Overview

Visualizing spaces in three dimensions is critical to the success of the design of architectural spaces. The interplay of light, color, space and form make exciting spaces function successfully. Traditional methods for exploring these issues are very labor intensive. Use of computer software has enabled quicker (and sometimes more accurate) study models to be generated, explore and iterate more times in the time design time available to you.

Course Objectives

SketchUp enables you to draw using a familiar pencil and paper paradigm in a software context. The SketchUp Essentials One course provides students with an excellent choice for beginning to learn to use SketchUp. This course is intended for students with little or no 3 dimensional drawing or SketchUp experience, but who want to start to create 3 dimensional models using SketchUp.

Prior Skills

To be successful in this course, you should already be able to:

• Defne fundamental geometric terms including: polygon, parallel, perpendicular, axes, and arc.
• Defne 3-dimensional drawing terms including: rendering, feld of view, and point of view.
• Demonstrate mouse skills including: double-click, single-click, drag, and right-click (context-click).
  You will need a basic 3-button scroll wheel mouse to use SketchUp effciently.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Create 2 dimensional geometry (in a 3 dimensional or 3D environment)
  • Create surfaces from lines
  • Create surfaces from circles
  • Generate surfaces from polygons
  • Generate surfaces from arcs
  • Create surfaces from freehand curves
• Demonstrate stickiness of geometry
• Create 3 dimensional geometry
• View a model in 3D
• Create surfaces from lines in 3D
• Demonstrate stickiness of geometry in 3D
• Create geometry with the push-pull tool
• Move entities to manipulate geometry
• Maintain coplanar geometry
• Maintain Coplanar geometry
• Connect and generate forms
• Lock an inference
• Generate forms quickly
• Restore a surface
• Create a model, step-by-step
• Mirror a model
• Create an array
• Apply Materials
• Create 3D Text
• Import component models from Google 3DWarehouse
• Alter a model using built-in Styles
• Position and export models to Google Earth

Overview

Visualizing spaces in three dimensions is critical to the success of the design of architectural spaces. The interplay of light, color, space and form make exciting spaces function successfully. Traditional methods for exploring these issues are very labor intensive. Use of computer software has enabled quicker (and sometimes more accurate) study models to be generated and explored.

Successful integration of modeling software within an architectural practice hinges on how well the computer information can be used, not only inside the computer (to other software packages), but also outside the computer to communicate to clients and review agencies. The output from your SketchUp computer models may be rendered in many different ways; from straight computer printouts, to raster images for retouching with photo editing software, to vector polygon graphics reworked with illustration software, to producing accurate perspective underlays for developing hand renderings.

Course Objectives

SketchUp enables you to draw using a familiar pencil and paper paradigm in a software context. The Sketchup Essentials Two course provides students with an excellent choice for learning to use SketchUp to build up a three dimensional model from surfaces defned by the edges that are drawn. This course is intended for students with basic experience with SketchUp, and who want to create effcient 3 dimensional models using SketchUp.

Prior Skills

To be successful in this course, you should already be able to:
• Defne fundamental geometric terms including: polygon, parallel, perpendicular, axes, and arc.
• Defne 3-dimensional drawing terms including: rendering, feld of view, and point of view.
• Demonstrate mouse skills including: double-click, single-click, drag, and right-click (context-click).
• Demonstrate profcient use of the line (pencil), move, erase, orbit, zoom, and select tools in SketchUp.
You will need a basic 3-button scroll wheel mouse to use SketchUp effciently

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Demonstrate stickiness in the model
• Use Groups and Components to isolate geometry
• Know the difference between a group and a component
• Create a component
• Demonstrate component behavior and how to edit a component
• Create component nesting for effcient modeling
• Demonstrate the effect of scaling on similar components
• Understand the Component browser
• Browse for and download components for Google 3DWarehouse
• Combine components to create a model in Google Earth
• Locate a site in Google Earth
• Import the site to SketchUp
• Insert a component from a file
• Model from a Photograph
  • Photomatch
  • Texture Tweaker
• Understand the Materials browser
• Use the Follow-me tool
• Swap (reload) components in a model
• Work with SketchUp Styles
  • Apply
  • Edit/Create
  • Mix
• Create a presentation with the LayOut tools

Overview

SketchUp is a powerful tool for communicating 3D design concepts in professional workflows. The advanced topics course is designed for experienced SketchUp users who want to investigate advanced topic areas including working with CAD, creating curved surfaces and employing advanced presentation techniques for SketchUp models. Detailed instruction in the use of Google LayOut for print presentations is provided. SketchUp’s strength is its ability to integrate with other systems. Participants will be given a thorough review of the entire design environment

Prior Skills

To be successful in this course, you should already be able to:

• Defne create basic geometric forms, including polygons, arcs and use more advanced features such as the FOLLOWME tool and TEXTURE TWEAKER.
  
• Use Groups and Components to isolate geometry, know the difference between a group and a component and understand component inferencing behavior and how to edit a component.
• Create materials and use the materials browser and libraries.
• Understand how to apply SketchUp Styles.
• Users should also have basic familiarity with use of LayOut for creating presentations.
  

We recommend that participants in the advanced topics course, have already completed the Essentials One
and Two courses and have several weeks of modeling experiencing with SketchUp. We do not recommend that students attempt to complete the course immediately after completion of another SketchUp training class.

You will need a basic 3-button scroll wheel mouse to use SketchUp effciently

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Import and Export CAD
• Entourage and Share models with 3D Warehouse
• Understand and employ existing Ruby Scripts
• Create and manipulate Curved Forms
• Photomatch from multiple images and integrate a model into a site photograph
• Leverage Advanced Presentation Techniques
• Show off a model in Google Earth
• Understand photorealistic rendering options
• Make compelling presentations with Google LayOut
• Understand the uses of the Section Tool
• Effciently organize groups, components, and layers to increase model performance

Overview

Visualizing and communicating spaces in three dimensions is critical to the success of the design of architectural spaces. The interplay of light, color, space and form make exciting spaces function successfully. Traditional methods for exploring these issues are very labor intensive. Use of computer software has enabled quicker (and sometimes more accurate) study models to be generated and explored.
Successful integration of modeling software within a design-related practice hinges on how well the computer information can be used, not only inside the computer (to other software packages), but also outside the computer to communicate to clients and review agencies. The output from your SketchUp computer models may be rendered in many different ways; from straight computer printouts using Styles, to raster images for retouching with photo editing software, to vector polygon graphics reworked with illustration software, to producing accurate perspective underlays for developing hand renderings.

Course Objectives

Landscape Design is a discipline that encompasses many workflows that result in designs ranging from humanscale site fixtures to regional masterplans. While many of these designs can be created from scratch, often AutoCAD files, surveyor data, hand renderings, and existing photography are all incorporated in the design process as well as the end result. Expressing all this information in three dimensions will greatly facilitate communication of the design to others.

Prior Skills

To be successful in this course, you should already be able to:

• Demonstrate proficiency with a standard three-button mouse in the Windows environment.
• Demonstrate proficiency navigating within a SketchUp environment.
• Understand “Click-Release-Click” and “Click and Drag” methods when using SketchUp tools.
• Be able to create linear and radial arrays within SketchUp using the Move/Copy tool.
• Have a basic understanding and ability to navigate in Google Earth.

You will need a basic 3-button scroll wheel mouse to use SketchUp efficiently

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Create custom face-me plant material from image files.
• Reload and Replace components.
• Import and Export your SketchUp model to and from Google Earth.
• Utilize various plug-ins and ruby scripts such as “drop.rb” and “SimplifyContours.rb”.
• Model terrain utilizing functions of the “Sandbox” tools.
• Understand advanced techniques working with large files including the “Hide Rest of Model” feature when editing components.
• Import file types from other software packages including AutoCAD, ArcGIS, and Adobe Photoshop.

Overview

The Mastering 3D Using SketchUp: Geomodeling Training course provides students with a comprehensive overview of the process and benefts of exploring the interoperability of SketchUp and Google Earth, and a deeper look into 3D Warehouse.

Course Objectives

This course will help participants understand fundamental principals of SketchUp as a 3D modeling software.
Participants will learn how to create 3D objects quickly with basic and intermediate tools, as well as how to control model precision. Participants will learn to use image texturing to depict details of a model to reduce work and fle size, as well as altering images in other applications for more effcient texture rendering. Participants will learn the process of tagging geo-referenced information to a 3D model using SketchUp. This course will also provide participants the techniques they need to review and improve their 3D model quality and complexity for better fnal geomodeling results.

Prior Skills

To be successful in this course, you should already be able to:

• Defne fundamental geometric terms including: polygon, parallel, perpendicular, axes, and arc.
  
• Defne 3-dimensional drawing terms including: rendering, feld of view, and point of view.
  
• Demonstrate mouse skills including: double-click, single-click, drag, and right-click (context-click).
  

You will need a basic 3-button scroll wheel mouse to use SketchUp effciently.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Create 2-dimensional (2D) geometry in a 3-dimensional (3D) environment
• Create and manipulate surfaces from lines, circles, polygons, arcs, etc.
• Create and manipulate surfaces in 3D
  
• View and navigate your model in 3D
  
• Understand and leverage stickiness in the model
  
• Maintain coplanar geometry and use/lock inferences
  
• Use the Push/Pull Tool, and Follow Me Tool
  
• Generate forms quickly and apply materials
  
• Create and use Groups and Components
  
• Understand the difference between a Group and a Component
  
• Edit Groups and Components
  
• Utilize photographs in your model
  
• Manipulate images/textures with Texture Tweaker
  
• Create materials and use the Materials Browser
  
• Align building to terrain data
  
• Upload your model to the Google 3D Warehouse
  
• Import site information (imagery and topography) from Google Earth
  
• Position and export models to Google Earth

Overview

The LayOut course will cover the fundamental principles of LayOut as a 2D drafting and presentation tool. You will learn the necessary basic, intermediate and advanced tools to present your 3D SketchUp models in several different 2D formats. You will also learn to navigate the LayOut 2D environment as well as how to be accurate while drafting within the environment. You will learn the process of importing several fle types into a LayOut document and organizing information for presentation on standard sheet sizes set to architectural scales. The LayOut course ultimately provides you with the strategies and techniques you need to effectively and efciently present your 3D SketchUp models in digital and print formats.

Course Objectives

LayOut provides a dynamic link between your 3D models and your 2D presentation. Participants will explore many of the popular features of LayOut by walking through a mock project and creating a 2D document optimized for print and digital presentation.

Prior Skills

To be successful in this course, you should already be able to:

• Defne fundamental geometric terms including: polygon, parallel, perpendicular, axes, and arc.
  
• Defne 3-dimensional drawing terms including: rendering, feld of view, and point of view.
  
• Demonstrate mouse skills including: double-click, single-click, drag, and right-click (context-click).
  

You will need a basic 3-button scroll wheel mouse to use SketchUp efciently

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Create and manipulate 2D geometry in a 2D drafting environment.
  
• Import 3D SketchUp models into the 2D LayOut document and set to an architectural scale.
  
• View and navigate a SketchUp model in 3D, and 2D.
  
• Modify a SketchUp model and update it’s dynamic link within LayOut.
  
• Utilize a variety of fle types to create comprehensive presentations.
  
• Utilize strategic render settings based on the viewport style; raster, vector, or hybrid.
  
• Leverage scrapbooks to quickly annotate a document.
  
• Export a presentation as a slideshow, .pdf, and .dwg/.dxf.

Overview

Photo rendering is quite important in visualization, it will give user more accurate lighting and material behavior. Demand for rendering course is also high, but the problem is user often has limited computer performance to do it, and the process is very complicated for beginner or user who never perform rendering. To solve these problem this course will use SU Podium as rendering plugins, as it is very intuitive like SketchUp, fast, and produce excellent result. Photo rendering course will cover fundamental of lighting, both natural and artificial, to enhanced the scenes. It also cover study about how material behave and its interaction with light particles. More over, it will cover about making Virtual Reality panorama rendering, real time rendering, post-processing technique, and various way to present visualization.

Course Objectives

Produce photo rendering visualization with the best result by understanding basic lighting, material and composition. Making viewer hard to guess whether it is computer generated or real photo. The result then take into next level as a virtual reality rendering and create virtual tour from it.

Prior Skills

To be successful in this course, you should already be able to:

• Demonstrate mouse skills including: double-click, single-click, drag, and right-click (context-click).
  
• Handy to move or copy objects, resize them, and assign it into particular layer.
• Create/modify a scene and understand how to texture tweaking in SketchUp.

You will need a basic 3-button scroll wheel mouse to use SketchUp efficiently

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Setup natural and artificial lighting in a scene
• Define material properties such as diffuse, transparency, reflection, refraction and bump.
• Understand a preset behavior on interior and exterior scenes.
• Optimize model to speed up rendering process.
• Create day scene and night scene, both interior and exterior.
• Enhance rendering result with some post-processing technique.
• Create Virtual Reality Panorama rendering in 360 view.
• Use online based render ready component library to create scene.

Overview

3D Printing technology become mainstream nowadays, and SketchUp is the perfect tool for modeling 3D printable object. However, not any model is printable, some of them must be clean up first as a solid object before go to 3D printer. In this course we will learn how to make printable model from scratch and how to clean up existing model, there is several method to do this with pros and cons. We will also learn how to create hollow model with single wall to reserve material. 

Course Objectives

Understand how to create solid hollow model from scratch or clean up existing model with several method. ABy using solid tools, some extensions and slicer software, student will have smooth workflow from model to printing process, either using physical 3D printer or online services.

Prior Skills

To be successful in this course, you should already be able to:

• Modify geometry such as move, copy, scale, rotate, and create array.
• Demonstrate mouse skills including: double-click, single-click, drag, and right-click (context-click).
  
• Understand about boolean operation using solid tools.

You will need a basic 3-button scroll wheel mouse to use SketchUp efciently

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Create watertight object, or in SketchUp term is solid group/component.
• Create hollow model with single wall to saving up filament material.
• Use some extensions to clean up non solid model
• Transform non printable model into printable using online method
• Export model to STL format and send it to slicer software.
• Tweak a model in slicer software and generate G-Code.
• Calibrate 3D printer before making a print.
• Understand how 3D printer works.
• Use online-payable services to print a model