Top 10 best sketchup books 2018
Finding the best sketchup books suitable for your needs isnt easy. With hundreds of choices can distract you. Knowing whats bad and whats good can be something of a minefield. In this article, weve done the hard work for you.
1. SketchUp For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))
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Design almost anything in 3D with SketchUpWhether you've dabbled in drawing in 3D or are interested in learning the basics of design, SketchUp For Dummies makes it fast and easy to learn the ropes of a powerful, user-friendly tool to bring your design ideas to life. From creating a basic 3D model to showing off your work via 3D print or animation, this all-access guide pulls back the curtain on using SketchUp to do anything from redesigning your house to mocking up the next great invention.
With an emphasis on usability, SketchUp has found very wide success as a tool even non-designers can use to make basic drawings. And now, thanks to the insight and expert tips from former SketchUp product director Aidan Chopra and co-author Rebecca Huehls, this easy-to-follow guide makes it more accessible than ever!
- Create buildings and components
- Alter the appearance of your model
- Tour your designs via SketchUp
- Get quick tips on troubleshooting
If you're a designer with sketchy computer modeling skills, SketchUp For Dummies is the trusted reference you'll turn to again and again.
2. SketchUp to LayOut: The essential guide to creating construction documents with SketchUp Pro & LayOut
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(Written for SketchUp Pro 2015)- Visible Objects- Control what's visible in your scene by hiding or unhiding layers.
- Foreground Depth- Set the viewing plane depth at which you begin to see objects in your scene. By default, the foreground depth starts at the location of your camera, but you can manually set a foreground depth using section cuts and clipping planes.
- Background Depth- Set how deep into the model you want to see by using object masks or fog.
- Camera Perspective- Position your camera to the view you want to see, and configure your field of view and perspective settings.
- Style- Determine how your model will look. This includes render settings for the faces and edges in your model, but also includes specialty settings like watermarks, guides, and section planes.
3. SketchUp for Interior Design: 3D Visualizing, Designing, and Space Planning
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A practical guide to SketchUp addressing the specific needs of interior designersAlready a common and popular tool for architects and landscape architects, SketchUp is increasingly finding a place in the professional workflow of interior designers. SketchUp for Interior Design is a practical introduction for interior designers and students who want to learn to use the software for their unique needs. The book covers the basics of creating 3D models before showing how to create space plans, model furniture, cabinetry, and accessories, experiment with colors and materials, incorporate manufacturers' models into project plans, and create final presentations and animated walk-throughs for clients. Each chapter includes clear explanations and helpful illustrations to make this an ideal introduction to the topic.
- Includes downloadable sample models and 39 tutorial videos
- Features sample questions and activities for instructors and additional online resources for students and self-learners
- Provides instruction on using SketchUp in both PC and Mac formats
4. The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture: Modeling Buildings, Visualizing Design, and Creating Construction Documents with SketchUp Pro and LayOut
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A guide for leveraging SketchUp for any project size, type, or style. New construction or renovation.
The revised and updated second edition of The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture offers guidelines for taking SketchUp to the next level in order to incorporate it into every phase of the architectural design process. The text walks through each step of the SketchUp process from the early stages of schematic design and model organization for both renovation and new construction projects to final documentation and shows how to maximize the LayOut toolset for drafting and presentations. Written by a noted expert in the field, the text is filled with tips and techniques to access the power of SketchUp and its related suite of tools.
The book presents a flexible workflow method that helps to make common design tasks easier and gives users the information needed to incorporate varying degrees of SketchUp into their design process. Filled with best practices for organizing projects and drafting schematics, this resource also includes suggestions for working with LayOut, an underused but valuable component of SketchUp Pro. In addition, tutorial videos compliment the text and clearly demonstrate more advanced methods. This important text:
- Presents intermediate and advanced techniques for architects who want to use SketchUp in all stages of the design process
- Includes in-depth explanations on using the LayOut tool set that contains example plans, details, sections, presentations, and other information
- Updates the first edition to reflect the changes to SketchUp 2018 and the core functionalities, menus, tools, inferences, arc tools, reporting, and much more
- Written by a SketchUp authorized trainer who has an active online platform and extensive connections within the SketchUp community
- Contains accompanying tutorial videos that demonstrate some of the more advanced SketchUp tips and tricks
Written for professional architects, as well as professionals in interior design and landscape architecture, The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture offers a revised and updated resource for using SketchUp in all aspects of the architectural design process.
5. Sketchup & Layout for Architecture: The Step by Step Workflow of Nick Sonder
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(Written for SketchUp Pro 2016. This book is still very relevant to use with SketchUp Pro 2017 and 2018, but you can improve your workflow by using the new Section tool features and the Table tool in LayOut for creating schedules.)Design in SketchUp
Document in LayOut
Learn how to use SketchUp and LayOut to design and document any architectural project from concept to completion.
This step-by-step workflow shows you how to create a 3D terrain model of your existing site, then walks you through modeling the building and producing documents throughout each design phase.
- Use the Sandbox tools to create and modify 3D terrain to build an existing site model and a proposed site model.
- Organize your model into multiple files to increase speed, performance, and enable better scene & section plane management.
- Learn how to use multiple viewports in LayOut to illustrate your section cuts clearly, while taking advantage of colorful textures applied to the model.
- Define the level of detail required in your model to enable you to make fast changes throughout each phase of design.
- Learn how to use SketchUp and LayOut templates to improve your workflow.
6. The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture: Modeling Buildings, Visualizing Design, and Creating Construction Documents with SketchUp Pro and LayOut
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Incorporate SketchUp into every phase of your design
If you want to go beyond the basics and start using SketchUp 3D modeling software in all phases of your design, The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is the perfect place to start. From preliminary schematics to construction documentation and everything in between, the book sketches out a workflow that is flexible enough to use from start to finish. You'll discover helpful techniques, smart tips, and best practices that will make your design process easier, as well as helping you easily export your models into BIM programs.
The book includes in-depth coverage of the lightly-documented LayOut toolset and video tutorials on more advanced methods.
- Goes beyond the basics into intermediate and advanced techniques for architects, designers, and engineers who want to use SketchUp in all stages of design
- Guides you from basic schematics through design development to construction documentation
- Includes best practices for organizing projects and workflows and helpful tips
- Provides special coverage of the LayOut toolset, an often-underused component of SketchUp Pro
The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is a valuable addition to your design toolkit.
7. SketchUp Success for Woodworkers: Four Simple Rules to Create 3D Drawings Quickly and Accurately
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With SketchUp Success for Woodworkers, any woodworker can download SketchUp and be drawing helpful, detailed woodworking plans like a pro in no time at all.
An affordable, simple, and powerful 3-D design program, SketchUp can be used to create models and plans for anything a creative mind can imagine, especially simple to elaborate woodworking projects and plans. After many years of using SketchUp, David Heim, an expert woodworker and writer, has developed a simple set of rules for success that will guide you in mastering this potent program. With SketchUp Success for Woodworkers, any woodworker can download SketchUp at breakfast and be drawing detailed and useful plans by dinnertime. Easy-to-understand instructions, screen shots, and step-by-step projects make it easy to unleash the valuable benefits of SketchUp to create the models and plans that will transform your woodworking design process and elevate your woodworking output.
8. Rendering in SketchUp: From Modeling to Presentation for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design
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The sure way for design professionals to learn SketchUp modelingand rendering techniquesRendering In SketchUp provides instructions for creating3D photoreal graphics for SketchUp models using integratedrendering programs. The book serves as a beginner rendering manualand reference guide to further develop rendering skills. With anemphasis on step-by-step process, SketchUp users learn a universalapproach to rendering varied SketchUp projects, includingarchitecture, interiors, and site design models.
The book focuses on tasks and principles at the core ofphotorealistic rendering, including:
- Rendering process: Learn a step-by-step process focusedon workflow within SketchUps familiar workspace.
- Universal method: Understand how the process can be usedto work with a variety of different integrated rendering programs,including Shaderlight, SU Podium and Twilight Render**. Theseprograms are easy to learn and function in SketchUp.
- Textures and materials: Discover how to obtain, applyand edit texture images representing surfaces.
- Component details: Learn how to acquire and organizemodel details to allow for rich, expressive settings whilemaintaining computer and SketchUp performance.
- Exterior and simulated lighting: Learn to set exteriorlighting with the SketchUps Shadow menu or illuminate ascene with simulated lights, lamps, and bulbs.
- Render settings: Use specific settings for variousrendering programs to quickly set texture character, image quality,and graphic output.
- Computer specifications: Find out how computers producerenders and the type of computer hardware required to streamlinethe process.
- Photoshop post-processing: Learn how to further refinerendered images in Photoshop.
- **Free online chapters: The book reviews specificsettings for SketchUp and the rendering plug-in Shaderlight. Giventhe ever-changing nature of technology, free, online accompanyingchapters detail settings for additional integrated renderingprograms including SU Podium, Twilight Render, and more.
9. SketchUp - A Design Guide for Woodworkers: Complete Illustrated Reference
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A SketchUp guide created specifically for woodworkers!
SketchUp is a fantastic design tool for woodworkers. It can save you time, materials and money by letting you test your designs before you even make your first cut. But, as with any computer software, there is a learning curve.
This comprehensive guide provides you with the specific advice that you need in order to use the program effectively. Created from a woodworkers perspective, SketchUp: A Design Guide for Woodworkers helps you create beautiful furniture designs and reduces chances of costly construction errors.
Inside you'll find:
- Step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the program to get the most functionality for your woodworking designs
- Explicit guidance to help you fully understand and use SketchUp's wide array of tools
- Helpful directions for employing Ruby scripts that extend SketchUp's usefulness for designing furniture
- Specialized instruction for modelling the complex shapes necessary for furniture design
- In-depth examples and exercises
- More than 600 detailed illustrations and screen captures
10. Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual
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If you want to learn to create 3-D models using Google SketchUp, this Missing Manual is the ideal place to start. Filled with step-by-step tutorials, this entertaining, reader-friendly guide will have you creating detailed 3-D objects, including building plans, furniture, landscaping plans--even characters for computer games--in no time.Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual offers a hands-on tour of the program, with crystal-clear instructions for using every feature and lots of real-world examples to help you pick up the practical skills you need. Learn to use the basic tools, build and animate models, and place your objects in Google Earth. With this book, you will:
- Learn your way around the SketchUp workspace, and explore the differences between working in 2-D and 3-D
- Build simple 3-D shapes, save them as reusable components, and use SketchUp's Outliner to show or hide them as you work
- Tackle a complicated model building with lots of detail, and discover timesaving tools for using many components
- Animate the model by creating an interior walkthrough of your building
- Dress up your model with realistic material shading and shadows, and place it in Google Earth
It's easy to get started. Just download the program from Google.com, and follow the instructions in this book. You'll become a SketchUp master in a jiffy.
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