Hourglass Training

Access to the SketchUp Essentials Course –

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SketchUp Training Example Files –

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My Email

justin@thesketchupessentials.com

Notes/Links from Training

Plugins/Extensions

• Curic Space – I didn’t mention this one in the training (it occurred to me afterword), but you should check it out – it allows you to quickly space out different objects – could be very useful for spacing objects on shelves like the exercise I went through with Jen.
• Curic Align – Same as above, but this one allows you to quickly align objects, instead of you having to manually adjust a bunch of objects.
• Thru-Paint – This was the extension for placing textures on complex surfaces.
• Curviloft – This is the lofting extension that allows you to quickly create faces from edges, lines, and frames.
• FredoScale – FredoScale adds new options to the scale tool in SketchUp, allowing bending, shearing, and other changes to shapes.
• Eneroth Visual Merge – Eneroth Visual Merge allows you to hide (and unhide) the junctions between different objects. Could be very useful for the joints between objects like the marble we discussed
• s4u Export Scenes – Extension for exporting multiple different images from scenes at high resolutions at once.
• Enscape Rendering Software

Tutorials that may be useful

• Creating Material Libraries in SketchUp
• Inference Locking with your keyboard
• Ten Mistakes Beginners Make in SketchUp
• Managing Groups and Components in the Outliner

Day 1 Topics

• Starting/Setting Up a Project
• Introduction to the Workspace
• Navigating in your model
• Creating 2D Lines and Shapes
• 3D with the Push/Pull Tool
• Moving/Rotating Objects
• Scaling/Resizing Objects with the scale tool
• Shapes along paths with the follow me tool
• Text/Annotations
• Dimensions/Protractor
• Destickifying SketchUp with Groups and Components
• Organizing your model with the outliner
• Downloading models from the 3D Warehouse

Day 2 – Morning Topics

• Adding Materials to your models
• Creating Custom Materials
• Adjusting Materials on Faces
• Saving Camera Views
• Editing/Applying Styles
• Match Photo
• First Person Camera Tools
• Section Planes

Flexible Topics

• Sandbox Tools
• Extension Modeling
• Shadows/Fog
• Hidden Geometry
• Importing AutoCAD Files
• Creating Animations
• Moving Animations
• Location and Site Modeling
• Layout

Day 2 – Afternoon – Day 3 – All Day – Advanced Topics

• Extensions for your workflow
• Reporting out of SketchUp
• Component Library Creation/Management\
• Material Library Creation/Management
• Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
• Cleaning Up/Reducing Model Size
• 3D Rendering Program Options
• Layout
• Whatever you’d like!