Lynda ? SketchUp 2016 Essential Training

Learn how to start drawing, designing, and animating your ideas with SketchUp, the 3D modeling toolkit used for everything from architectural rendering to game design. In this course, George Maestri leads viewers through the essentials of SketchUp: navigating around the interface, manipulating objects, drawing in 2D and 3D space, working with materials, and applying textures. He'll even show how to create simple animations and export your artwork in 2D and 3D formats.

These tutorials work with both SketchUp Make, the free version of the program, and SketchUp Pro.

Topics include:

Creating camera views

Shading faces and edges

Selecting, moving, scaling, and rotating objects

Creating basic circles, polygons, and arcs

Making 3D text

Labeling a drawing

Working with layers

Using components from the 3D Warehouse

Applying materials and mapping textures

Animating artwork

Exporting sketches in 2D and 3D