Getting started with SketchUP
• Interface
• Setting up your workspace
• Project units
• Selecting a template
Navigation
• Zoom
• Pan
• Orbit
• Zoom extends
• Standard views
• View styles (shaded with edges, wireframe, x-ray, etc)
• Perspective and parallel projection
• Using the position camera tool
• Creating a scene
• Adding section planes
Drawing, erase and selection tools
• Using lines, circles, polygons tools
• Using the arc (arc, 2 points arc, 3points arc and pie) tool
• Using the freehand tool
• Selection tool and methods
• Using the erase tool to erase, smooth and hide
Editing tools
• Manipulating objects with move rotate and scale
• Using the move and rotate tool to copy and array
• Mirroring an object using the scale tool
• Stickiness behaviour
• Creating groups and components
• Push -pull, follow-me and offset tools
• Constraining object movement
Creating a model from a picture
• Inserting and using a picture as a reference
• Scaling the picture accurately
• Tracing over it and generating a 3d model
Creating a model from a DWG file
• Inserting and using a dwg file
• Using the vectors of the dwg file as a reference
Working and using models for 3D warehouse
• Accessing the 3dwarehouse
• Creating an account
• Fixing faulty models
• Placing a model in your scene
• Removing unused models from your file
Construction
• Using tape measure
• Dimensions
• Protractor
• Text
Organisation
• Layers - what they do and how to use them
• Making groups and components - what they do and how to use them
• Scenes - creating, modifying and updating
• Outliner
Texturing
• Applying materials
• Making new materials
• Adjusting material mapping on faces
• Editing material
Rendering and animation
• Applying styles
• Exporting 2d graphics
• Making animations from scenes
• Scenes - transitions and delays
• Export settings - frame sizes
• Frame rates
| Course Dates | Venue | Price | ||
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| Online | £349 + VAT | |||
| Online | £349 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £249 + VAT save £100 | |||
| Online | £249 + VAT save £100 | |||
| London Bridge | £279 + VAT save £70 | |||
| Online | £279 + VAT save £70 | |||
| London Bridge | £349 + VAT | |||
| Online | £349 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £349 + VAT | |||
| Online | £349 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £349 + VAT | |||
| Online | £349 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £349 + VAT | |||
| Online | £349 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £349 + VAT | |||
| Online | £349 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £349 + VAT | |||
| Online | £349 + VAT |
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