SketchUp - All you need to know!

About this course

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 versionit's probably the easiest of all CAD programs to useyou are instantly in 3Dyou can do very quick rough sketching or professional, accurate, detail rich objectsthere is a huge library of pre-built 3D-modelsfrom tiny details, to your own garden to the whole building - there is nothing you can't visualiseHow 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

Course objectives

• to familiarize students with the SketchUp interface and tools
• to enable students to create detailed 3D models
• to assist students in visualizing design ideas