SketchUp Basics for Garden Designers

SketchUp basics for Garden Designers

In this course you will learn the basics skills of SketchUp every Garden Designer should have. You will learn how to create a garden project with an architectural element for context and how to prepare your project for Lumion.

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Furniture, complements, textures and plants

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Checklists and pdf's

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Course curriculum

1. Who am I?
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2. Who is this course for?
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3. Introduction to the course
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4. Folders and bonuses 📁
1. Intro
2. Introduction to the software
3. Program presentation
4. Organizing your workspace
5. Basic moves in SkecthUp
6. Checklist 1.0 📋
1. Intro
2. Before you start working in SketchUp
3. Preparing your project folder
4. Creating libraries and collections
5. Organization by layers
1. Intro
2. Files you can upload to SketchUp
3. Importing dwg files into SketchUp
4. Information you need to have from your client garden
5. Geolocation and terrain
6. Checklist 2.0 📋
1. Intro
2. Concept first
3. Layout and different areas
4. Paths and walkways
5. Exploring the tools
6. Textures and materials
7. Importing a material
8. Resources 3.0 more textures and materials 📃
1. Intro
2. What elements to have in your garden project
3. Architectural context and references
4. Structures and other elements
5. Adding plants
6. Decoration and complements
7. Playing with shadows
8. Some of my favourite components
1. Intro
2. What is the 3D Warehouse?
3. When not to use the 3D Warehouse
4. Register in the 3D Warehouse
1. Intro
2. How to export 2D images
3. How to create animations in SketchUp
4. How to share your work
5. Glimpse into Lumion
6. Other rendering solutions that can be used with SketchUp
1. Intro
2. What's an extension
3. How to install
4. Plugins suggested
5. Resources 4.0 extensions list suggested 📃
1. Intro
2. Dynamic components
3. Adding sections
4. Adding Styles
5. Adding a sky to your model
6. Adding people for scale
7. Introduction to Layout
8. Sandbox tools
9. Modelling from contours
10. Application Sketchup Viewer
11. Resources 5.0 other places to get models for your project 📃
1. What now?

About this course

€175,00
64 lessons
4 hours of video content

Who is this course for?

This course is for all garden designers/landscapers that want to start using SketchUp to improve their workflow and projects. To go from the 2D space into 3D. This is the perfect platform to create all the design layout of your projects in an architectural context. After SketchUp, you can use other programs like Lumion or Twinmotion.

Prepare your SketchUp models for the next fase that will be the course Rendering your Clients Dream Garden

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