Getting Started with SketchUp Pro: Embark on your 3D modeling adventure with expert tips, tricks, and best practices

Level up your 3D design skills with SketchUp Pro by employing real-world examples and design guidelines

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Key Features

• Put your architectural design knowledge to work by exploring practical examples
• Gain a deeper understanding of SketchUp's GUI, modeling tools, and editing features
• Execute full design creations with detailed steps without getting overwhelmed by SketchUp's advanced functionalities

Book Description

Owing to its ability to create models quickly and with high level of dimensional accuracy, SketchUp Pro has become a popular choice for many industries, including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and video game design. If you are seeking to adopt Trimble's exceptional design software, Getting Started with SketchUp Pro serves as an ideal primer to prepare and equip you for its use.

This book will help you lay the foundation of a project from scratch, set up appropriate units, and follow a guided path to structure your 3D models. You'll explore the workflows used for creating designs from sketches, making CAD drawings (DWG), and even updating your existing 3D models. Finally, you'll work with extensions and 3D Warehouse to find new workflows and models to add to your skill set.

By the end of this SketchUp book, you'll be able to confidently create and share models of your design through CAD drawings and 3D views, and even take them online through the 3D Warehouse

What you will learn

• Build massing 3D models and preliminary designs
• Identify optimal methods to boost productivity and efficiency with SketchUp Pro
• Explore SketchUp tools and understand their diverse functionality
• Get a complete walkthrough of editing tools, materials, and components in SketchUp
• Create and edit components and explore component options
• Get acquainted with SketchUp extensions, 3D Warehouse, and additional tools and resources

Who this book is for

This book is for architects, landscape architects, interior designers, woodworkers, and 3D modelers with beginner-level knowledge of the architectural design of living spaces. Basic computer skills are all you need to get started.

提升你的3D設計技能，透過SketchUp Pro運用實際案例和設計指南。

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主要特點：

- 通過探索實際案例，將你的建築設計知識應用於實踐。
- 深入了解SketchUp的GUI、建模工具和編輯功能。
- 在不被SketchUp的高級功能所困擾的情況下，執行完整的設計創作。

書籍描述：

由於SketchUp Pro能夠快速且高度精確地創建模型，它已成為許多行業的熱門選擇，包括建築、室內設計、景觀設計和視頻遊戲設計。如果你想採用Trimble出色的設計軟件，那麼《Getting Started with SketchUp Pro》是一本理想的入門書籍，可以為你的使用做好準備。

本書將幫助你從頭開始建立項目的基礎，設置適當的單位，並按照指導路徑結構化你的3D模型。你將探索從草圖創建設計、製作CAD圖紙（DWG）甚至更新現有3D模型的工作流程。最後，你將使用擴展和3D Warehouse尋找新的工作流程和模型，以增加你的技能。

通過閱讀本書，你將能夠自信地通過CAD圖紙和3D視圖創建和分享你的設計模型，甚至可以通過3D Warehouse在線共享。

你將學到什麼：

- 建立體積模型和初步設計。
- 確定提高生產力和效率的最佳方法。
- 探索SketchUp工具並了解其多樣功能。
- 完整了解SketchUp中的編輯工具、材料和組件。
- 創建和編輯組件，並探索組件選項。
- 熟悉SketchUp擴展、3D Warehouse和其他工具和資源。

適合閱讀對象：

本書適合建築師、景觀設計師、室內設計師、木工師傅和具有建築設計初級知識的3D模型師。只需基本的電腦技能即可開始閱讀。

1. Beginning with SketchUp Pro
2. Principal Tools, Axes, and Inferences
3. Modeling with Groups and Components
4. Drawing Tools – We Begin Modeling!
5. Editing Tools – Making Big Changes!
6. Camera Options
7. View Options
8. Materials
9. Entity Info, Outliner, and Tags Dynamically Organize Your Models
10. Model Info and Preferences
11. Working with Components
12. Import, Export, 3D Warehouse, and Extensions

1. 從 SketchUp Pro 開始
2. 主要工具、軸心和推斷
3. 使用群組和元件進行建模
4. 繪圖工具 - 我們開始建模！
5. 編輯工具 - 進行重大更改！
6. 相機選項
7. 檢視選項
8. 材質
9. 實體資訊、大綱和標籤 - 動態組織您的模型
10. 模型資訊和偏好設定
11. 使用元件
12. 匯入、匯出、3D 倉庫和擴充功能