Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 34 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Simon Rodway
Rating
Course Overview
Learn professional techniques which make even complex projects easy to model in SketchUp.
Let me teach you the basic methods I use in SketchUp as a professional illustrator and designer with 20 years experience in woodworking magazines!
I have drawn thousands of woodworking projects for magazines in the UK, US and Europe, and currently illustrate 2 top UK titles, Furniture and Cabinetmaking and Woodworking Crafts.
SketchUp has been a big part of this process. It is a great drawing program, and although its hard to find, you can still download the FREE version called SketchUp Make.
Just in case you are having trouble finding Sketch Make, the free version you can install on your computer, search for SketchUp Make in Google and follow the instructions. This is a different and much more powerful version of SketchUp to the online browser based SketchUp Free.
Learning the basic tools is just the start though. You can save yourself so much time and effort by using a few simple methods I show you in the course.
Using these techniques, you will find it much easier to design and draw your own projects!
Drawing in 3D can be huge fun, seeing something you have imagined coming to life.
It can also be a bit daunting at first, and without a clear structure to guide you, its possible to get a bit lost. This is why you need my course.
(Update, February 2018: link for students who want to learn basics first added)
Course Content
- 8 section(s)
- 54 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Designing and drawing
- Section 2 Building a Toolbox 1; Outline design
- Section 3 Building a toolbox 2: Carcass and Linings
- Section 4 Building a Toolbox 3: the main tray
- Section 5 Building a toolbox 4: Small Tray
- Section 6 Building a toolbox 5: Finishing off and refining the details
- Section 7 Presentation and Output;
- Section 8 The next steps
What You’ll Learn
- Update: link to free SketchUp basic lectures added February 2018, Bring your design ideas to life in 3D with SketchUp, Learn to try out different ideas quickly and easily by making edits to your models, Go way beyond the free videos and learn how to build SketchUp models the professional way, Cut drawing times in half, literally, with a simple mirror method, Learn why its so important to build your model in situ, Learn how you can model even complex shapes with a simple technique, Learn to draw something once, and use it again and again and again, saving hours
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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BBrad Champine
Yes, so far it is!
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RRalph V.
Great course for sketchup. But you have to have some expierience in the app, I wouldn‘t recommend it for absolute beginners.
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IIFS Trade d.o.o. Brodišče 30, 1236 Trzin, SI, SI12478610
Very in-depth course on how to use Sketchup for your woodworking needs :) In the presentation lecture at the end, I was missing the tutorial on how to create exploded views for making your plans. And also, how to create your cut list so you know how much material you need for the project. But once you are equipped with the knowledge from this course it is easy to google the above solutions and understand how to make it :) All in all, a great course!
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PPrithika
Overall, the lectures are well-structured, very informative and easy to follow. I have reduced a star because the audio and the video lack sync in many lectures, and the instructor takes at least a couple of days to answer questions.
