Getting Started with SketchUp - Part 1 

Before I saw this video I didn't know where to begin, now it seems so simple to operate the tools! It took me about 2 minutes to draw a simple house from the tutorial. I had a little problem with the chimney but finally got it!

You are a great, teacher. Thanks for the lesson.

love the way this is being taught.

I just want to say THANK YOU FOR SHOWING HOW TO USE SKETCH UP 🌼 I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS

Wow! Wow! Wow! It is as if a new world just opened up for me. I decided three months ago I am going to take up Woodworking as a hobby. With NO DIY experience whatsoever. I am 60, so it is a bit late for new hobbies. But what the heck. One of the things I knew I had to learn was Sketchup. Also not an easy thing to learn when you are my age. But this looks doable. Will keep you posted. LOL

thanks for your tutorial, it's very useful

the most valuable tutorial for beginners i have seen so far, thanks!

thxxx this helped me too much learn about sketchup now i can do good in the grade 7 class I'm in

Thanks man very simple and clarified

This most recent group of videos has been very helpful ! Thank you for posting!!

Thank you for these tutorials.

This was the best intro tutorial I have found, I don't know exacly why but this is the first time I 'got it'

This is really awesome. Great and easy instruction! I don't even need to use CAD software but SketchUp makes me want to doodle in 3D.

Many thanks for such informative Video...

Thank you! It is very useful for me

Great and clear explanations

Excellent tutorials! Detailed and to the point! With super helpful tips! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you very much!! Very good programm and very good lesson!))

this is like a asmr session

Excelente herramienta sketchup

gostaria muito de trabalha com o sketchup, é muito bom e divertido I really want to work, with sketchup it's very good and fun.

easy so easy so easy to follow. many thanks!!!!

It is amazing. Thank you but i am trying to know if we can use the push/pull tool as an extrude line as well

took me an hour to make a simple house but i think i can get good at sketchup!

Excellent. Very clear with good speed, no too fast no too slow. Very clear pronunciation. Very professional. I really enjoyed and saw the hole video at ones. And so I am subscribed in your canal and shared also. so ,ore people have the opportunity of learn SketchUp in a very motivating way.

thanks for video.

Muy buena herramienta!!!

Wow.. You say it so easily..! making me to understand very fast. Thanks..!

Inference points remind me of those green lines in Microsoft Office that do the same thing (which I find very helpful).

Anyone else doing this for school?

Omg that is sooo cool

This indeed looks to be the simplest one to use to create 3D models. Like it really is simple but I'm still not sure of whether to use it or not.

this is cool im gonna check it out

Legal. Continuem!

"Healing the surface",?,huh,I can see the designer of sketchup has a huge love to geometry, :)

cMACBOOK USER (NICE VIDEO BTW) I could now use this as my tool for school nice JOb

This tutorial is NOT directed at beginners. For years, (I'm 42) I've solely used Graph paper to do my designs. This is my first foray into designing on computer, therefore I'm a true BEGINNER. Could you please make a video for those of us that haven't the training you do? Also, showing how it's done on PC would be helpful.

I'm starting now! Let's learn it!

Bravo ! C'est très clair !

Thanks for the easy to follow tutorial! I followed up to pull the roof. I select my line and it was Blue but as soon as I select the push/pull icon, my selected blue line is no longer blue so I was not able to pull my roof up at all.

good use full this videos

How do I stop the line drawing? I click to make a line, but I can't figure out how to end the line. If I click, it just sets another point and continues the line when I move the mouse. He managed to draw his example lines on the roof, then somehow he moved to another area of the roof and disconnected from his first line to start the chimney. I can't do that; the line is always there, dragging behind me!. . . . .Ok, somehow I managed to do it, but I'm not sure how. Later I realized he mentions briefly something about the escape key to stop the line. Would have been nice to have that instruction the first time. Even so, I still get inconsistency when I try to draw lines. Sometimes I can get them to do what he shows, but more often I can't. When I do, it's usually some random thing I did that I can't duplicate.

wow this s cool!!!

좋은 자료 감사합니다. 영어를 못해서 화면만 보고 연습중인데.. 영어를 못하는게 아쉽네요.. 구독합니다.

Two long reoccurring Issues - Help Please: 1. When I draw for a long while and the model becomes more complex, I find that when I erase an unwanted line crossing my original rectangular plane, the plane is erased, leaving the outline perimeter lines. Example: I use the rectangle tool to draw a single horizontal plane. Then I draw shapes on the rectangle. I may make many additions and erasures along the way. a) Then, when I erase a single line within the rectangle, the plane is removed. b) Another way the issue appears is, If I right click and erase the original plane leaving the outer four lines of the plane. When I try to draw the plane back again, using the rectangle tool and the original corner points of the first rectangle, it will not create the plane. I should note that the other 2-D shapes I drew on the plane still are there. Suggestions? 2. Also, with this not really very complex drawing described in the above example, I sometimes find that when I attempt to draw a rectangle to create a surface, the surface will not draw. I have found that this can be caused by an infinitesimally short line that is attached to one leg of the rectangle perimeter lines. It is so small, that it can only be seen by zooming all the way in on the leg to then erase it. The way I find this short line is to a draw diagonal line on the rectangular plane. One triangular area will become a solid plane and the other half will remain open. Continue drawing diagonal lines until there is only a small open plane. Then I zoom it to erase this errant line. Question: is there an easier/faster way to do this? Much Thanks in advance! Will

Interesting- so you have incorporated a 3D (or even 4D) modeling element with just the mouse. I recall having to use a dedicated 4D input device with a dozen programable buttons to do CAD CAM, but this seems much cleaner, simpler and with a lower learning curve. Nicely done. Question: I was hoping as you showed th part about creating steps, there might be a brief reference how to create such boxes of pre-determined dimensions (like 4' by 6') instead of having to struggle to get the dimensions exactly right as I move the cursor back and forth. Is that in a coming tutorial?

excellent video

Hey Sketchup, why are your tutorials so hard to find? There is no playlist so it really makes things hard to find for us newbies and to know where to start and what one is best to watch next.

how do you set specific dimensions of a rectangle? i want it to be exactly 58 feet by 83 feet but i cant click and drag it to exactly that

Wow! Thanks

It is extremely difficult to perform a simple task like drawing a rectangle make multiple copys of it flip them if needed and move and line them up in the orientation you want. I could do stuff like that over 10 years ago in Publisher and it was very intuitive and easy to find out how to do it. I have spend hours in Sketchup trying to understand how to make something easy like that happen but I give up. I am going to draw on paper and import/scan in to sketchup and see if that is easier and if it works to scale it without being a professor in geometry. I am really sorry but that is my impression of ketchup

Trying to raise the roof by selecting center line and then move. As soon as I press move the selected line becomes unselected. Move wants to select either left or right side of the rectangle. What Am I doing wrong?

hm... The "click > click" UX convention is definitely going to mess with me. As a designer, all of my programs are click and drag based. I'm honestly curious as to what led to the decision to use that method as oppose to clicking and dragging? (I'm asking this with curiosity, not criticism).

Can someone tell me what version he is using in here and also what version you are preferred to use?

What am i supposed to use Sketch up Pro OR Sketch up 3D warehouse OR Make tell me the difference Please Help.

howdo you change the messurment simply

i like this

Your user interface is different than the one that a beginner will see. You have a floating toolbar full of buttons on the left side.

σας ευχαρηστο!!

I hope the trial version doesn't end by until he finished all the videos. (#sarcasm)

hola y los videos en español donde estan? no hay forma de encontrarlos... tienen la web en epañol, el programa en español y no hay video tutoriales en español? eso no es muy inteligente no? por favor diganme donde estan los tutoriales en español saludos y gracias por su respuesta (que no por hacerme perder tanto tiempo buscando como usar su programa...)

Can you import them into a game like second life for your mesh houses

Which version of sketchup are you using? I downloaded the web version and a lot of features are missing compared to the you've got

hi bro!!!! by when can we have sketchup for ios and android ? we are waiting for this...

looks more interesting than playing games...

Hello sketch up! I'm new to this software and I have finished this list so can you please tell me which lessons should I watch next? Thank you very much!

I can't even start sketch up, because my osx is a 10.9, not 10.10. I really want to use it, but so far a waste of time, and spinning my wheels. the mac can't be upgraded to the new OS. I see no way to install one of the older versions of sketch up.

Good i ilke it skechup

Using the browser version and the move tool does not work as per the video instruction. Not sure why? Is there something I'm missing?

thankd from google sketch up

Is there a fast way to get into "Iso" view without using the path Camera -> Standard Views -> Iso? Thank you in advance.

this is how i started hahaha

If there is a preferred method to post longer questions like the one below, pleas let me know.

Hopefully you notice me i am confused because i dont see a camera veiw thing and i also dont have a mouse because this new touchscreen laptop does not have a usb drive

agree

Nice

thanks really helpful

The "template" option one on the free version is empty. It just wants you to upload a template. It appears this video is incorrect!

wOW SO aMaZinG

Is the a quick orbit/zoom/pan option while in the middle of drawing a line? Great tutorial.

Icons for tools and directions do not match the version of sketch up that I have. I have no way of figuring out how to match versions.

The free SketchUp app I have looks totally different! Where does one find instructions for that?

I know how to use this UI, but I just opened an account with the in-browser UI and there is no menu. It looks nothing like this.

Спасибо! Наглядно!

HOW DO GET THE MENUS ON THE SIDE OF THE WINDOW

Yay

Que tal oferecer opção em português ou espanhol também??

Is this still relevant 6 years later?

Cool !

This is great for drawing random-sized basic primitives but... dimensions might be useful in the real world.

I m not getting "orbit" tool While i select "orbit" it becomes "pan" tool.. Why is this happening please help me through this

Wow

Thanks a lot.

I cannot seem to understand why my rectangles will not turn grey.

whenever i try to install the exe stops working...how can i fix that im using win8 16gbram i7

GoOde Veyedio

Aparece genial.. Pero no entiendo ingles.. Hay en español?..

Ok, i down the free version and I don’t have all these tools, what gives. And what’s with drawing with no dimensions? I’m interested in doing drawings that someone else can use to build something for me. Do I really need to upgrade to be able to achieve that goal.

Usless for web version. So far sketchup appears to very user unfriendly and hard to learn and use.

Hi, just wondering if anyone can help me. I've JUST started with SketchUp Pro and notice the measurements are imperial and I need metric. I can't find how to change it. Thanks in advance