SketchUp Pro For Garden Design
What you'll learn
- In this course you'll learn of three different ways to get your site plan into SketchUp - Using PDF's, DWG files and drawing directly into SketchUp
- You'll learn how starting your design on paper, rather than in the program directly, can open your creativity to explore different design approaches
- How Groups and Components help to keep your model organized and easier to naviagate
- You'll master using tags and tag folders to explore and present alternative design solutions
Requirements
- You should already be familiar with the software and have it downloaded and installed on your computer. This is not an introductory class in using SketchUp.
- SketchUp 2018 or a later version, and Adobe Acrobat DC or another PDF editor capable of exporting a PDF as an image file should be pre-loaded on your computer for this course.
- This course is specifically for using SketchUp Pro and is not intended for the free version of SketchUp
Description
This class is an extension of my Fundamentals of Garden Design Course, also hosted on Udemy. While in the Fundamentals course we learned how to draft and design conceptual plans using pencil, pen and ink, in this class we'll go a step further and develop our designs into 3-Dimensional presentations for study, review, and comment by team members and our clients.
Please note: This is not an introduction to using the SketchUp software! You will need to be familiar with using SketchUp so that you will be able to jump straight in as we create our designs.
This course will be using SketchUp Pro 2022.
CAD is a powerful tool, but CAD does not DESIGN the garden - we do! We design a garden in our imaginations using a combination of skills and observations. I still strongly suggest that when you start any new design you do it on paper. The reason for this is to have your ideas flow quickly and organically. Drawing rough sketches on paper allows your creativity to open up and you can try different patterns in a rapid manner.
Once you have a strong idea of what you want the new landscape to look like then, AND ONLY THEN, should you open your computer and start drawing in CAD - whether that program be SketchUp or any number of other design software that is available.
This course will take you through the processes of importing different file types and bringing in your own site survey . Since this course is based on using SketchUp Pro, I will be using LayOut to scale a base plan for developing a design.
Once a rough idea of the design solution is developed we'll refine design ideas into a 3-D model that will help you to better see and understand what you are looking to build. It will also be the visual aid you may need to sell your idea to a client, spouse or friend.
With Layout you can quickly scale your drawing, fill in a title block and export to a PDF or AutoCAD file for printing.
Welcome to SketchUp 2022 in Garden Design!
Who this course is for:
- Advanced Beginners and Intermediate users of SketchUp who would like to start using SketchUp for their landscape design presentations.
Instructor
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- 24,195 Students
- 14 Courses
Robert Littlepage, as his many former students can attest, is a dynamic instructor who brings real-world experience and a touch of humor to his teaching style. His love of teaching and enthusiasm for his topic is a source of inspiration to his students. Mr. Littlepage founded the California School of Garden Design in 1998 to fill a much-needed void. He discovered that other than two-year junior college programs and a few correspondence courses, there was no place in the United States where someone interested in becoming a garden designer could learn these skills quickly and at minimum expense. Rob created the School to provide an opportunity for those individuals to learn necessary skills and to become proficient in Garden Design in a short but intensive period of time. This has lead to his now offering on-line classes through Udemy.
Rob began his career as a forester and a licensed landscape contractor and has had his own design practice for over 34 years, creating gardens for clients throughout California and the surrounding states. His designs have been featured in garden design books and won awards at numerous shows. He studied garden design in England in 1994. Rob previously taught landscape and irrigation design at Sierra College in Rocklin, California and at the Placer Adult School in Auburn, but decided to open his own garden design school. Landscape designer David Stevens, of David Stevens International has collaborated with Rob to present design classes in the United States and wrote the forward to Rob's latest book "Fundamentals of Garden Design" which is a complement to his course on landscape design.
He is a licensed landscape architect in California (#5674) and Louisiana (L-249 - retired). He is a Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper (QWEL) an EPA WaterSense Partner and is a certified landscape irrigation auditor.