MODELING ON COMPLEX TERRAIN in SketchUp 

I have found placing a house on a sloping terrain (and making it look good!!) is so difficult and I have scoured the internet trying to find how to do this...finally...thank you for this tutorial, it has helped me rethink a little and try again :) and I agree with Max's comment "More tutorials regarding site modeling are always welcome..."

Fascinating, and inspirational to watch how others interact with the terrain - it's easier to come up with more interesting ways to work, if you know you're going to be able to draw it.

Love it when you do this complex tuts.. love the stairs plug in.. makes everything easier. Cheers

you really saved my life, because there are no guides on this topic in russian. Thanks God I`m fluent in english enough to understand you

Dude you are phenomenal. M a great fan of yours. You always help me out of the a lot of problems. Thank you for all your videos. Keep making them. Thank youuuuuu so much

Thanks Justin Very helpful video!!

Amazing tutorial 😍😍😍Your channel helped me a lot🤗🥳💪🏻

This is something that I was in need of 2 days ago haha! Had to go into Daniel Tal for some guidance but thank you for making this! More tutorials regarding site modeling are always welcome... very valuable for us Landscape Architecture students! Cheers

Thankyou so much!!! That was a great help!

Hello! Justin. I keep coming back to this video because I am trying several of these tools like Stamp and drape. But I need to practice. I find your videos to be inspiring.🥸 Thank you.

This was sooo needed! Thank you Justin!

powerful tools and skills man

Thank you so much for this video!!!

Awesome and very helpful! Would love a video incorporating a plot plan with elevations and how to make a swimming pool fit the existing grade and how walls could be added in. Is there anyway to show a 2% slope on a patio vs it being completely level??

Thank you

nice one you are the best in sketchup

Coolest SketchUp video, amazing, Thanks Justin...

Great tips. Soap skin for site mesh is a clever application. It seems way smootger than fighting with smoove. Perhaps Artisan or SUbD are useful here? Would love a tut on artisan. Could joint push pull reliably extrude to flat without the 1 inch margin issue?

TNice tutorials is video is amazing! thanks for posting.

FIRST! If you're looking for the tutorial for fixing terrain with Soap Skin and Bubble, check it out here! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kJHuV7YsTMM.html

Thank you sir ❤️

Your help is appreciated bro

Thank u very helpful toturial 👍

Very good

Thank you for uploading the video.Very usefull

Ahh, great tools. Nice work.

Very helpful...thanks....😊

Thanks for this awesome video Justin. Quick question (as a novice in comparison), how does the stamp tool differ to extruding the building into the terrain and then using the trim command in solid tools?

Hi Justin, another great tutorial. Over the years have been using SketchUp for my workflow, I think that fitting the buildings to the terrain has given me the biggest headaches. It is so much easier now with the assortment of new plugins etc. On another topic, I am having a problem with one of my large models with the extents of the views being chopped off. I know I saw you fix this on a tutorial quite simply but I can't remember which tutorial. Can you let me know either what tutorial it was or are you able to just explain the fix for me please?

Thanks this was absolutely perfect, actually perfect timing to

Thank you for this video. Once you have the building footprint in place, how would you go about adding landscape plantings to the slope created? Also, how can you create landscape bed lines where the mulch would meet the grass on a slope like this? Thank you!!

Thank you very much! You appearantly save my life. 😭

How did you get the floor plan suspended above the terrain? Great video, btw!!!

You are the man

Do you know a simple way to measure the area of what it's been "excavated"??? Thank you so much brother.

Justin, that was extremely helpful to know that with multiple extensions this kind of process and be achieved. I know this might be out of pocket but have you ever done any tutorials on dynamic components? if so please help me to navigate to your link. My Sketchup practice has gone from intermediate level to advanced level just by watching your tutorials since last year.

Hi Justin, thanks a lot for your helpful videos! I am a landscape architect. Currently, I have a project to do in a very sharp slopping terrain in Greece! However, I have trouble doing it 3D in SketchUp. Do you give paid online Sketchup classes? Or if not, do you know anybody else, as few tutors are dealing with landscape modelling on slopping terrains.

Hey Justin, Quick question... I see you reverse faces a lot, but what is the reason or benefit of doing this?

Please do more videos on Terrain Modelling @Justin

Plz do tell us how to make exploded plan in SketchUp and then set it in to Photoshop panel

Can you help me ? How did you set your division to 20 ? (10:23 ) Thx

Is soap skin better to use than Fredo6 terrain tools?

how can you delete lines on contour before use soap skin pubble step?

any idea why when I apply Fur it come like a black grass?

i think that this is hes best video

Hi Justin ! That is very helpful. I have a question. When I right click on the top blank section of SketchUp, I cannot get the roll down where all the plugins, and tools are showing. Like you just did here in this video. Any idea why ? Thanks,

What did you use to make the terrain?

Dr bluewofsofte too!

idk why if i'm stamp like tht the contour gone, wht i need to do?

why not put the footprint underneather the terrain and drag it up to algin wit the surface? much easier

woooow

Ultimately, a design can't be finished until the building is located on it's site. Some would say you shouldn't start to design, until the site and location are selected, for custom houses. Tract house building would be different I suppose. Soon more houses will be using underground services too, like geo thermal tubing or buried utilities. All this says to me, that our Sketchup skills for site modelling should be just as good as those for building modeling. One hurdle I can't get over, is the propensity to over draw entities in preliminary drawings. It's my contractor's instincts, telling me to get everything exactly right the first time, one time, so it's complete and ready if/when you come back to it. The stairs in the example look good especially for exterior stairs which can be steeper (less luxurious) but I would take the time to draw what will go there, with the correct rise and run according to the existing measurements. I make certain that windows and doors are exactly right in their finished frame dimensions, then install them in openings which are 1/4" larger all around. That dimension could be 3/8", easier for the installers to level the unit and foam it in place. If the design works out and then construction drawings have to be extrapolated from it, any extra effort now will save time then, but the amount of time I spend now doing that, is too much. I envy those who can pull off a complete house design with it's floorplans and elevations and situated on a lot, in relatively short time, like a few days or something. It takes me months, of two or three hours per day. I'm sure a repeatable process will emerge and shorten production time a lot, but that's almost counter to the creative process, that goes into 'custom' houses. I'm happy with my pace, but I couldn't make a living from it.

I'd use the drape tool only, not stamp

The stamp tool is not compatible with sketchup pro 2020. Kindly suggest what to do

3:19 there's a tool for that? that will cut off some hours of my project...

Your face is so scary in every video.. Hahahaha, good job btw!

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yo are you sober yet?

I gave it some simple tasks and it can't do them, crappy plugin.

How have you saturated the people with some plugins that don't work. Soap Bubble, a crappy plugin that doesn't do anything.