SketchUp Tutorial Video – A Practical Course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: User Interface

Lecture 1: Important – Working Files – Download These First

Lecture 2: 0101 Exploring The User Interface On The Mac And In Windows

Lecture 3: 0102 Comparing Keyboard Layouts

Lecture 4: 0103 Arranging Windows

Chapter 2: Custom Settings

Lecture 1: 0201 Installing Keyboard Shortcuts

Lecture 2: 0202 Preferences, Templates, And Model Info

Chapter 3: Using Ruby Scripts

Lecture 1: 0301 Loading And Using Extensions

Lecture 2: 0302 Finding And Loading Ruby Scripts Manually

Lecture 3: 0303 Tips For Organizing Scripts And Turning Them Into Extensions

Chapter 4: Tools In Depth – Seeing

Lecture 1: 0401 Basic Navigation With A Mouse Or Tablet

Lecture 2: 0402 Parallel Projection, Perspective, And Two-Point Perspective

Lecture 3: 0403 The Many Faces Of Zoom

Lecture 4: 0404 Video Game Controls For First-Person Navigation

Lecture 5: 0405 Seeing Inside Spaces

Chapter 5: Editing

Lecture 1: 0501 Selection 101

Lecture 2: 0502 Selection Script

Lecture 3: 0503 Eraser Tricks

Lecture 4: 0504 Moving

Lecture 5: 0505 Copying, Multiplication, And Division

Lecture 6: 0506 Rotating Tutorial

Lecture 7: 0507 Scaling And Mirroring

Lecture 8: 0508 Scaling With The Tape Measure

Lecture 9: 0509 Freescale And Taper Scale

Lecture 10: 0510 Align Tool

Lecture 11: 0511 Divide And Divide With Construction Points

Lecture 12: 0512 Intersecting Tutorial

Lecture 13: 0513 Sections, Section-Cut-Face, And Zorro

Lecture 14: 0514 Guides

Lecture 15: 0515 Dimensions

Lecture 16: 0516 Leaders And Screen Text

Lecture 17: 0517 Modulating Visibility

Chapter 6: Layers

Lecture 1: 0601 Layer Mechanics

Lecture 2: 0602 Layer Manager

Chapter 7: Contextual Modelling

Lecture 1: 0701 Groups

Lecture 2: 0702 Component Basics

Lecture 3: 0703 Gluing Components

Lecture 4: 0704 Components That Cut Openings

Lecture 5: 0705 Components That Face Camera

Lecture 6: 0706 Components Window

Lecture 7: 0707 Paste In Place

Lecture 8: 0708 Dynamic Components

Lecture 9: 0709 Working With Larger Models

Chapter 8: Tools In Depth – Lines

Lecture 1: 0801 Lines And Click Style

Lecture 2: 0802 Freehand, Polylines, Explode, And Weld

Lecture 3: 0803 Understanding The Inference Engine

Lecture 4: 0804 Locking Inferences

Lecture 5: 0805 Drawing To Scale And Being Accurate

Lecture 6: 0806 Arcs And Ruby Arcs

Lecture 7: 0807 Drawing Polylines With Fredo6S Bezierspline

Lecture 8: 0808 Plane And Axis Locks Within Bezierspline

Lecture 9: 0809 Comparing Bezier Curves And Splines

Lecture 10: 0810 Curve Conversion

Lecture 11: 0811 Closing The Loop With Beziersplines

Chapter 9: Tools In Depth – Making Faces

Lecture 1: 0901 How To Make A Face

Lecture 2: 0902 Breaking And Healing Faces

Lecture 3: 0903 Determining Which Way A Face Faces

Chapter 10: Basic Surfaces

Lecture 1: 1001 Rectangles And The Golden Proportion

Lecture 2: 1002 Circles And Polygons

Lecture 3: 1003 Pushing And Pulling

Chapter 11: Advanced Surfaces

Lecture 1: 1101 Softening And Smoothing

Lecture 2: 1102 Joint Push Pull

Chapter 12: Edges On Faces

Lecture 1: 1201 Drawing Edges By Hand Or With Offset

Lecture 2: 1202 Tools On Surface

Lecture 3: 1203 Follow Me Basics

Lecture 4: 1204 Follow Me Application

Lecture 5: 1205 Rounded Box Primitive Tutorial

Lecture 6: 1206 Bezier Round Edge

Lecture 7: 1207 Several Methods For Cones And Spheres

Lecture 8: 1208 3D Text

Lecture 9: 1209 Skin

Lecture 10: 1210 Free Form Deformation

Lecture 11: 1211 Booleans

Lecture 12: 1212 Mathematically Derived Forms

Lecture 13: 1213 The Drawing Plane And Its Axes

Lecture 14: 1214 Projecting Geometry

Chapter 13: Architectural Tools

Lecture 1: 1301 Walls And Windows

Lecture 2: 1302 Housebuilder

Lecture 3: 1303 Roofs

Lecture 4: 1304 Manually Creating Stairs

Lecture 5: 1305 Stair And Railing Scripts

Chapter 14: Surface Shaping Tools

Lecture 1: 1401 Optimizing A Landscape From Contours

Lecture 2: 1402 Stamping, Draping, And Coloring Landforms

Lecture 3: 1403 Placing Components On Organic Surfaces

Lecture 4: 1404 Sculpting Organic Forms From Scratch

Lecture 5: 1405 Bezier Patch Modelling

Lecture 6: 1406 Tensile Membranes With Soap Skin And Bubble