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Design your Garden using SketchUp
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(363 ratings)
4,781 students

Design your Garden using SketchUp

An effective guide to create amazing 3D garden designs for yourself or for your clients.
Created byDaniel Moreno
Last updated 4/2021
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What you'll learn

  • Using SketchUp
  • Design your dream garden in 3D software
  • Design gardens for your clients

Course content

5 sections21 lectures1h 53m total length
  • Download Sketchup & Install3:22

    Download and install SketchUp, focusing on SketchUp Pro and the 30-day demo, from sketchup.com, and complete the desktop installation by dragging the app into the Applications folder and docking it.

  • Downloading Older and Free Versions0:42

    Learn how to download a free desktop version of SketchUp from the official site, up to SketchUp Make 2017, as a free alternative to SketchUp Pro for garden design.

  • Set Up your Toolbars & Workspace2:07

    Set up your SketchUp workspace by selecting an architectural template in centimeters, customize the toolbar with favorites like standard views, styles, and shadows, and start drawing.

  • Basic Tools3:09

    Learn SketchUp's basic tools in a three-axis space—blue height, green depth, red width—and use select, pencil, and pool and push tool to turn plans into 3D objects.

  • Materials & Components5:48

    Explore materials and components in SketchUp by using the rectangle tool, dimension bar, and extrude to shape precise forms, then convert them into components and apply roofs and textures.

  • Standard Views & Styles2:03

    Explore the standard views and styles in SketchUp to showcase your garden model, use the shadows tool to adjust day of the year and time of day.

Requirements

  • Only a fast computer

Description

Design your Garden using Sketchup will give you the tools to create amazing gardens: SketchUp 3D modeling software complemented with landscape design principles.

If you are a gardener, a landscape architect, or you just like gardening in your house, Design your Garden using SketchUp will show you how to implement this principles in a 3D model to create professional designs.

SketchUp is a 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications such as architectural, interior design, landscape architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, film and video game design.

Because of its simplicity, SketchUp can be used by anyone of any age. The only requirement is having the skills and an enormous desire to learn.

Contents

  • The first section of Design your Garden using Sketchup is focused on the installation of the software, setting up the 3D Workspace and getting familiar with the Basic Tools. This course was recently updated to SketchUp 2021.

  • The second section of Design your Garden using Sketchup is focused on building the Sample Site, where you're going to work in. In this section you are going to get acquainted with the 3D Warehouse (a large virtual library where you can find all kinds of 3D material to download and use in your SketchUp models), and with the housing project that I preapared just for you!

  • The third section of Design your Garden using Sketchup is focused on the Landscape Design Principles, applied to a sample house backyard. In this section you will learn how to give your garden Distribution and Structure according to Sun Position and Shadows given from the Sketchup's Geo-Location Tool.

  • The fourth section of Design your Garden using Sketchup is focused on the Design itself. In this section you are going to learn how to make a Garden’s Masterplan (schematic design based on the need and use of your space). After this, you are going to learn in detail how to design and model the Garden's Paths, where to put your Plants, how to model your Terrace and and where you can put your Swimming Pool.

When you have finished Design your Garden using Sketchup you will be able to create wonderful Garden Designs and you will be ready to improve your own garden or get some clients to improve their's.


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"Very educational for users who don't have previous experience. The instructions are very clear and allow you to know basic and intermediate fundamentals of SketchUp, made absolutely for beginners".

(Sebastián Rodriguez)


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"Personally, I consider that this course teaches the basic notions of how to use SketchUp, focusing on understanding the basic tools to generate landscape projects and create new ones from this starting point, congratulations! Totally recommended, the teacher shows good dedication and excellent explanations!".

(Camilo Urrutia)

Who this course is for:

  • This course is meant for gardeners, landscapers or anyone who likes gardening and landscape design, but are not acquainted with graphic software.
  • No prior 3D design knowledge is needed.
  • This course is probably not for you if you are looking to learn how to make technical planting plans.