SketchUp & Twilight for Interior Designers
What you'll learn
- Start each SketchUp project with a ready-made feature-rich template file
- Switch quickly and easily between views that are custom made for Interior Designers
- Turn on and off specific parts of their models, whether it be Architectural details such as 'furniture' or conceptual details such as 'existing architecture'
- Use Twilight Render with confidence to produce photorealistic renders
- Add specialist materials such as reflecting mirrors, textured surfaces with a bump map and surfaces which emit light
- Add specialist lighting based on real light fittings and bulb details
Requirements
- Students will need to have a beginner to intermediate grasp of SketchUp - see the requirements below for details
- SketchUp Skills Needed: ability to create objects with precise measurements
- SketchUp Skills Needed: ability to create a group
- SketchUp Skills Needed: ability to create and activate section cuts
- SketchUp Skills Needed: ability to add a custom texture
- SketchUp Skills Needed: ability to navigate the SketchUp view
- SketchUp Skills Needed: ability to manipulate objects - scale, rotate and move
Description
[Update April 18 from Kim: In an effort to give full disclosure to future students I'd like to let you know that I'm undergoing treatment for Stage 4 Lymphoma. I hope and aim to make a full recovery by next year! This means I'm not able to participate as an instructor as much as I'd like to but students have excellent reviews of my courses and ask surprisingly few questions - I hope that means that my courses are complete enough without needing lots of clarification. Please remember there is a money back guarantee so if you purchase my course then decide you would need more instructor input you can utilise that feature. So remember life is short - take the course - learn the skills - make the move - do the thing - eat the cake - and remember to always check that what you are doing makes you happy!]
If you're an interior designer you need this course!
- Organise with layers, styles and scenes so that you can easily switch between architectural drawings and 3D design views
- Produce electrician drawings, plumbing drawings and section cuts at the click of a button - all within SketchUp
- Render photorealistic images with reflective surfaces, lighting and custom textures using Twilight from within SketchUp
- Receive a full PDF copy of my published workbook that compliments this course, available on Amazon/Kindle/Apple Books but FREE to all course members
Its likely that you've used and liked SketchUp - the once-Google software now owned and operated by Trimble that is free at entry level and easy to use. SketchUp makes it easy to build furniture, buildings and entire towns all from your imagination or replicating reality. Perhaps, like me, you started your Interior Design journey by obsessively building and designing room after room in SketchUp.
Now its time to either go back to SketchUp or improve your experience of it - by harnessing the powerful system that harnesses SketchUp's Layer organisation, styles and scenes. This system means that you can switch between a designing view and a 2D plan, a wireframe and a cross section, a view of the clients home with existing items in grey and proposed changes in green, a view that shows only the internal fixtures of your design or one that shows only the walls.
Without this system it is likely that the only way you could do these things was to copy your model and modify it for specific uses - deleting what wasn't needed in each one. But any changes in one model would need to be copied into others. This is of course highly inefficient and ultimately unworkable - the system covered in this course will revolutionise your workflow to use just one model to cover everything. Make the change once then just switch views to see the technical plans, elevations and sections with the new change reflected.
Its not only the organisational system we're covering. We're also going to learn how to use Twilight Render. This is a SketchUp plugin, again free at entry level, that works directly from within SketchUp to render photorealistic images. We're finally going to be able to:
- display bumpy textures without modelling the bumps into the model
- have reflective surfaces such as mirrors and shiny surfaces
- have realistic 'scenery' seen outside windows without modelling
- create light sources that brighten your room as per your own lighting design and set up
All this will help you to make SketchUp your main or only software to do your Interior Design work. You'll be able to produces work at a new speed and efficiency. Small changes now no longer mean hours of extra work tweaking all the architectural drawings. You are just one click away from a plumbers plan to an electricians plan, a cross section and an ideal view set up ready to render.
Have a look at the free preview videos to see the system in action and I can't wait to see you inside the course!
Who this course is for:
- Interior Designers who wish to use SketchUp and/or Twilight more efficiently
- Designers from other fields looking to branch into the Interior Design Sector
- Design Students who wish to make their portfolio quickly and with excellent quality
- Interior Designers who wish to switch their software to the cheaper but powerful SketchUp Pro and Twilight Pro
Course content
- Preview01:46
- 01:16Udemy Features & Student Engagement
- Preview01:00
- 01:30About Me
- 00:42Installing SketchUp & Twilight
- 00:09Download the workbook
- Preview04:58
Instructor
![Kim Debling](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 279 Reviews
- 2,311 Students
- 4 Courses
Kim Debling owns and runs her design company Kestrel Design from the comfort of her home office. Her employees and freelancers all work from home too as she and they value the freedom and lifestyle this affords. She began and built her company over several years whilst working full time as an Air Traffic Controller. She is focused, dedicated and frantically entrepreneurial. She also has a thirst for learning and passing on her knowledge that perfectly aligns with what Udemy offers.
As an Air Traffic Control Officer for 11 years she was a supervisor, instructor and examiner - guiding new Air Traffic Controllers as they come into the job and then signing them off as suitable to control solo. It was a rewarding experience - especially seeing under-confident new controllers shine and become more qualified themselves. Her calm, no-nonsense instructional delivery was honed during these years in this fast-paced but safety critical training environment.
Due to the stressful nature of the job, Kim started to become extremely interested in self-management of stress, self-improvement and the work-life balance. Over the years she has become passionate about regaining control over our own lives and working out what works for each individual. This is often reflected in her courses, social media channels and products.
Kim's day-to-day involves building websites, creating digital products, books, designing packaging and generally stretching her left brain hemisphere. Her honours degree was in Internet Computer Science and she has kept up to date with many skills and built upon them.
Kim is married to Steve, a helicopter pilot, is mum to toddler Rose and baby Harvey, and has two cats - Nala and Duchess.
Kim is currently fighting Stage 4 Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma. She needs radiotherapy, chemotherapy and a Stem Cell Transplant to survive. She's using creativity and art to stay focused and positive and is making videos about her experiences to share with others on youTube.