Essential in SketchUp (40 Hours)

Duration
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Introduction
Getting Started with SketchUp
Understanding the Templates
GUI
Understanding SketchUp Interface
Understanding Various Menu
Understanding the Status Bar
Understanding the Default Tray
Understanding the Toolbars Customization
Managing Trays
Mouse Control & SketchUp preferences
1 Session 1 Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Creating
Saving
Opening a model
Importing and Exporting Different Types file of SketchUp
Axes
Understanding the Axes in SketchUp
Reorienting the Axes
Inference
Concept of Inference
Understanding the Various inference types
Locking the Inference
2 Session 2 Practice 01: Importing Different Types of file into SketchUp Practical 2.0 Hrs
Modelling Of Entities 1
Drawing Tool
Understanding the line tool
Constructing a surface
Divide and Joining a face
Understanding the various input method
Rectangle
understanding the rectangle tool and various dimensions inputs
Drawing a Rotated rectangle entity.
Understanding the creation of circle entity and its various parameters
Ellipse
3 Session 3 Drawing an ellipse from circle Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Understanding the creation of Polygon entity and its various parameters
Arc
Drawing an Arc using various Arc tools
2 point Arc
3 point Arc
Pie tool
Drawing a freehand Shapes
Selection of an object
Understanding the Select tool
selecting multiple entities
Adding and subtracting from a selection set.
4 Session 4 Practice 02: Create a simple 2D floor plan using the drawing tools Practical 2.0 Hrs
Modelling Of Entities 2
Modify Tools
Editing Shapes using Entity Info option
Pushing and pulling shapes into 3D
Cutting a 3D Shape out of a model
Understanding the move tool
5 Session 5 Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Stretching geometry using Move tool
Resizing Surface Entities
Creating Copies using Move Tool and Rotate Tool
Creating Multiple Copies/Array using Move tool and Rotate Tool
offsetting Line from an existing geometry.
Undo recent & Eraser tool
6 Session 6 Practice 03: Create a 3D floor plan using modify tools. Practical 2.0 Hrs
Modelling Of Entities 3
Modify Tools

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Understand the Dividing, Splitting and Exploding Entities
Understand the Flipping, Mirroring and Rotating
Scaling a model using Scale tool
Stretching a model using scale tool
Understand the Follow Me Tool
7 Session 7 Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Automatic and Manual Extrusion with Follow Me Tool
Modelling Revolved Shape, Soften/ Smooth Edges of Geometry & Hiding
Geometry
Tape Measure Tool & Protractor Tool
Measuring Distance/ Create guides
Measuring an angle
Editing Guidelines
8 Session 8 Practice 04: Create Vase and Sun Shade using Follow Me Practical 2.0 Hrs
Modelling Of Entities 4
Annotative Model
Understanding the Annotation tools
Adding Text
Text as a Model Entity
9 Session 9 Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Dimension Tool
Matching a photo to a model
Match Photo's Colour- coded tools
Creating a 3D Model from a photo
Deleting a matched photo
Practice 05: Apply Text, Dimension to the model and Create building model using
10 Session 10 Practical 2.0 Hrs
Matching photo.
Groups
Grouping Geometry
Working with hierarchies in the outliners
Renaming groups and components
11 Session 11 Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Finding groups and components
Identifying a group/Components
Restructuring a model's hierarchy
Controlling visibility with ;ayers.
12 Session 12 Practice 06: Create Table in Group using Follow Me and Revolving tool. Practical 2.0 Hrs
Components
Getting Started with Components
Understanding the components
Creating a component
Editing a component
Editing all instances of a component
13 Session 13 Making Dynamic component Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Adding attributes
Defining Attribute Values and testing
Inserting, replacing and Interacting with dynamic Component
Searching for component
Adjusting a component's inserting point
Editing component.
14 Session 14 Practice 07: Create Door in Components and Modify its properties. Practical 2.0 Hrs
Presenting Your Model
Viewing a Model
Camera
Changing the view or focal length
Section
To place a section plane
Filling voids in section cuts
Creating new geometry from a section
15 Session 15 Showing/hiding section planes Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Exporting section cut effects
Style
Choosing a style
Editing Styles
Style Editing options
Managing in-model styles and collections
Sharing styles

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Adding fog effects to model
16 Session 16 Practice 08: Apply style and Create Scenes of SketchUp Model using Camera. Practical 2.0 Hrs
Presenting Your Model
Applying Material & Texture
Adding colour and Textures with material
Applying Material & Texture
Replacing one material with another
Editing Material-Editing Option
17 Session 17 Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Calculating Material area
Managing and organizing material
Creating new material
Applying Texture
Adding Geographic location from Google Map
Applying Real-time shadows.
Practice 09: Apply Material and texture to the model. Create new material to the
18 Session 18 Practical 2.0 Hrs
model.
3D Model to 2D
SketchUp Layout
Introduction
Template Selection
Understanding the GUI
Creating Documents in Layout
19 Session 19 Presenting layout Documents Theory/Demo 2.0 Hrs
Scale
Changing Views
Changing Model Style
Changing Dimension Style
Inserting Text & Changing Text Style
Exporting/ printing Layout Document
20 Session 20 Practice 10: Convert your 3D SketchUp to 2D layout Practical 2.0 Hrs

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