+Aaron Bishop I've been working on ketchup for a week and a half for my dads company in construction, you're awesome and if you could make that it would be greatly appreciated.
The first sketchup tutorial I ever watched. It was all I needed. The video randomly showed up in my recommendation so came to say Thank You Mr. Bishop.
Great video. I just wanted to add, you can double click with the Push/Pull tool and it will repeat the last push/pull distance you did. This prevents you from having to reference another point in your model every time. It's great for bringing up walls, or punching out doors/windows.
Excellent - I have attempted to get started with SketchUp once before but failed to understand the concepts. Your first 3 tutorials gave me an excellent starting point. Thanks!!!
In addition to longer videos (which I'm working on), I'm also thinking about starting a Twitch channel for this sort of thing, while also answering some of your questions in the process. Thoughts?
+Aaron Bishop please make a Twitch channel, I will be happy to view you in real time. By the way you are great at teaching and explaining how this software works, I actually started to work with SketchUp because of your tutorials and because I find it hard to learn a 3D software like Maya or 3D Studio Max... Please do more videos like these, random objects, glass, chairs, bridges, everything you can:) I would also like to see more rounded objects, round faces or cloth style of modelling :D Thanks
When sketch first came out I was thinking it was overly simplified when compared for AutoCAD/Revit...But DAMN,for porting these sketches into unity..Its a BEAST.
Very cool. I have a mansion house plan idea, and never heard of sketchup until today. I have added this program to my project list of something new to learn! Great tutorial! You make it look easy, I'm sure it's much tougher
s9991 Sketchup is actually as easy as he shows it. It is just a matter of getting used to the controls. It also depends of the subject you are trying to model. This video shows a simplistic subject. Bigger houses or more detail may get challenging just because you may chose a complex subject but the program itself is a sinch if you know and are used to the controls. Just play with it a while and continue to watch videos. I may not be Aaron but I, myself am a long-time user too.
Aaron, this is an amazing video. I am a beginner with SU and I you show me greats things that this tool can do. I have to admit though that I have a lot of work to do but thanks this I can study it on my tempo. Thank you for your help and excellent work.
Thanks for sharing. Useful tips to budding house designers. I do house sketches using TreblD which uses the same technique. They save you time by providing most of the objects needed. Another useful thing I found is to use drag and drop. If you have your 2D sketch on your desktop it is much easier to simply drag and drop it into SketchUp than to use import.
im just looking fr a simple design of houses and i found this tutorail so entertaining.nice work dude hope you can show me designs of house couz i want to have my own house one of these days
"its really hard to see where they are..........so I'm just going to guess"! (This made me laugh). Aaron, I started learning today and you've got skills. Great tutorial. Enjoyed it.
Hey Aaron, great video (as well as all your others)! You're a fast modeler. I've been an SU user since I stumbled onto it way back with Version 2 and am not at all surprised it's become the AutoCAD equivalent of 3D modelling (meaning: everybody knows about & uses it now). I often build similar models from scanned hardcopy plans, so I wanted to watch this to confirm if I've been doing things the logical way, and maybe learn a coupla new tricks (which I did!) Have never used layers since I never quite understood their purpose; thanks for explaining. One trick you may want to use if it's unfamiliar, is that with push/pull, when you're doing it to multiple objects equally, such as your porch columns, after you do the first one to exactly the distance you want, say 4'-2", the command 'remembers' that distance such that you can simply double-click each face thereafter & it'll push/pull each one to 4'-2" (till you change the distance in the dimension box at screen's lower-right) --- much quicker & less tedious than typing that same distance into the dimension box. Good for lots of things like those window components you created, if you're treating the glass as separate panes. With stairs, b/c each double-click repeats that remembered distance, extruding them is a breeze: pull out & type in value for your first riser; double-click once for second riser below it; double-click TWICE for 3rd riser; and so on.
+modern outside Layers are quite important. Maybe not for a simple drawing like two boxes on top of each other, but if one were to include thickness and other embellishments within those two boxes, then designating layers would make viewing/working so much easier as they can be turned off when not needed. Good post about the double-clicking!
Can't understand the method used on 1:05 for model resizing. Actions that I see: 1. Make the line. 2. Type 42. 3. Using the scale tool. Result - the resized model. How? Is something left behind the scenes? I resized model by another way - using the tape measure tool, but interesting how it was done in the video.
you can double click a face with push/pull tool to push it with the same value that you entered last time with the tool, so you don't have to pull it again to wherever you want it, just double click also you can use the Lock system, using Shift, when you draw a line, put your cursor on an existing edge, and then press and hold shift, and then move your cursor, and see what happens, it locks your mouse in the direction of that edge :) ... and finally, instead of drawing edges to draw the floorplan, use rectangles, it would make the work way more faster and easier as well, ;) ,,, hope these tips helps
***** you can use it to lock ANY thing also ^_^ ,,, any reference line or point or even surface thing can be locked with shift key :D ,,, the whole ting is called locking system
Thanks Aaron. I am just starting to look at SketchUp videos and really trying to soak up some of the information out there. Can you show how to go about the framing of the house and possibly the roof truss.
i dont know if that was a feature of this version, but now in mine with the push/pull tool. i can move something by whatever and doubleclick on something i wanna p/p and it does it by the same amount
I'm trying to add a second floor, is it easier to put the floor-plan on top of the first floor plan, or can I build it separately and lift it in place?
a good one and asking one question. what is your version. and as i am new and at very begining, so i wonder the tool that is shown in yours is not in mine. why ?????? well mine is sketch pro 2020
Remember, you can use inference locking when using the move tool, by press and holding down the Shift key, to lock move operation to that axis or you can press and hold either the up arrow, left arrow, or right arrow keys, while moving to lock the move to a specific axis.
Hi Aaron, I'm following this video to create a house from a blueprint and I new to sketchup. Once you draw all the walls, you say "create the floors" and draw a diagonal line then erase it. I'm confused there as I don't know what you did and when I try to pull up my walls, the walls are negative to the outside contour of the house, instead of positive. I can drag them down, then then the floor is essentially sitting under ground. Help?
I noticed that you frequently use the keyboard to input push/pull amounts, instead of double-clicking the mouse to duplicate the action, is there a reason why you take the time to do that, as opposed to just double tapping the desired surface?
You can draw a line inside the image of the floor plant that extends from limit to limit (what should be 42 feet), of course, this line won't have the proper measures, but if you put it all inside a group and then edit it, you can use the tape measure tool to scale everything, so your entire image will be scaled 1:1, and simplify the tracing
I watch the scaling part a few time and I don't get it. Why do you scale the image to 42' when it is the length of the house within the drawing that is 42'?
i would like to see a longer video in detail. but i was wondering if you could help me figure out a particular floor plan that im working on. would be greatly appreciated :)
Can blue prints be brought in from autocad? My architect did the plans in autocad and I'd like to play with the overall setup on the homestead with all over design. If anything I just said make sense to anyone but me.
Unfortunately I no longer have that image, but www.eplans.com has tons of free blueprints. Here's one I found that's very similiar: www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/designers/designer-1002/hwepl76837.html
I cant get that push/pull to delete a window bit to work, I got it to work once as a fluke but cant do it on the others even when i measure the depth of the wall and type it in :( think i'll have to find another way
I added another rectangle to the front of the house. It might be easier to make the house and the roof separate components. Then when you push/pull the roof up you can hit 'alt' on the center line to create the gable. Hope that helps!
Would you guys like to see a longer video about this; building a cool house from scratch, furnishing and rendering screenshots?
Aaron Bishop Yes, mainly furnishing and designing surfaces + rendering
Aaron Bishop I got into SketchUp literally 10 mins ago.Would love to see that =)
Aaron Bishop Hi Aaron - me too, I'd like to be apart of your audience. Please consider showing us how to add custom textures too.
+Aaron Bishop aw yes
+Aaron Bishop I've been working on ketchup for a week and a half for my dads company in construction, you're awesome and if you could make that it would be greatly appreciated.
You're a great teacher, all the information is concise and to the point. We use Sketchup at my new job and this helped me a lot.
The first sketchup tutorial I ever watched. It was all I needed. The video randomly showed up in my recommendation so came to say Thank You Mr. Bishop.
Great video. I just wanted to add, you can double click with the Push/Pull tool and it will repeat the last push/pull distance you did. This prevents you from having to reference another point in your model every time. It's great for bringing up walls, or punching out doors/windows.
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He'sprobably know how to use it he's just not showing it to us
I love the pace of your tutorial!
lol
I'm a beginner, as usual self-taught like many others. This tutorial is very informative and to the point. Many thanks for sharing.
this was my first sketchup tutorial... now, after 9 years im here to remember how was simpler
Aron just signed up to Sketch up. First time user, getting ready to do plans for my addition. Subscribed to your channel. Thank you!
Amazing tutorial. I am currently using sketchup and I feel pretty confident with it and this tutorial has definitely made me more confident.
Very well done with great tips for a beginner. the pace is perfect as to not waste time on repetition. Nice work!
all these video tutorials yet this almost 20 min. vid taught me everything. I saw this randomly in my video suggestions.
Excellent - I have attempted to get started with SketchUp once before but failed to understand the concepts. Your first 3 tutorials gave me an excellent starting point. Thanks!!!
In addition to longer videos (which I'm working on), I'm also thinking about starting a Twitch channel for this sort of thing, while also answering some of your questions in the process. Thoughts?
+Aaron Bishop please make a Twitch channel, I will be happy to view you in real time.
By the way you are great at teaching and explaining how this software works, I actually started to work with SketchUp because of your tutorials and because I find it hard to learn a 3D software like Maya or 3D Studio Max...
Please do more videos like these, random objects, glass, chairs, bridges, everything you can:) I would also like to see more rounded objects, round faces or cloth style of modelling :D
Thanks
When sketch first came out I was thinking it was overly simplified when compared for AutoCAD/Revit...But DAMN,for porting these sketches into unity..Its a BEAST.
Your tutorials are the best I found after repeated looking at others.
Very cool. I have a mansion house plan idea, and never heard of sketchup until today. I have added this program to my project list of something new to learn! Great tutorial! You make it look easy, I'm sure it's much tougher
s9991 Sketchup is actually as easy as he shows it. It is just a matter of getting used to the controls. It also depends of the subject you are trying to model. This video shows a simplistic subject. Bigger houses or more detail may get challenging just because you may chose a complex subject but the program itself is a sinch if you know and are used to the controls. Just play with it a while and continue to watch videos. I may not be Aaron but I, myself am a long-time user too.
Amazing. Very concise and a greatly shown demonstration. Keep up the good work, Aaron.
Aaron, this is an amazing video. I am a beginner with SU and I you show me greats things that this tool can do. I have to admit though that I have a lot of work to do but thanks this I can study it on my tempo. Thank you for your help and excellent work.
Cheers Max, keep at it!
Thank you for your complete and comprehensive training. Very good!
Absolutely solid tutorial Aaron!
Really helpful video. Usually people just do stuff without elaborating what they did but you really did a great job!
this is a GREAT tutorial. Excellent work, Aaron.
This is a brilliant tutorial. You covered an awesome range of useful tools in a short time.
i love your tutorials. Sincerely speaking, u have inspired me a lot to build my Channel. Thanks Aaron.
Best lesson about sketchup I have seen! Thank u a lot!
so far you are the best in teaching this sort of stuff :)
Great tutorial. Simple explanation. Please keep continuing advance so far.
Thanks for sharing. Useful tips to budding house designers. I do house sketches using TreblD which uses the same technique. They save you time by providing most of the objects needed.
Another useful thing I found is to use drag and drop. If you have your 2D sketch on your desktop it is much easier to simply drag and drop it into SketchUp than to use import.
very well thought out tutorial aaron! from house plan, layers, field of view. really helpful!
im just looking fr a simple design of houses and i found this tutorail so entertaining.nice work dude hope you can show me designs of house couz i want to have my own house one of these days
Keep at it =]]
Many thanks Aaron! Great video, showing how to work with sketchup!
"its really hard to see where they are..........so I'm just going to guess"! (This made me laugh). Aaron, I started learning today and you've got skills. Great tutorial. Enjoyed it.
That was an awesome intro to SketchUp. I'm planning to design my own house, so these videos will be super helpful. Great job!
This video was so beautiful and satisfying in so many ways! great content, I want to learn sketchup!
Hey Aaron! Thanks for showing how to recover deleted components, that's so helpful!
One of the best tutorial i found !! Thank you so much
we're big fans, keep up the good work. big ups
Hey Aaron, great video (as well as all your others)! You're a fast modeler. I've been an SU user since I stumbled onto it way back with Version 2 and am not at all surprised it's become the AutoCAD equivalent of 3D modelling (meaning: everybody knows about & uses it now). I often build similar models from scanned hardcopy plans, so I wanted to watch this to confirm if I've been doing things the logical way, and maybe learn a coupla new tricks (which I did!) Have never used layers since I never quite understood their purpose; thanks for explaining. One trick you may want to use if it's unfamiliar, is that with push/pull, when you're doing it to multiple objects equally, such as your porch columns, after you do the first one to exactly the distance you want, say 4'-2", the command 'remembers' that distance such that you can simply double-click each face thereafter & it'll push/pull each one to 4'-2" (till you change the distance in the dimension box at screen's lower-right) --- much quicker & less tedious than typing that same distance into the dimension box. Good for lots of things like those window components you created, if you're treating the glass as separate panes. With stairs, b/c each double-click repeats that remembered distance, extruding them is a breeze: pull out & type in value for your first riser; double-click once for second riser below it; double-click TWICE for 3rd riser; and so on.
+modern outside Layers are quite important. Maybe not for a simple drawing like two boxes on top of each other, but if one were to include thickness and other embellishments within those two boxes, then designating layers would make viewing/working so much easier as they can be turned off when not needed.
Good post about the double-clicking!
Thank you so much, Ive been watching so many videos, you explanation is awesome, u r making things very simple and easy, please keep on the good work
Very good and useful video!!! Lots of tricks seen in practise. Awesome! Thanks!!!
@1:12 of the video, how do you scale it to 42'? It did not seem to match it to the line that you made.
Loved It! Thank You, Mr. Aaron, for sharing with us your experience.
click on the magnet, and from there you can adjust how the tracks snap onto the grid. if you want it to be each 1/4 of a bar, click "line"
Thank you so much for the tutorial. Was totally lost on the controls or anything, really helped me out!
I was always fascinated by trap soft, been listening to trap long ti and i finally decided that i will try to make my own but i was so
I have learnt many things from here. Thanks for the tutorial:)
Can't understand the method used on 1:05 for model resizing.
Actions that I see:
1. Make the line.
2. Type 42.
3. Using the scale tool.
Result - the resized model. How? Is something left behind the scenes? I resized model by another way - using the tape measure tool, but interesting how it was done in the video.
if only all teachers taught like this. What a wonderful world we would live in.
Fantastic video for beginners! Great pace for the most part. Thank you so much for this!
Thank you, very easy to follow. Just started to use sketchup and this was extremely helpful
At 18:30 , all you have to do is press the up arrow key on your keyboard after clicking on a bottom corner and then click anywhere on the floor.
Thanks for this video! Just did all this and used IrisVR to WALK around the model in VR with my HTC Vive. Less than 2 hours from start to finish.
You do great work bro. Keep it up bro.❤❤
can you explain what did you do on 4:15. you Completed the square. how. Thank you !
7:50 my roof doesn't appear when I draw the rectangle. It is like it draws the lines but not the surface.
Awesome tutorial! Keep up the good work
you can double click a face with push/pull tool to push it with the same value that you entered last time with the tool, so you don't have to pull it again to wherever you want it, just double click
also you can use the Lock system, using Shift, when you draw a line, put your cursor on an existing edge, and then press and hold shift, and then move your cursor, and see what happens, it locks your mouse in the direction of that edge :) ...
and finally, instead of drawing edges to draw the floorplan, use rectangles, it would make the work way more faster and easier as well, ;) ,,, hope these tips helps
***** you can use it to lock ANY thing also ^_^ ,,, any reference line or point or even surface thing can be locked with shift key :D ,,, the whole ting is called locking system
I really love your free sketchup lessons! Hope I can see more from you! You're one awesome dude. Thumbs up and subscribed to you :)
Great to watch the video Nice plan
u are lightning fast!! keep it up!!
Amazing vidoe, hands down!!! Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks Aaron. I am just starting to look at SketchUp videos and really trying to soak up some of the information out there. Can you show how to go about the framing of the house and possibly the roof truss.
Simple and Amazing work !!!
This is an awesome tutorial for beginners like me. Cheers! :)
Great video tutorial. Thank you! It was well done and easy to understand.
you are a great instructor
Hi would you be able to upload the jpeg file for the blueprint so that we could follow along?
thanks for this video. it helped me a lot. i just got sketchup 20 mins ago. you just got a sub from me :) thanks!!!
I didn't even know about the camera controls. Thanks for the tip!
i dont know if that was a feature of this version, but now in mine with the push/pull tool. i can move something by whatever and doubleclick on something i wanna p/p and it does it by the same amount
I'm trying to add a second floor, is it easier to put the floor-plan on top of the first floor plan, or can I build it separately and lift it in place?
Very good work/ teaching
Which program do you use?
a good one and asking one question. what is your version. and as i am new and at very begining, so i wonder the tool that is shown in yours is not in mine. why ?????? well mine is sketch pro 2020
Great video, great pace, thanks so much!
Remember, you can use inference locking when using the move tool, by press and holding down the Shift key, to lock move operation to that axis or you can press and hold either the up arrow, left arrow, or right arrow keys, while moving to lock the move to a specific axis.
Cheers!
Would you kindly share what are the tools/plugins/extensions that you use? I'm new to sketchup and learned a lot with your technic.
Hi Aaron, I'm following this video to create a house from a blueprint and I new to sketchup. Once you draw all the walls, you say "create the floors" and draw a diagonal line then erase it. I'm confused there as I don't know what you did and when I try to pull up my walls, the walls are negative to the outside contour of the house, instead of positive. I can drag them down, then then the floor is essentially sitting under ground. Help?
can you build a printed model using this program? I am just watching videos now on it and was just curious if it includes that feature
Oh man, loved this video
Superb tutorial, thank you.
Awesome tutorial, i learned a lot
I love and used Sketchup for over 5 years, but for making a House, home designer pro is $500 and is amazing.
4:14 What did you do there? Why does it create a face when you draw a line across it?
I noticed that you frequently use the keyboard to input push/pull amounts, instead of double-clicking the mouse to duplicate the action, is there a reason why you take the time to do that, as opposed to just double tapping the desired surface?
You can draw a line inside the image of the floor plant that extends from limit to limit (what should be 42 feet), of course, this line won't have the proper measures, but if you put it all inside a group and then edit it, you can use the tape measure tool to scale everything, so your entire image will be scaled 1:1, and simplify the tracing
great tutorials , thanx for posting them
Skilled technique . Great!!
Nicely Done!
Superb Aaron, thank you, great video.
Is there a way to have the array follow a predetermined path?
I watch the scaling part a few time and I don't get it. Why do you scale the image to 42' when it is the length of the house within the drawing that is 42'?
i would like to see a longer video in detail. but i was wondering if you could help me figure out a particular floor plan that im working on. would be greatly appreciated :)
+Dustin McGarrah Still on it? Maybe I can help.
Can blue prints be brought in from autocad? My architect did the plans in autocad and I'd like to play with the overall setup on the homestead with all over design. If anything I just said make sense to anyone but me.
Amerijam Acres yeah you can but only in sketchup pro, you simply import the file and place it, super easy dawg
Where did you get the floorplan from?
Great Aaron. Is there a link with your plans so we can work on it together with your video?
Unfortunately I no longer have that image, but www.eplans.com has tons of free blueprints. Here's one I found that's very similiar: www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/designers/designer-1002/hwepl76837.html
very clear lesion,
tks a lot
Hi Aaron,
How do you 'fill in the floor'? When I erase the line, the fill disappears. Thanks for posting, Tracy
any specific type of document to import, can you mention?
I cant get that push/pull to delete a window bit to work, I got it to work once as a fluke but cant do it on the others even when i measure the depth of the wall and type it in :( think i'll have to find another way
PLEASE I NEED HELP Soo Muchhh, how do he extend the roof 8:34 while only have a single midpoint 9:02 please someone please help me
I added another rectangle to the front of the house. It might be easier to make the house and the roof separate components. Then when you push/pull the roof up you can hit 'alt' on the center line to create the gable. Hope that helps!
Oh my. Thank you very much