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Getting Started with SketchUp Pro

By : David S. Sellers
Book Image

Getting Started with SketchUp Pro

By: David S. Sellers

Overview of this book

Owing to its ability to create models quickly and with high level of dimensional accuracy, SketchUp Pro has become a popular choice for many industries, including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and video game design. If you are seeking to adopt Trimble's exceptional design software, Getting Started with SketchUp Pro serves as an ideal primer to prepare and equip you for its use. This book will help you lay the foundation of a project from scratch, set up appropriate units, and follow a guided path to structure your 3D models. You’ll explore the workflows used for creating designs from sketches, making CAD drawings (DWG), and even updating your existing 3D models. Finally, you’ll work with extensions and 3D Warehouse to find new workflows and models to add to your skill set. By the end of this SketchUp book, you’ll be able to confidently create and share models of your design through CAD drawings and 3D views, and even take them online through the 3D Warehouse
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – User Interface and Beginning Modeling!
7
Part 2 – Views, Animations, and Materials
11
Part 3 – Advanced Modeling and Model Organization
12
Chapter 9: Entity Info, Outliner, and Tags Dynamically Organize Your Models
13
Chapter 10: Model Info and Preferences

To get the most out of this book

This book is a hands-on exploration of SketchUp Pro, so it is recommended to have a version of SketchUp Pro for Windows operating system (OS) installed on your computer. This book includes features from the latest version of SketchUp Pro, but older versions of SketchUp Pro will be compatible with this book. Using a full keyboard and mouse with left-click, right-click, and a scroll wheel is highly recommended.

Software/hardware covered in the book

Operating system requirements

SketchUp Pro 2023

Windows

The SketchUp for Web and SketchUp Make user interfaces are different from SketchUp Pro. Additionally, multiple workflows are discussed in this book that are exclusive to SketchUp Pro, including DWG import.