Best of the Sketchup Show: Volume 1
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The Sketchup Show
Welcome to The Sketchup Show - your complete Google SketchUp video training resource for tips, tricks, interviews and just about everything you ever wanted to learn about SketchUp. See a sample of our show by pressing the play button below.
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Alex brings Brad from Antics Technologies into the studio to discuss how Antics 3D animation software can interface with SketchUp to bring your models to life. If you know us, you know that we love case studies, and this episode is no different. Production Designer Dave Blass narrates how SketchUp and Antics have transformed his profession and, more specifically, how it saved his life while he was designing the set for Bravo's "Shear Genius".
Diving into the granite bedrock below Part 1's model, Mike animates the fracture events that make geothermal energy extraction possible. He visualizes spreadsheet data as a series of 3D point clouds representing the chronological development of these micro-fissures. To do this, Mike uses a Ruby script from the Ruby Library Depot and a little bit more voodoo magic.
Mike taps Sketchup to answer Google.org's call for animated models of the drilling and harvesting of geothermal energy. Starting with just the geographic coordinates and .pdf files of the drilling rig, he outlines their transformation into a 3D model uploaded to Google Earth. To be fair, he also used some voodoo.
Mike gives a live trade show demonstration that shows designers how to model a kitchen using PhotoMatch in SketchUp. In the episode, Mike uses a picture from his digital camera and the 3D Warehouse to come up with a SketchUp model of a show kitchen.
Pencils are supposed to be easy-to-use, and simple in their design. The Pencil Tool in SketchUp meets both of those criteria. Oh yeah, and you can build a roof with it too.
Find out more tips and tricks with Mike in this episode all about The Pencil Tool.
Introducing our Tool Series - each episode in the series will cover a specific tool in SketchUp, including its uses, functionality and our favorite tips and tricks for each tool. In this episode, we feature the Select Tool - sure its uses may seem obvious, but take a peak inside... you never know when you might learn something new!
Mike demonstrates how to create seamless tileable textures using just Photoshop. In episode #40, Mike used a Photoshop plugin called imageSynth to create similar textures of organic materials. However, in this episode, Mike explains how its probably better to use Photoshop alone when it comes to more rigid textures such as wood and tile.
Mike demonstrates how to quickly and easily create custom tileable textures using this great new Photoshop Plug-in from Luxology. He outlines a method for dealing with two organic textures, converting vegetation and stone images into seamless textures for SketchUp.
In this special episode, Alex takes a trip to the West Coast Green expo to interview renowned architect Michelle Kaufmann and find out how her firm is using SketchUp to design modular, sustainable homes. A big thanks to Whirlpool who also is featured showing how they're making their products available to SketchUp users on the 3D Warehouse, and working with architects like Michelle Kaufmann to outfit sustainable homes with energy efficient appliances - both virtually and in the real world.
Alex leaves the studio to help a friend redesign his garage into his own video production studio. Watch the episode and enter our Design Competition to win a free Space Navigator (details here).
Mike shows you his favorite uses of the 3D Connexion Space Navigator 3D mouse. Be sure to watch the show, and also check out our contests to win a free Space Navigator here.
Thanks to our loyal and faithful School community (if you're reading this, that's you!), we've received some great SketchUp questions recently. After a careful board meeting with lots of people in suits and ties and plenty of donuts and coffee, we decided we'd answer those questions in a podcast. Pretty innovative, huh? In this show, we tackle beginning and advanced topics: Getting a grasp of your Keyboard Shortcuts, Optimizing Print Quality, and creating Tensile Structures using the famed Soap Skin Bubble plugin. Our board of advisers thanks you for watching.
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We were lucky enough to get the chance to sit down with firm principal Buzz Yudell for a conversation on how Moore Ruble Yudell has incorporated SketchUp into their design workflow. Learn more about how this AIA Award winning firm got started, and how it uses SketchUp to compliment more traditional drawing and modeling methods.
Time to clean out the garage! This weekend, you have two choices: You can either put on your overalls and finally get to work in that mess you call a garage, or, you can sit in your comfy computer chair and give it an old fashioned remodel in Sketchup. We choose option #2. Take a look at this tutorial to follow along (Part 4 of 5)
Now that you're done with the kitchen, it's time to move on to the Laundry Room. You'll need cabinets, a washer, dryer, two laundry towers, and some photo-realistic textures. Take a look at our method for pulling all of those components and materials together into one great SketchUp design. (Part 3 of 5)
Time to design your dream kitchen in Sketchup. In part 2 of a 5 part architectural series, we show you how to import and work with hand sketches in Sketchup, and then take that 3D model and populate it with professional Whirlpool prodcuts from the 3D Warehouse. AIA members can get continuing education credits for watching all 5 shows in the series. Find out more about the series here.
Part 1 of a 5 part architectural series, we show you how to import and work with CAD drawings in Sketchup. AIA members can get continuing education credits for watching all 5 shows in the series. Find out more about the series here.
SketchUp has a Sandbox. But there are a few rules to know before you're allowed to play. In episode #13 of The Sketchup Show, Alex leads you in creating a landscape from scratch, and a second way to model terrain from existing contour lines. Landscapers will love this episode!
If you've ever wondered how to get more precise views of your model, The Sketchup Show episode #12 is for you. Alex covers the three basic "camera" tools, and explains how you can manually adjust view settings for the height and field of view of your camera.
This is part 2 of a 3-part series covering the Google announcements at MacWorld 2007. In this episode, Mike interviews Google Product Manager John Bacus regarding the release of the new presentation design application LayOut. Check out the demo of this new program available to Google SketchUp 6 Pro users.
This week, The SketchUp Show is on the road at MacWorld 2007, the trade show for all things Mac related. Google was there, and made a few big announcements - including the release of Google SketchUp 6. In the first of a 3 part series, Alex gets a demoe of the new features from Google's own Aidan Chopra.
One of our favorite tools in SketchUp is the Follow-Me tool. It's the kind of tool that takes awhile to master, but once you've got it, you're free to model complex shapes that might have been considered impossible. In this episode, Mike demonstrates how to use the Follow-Me tool to build a complex roof.
Mike demonstrates how to prepare a Google Earth file for import and modeling in Sketchup. The first of a two part series, this tutorial will also show you how to prepare textures in Photoshop, and add them to your model. Part 2 will cover export to Google Earth, and working with the final file in Google Earth.
Mike is back, responding to Robert Thorne who asked about Woodworking on the Suggest-a-cast thread in the School Forums. Thanks for posting Robert! Mike shows you how to model a table, bookcase and cabinet in less than 10 minutes.
The popular podcast Macbreak caught up with Alex during their coverage of Macworld 2007 to ask him about the latest announcements at the Google booth.
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School was once again featured on the popular Technology podcast "MacBreak", as Alex was invited to show how Google SketchUp works with the Google 3D Warehouse. Host by Leo Laporte calls the Sketchup Level 1 training DVD "the first place to go for SketchUp training."
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