Keyboard shortcut strategy
  • Animate a door as a dynamic component
  • Prepare and save dynamic components
  • Work in interiors
  • Mirror options
  • Frame artwork
  • Best practices with layers
  • Explore sketchy styles
  • Explore linetype
  • Walk-through and flyover animations
  • Render with Twilight
  • See through ceilings and walls
  • Urban context
  • Work with stereograms
  • Generate tensile membranes
  • Cloth simulation
  • Using SketchUp and Revit together via IFC
  • Reporting on advanced attributes in components
  • Using the Sandbox tools
  • Bonus Sandbox tools
  • Architectural moldings
  • Rounded countertop edges
  • Upholstery and pillows
  • Using FredoScale
  • Intersect Faces with Model
  • Using Section Plane to slice geometry
  • AmbientOcclusion
  • Artistic renderings with SketchFX
  • Advanced camera tools
  • Making woodworking joints with solids
  • Creating grungy surfaces for realism
  • Using watermarks with scenes

Taught by

Scott Onstott

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