Building product manufacturers are doing designers a huge favor! Watch as Mike teaches you how to create and interact with Dynamic Components of Whirlpool brand appliances. Learn how to take advantage of these versatile new components on the Google 3D Warehouse - if more companies create these great resources you may never have to draw your products from scratch again!

Use the Move Tool to arrange furniture in a room, including moving and rotating objects to align them to the walls.

One of the most important things you can do when it comes to working with CAD files within SketchUp is learn to model walls accurately and efficiently. There are a number of different ways to accomplish this, but we think Mike's come up with one of the best methods out there: Learn to use the Rectangle Tool, Move Tool and the Push Pull Tool to get a set of Exterior Walls modeled ASAP.

So yeah, that Google Earth plugin ois pretty sweet. But the black and white satellite imagery that you end up with is so 1950. This episode is a continuation of the IES Series (Episodes #51 & #52) in which Mike goes off on one of his tangents to show a new trick for getting the color version of satellite photography from Google Earth into SketchUp. If anyone from the DHS asks how you figured out how to do this - it wasn't from us...

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.Learn to import and visualize spreadsheet data in SketchUp.

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.

Check out the first of two episodes covering the use of Photo Match to match the perspective of an image to an existing model.

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.

We're rounding out our series taking you through all you'll ever need to learn about the must-know tools in SketchUp. This episode on the Circle tool covers topics like editing the number of sides to a Circle, changing the radius and even using the Circle as a basis for creating spheres.

The very first time that you opened SketchUp, if you were anything like me, you probably started with the Pencil Tool. It was so easy to click and draw edge after edge. Your time together was innocent and fun. Pencil was as trusty as its namesake - always sharpened and ready to roll.

But then you hit the "big time" - you moved on to tools like Push Pull and Follow-me. And you neglected Pencil. You've probably thought, on more than one occasion, that there was nothing left to learn about your trusty pal... that Pencil was all washed up. Don't be ashamed, a great many of us Sketchuppers have made the same mistake.

Luckily for you, we've got Mike back in the studio and he has convinced Pencil that you are back and ready to love again. Mike's even offered to show you a few tips and tricks with the Pencil Tool that you may not know... to help rekindle your friendship. The Pencil Tool is actually much more handy than its name suggests, you just have to let Mike help you get to know it a little better. So please download the latest episode of The Sketchup Show and learn more about the first friend you ever met in SketchUp.



 

In this episode, Mike spills his guts on one of the essential drawing tools in SketchUp, and gives you a couple of really unique ideas for getting the most out of the Rectangle tool.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Select Tool in SketchUp.

Mike uses SketchUp to evaluate Light and Shadows.

Mike uses advanced Photoshop techniques to create tileable textures out of rigid materials.

Mike demonstrates how to quickly and easily create custom tileable textures using a Photoshop plug-in called imageSynth.

The Sketchup Show visits the West Coast Green Expo where we catch up with Architect Michelle Kaufmann.

Mike explains methods for creating standard and spiral staircases.

Learn all about how to use Styles. Don't get distracted by our Styles.

The final episode in a series - Add a reflection of the house using SketchUp and Photoshop.

Continuing from the last lesson, Alex shows you how to composite your SketchUp image onto the original photo using Photoshop

Pre-production techniques using the Film & Stage plugin.

Additional tips and tricks to get you started with this "mini-app"

Learn how to incorporate the Section Tool into your workflow.

Enter our Design Competition to win a free Space Navigator.

We're giving away free 3D Connexion Space Navigators at http://go-2-school.com/navigator

Learn how you can take an image of any floor plan and quickly turn it into a 3D model of a house.

Learn how to use Photomatch to create a chair component from a digital image.

Keyboard Shortcuts, Optimize for Print, and the Soapskin Bubble plugin.

Moore Rubel Yudell, users of SketchUp, was honored with the AIA Firm Award for 2006. Alex interviews principal Buzz Yudell.

In the final episode of a 5 part series, learn how to build a trellis, and outfit the backyard with a full array of outdoor appliances.

You can remodel your garage - all you need are 2 pictures, SketchUp, and this show.

Import an image to model and texture a laundry room. Part 3 of 5.

Learn how to import a hand sketch to design your 3D Kitchen, and use the 3D Warehouse to add appliances.

Learn how to import and work with CAD.

Learn how to create your own custom Face Me Components.

Mike shows the essentials of the big, new feature in Google SketchUp 6: LayOut

Mike's back with 4 ways to create, edit and texture your own terrain.

Alex deals the rest of the cards to our players, and gives everyone a full stack of poker chips.

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Join Alex as he uses the Move and Rotate tools to create a poker game. (Part 1 of  2)

Learn how to animate Sketchup cameras along a precisely drawn path.

Create your own Landscape in Sketchup.

Learn how to create precise views with Position Camera, Walk and Look Around tools.

Alex re-joins us with a quick tip for creating spheres using the follow-me tool.

Learn how to set your shortcuts in Sketchup, and find out Mike's favortie tips for working with large Sketchup files.

Part 3 of 3 in the Google booth at Macworld. Mike finds out about the latest release of Google Earth and the Google 3D Warehouse, and how to use them with SketchUp.

School was in San Francisco for the Macworld 2007 convention. There Google announced the release of Layout - the new presentation application within Google SketchUp Pro. In this episode, Mike interviews John Bacus of Google for a full demo of Layout.

The Sketchup Show is in San Francisco for MacWorld 2007. Alex is at the Google booth for a demo of the new features in Google SketchUp 6.

Mike shows you an incredibly fast and easy way to create a complex roof using the Follow-Me tool

In part 2 of the Sketchup & Google Earth workflow series, Mike finishes modeling a building in Sketchup, and then prepares the model to be displayed in Google Earth. Extra tips for customizing your Google Earth model included. Happy New Year!

Mike demonstrates the fundamentals, plus a few great tricks, for using Sketchup to create 3D buildings for Google Earth. Part 1 of a two-part series.

Mike Tadros models a table, shelf and cabinet - all in less than 10 minutes.

Mike and Alex discuss how to use 3 different SketchUp plugins.

Mike Tadros shows you how to quickly model a lantern in 3D.