This is the companion page for Chapter 2 of the book Architectural Design with SketchUp.
On This Page
From the Book
This chapter of Architectural Design with SketchUp reviews most of SketchUp’s basic techniques. You’ll also learn about customizing the software environment and adjusting settings to help you with your daily tasks.
Chapter Sections:
- Getting Started and Getting Help
- Interface and Program Setup
- Working with Templates
- SketchUp’s Tool Set
- SketchUp’s Best Practices and Watch-Outs
Go Beyond the Book
These are my most recent tutorials posted in the SketchUp Basics category on this site:
SketchUp Models in this Chapter
Below are two of the models that you can explore interactively in your browser (click and drag to orbit):
View and download all models from this chapter on the 3D Warehouse.
Tutorial Videos for this Chapter
You can access all Chapter 2 videos using the password from the book on Wiley’s companion site: www.wiley.com/go/schreyer2e
All Chapter 2 videos:
- 0201: Making your own template (included here)
- 0202: Trellis example
- 0203: Groups and components
- 0204: Applying and positioning materials
- 0205: Modeling a post cap
- 0206: Importing and scaling images (included here)
- 0207: Modeling from images
Links for this Chapter
Related links to relevant websites are listed here.
- help.sketchup.com
- forums.sketchup.com
- learn.sketchup.com
- status.sketchup.com
- youtube.com/user/SketchUpVideo
- sketchucation.com/forums
- sketchup.com/resources/trainers
- mastersketchup.com
- sketchupschool.com/sketchup-tutorials
- danieltal.com
- fonts.google.com
- 1001fonts.com
- dafont.com
- help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup-viewer/sketchup-viewer
- sketchfab.com
- sketchupfordesign.com/the-book/further-reading
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