Monday, July 12, 2010

Expert Google SketchUp

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Expert SketchUp users will find these video tutorials very helpful. They explore advanced techniques for optimizing your models, improving your efficiency and working with complicated forms. If you are brand-new to 3D modeling, we recommend starting with our New User videos. Please note that these videos are narrated in English.

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Google SketchUp and CAD: Imports and Presentations (8:56)

There are varied approaches to using SketchUp with CAD files. This video is the 1st of 3 videos that present one method we suggest as it is quick and creates a good clean SketchUp model. In this video we import a CAD plan, group and lock it, delete extra layers and create a unique layer for the floor plan and create scenes to toggle the floor plan visibility on and off.

Google SketchUp and CAD: Creating Walls (6:23)

This is video 2 in working with SketchUp and CAD and progresses from our previous video in using the CAD plan as a reference to create interior and exterior walls for our model.

Google SketchUp and CAD: Doors and Windows (4:56)

This is the 3rd video covering our recommended method for creating models from CAD files. Here we cover a technique to create your door and window openings.

Google SketchUp and Photoshop: Lens Blur (8:53)

You can create some great image effects when you combine SketchUp with other software. This video shows how to use the fog setting in SketchUp to create a depth map that you can use in Photoshop for some very interesting effects.

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