Online: Introduction to SketchUp

£200.00

This course is a general introduction to SketchUp Pro. It’s suitable for people who are totally new to SketchUp, are looking for a refresher, and for those who want to learn best practises and ensure they’re using the optimal workflow.

Course objectives:

  • Learn how to draw simple 3D shapes (Line, Rectangle, Circle etc.)

  • Manipulate objects into more complex forms

  • Understand how Groups and Components work

  • Apply materials and textures and use basic scaling

  • Understand Layers and Tags

  • Utilise the 3D Warehouse and know how best to populate your model with plants

  • Understand how to create basic terrain

  • Be able to turn on shadows, use the Camera Tools and set up Scenes

  • Export images for use in presentations

Please read our Terms of Service before booking.

Date:

This course is a general introduction to SketchUp Pro. It’s suitable for people who are totally new to SketchUp, are looking for a refresher, and for those who want to learn best practises and ensure they’re using the optimal workflow.

Course objectives:

  • Learn how to draw simple 3D shapes (Line, Rectangle, Circle etc.)

  • Manipulate objects into more complex forms

  • Understand how Groups and Components work

  • Apply materials and textures and use basic scaling

  • Understand Layers and Tags

  • Utilise the 3D Warehouse and know how best to populate your model with plants

  • Understand how to create basic terrain

  • Be able to turn on shadows, use the Camera Tools and set up Scenes

  • Export images for use in presentations

Please read our Terms of Service before booking.

Duration

This is a one day course starting at 9.30 GMT and finishing at 16.45 GMT. There will be a morning session (9.30 - 12.45) and afternoon session (13.30 - 16.45), each with a 15 minute break.

Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course beyond a decent working knowledge of computers. Although it’s written for landscape professionals, it’s an introduction to SketchUp and as such is applicable to other industries, although the exercises are specific to our industry.

Our follow-on course Advanced SketchUp is only suitable for landscape and garden professionals.

Getting started

It is essential that you have SketchUp installed and running prior to the course. We cannot help you with software installation and if you have any difficulties with this please contact SketchUp directly.

The course will be run via Zoom. You will need a stable, reliable internet connection to view the course, which is run online.

Course structure

This course is divided into a series of demonstrations and class exercises. As tempting as it is to follow the tutor - selecting tools and drawing as they draw - you are more likely to miss details this way (even if you have two screens), as you will be concentrating on your own work and not the tutor. There is a lot to cover in a day and the demonstrations will run quite quickly to leave as much time as possible for class exercises.

We provide a comprehensive course manual and recommend you concentrate on the demonstrations and make any additional notes by hand.

Further Information

If you would like more information on any of our courses, please ask. You can contact us via email, phone or via our contact form.