What: Hands-on practical course, lessons 5 and 10 allow you to work on your projects and portfolio.

When: 10-week evening course - One class per week with practice in-between.

Time: 6:45pm-9:30pm 

Where: London Software Training, 17, Sheep Lane, London, E8 3FA

You will learn to produce 3D models and 2D deliverables, before moving on to produce renderings and learning to maximise the software's potential with advanced plug-ins. Learning SketchUp will give you the skills for a wide range of creative projects. From creating detailed architectural, interior, landscape, engineering, jewellery and furniture projects, and even 3D printing. 

• Create your own template

• Create basic geometry in 2D (Lines, arcs, circles, and rectangles)

• Understand the stickiness of geometry

• Create basic geometry In 3D

• Understand stickiness In 3D

• View a model in 3D

• Organise your model using layers

• Create geometry with the Push/Pull Tool

• Move entities to manipulate geometry

• Maintain coplanar geometry

• Connect and generate forms

• Lock inferences

• Generate forms quickly

• Restore/heal a surface

• Create and apply surfaces to a model

• Mirror and array a model

• Apply materials

• Create 3D text

• Use all key tools for creating and manipulating 3D forms 

• Import component models from 3D Warehouse

• Display options and styles  

• Position and export models to Google Earth

• Overcoming stickiness In your model

• Use component nesting for efficient modelling

• Effect of scaling on similar components

• Use groups and components to isolate geometry

• Component browser  

• 3D Warehouse - getting components and sharing your model

• Dynamic components

• Understand component inferencing and editing

• Combine components

• Import a site into SketchUp

• Work with photographs  

• Using the Follow Me tool

• Working with the materials browser

• Entouraging with the 3D Warehouse

• Styling your model

• Creating a scene-based walk-through

• Create sections and animated scenes for presentations

• Export to AutoCAD and LayOut

• Nurbs modelling

• Advanced freeform modelling

• Push/ Pull curved surfaces

• Bend complex 3D geometry

• Create complex stairs

• Create 3D objects from 2D profiles

• Create components

• Custom window and door components

• Import components from 3D Warehouse

• Position and export SketchUp models to Google Earth

• Use PhotoMatch to add photographs to your model

• Create, edit, mix and apply styles; create a basic presentation.

• Use existing CAD files for reference.

• Organise your model using layers

• Create sections and animated scenes for presentations

• Rendering for photo-realistic output

• Installation and operation of free SketchUp plugins  LibFredo True Bend Weld Joint Push/Pull Fredo Scale Curviloft

• Twinmotion

• Advanced Modelling

• Bend complex 3D Geometry (True bend)

• Creating components

• Create complex stairs (and bend)

• Window and door components

• Adding lights

• Types of light

• Point (all directions, inside lamp, translucent curtain), spot, projector, emitter (edit material, templates, emit)  

• Spotlights

• Adjust colour of bulb

• Edit falloff

• Environmental lighting

• Creating renders (Twinmotion)

• Quality (pixels)

• Materials (templates)

• Reflections

• Transparencies

• Cast shadows

• Water

• Colour -  from SketchUp to white

• Alpha - lower alpha makes the material clear

• Bump - adds rough texture/ ripples

• Gamma, exposure = brightness

• Use PhotoMatch

• Export to LayOut

Your course price includes

• Free group course re-take within 18 months

• Expert teaching from practising architects, designers and software pros

• Hands-on, practical lessons - tailoring of syllabus and work on your projects

• Class recordings for revision and development

• LST certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn

Your tutors are designers, makers and architects, as well as software pros. They will guide you on the best way to apply for design roles or set-up a creative business, whilst teaching you all the key technical skills to make your CV and portfolio stand out from the crowd.