Designing Green - SketchUp Part 1

Intro to SketchUp

Tutorial: Intro to SketchUp - Basic tools for navigation

• Orbit tool - orbit around your 3D objects
• Zoom tool - move in and out
• Pan tool - move side to side and up and down

Tutorial: Start a Drawing Part 1

• Rectangle tool - for drawing flat surfaces
• Push/Pull - for pulling up flat surfaces into 3D volumes
• Pencil or Line tool - for drawing lines. Make sure to "infer edges, corners, etc.
• Move tool - pay attention to the axis you are moving on (blue, red or green)
• Arc Tool - click for each end point then drag the mid-point of the arch up
• Eraser

Tutorial: Start a Drawing Part 2

• inferences
• Paint Bucket for texture/color
• Shadows

Tutorial: Start a Drawing Part 3

• Window > Styles

SketchUp Resources

• Video Tutorials: Google has provided a very good set of SketchUp introductory video tutorials
• Additional Self-paced tutorials: There are also a additional Self-Paced Tutorials you can download and run within Sketchup.