Sketchup Free - From Floor Plan To 3D Model

Free Download What you'll learn
Basic tools for working in SketchUp
Import and scale an existing floor plan
Create a 2D plan in SketchUp
Build a 3D model from a 2D floor plan
Customize the model with objects from the 3D Warehouse
Make your model appealing with colors and textures
Visualize and present your kitchen, apartment or house in an engaging way
Requirements
Basic knowledge of SketchUp is helpful but not a must!
Description
Would you like to remodel your apartment, redesign your kitchen, or build your dream home? Then this is the course for you: Using SketchUp Free, the web-based and free version of the popular 3D modeling tool, we will recreate a realistic living situation from scratch in just under 1.5 hours.This is not a complete SketchUp course, but a comprehensive exercise to get to know how to work quickly with the simple CAD program on a concrete example, so that you can start your own projects with it. Instead of a lot of theory, we will start immediately with a practical approach and import an existing floor plan as a template (you are also welcome to work with your own floor plan) and bring it to the right scale. On top of that we will build our 2D plan, including furniture, dimensions and labels. We will also work with tags to bring order and clarity to the plan. From the finished 2D plan, we'll move on to building our 3D model. Here we will mainly practice working quickly in SketchUp: How we build different layers in minutes, from the walls to the furniture, and how you can save yourself a lot of work with the pre-built models from the 3D library and customize them as you like. Last but not least, you want the model to look good: You'll learn how to use colors and textures, and different ways to present your model in different styles in an appealing way.This course is for you if you have little or no SketchUp knowledge and want to get some hands-on practice with floor plans and modeling. What are the benefits of SketchUp?No other software allows you to build impressive 3D models so quickly that instantly convey the spatial impact of your project. The advantages of SketchUp:there is a free, web-based versionit's probably the easiest of all CAD programs to useyou are immediately in 3D and see your resultsThere is a huge library of pre-built 3D modelsyou can do a lot with it - nothing you can't design with it!What do you need?Not much! With the following tools you can start 3D modeling right away:a computer mouse with clickable mouse wheel (trackpad works too, but mouse is easier and faster not a must, but handy: a big screenHave fun ;-)
Overview
Section 1: Introduction and first steps
Lecture 1 How to get to SketchUp Free
Lecture 2 Setting Up SketchUp
Lecture 3 A Short Introduction to SketchUp
Lecture 4 Bonus: Essential Shortcuts
Section 2: Creating a 2D Floorplan
Lecture 5 Importing a Floor Plan
Lecture 6 Perspective and Shortcuts
Lecture 7 Drawing the Floor Plan
Lecture 8 Import 2D Symbols
Lecture 9 Working with 3D Text
Lecture 10 Drawing 2D Furniture
Lecture 11 Adding Text and Dimensions
Lecture 12 Exporting the Floor Plan
Section 3: Building the 3D Model
Lecture 13 Introduction
Lecture 14 Drawing the Walls
Lecture 15 Building the Kitchen
Lecture 16 Importing more Furniture
Lecture 17 Adding Colors and Textures
Lecture 18 Creating a Technical Drawing
Lecture 19 Using the Section Plane Tool
Lecture 20 Apply a Style and Export Images
Anyone who wants to plan a room, apartment or house starting from the floor plan,Anyone who wants to quickly model and visualize their own four walls or an interior design project in 3D,Anyone who wants to gain first, practical (free) SketchUp experiences on an architectural example


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