![]() To find out more about the courses we have on offer click the link below. We have all sorts of students in the course including designers and architects, cabinet makers, home renovators/remodelers, kitchen and bathroom designers, event planners, landscape designers and design enthusiasts. We have had more than 10,000 students come through the course with so many fantastic projects designed and built! I teach an online course for beginners that is focused specifically on using SketchUp for interior design purposes. ![]() ![]() Learning SketchUp will save you time, money, mistakes and so much more! It is a well known piece of software in the interior design and architecture industries and will give you a solid technical drawing skill that will immediately upgrade the professionalism of the work you are doing. With this software you can mock up an entire home in 2D (floor plans, joinery/millwork elevations, lighting and electrical plans and more) and 3D (renderings and perspective drawings) so you can picture exactly what it will look like when it is finished plus prepare your technical drawings for use with your clients, trades and contractors. If you want improve your work with design clients or you are about to start renovating or remodeling then you will love SketchUp. There are so many ways that I use SketchUp in my design workflow with clients and below I share just some of the possibilities using some examples from my own projects over the years. The final reason I love SketchUp is that it’s so versatile. ![]() It’s fun! - It’ so important to love and enjoy what you do and when I’m creating in SketchUp it honestly feels like play rather than work :) It looks really professional - creating your designs in SketchUp and then presenting them for clients using Layout immediately upgraded the professionalism of my work. It is easy to learn - which is great as it meant I could get up to speed quickly with using it and starting to create projects for my clients. And because I can do everything in my interior design workflow in one piece of software it means I only have to pay for one software subscription. In fact SketchUp is quite a bit cheaper than most other design software on the market. It saves me money - SketchUp is great for small design studios or solo business owners like me as it’s very affordable. It’s well recognised in the industry and is a good technical drawing skill for any designer to learn. It’s industry recognised - most large design firms around the world have designers using SketchUp. I have personally only ever used SketchUp in my own interior design workflow with clients and people often ask me why I chose SketchUp over other software options on the market. That’s where experience and skill can make some people way faster at getting results.Most people don’t realise what is possible with SketchUp and how much you can achieve with just one piece of design software. Many more hours can be eaten up to get renderings of your SketchUp model through other programs. In this article, I will guide you through the process of designing your perfect kitchen in SketchUp, from start to finish. More time is needed to seek out the proper hardware and appliances, and to set up more complete views of the kitchen, get nice colors etc. Just starting- it is just a matter of how fast you can learn. How long? It can take an experienced person a couple hours to get a nice interior view of some cabinets or a room. So a quick image file directly out of SketchUp may be what you want, or for more control composing documents and scaled drawing, adding text etc., you may do better to export via LayOut. Other image files such as jpg and png are also possible. With Windows the options or method may be different (I don’t have windows so I don’t recall how that works). If you have a Mac pdf in and out of SketchUp and LayOut is fine. You can also directly export image files from SketchUp. With Decals, you can easily project unique materials onto objects of any shape and create effects like graffiti on a wall. You can make pdf files of the final document. V-Ray for SketchUp, Update 2 introduces a useful feature: V-Ray Decal. You can send views of the SketchUP model to LayOut to make documents to show the client. A floor plan or interior elevation drawing can be used to help layout the model, or if you have 3d dwg you can import that as well. Yes you can import dwg files with the Pro version of SketchUp.
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