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3D Modeling Software
SketchUp Advanced
Stretch your skills in SketchUp pro, the 3-D modeling program from Google |
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| Behind SketchUp's simple interface lies a powerful toolset waiting to be unleashed. You already know how to create complex models by extruding faces, using inferences, and adding slick entourage, but there is more to explore.
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At home with SketchUp |
Using SketchUp Pro 5, you'll learn professional techniques for project collaboration, methods for building terrain models, and how to create your own signature rendering style.
This three-lesson course focuses on the tools you'll need to work professionally with SketchUp, starting with importing from other common programs, like AutoCAD. You'll clean up 2D CAD plans within SketchUp and transform them into accurate, attractive 3D models. SketchUp Pro's Sandbox toolset is introduced—you'll use it to sculpt terrain and building sites from scratch or using plans. Finally, you'll learn how SketchUp is used with other rendering software, and how to create a signature rendering style combining SketchUp and Photoshop techniques.
Jim Dodson, architect and Sessions 3D authority, has developed this course with the professional SketchUp user in mind. He'll guide you through the software with high-level techniques, and let you use your imagination with challenging, hands-on projects.
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Tuition:
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Faculty:
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James Dodson is an architect and 3-D modeling specialist ... get bio
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Prerequisites: |
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| To take this course, you'll need: |
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Computer with Internet connection (28.8 Kbps modem
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SketchUp 5.0 or higher
(Please note that free Google SketchUp is not acceptable for this course.) |
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SketchUp Intermediate or similar experience in SketchUp |
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Adobe Photoshop CS or above |
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Photoshop Basics or similar experience in Photoshop |
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Objectives:
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Students can expect to learn how to:
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Import CAD drawings to SketchUp and apply appropriate display and layer settings. |
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Use grouping and healing techniques to prepare an imported 2D plan for 3D use. |
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Export 3D designs to 2D graphics for Web, print, and layout use. |
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Create a smooth mesh using the From Scratch tool and sculpt it with the Smoove tool. |
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Create a smooth mesh using drawn contours and CAD contours, and refine it using the Flip Edge tool and Add Detail tool. |
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Use softening and the Drape tool to customize the surface of smooth meshes. |
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Use the Stamp tool to create a level building site in a smooth mesh terrain. |
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Select a photorealistic renderer for use with SketchUp and export an appropriate 3D file. |
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Use Photoshop to create finished views with a hand-drawn appearance. |
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Creatively apply modeling and rendering techniques to create a professional finished product. |
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Outline: |
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| LESSON 1 Importing and Exporting Every project has to begin somewhere, and many professional 3D jobs start with 2D plans. In Lesson One, you'll learn how to import artwork from other programs, specifically working on AutoCAD plans for a cabin. You'll learn how to prepare the geometry for extrusion to 3D, and how to export your results to a variety of 2D formats. In the exercise, you'll continue to work on the cabin, adding complexity and details, using sectioning to create a new 2D plan, and exporting your work. |
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| LESSON 2 Enter the Sandbox You can create some pretty complex buildings at this stage of your SketchUp experience, but what about the environment around them? You'll work with terrain modeling in Lesson Two, using the SketchUp Pro Sandbox tools to sculpt smooth meshes from scratch and from contours. You'll use additional Sandbox tools to add details and create level building surfaces. Combining what you learned in the first two lessons, the exercise will challenge you to create detailed terrain based on CAD plans, and you'll add your cabin to this new environment.
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| LESSON 3 Advanced Rendering Techniques SketchUp is a non-photorealistic renderer—the results look like artwork, not real life. This is one of the many selling points of the program, but sometimes you just need a realistic output. In Lesson Three, you'll learn about photorealistic renderers that can turn your SketchUp creations into life-like imagery, and you'll work through the steps needed to export to these programs. Then you'll jump into Photoshop to learn some faux rendering techniques that give your models a stunning, hand-drawn look. In the exercise you'll apply this technique to begin developing your own signature 3D style with SketchUp. |
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Tuition:
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