SketchUp

Syllabus for SketchUp Courses in Hyderabad

Session 1: Introduction

• Introduction to SketchUp: Getting Started with SketchUp, Understanding the Templates

• GUI: Understanding SketchUp Interface, Understanding Various Menus, Understanding the Status Bar, Understanding the Default Tray, Understanding the Toolbars customization and managing Trays

• Mouse Control & SketchUp Preferences, Creating, Saving and Opening a Model, Importing Different Types of Files into SketchUp

• Axes: Understanding the Axes in SketchUp & Reorienting the Axes

• Inference: Concept of Inference, Understanding the various inference types and locking the inference.

Session 2&3: Modeling of Entities

• Drawing Tools: Understanding the line tool, constructing a surface, dividing a face and joining faces and understanding the various input methods. Understanding the rectangle tool and various dimensions inputs, drawing a Rotated rectangle Entity. Understanding the creation of circle entity and its various parameters, drawing an ellipse from circle. Understanding the creation of polygon entity and its various parameters, drawing an Arc using various Arc tools: Arc, 2point Arc, 3 point Arc, Pie Tool. Drawing a Freehand Shapes.

• Selection of an object: Understanding the select tool, selecting multiple entities, Adding and subtracting from a selection set.

• Modify Tools: Editing Shapes Using Entity Info Option, Pushing and Pulling Shapes into 3D, Cutting a 3D shape out of a model, understanding the move tool, Stretching Geometry using Move tool, Resizing Surface Entities, creating copies using Move Tool and Rotate Tool, Creating Multiple copies using Move tool and Rotate Tool, Offsetting line from an existing geometry

• Undo Recent Task & Eraser Tool.

Session 4 &5: Modeling of Entities 2

• Modify Tools: Understanding the Dividing, Splitting and Exploding Entities, Understanding the Flipping, Mirroring and Rotating, Scaling a model using Scale tool, Tape Measure tool and Stretching a Model using Scale tool, Understanding the Follow me tool, Automatic and Manual Extrusion with Follow Me Tool and modeling Revolved shape, Soften / Smooth Edges of Geometry & Hiding Geometry

• Tape Measure Tool & Protractor Tool : Measuring Distance / Create guides, Measuring an Angle, Editing

• Guidelines

• Annotating Model: Understanding the Annotation Tools, Adding Text, Text as a Model Entity, Dimension Tool

• Matching a photo to a Model: Match Photo’s Color-coded tools, Creating a 3D Model from a Photo, Deleting a Matched Photo

Session 6 & 7: Components & Groups

• Getting Started with Components: Understanding the components, Creating a Component, Editing a Component, Editing all instances of a Component, Making Dynamic Component: Adding Attributes, Defining Attribute Values and testing, Inserting, Replacing and Interacting with dynamic Component, Searching for Component, Adjusting a component’s insertion point, Editing Component

• Grouping Geometry

• Working with Hierarchies in the outliners: Renaming groups and components, Finding groups and components, identifying a group / component’s status, restructuring a model’s hierarchy

• Controlling visibility with layers

Session 8 & 9: Presenting your Model

• Viewing a Model: Camera, Changing the view or focal length

• Sections: To place a Section Plane, Filling Voids in section cuts, Creating new geometry from a section, showing / hiding section planes, Exporting Section cut effects,

• Scenes: Adding a Scene, Managing properties saved with a scene, animating scenes

• Styles: Choosing a Style, Editing styles, Style Editing options, Managing in-model styles and collections, Sharing styles, adding fog effect to model

• Applying Materials & Textures: Adding Colors and Textures with materials, Applying Materials, Replacing one material with another, Editing Materials-Editing Options, calculating Material Area, Managing and organizing materials, creating new material, Applying Textures, Adding Geographic location from Google Map, Applying Real-time Shadows.

Session 10: 3D Model to 2D Documentation

• SketchUp LayOut: Introduction, Template selection, Understanding the GUI, Creating Documents in Layout, Presenting Layout Documents: Scale, Changing Views, Changing Model Style, Changing Dimension Style, Inserting Texts & Changing Text Styles, Exporting / Printing Layout Document