Architectural Design with SketchUp: 3D Modeling, Extensions, BIM, Rendering, Making, Scripting, and Layout

✍ Scribed by Alexander C. Schreyer

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 483
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WITH SKETCHUP

The most complete reference for anyone using SketchUp, fully updated to cover the latest features, with a new chapter on drawing preparation using LayOut

This newly updated and revised Third Edition of Architectural Design with SketchUp covers all the topics that students and professionals use daily, such as 3D modeling, extensions, photorealistic rendering, and drawing preparation. It features more than fifty easy-to-follow tutorials that first brush up on the basics of the program and then cover many advanced workflows (including digital fabrication and scripting), offering informative text and full-color illustrations side-by-side to clearly convey the techniques and features any reader needs to excel.

The leading guide to SketchUp for architects, interior designers, construction professionals, makers, and many others, Architectural Design with SketchUp is the key resource for students using SketchUp in a course or studio, and professionals looking for a thorough desk reference that covers the latest SketchUp features.

Topics covered in Architectural Design with SketchUp include:

• 3D modeling and design approaches with SketchUp, such as conceptual massing, geo-based modeling, component-based assemblies, point-cloud- and script-based modeling.
• Creating stunning photorealistic renderings and presentation-ready illustrations from your SketchUp models and using LayOut for 2D graphics and construction-documents.
• Using extensions to enhance SketchUp's core toolset and provide advanced functionality.
• Making physical objects from your designs with common digital fabrication tools, such as 3D printing, CNC fabrication, or laser cutting.
• Differences between SketchUp Pro, web, and iPad versions, and integrating SketchUp into workflows with other BIM software and various Trimble products and services, such as Trimble Connect.

This Third Edition of Architectural Design with SketchUp includes hundreds of full-color images that show SketchUp features, many example projects, and cookbook-style approaches to common tasks, which is supplemented with additional tutorials and sample files on a companion web site.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 A Multitude of SketchUp Users
1.2 How Does SketchUp Fit into the Designer’s Toolbox?
1.3 Easy 3D for Everyone
1.4 Windows or Mac, Pro or App, iPad or Phone?
1.5 Trimble’s Product Ecosystem
1.6 About This Book
1.7 How This Book Works
Let’s Go!
Chapter 2 A SketchUp Refresher
2.1 Getting Started and Getting Help
2.2 Interface and Program Setup
Adjusting SketchUp’s Preferences
2.3 Working with Templates
Setting Units and Fonts
Adding Components
Views
Completed Template
2.4 SketchUp’s Tool Set
Navigating the 3D Model
Accurate Modeling
Example 2.A: Starting a Pergola
Selecting Items
Temporary References
Example 2.B: Creating Beams for the Pergola
Groups and Components
Example 2.C: Using Components for the Pergola
Applying Materials
Example 2.D: Applying Materials to the Pergola
Curved and Compound Shapes
Example 2.E: Modeling a Post Cap
Other Tools in SketchUp
2.5 SketchUp’s Best Practices and Watch-Outs
Chapter 3 3D Modeling Approaches
3.1 Massing and Reference-Based Modeling
Using References for Modeling: Location and Images
Example 3.A: Location-Based Modeling
Example 3.B: Modeling from an Imported Plan
3.2 Group- and Component-Based Modeling
Effective Use of Groups and Components
Staying Organized in SketchUp
Generating Reports of Groups and Components
Modeling with Assembly in Mind (Virtual Mockup Building)
Example 3.C: Trimming Groups Using Two Methods
Example 3.D: Assembly Animation in SketchUp
3.3 Using Parametric Components to Your Advantage
Dynamic Components
Example 3.E: Adding Dynamic Components to Your Model
Authoring Dynamic Components
Example 3.F: Making a Wall Dynamic Component
Live Components
3.4 Modeling from Point Clouds
Laser Scanning
Point Cloud Modeling Techniques
Example 3.G: Drawing a Structural Column from Point Cloud Data
3.5 Where Does SketchUp Fit into the BIM Workflow?
Example 3.H: Program Planning with SketchUp’s Dynamic Components
Making a Space Dynamic Component
SketchUp and Revit
SketchUp and AutoCAD
BIM Classifier and IFC in SketchUp
Example 3.I: Using IFC Classifications in SketchUp
Chapter 4 Using Extensions Effectively
4.1 What Does an Extension Do?
4.2 Getting and Using Extensions
How Exactly Do Extensions Work?
Updating, Uninstalling, and Organizing Extensions
4.3 Extensions and Their Applications
Extensions for General Modeling
Example 4.A: Creating Trusses
Example 4.B: Making Shells in Different Ways
Extensions for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Modeling
Example 4.C: Mullion Windows
Extensions for Digital Fabrication
Example 4.D: Slicing Up a Volume
Example 4.E: Making a Terrain Model
Example 4.F: Unwrapping/Unfolding a Shape
Extensions for Data Integration and Exchange
Extensions for Presentation and Animation
Example 4.G: Sharing Interactive 3D Models from SketchUp
Extensions for Analysis
Example 4.H: Creating an Energy Analysis Building Model with OpenStudio
Chapter 5 Rendering in SketchUp
5.1 Let’s Get Visual!
What Is Already in SketchUp? Non-Photorealistic Rendering
The Magic of Styles
Example 5.A: Creating Your Own Branded Sketchy Style
What If I Want More?
5.2 Overview of Photorealistic Rendering Methods
What Is Photorealistic Rendering?
Rendering Techniques
5.3 Rendering Software
Example 5.B: Setting Up Twilight (Hobby) and Creating a Rendering
5.4 Perfecting the Components of a Rendering
Modeling
Environment
Lighting
Materials
Example 5.C: A Wooden Tabletop
Example 5.D: Texturing Curved Surfaces
Example 5.E: Texturing a Sphere
Objects
Example 5.F: Adding a Person (or any Object) to an Image in Photoshop
Example 5.G: Making a 2D PNG Cutout Face-Me Component
5.5 Rendering Tips and Tricks
5.6 Making Renderings Presentable
Combining SketchUp Output and Rendered Output in Photoshop
Other Methods
Chapter 6 Making Things with SketchUp
6.1 What Can You Make with SketchUp?
6.2 Services for Makers
6.3 Selecting the Manufacturing Technique
6.4 Manual Fabrication Planning
Example 6.A: Fabricating an L-Shaped Stair
6.5 Laser Cutting (and Engraving)
Example 6.B: Creating a Laser-Cut Mobile from SketchUp
6.6 CNC Routing and Milling
Example 6.C: Cutting the Patterned Panel
Example 6.D: Depth Cutting Profiled Models
6.7 3D Printing
Preparing Your SketchUp Model for 3D Printing
Example 6.E: Cleaning Up a Model for 3D Printing
Example 6.F: 3D Printing a Cutaway View
Exporting and Processing Your Model Outside of SketchUp
6.8 Learn More About Making
Chapter 7 Creating Geometry Using Ruby Scripting
7.1 Why Computational Geometry?
7.2 Setting Up SketchUp’s Ruby Interface
Installing the Ruby Code Editor Extension
More Extensions and External Editors
7.3 Intro to Ruby and the SketchUp API
How Does Ruby Work?
What’s in SketchUp’s Ruby API?
Links to Further Reading
7.4 Creating Geometry with Ruby
Example 7.A: Lots of Boxes
Example 7.B: Lots of Boxes with Color
Example 7.C: Creating a Small City
Example 7.D: Randomizing Extrusions
Example 7.E: Using Formulas for Patterned Panels
Example 7.F: Drawing Data from Text Files
Example 7.G: Saving Vertices to a Text File
7.5 Transformations Change Things Up
Example 7.H: Lots of Boxes Using Components
Example 7.I: Building a Curved Wall
Example 7.J: Placing Components on Faces
Example 7.K: Randomizing Everything
7.6 Attracted to Attractors
Example 7.L: Coloring Faces by Proximity
Example 7.M: Scaling Objects by Proximity
Example 7.N: Solar-Responsive Design
7.7 What Else Is Possible with This?
7.8 Some Pitfalls and Things to Watch Out For
Chapter 8 Creating Documents with LayOut
8.1 SketchUp and LayOut—What Can LayOut Do for You?
What Is in LayOut?
Workflows in LayOut
Navigating LayOut’s interface
The Ins and Outs of LayOut
8.2 Setting Up Your Project in LayOut
Your SketchUp Model in LayOut
Example 8.A: Setting up the SketchUp Model (in SketchUp)
Example 8.B: Creating Your LayOut Template (in LayOut)
Example 8.C: Creating a Cover Page (in LayOut)
Example 8.D: Creating the Plan and Elevation Pages (in LayOut)
8.2 Other Drawing Methods: Scaled Drawings, DWG/DXF Import/Export
Shapes, Fills, Patterns, and Strokes
Working with Coordinates
Example 8.E: Drawing a Scaled Detail
Create Your Own Scrapbooks
Working with DWG/DXF File Import and Export
8.3 Tips and Tricks for Working with LayOut
Appendix A SketchUp and LayOut Reference
SketchUp Keyboard Shortcuts
LayOut Keyboard Shortcuts
File Locations
Appendix B Ruby and API Reference
SketchUp’s Ruby API
Ruby Core Classes
Creating Your Own Extensions
RBZ Extension File Structure
Extension Template Structure
Appendix C Creating a Simple Custom XML Schema
Index
EULA