SketchUp: Drawing Terrain and Landscapes

David is back with another tutorial for SketchUp 8, this time using an extension to help draw terrain. You will no longer be limited to drawing on flat land.

[@axetone]

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!

[@panrealitymedia]

Nice work. Good pace for your narrative and demonstration. Everything you did was clear and fully explained. Thanks for contributing this!

[@krmullen1]

Clear and concise. I appreciate your effort here.

[@marcelkostwinder5201]

Wow i didn't think it would be that easy! Thank you for this great tutorial. :D

[@bobchin6163]

Nice job man! Easy to understand and executable steps. Very nice!
Very helpful for my techfair project!

[@insignamiadamaregesu8755]

Nice work. Great tutorial. I had learned this a while ago and forgot how to grab points on the map. Thanks for the refresher.

[@RevenRVM]

Beautiful man, you're the only one who could help me, I watched videos and yours was the only saved me

[@geekthisnet]

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you found it helpful.

[@punilrajsinh]

dude, you're a life saver!! thanx for making this video ... i'm so grateful!! kudos!

[@jshanker2005]

Very nice ! Concise and to the point !! Thanks a lot.

[@PIANOFREDERIKDENMARK]

This helped so much. You've earned a subscriber!

[@abubakarahmed7997]

Thank you. You really explain it nicely and slowly to make it understand .

[@LanceCampeau]

Very good tutorial.... I thank you for taking the time to put it together.

[@PatrickWard4]

This was an excellent tutorial! Thank you.

[@ramoncarfrae5474]

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.

[@darkan99el]

I've just been taught by snoopy, nice tut helped me a lot re terrains, keep it up snoopy.

[@rcon257]

Thanks dude. Keep spreading the knowledge.

[@initiativeoccitanie165]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

[@Calmandsilent]

Thank you for this tutorial! It was very clear and helpful!

[@stefanandrejevic2570]

If you cannot find Sandbox tools in Prefrences.Go into View,then Toolbars,then turn on Sandbox.

[@ussamabinnaveed]

Life Saver!

[@nuhuh420]

thank you!

[@cronenex4207]

This Shit is not on my Toolbars

[@Nick-vv1ut]

👌

[@AGUSRAHMATHIDAYAT]

Thankyou

[@karldaniel3208]

Thank you so much bro for this video! You solve my problem in doing landscaping.

[@arespinoza85]

Wow, thanks a million. Great video.

[@ThingEngineer]

Not exactly what I was looking for but glad I watched it, great vid!

[@hyperMcraft]

Perfect and straight to the point!! THX

[@subashlimbu8075]

thank you for the tutorial, a very good one, simple and easy.

[@COLORPAPERPRINCESS]

its what i call art!! awesome

[@MrJohn2475]

WOW, thank you for sharing, this has been very helpful.

[@Altazmuth]

Amazing, fabulous, thank you.

[@finnandshivay5274]

Thank you so much! This gave me so many ideas for my videos!

[@ricardobortolin6332]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. God bless you .

[@piglet1ification]

Well done geek boy great tute!

[@SineEyed]

Simple, clear, and helpful - thank you.. 👍

[@Nat0ri0us]

awesome video dude. This is going to be so useful

[@AGUSRAHMATHIDAYAT]

Thank you for the great tutorial

[@angelcaban2387]

Nice, keep up the awsome work

[@Galdring]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@timwalker2233]

Awesome - Great starter Tutorial

[@sohailai.darwesh]

that was very helpful …. thank you

[@_okaego_]

Thank youuuuu soooo much!!! this helped me a lot, as a beginner :D:D

[@studioadrianiz5519]

Very Clear Instructions.Good job

[@rrayzzIII]

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

[@jtsarchitectureinteriors7976]

Thank you for the video. This is very helpful ☺️

[@_bhimsainik_gaurav358]

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

[@zinatibrahim3444]

Beautiful!

[@peterstecks7660]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[@AkshaySahu]

Thanks for the tutorial.It Really helped

[@Snoboi]

Thanks for the great advice :)

[@abdelhak50]

Thank you so much man! really helped

[@foyjullahfoyez]

Thank you so much for this!

[@farizaboranbayeva7746]

Thank you! Wonderful video!

[@cassie_chimmy]

amazing! thanks for sharing!

[@DesignerhacksPage]

Thanks, David! I'm no longer limited to drawing on flat land!

[@salvatoresaccone6689]

It's just awesome

[@geekthisnet]

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.

[@hendryjk14]

thank you so much for the video.... helpful
God Blesses

[@notta3d]

Great video. Thanks.

[@ShakemBeckford]

Thanks bro. This is easy.

[@vid1001]

Hey!!
Thanks - that w really good!
Best
Vid

[@dianazlochevska5597]

Very helpful
Thanks!

[@drosha9314]

thankyou,. this was really helpful

[@kirikurookie4509]

thank you ...it really helpful !

[@phys1014]

Very helpful. Thanks

[@CuzzaFuturism]

Thank you Sir 👍

[@susanlsolarz8920]

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

[@gihandilantha3881]

Thanks man!

[@darshans186]

thank you very much it worked

[@-solarstorm-4392]

Thank You

[@laurenalivia]

Thanks for the informative video. You have a nice voice, btw.

[@geekthisnet]

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.

[@rabakasultana3301]

thanks the video helped a lot

[@alisabry1967]

Thank You so much...Thank you...thank you thank you :)

[@markmcculfor6113]

Is there a way to color only part of the landscape?

[@brant-bi8563]

Thank you!

[@rizadewinurul2465]

very clear.. i'm surprised :)

[@wiambenlarbi369]

make more of these i like these kids keep it up

[@samehamer.]

great, thanks a lot

[@lsnaturecreations7665]

Thanks ❤️

[@dina237]

why can't all tutorials be this coherent. might have actually learned something at architecture school if someone explained programmes like this

[@htetshineaung9028]

Thanks a lot!

[@user-ux9bw2tn9p]

Thanks

[@pauloguardados8032]

galing talaga wooooooooooooo

[@fadakfadak114]

Thank you so much ..from lraq

[@geekthisnet]

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.

[@TJDrumsRHCP]

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.

[@dognamedpaul385]

Thanks now i know how to Make it

[@TomisaburoRMizugawa]

Thanks a lot :)

[@jessanmarietupas1251]

+Geek This, very helpful... thank you...

[@carloflo]

Thank You.

[@michaelablanchfield]

Your voice is oddly relaxing lol

[@easysteezy58]

+Michaela Blanchfield it made me so fucking angry could hardly watch the video

[@vseady]

kkkkkk

[@sponspiere]

sounds like a southpark character.

[@geekthisnet]

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.

[@jessevalentijn]

Thanks!

[@MikeF66]

Brilliant

[@21DAGUILAR]

Very helpful. Thank you. :)

[@fixno1]

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? :)

[@joeljones4422]

Good skills. Thanks.

[@isriissrr7692]

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

[@sparxwil]

You weren't wrong about trying to adjust a lot of squares at once, just tried a 256x256 grid...

[@paulvelasco_]

gosh soooo ohelpful

[@amnajafri6108]

Can i make contours in other shape other then rectangle or square. my site shape is in triangle-ish shape

[@manugupta1091]

this is jussssssst what i needed! thanks saviour