Hi! I just wanted to say 'Thank You!' for the quick and clear tutorial! I needed something to model a landscape VERY FAST, but I had no cad (or other modeling knowledge) and this was PERFECT!! Outstanding video! Again, many many Thanks!
The "From Scratch" is a tool in the Sandbox Menu. It is the second icon, showing multiple boxes. Hovering over the icon, on the bottom left, you should see the tool tip telling you what the tool is. A issue some people have is the "Grid Spacing" is too large. Make sure you adjust it on the bottom right before creating your terrain. You have to draw your "From Scratch" line longer than the Grid Spacing, and you will probably want it to have a modulo of 0.
Hi David I have watched many SketchUp videos and been confused and find them hard to follow. I really appreciate how you take your time and communicate what your are doing while keeping the cursor movements slow. I enjoyed this video and wanted to let you know that you helped me by posting this. I am using SketchUp professional 2017 and found that some of the settings are different from you but with a little exploration they are easily enough to find. Thank you.
If you're having trouble finiding the sandbox tools, they won't appear on your screen. For me they popped up on the bar in the top, and I didn't notice it. I thought it didn't appear but it was already there. You might have the same thing. You can also move them clicking on the far left of that toolbar. And then resize it and put it on the toolbar on the left.
Adam, My solution was simply to turn off hidden geometry. It turned out that they were gone but that you will always see grid lines when hidden geometry is on. You can also select any line that you want hidden & hit Command E (on mac), probably Ctrl E on PC, and it will disappear. Good luck. Susan
After closing out of SketchUp and re-opening it. Navigate to "View" > "Toolbars" > "Sandbox". The sandbox option is lower in the list. Also just make sure you have Sandbox Tools enabled under "Window" > "Preferences" > "Extensions". Hopefully that will help you out.
Nice tutorial brother i just want to ask you wNice tutorialch software is easy and best to learn as DAW soft soft or abelton live. Pls reply as soon as you can
There is a folder on that URL for 3D Models. You can most likely download the GZip'd files and import them in SketchUp since SketchUp can support a lot of different 3D File Formats. Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any help since a lot of the URL's on the site are not working for me, so I can't test it out.
Make the terrain a component, and then you can work outside the terrain component without anything happening to it. You should do this to any item that you are finished with or need to duplicate.
+Matthew T. Carpenter, Sr. It's been a really long time since I've used Sketchup, so I'm unsure of the best way to actually do this. One method is to create a texture file that fits to the terrain size you created and use that texture (positioning will be difficult). The other option is to split up the terrain into components and then paint the components using different textures. To do this, you will use the select tool and select a part of the terrain, right click and "Create Component" or something similar. Do this so at the end you have a few components created that make up the full terrain. Then you are able to paint each component with a different texture. The last option I have is create two (or more) different terrains and texture each one sand, dirt, grass, etc. Then stack the various terrains on top of each other and adjust them so the proper texture ends up appearing. This method is messy but would probably be fairly easy to do.
thx a lot, I v some questions concerning the animation, how can I include the dynamical tools interaction with scene capturing ? when I use the interact tool on a dynamical component the scene does not hold the interaction is there a plugin that helps me, or there is some thing I don't know , thanks a lot again for sharing this with us
OMG! Just figured it out. It was a radius problem. Another question: after you've created the terrain you want, how do you get rid of all the gridlines? I tried the From Contours button but it didn't fill in all of the squares--only half or so. I also tried Smoothing Edges and that doesn't work either...
Hey David, i have a question for you. i literally just downloaded the sketchup pro 2014, and im using to landscape a clients yard. it looks like you have alot more options in your tool bar than i do, adding grasses, foliage, and such, i do i aquire such tool bar options? im really just starting out with this thing today lol, any help or tips you have would be very greatly appreciated, thanks!!
Mine is not working. When I select the points I want to alter, then select smoove, it gives me a yellow ball at every grid point, not the areas I've selected. Any ideas??
Can I do an oval garden? I have a cad drawing done by someone else that I need to redo on sketchup. I can only save as pdf. Is there a way to import it to make it easier update the landscape drawing blueprint?
do you know what's the plugins that we can use for parametric design in sketchup?? Or use any tools available in Sketch up for parametric design. TKS Geek This
I just got my school computer, and it's a mac, so everything looks different. I can't find 'preferences' at all. I did find the large toolbar though, even if I had to find it another way. So if it's possible, could you do a tutorial of where to find everything on a mac?
Precious Eagle Cactus Fruit I am unable to do a tutorial on a mac since I don't own one. By default I believe "Sandbox Tools" are now enabled. All you would have to do is make them visible. Try right clicking on the toolbar and select "Sandbox". Since I believe macs don't have a right click, you may have to try Command+Click or similar (I'm not a mac person). Preferences should still be visible under the "Window" menu on the top of the screen though.
hey, thanks for the tutorial :) I'm very new to 3D art, and I have a question: can this program create non-square stuff? all the tutorials for SketchUp I found so far show people creating buildings, tables, chairs, etc. which are basically a bunch of squares put together. can SketchUp create, like, a 3D human body, using this terrain tool or some other tool?
I believe it can be done, but if you want to do face modeling or humans I suggest you use Blender. Blender is also free and is a very powerful 3D tool.
Wow, I just spent an hour trying to do this in sketchup 14. Impossible. I can do all the steps but my result is nothing like yours. I am trying to create a "river" running through a mini golf course design. When I use smoove on a test "lake" I've selected within the grid, I just get very gradual gradients and it isn't affected by scale or density of points selected. Any ideas? I'm bummed because it looks like such an elegant way to create water bodies!
Help, when I smooth the surface there are lines on top of the mountians and i made my scale 1000',10000 because i needed a larger mountain biome any idea how to get rid of those lines. The lines only appear when i create an animation!
I just don't understand the 'from scratch' part.... no matter what I do (even following you step by step) I cannot seem to get a visible drawable grid???
DOes anyone know if there is a "offline" version, like a downloadable program, of this is still around? I can only find the browser app, which, to be honest, sucks a lot. ^^
so.. when i select the grid, and explode, then try to move the landscape, the water goes with it. So for example, I can never move the landscape under the water.
I had similar issues. Had to upgrade my computer. Need a decent amount of ram, storage, graphics card etc. Google search recommended requirements for sketchup or cad.
If you cannot find Sandbox tools in Prefrences.Go into View,then Toolbars,then turn on Sandbox.
Life Saver!
thank you!
This Shit is not on my Toolbars
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Thankyou
Hi! I just wanted to say 'Thank You!' for the quick and clear tutorial! I needed something to model a landscape VERY FAST, but I had no cad (or other modeling knowledge) and this was PERFECT!! Outstanding video! Again, many many Thanks!
Beautiful man, you're the only one who could help me, I watched videos and yours was the only saved me
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you found it helpful.
dude, you're a life saver!! thanx for making this video ... i'm so grateful!! kudos!
Nice work. Good pace for your narrative and demonstration. Everything you did was clear and fully explained. Thanks for contributing this!
Clear and concise. I appreciate your effort here.
Wow i didn't think it would be that easy! Thank you for this great tutorial. :D
Nice work. Great tutorial. I had learned this a while ago and forgot how to grab points on the map. Thanks for the refresher.
I feel like it's no exaggeration to say you are a godsend. I've been making my own soft since i was 14ish and since then it's beco my
Nice job man! Easy to understand and executable steps. Very nice!
Very helpful for my techfair project!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. God bless you .
Thank you. You really explain it nicely and slowly to make it understand .
Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!
The "From Scratch" is a tool in the Sandbox Menu. It is the second icon, showing multiple boxes. Hovering over the icon, on the bottom left, you should see the tool tip telling you what the tool is. A issue some people have is the "Grid Spacing" is too large. Make sure you adjust it on the bottom right before creating your terrain. You have to draw your "From Scratch" line longer than the Grid Spacing, and you will probably want it to have a modulo of 0.
Very Clear Instructions.Good job
Hi David
I have watched many SketchUp videos and been confused and find them hard to follow. I really appreciate how you take your time and communicate what your are doing while keeping the cursor movements slow. I enjoyed this video and wanted to let you know that you helped me by posting this.
I am using SketchUp professional 2017 and found that some of the settings are different from you but with a little exploration they are easily enough to find.
Thank you.
I've just been taught by snoopy, nice tut helped me a lot re terrains, keep it up snoopy.
BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)
If you're having trouble finiding the sandbox tools, they won't appear on your screen. For me they popped up on the bar in the top, and I didn't notice it. I thought it didn't appear but it was already there. You might have the same thing. You can also move them clicking on the far left of that toolbar. And then resize it and put it on the toolbar on the left.
WOW, thank you for sharing, this has been very helpful.
why can't all tutorials be this coherent. might have actually learned something at architecture school if someone explained programmes like this
This helped so much. You've earned a subscriber!
Adam,
My solution was simply to turn off hidden geometry. It turned out that they were gone but that you will always see grid lines when hidden geometry is on. You can also select any line that you want hidden & hit Command E (on mac), probably Ctrl E on PC, and it will disappear. Good luck.
Susan
After closing out of SketchUp and re-opening it. Navigate to "View" > "Toolbars" > "Sandbox". The sandbox option is lower in the list. Also just make sure you have Sandbox Tools enabled under "Window" > "Preferences" > "Extensions". Hopefully that will help you out.
Thanks dude. Keep spreading the knowledge.
Nice tutorial brother i just want to ask you wNice tutorialch software is easy and best to learn as DAW soft soft or abelton live. Pls reply as soon as you can
Not exactly what I was looking for but glad I watched it, great vid!
Thank you so much bro for this video! You solve my problem in doing landscaping.
awesome video dude. This is going to be so useful
Very good tutorial.... I thank you for taking the time to put it together.
Thank you so much! This gave me so many ideas for my videos!
Thanks, David! I'm no longer limited to drawing on flat land!
Your voice is oddly relaxing lol
+Michaela Blanchfield it made me so fucking angry could hardly watch the video
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sounds like a southpark character.
its what i call art!! awesome
Very nice ! Concise and to the point !! Thanks a lot.
There is a folder on that URL for 3D Models. You can most likely download the GZip'd files and import them in SketchUp since SketchUp can support a lot of different 3D File Formats. Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any help since a lot of the URL's on the site are not working for me, so I can't test it out.
thank you for the tutorial, a very good one, simple and easy.
Can you make a note of what version of SketchUp you are using? Thanks
Perfect and straight to the point!! THX
Wow, thanks a million. Great video.
Well done geek boy great tute!
This was an excellent tutorial! Thank you.
Thank you for the video. This is very helpful ☺️
make more of these i like these kids keep it up
Make the terrain a component, and then you can work outside the terrain component without anything happening to it. You should do this to any item that you are finished with or need to duplicate.
Great video. Exactly what I was looking for.
Question: How would you change the color of the ground under the water to a sand color?
+Matthew T. Carpenter, Sr. It's been a really long time since I've used Sketchup, so I'm unsure of the best way to actually do this. One method is to create a texture file that fits to the terrain size you created and use that texture (positioning will be difficult). The other option is to split up the terrain into components and then paint the components using different textures. To do this, you will use the select tool and select a part of the terrain, right click and "Create Component" or something similar. Do this so at the end you have a few components created that make up the full terrain. Then you are able to paint each component with a different texture. The last option I have is create two (or more) different terrains and texture each one sand, dirt, grass, etc. Then stack the various terrains on top of each other and adjust them so the proper texture ends up appearing. This method is messy but would probably be fairly easy to do.
+Geek This do u need to have the water as water well i mean do u need it
+Pixel Pootis
no, he just wanted to create a lake
thx a lot, I v some questions concerning the animation, how can I include the dynamical tools interaction with scene capturing ? when I use the interact tool on a dynamical component the scene does not hold the interaction is there a plugin that helps me, or there is some thing I don't know , thanks a lot again for sharing this with us
Thank you for this tutorial! It was very clear and helpful!
Thank you so much for this!
OMG! Just figured it out. It was a radius problem.
Another question: after you've created the terrain you want, how do you get rid of all the gridlines? I tried the From Contours button but it didn't fill in all of the squares--only half or so. I also tried Smoothing Edges and that doesn't work either...
how did you fix the radius problem?
Can you show me how to insert a house which is partly in the hill?
Nice, keep up the awsome work
Thank you for the great tutorial
Hey David, i have a question for you. i literally just downloaded the sketchup pro 2014, and im using to landscape a clients yard. it looks like you have alot more options in your tool bar than i do, adding grasses, foliage, and such, i do i aquire such tool bar options? im really just starting out with this thing today lol, any help or tips you have would be very greatly appreciated, thanks!!
Never mind, i found the extended tool bar options, but if you still have tips or useful info i would still love all the help i can get! thanks.
Awesome - Great starter Tutorial
when i press soften an smooth edges it dose a little bit of it, but it dosen't come up with the gui that it did when you did it?
Mine is not working. When I select the points I want to alter, then select smoove, it gives me a yellow ball at every grid point, not the areas I've selected. Any ideas??
Amazing, fabulous, thank you.
Can I do an oval garden? I have a cad drawing done by someone else that I need to redo on sketchup. I can only save as pdf. Is there a way to import it to make it easier update the landscape drawing blueprint?
that was very helpful …. thank you
do you know what's the plugins that we can use for parametric design in sketchup?? Or use any tools available in Sketch up for parametric design. TKS Geek This
the sandbox tool is already checked yet no tool bar is appearing. . how to have this feature??please do reply. .
Simple, clear, and helpful - thank you.. 👍
I just got my school computer, and it's a mac, so everything looks different. I can't find 'preferences' at all. I did find the large toolbar though, even if I had to find it another way. So if it's possible, could you do a tutorial of where to find everything on a mac?
Precious Eagle Cactus Fruit I am unable to do a tutorial on a mac since I don't own one. By default I believe "Sandbox Tools" are now enabled. All you would have to do is make them visible. Try right clicking on the toolbar and select "Sandbox". Since I believe macs don't have a right click, you may have to try Command+Click or similar (I'm not a mac person). Preferences should still be visible under the "Window" menu on the top of the screen though.
Yeah, thanks, I found it :) And you right click by clicking with two fingers.
You weren't wrong about trying to adjust a lot of squares at once, just tried a 256x256 grid...
It's just awesome
hey, thanks for the tutorial :)
I'm very new to 3D art, and I have a question: can this program create non-square stuff? all the tutorials for SketchUp I found so far show people creating buildings, tables, chairs, etc. which are basically a bunch of squares put together. can SketchUp create, like, a 3D human body, using this terrain tool or some other tool?
I believe it can be done, but if you want to do face modeling or humans I suggest you use Blender. Blender is also free and is a very powerful 3D tool.
alright, I'll try Blender. thank you :)
Geek This love your school,nice am on a project i will get intouch with you when needed.
+1whitemoon blenderbis way more complicate than sketchup though.
Hi man. How do you autofill the grid? What command do you use to auto-make those lines to match up the bottom square ends? :)
i have a hard time trying to figure out how to build on the landscape. Every rectangle shape i draw seems to stick with the terrain ._.
Try using groups and components.
Great tutorial, thank you!
how come when i right click is doesn't have the explode option??
Wow, I just spent an hour trying to do this in sketchup 14. Impossible. I can do all the steps but my result is nothing like yours. I am trying to create a "river" running through a mini golf course design. When I use smoove on a test "lake" I've selected within the grid, I just get very gradual gradients and it isn't affected by scale or density of points selected.
Any ideas?
I'm bummed because it looks like such an elegant way to create water bodies!
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Help, when I smooth the surface there are lines on top of the mountians and i made my scale 1000',10000 because i needed a larger mountain biome any idea how to get rid of those lines.
The lines only appear when i create an animation!
+Xxelite_IllusionistxX you dont have to make it so big. you can always adjust the size later
Is there a way to color only part of the landscape?
Thanks for the tutorial.It Really helped
thank you so much for the video.... helpful
God Blesses
Thanks ❤️
How to make square more small ?
I just don't understand the 'from scratch' part.... no matter what I do (even following you step by step) I cannot seem to get a visible drawable grid???
Can i make contours in other shape other then rectangle or square. my site shape is in triangle-ish shape
Thank youuuuu soooo much!!! this helped me a lot, as a beginner :D:D
Thank you so much man! really helped
Beautiful!
Great video. Thanks.
When I go to get rid of the lines only the outside ones do, even though ive moved the bar thing all the way along, what can I do?
and what if I want to add a shoreline?
DOes anyone know if there is a "offline" version, like a downloadable program, of this is still around? I can only find the browser app, which, to be honest, sucks a lot. ^^
Yeah there is a program available for download, I just got this program about a week ago
so.. when i select the grid, and explode, then try to move the landscape, the water goes with it. So for example, I can never move the landscape under the water.
And it seems theres nothing I can do to unselect the water. It just moves with any adjustments I've made...
Christian Stillwell
I figured it out. I just needed to delete the line attaching the two.
Man I have a 12gb ram and 1050TI laptop but it lags when I tried this. Any suggestions to speed things up???
galing talaga wooooooooooooo
HOW DID YOU START WITH GROUND, I DONT HAVE GROUND FOR MINE
draw it you idiot
why does mine keep moving the water too
HELP! sketchup crashes everytime when I'm trying to make a grid. The first time there was no problem but now it just doesn't work...
I had similar issues. Had to upgrade my computer. Need a decent amount of ram, storage, graphics card etc. Google search recommended requirements for sketchup or cad.
how to create contours from the google photo .. plz upload the video or provide the link
help please my from scratch sandbox tool just does not work :(
Same here
When I soften or smooth out my lines not all of them do the command
Yo can anyone pls help out....I have got tNice tutorials weird problem in soft soft in the soft roll...I can’t see the notes that I am drawing or
Brother my all other plugins are working except sand box tool pls help