Hi! I just wanted to say 'Thank You!' for the quick and clear tutorial! I needed something to model a landscape VERY FAST, but I had no cad (or other modeling knowledge) and this was PERFECT!! Outstanding video! Again, many many Thanks!
Hi David I have watched many SketchUp videos and been confused and find them hard to follow. I really appreciate how you take your time and communicate what your are doing while keeping the cursor movements slow. I enjoyed this video and wanted to let you know that you helped me by posting this. I am using SketchUp professional 2017 and found that some of the settings are different from you but with a little exploration they are easily enough to find. Thank you.
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Hey David, i have a question for you. i literally just downloaded the sketchup pro 2014, and im using to landscape a clients yard. it looks like you have alot more options in your tool bar than i do, adding grasses, foliage, and such, i do i aquire such tool bar options? im really just starting out with this thing today lol, any help or tips you have would be very greatly appreciated, thanks!!
Mine is not working. When I select the points I want to alter, then select smoove, it gives me a yellow ball at every grid point, not the areas I've selected. Any ideas??
Can I do an oval garden? I have a cad drawing done by someone else that I need to redo on sketchup. I can only save as pdf. Is there a way to import it to make it easier update the landscape drawing blueprint?
do you know what's the plugins that we can use for parametric design in sketchup?? Or use any tools available in Sketch up for parametric design. TKS Geek This
thx a lot, I v some questions concerning the animation, how can I include the dynamical tools interaction with scene capturing ? when I use the interact tool on a dynamical component the scene does not hold the interaction is there a plugin that helps me, or there is some thing I don't know , thanks a lot again for sharing this with us
OMG! Just figured it out. It was a radius problem. Another question: after you've created the terrain you want, how do you get rid of all the gridlines? I tried the From Contours button but it didn't fill in all of the squares--only half or so. I also tried Smoothing Edges and that doesn't work either...
The "From Scratch" is a tool in the Sandbox Menu. It is the second icon, showing multiple boxes. Hovering over the icon, on the bottom left, you should see the tool tip telling you what the tool is. A issue some people have is the "Grid Spacing" is too large. Make sure you adjust it on the bottom right before creating your terrain. You have to draw your "From Scratch" line longer than the Grid Spacing, and you will probably want it to have a modulo of 0.
Help, when I smooth the surface there are lines on top of the mountians and i made my scale 1000',10000 because i needed a larger mountain biome any idea how to get rid of those lines. The lines only appear when i create an animation!
hey, thanks for the tutorial :) I'm very new to 3D art, and I have a question: can this program create non-square stuff? all the tutorials for SketchUp I found so far show people creating buildings, tables, chairs, etc. which are basically a bunch of squares put together. can SketchUp create, like, a 3D human body, using this terrain tool or some other tool?
I believe it can be done, but if you want to do face modeling or humans I suggest you use Blender. Blender is also free and is a very powerful 3D tool.
Adam, My solution was simply to turn off hidden geometry. It turned out that they were gone but that you will always see grid lines when hidden geometry is on. You can also select any line that you want hidden & hit Command E (on mac), probably Ctrl E on PC, and it will disappear. Good luck. Susan
GeekThis, When I click smooth edges the normals get smoothed and no menu pops up to let me select coplanar edges to be smoothened and no slider bar to choose "Angle between normals" Please help!
Wow, I just spent an hour trying to do this in sketchup 14. Impossible. I can do all the steps but my result is nothing like yours. I am trying to create a "river" running through a mini golf course design. When I use smoove on a test "lake" I've selected within the grid, I just get very gradual gradients and it isn't affected by scale or density of points selected. Any ideas? I'm bummed because it looks like such an elegant way to create water bodies!
I just got my school computer, and it's a mac, so everything looks different. I can't find 'preferences' at all. I did find the large toolbar though, even if I had to find it another way. So if it's possible, could you do a tutorial of where to find everything on a mac?
Precious Eagle Cactus Fruit I am unable to do a tutorial on a mac since I don't own one. By default I believe "Sandbox Tools" are now enabled. All you would have to do is make them visible. Try right clicking on the toolbar and select "Sandbox". Since I believe macs don't have a right click, you may have to try Command+Click or similar (I'm not a mac person). Preferences should still be visible under the "Window" menu on the top of the screen though.
I had similar issues. Had to upgrade my computer. Need a decent amount of ram, storage, graphics card etc. Google search recommended requirements for sketchup or cad.
+Matthew T. Carpenter, Sr. It's been a really long time since I've used Sketchup, so I'm unsure of the best way to actually do this. One method is to create a texture file that fits to the terrain size you created and use that texture (positioning will be difficult). The other option is to split up the terrain into components and then paint the components using different textures. To do this, you will use the select tool and select a part of the terrain, right click and "Create Component" or something similar. Do this so at the end you have a few components created that make up the full terrain. Then you are able to paint each component with a different texture. The last option I have is create two (or more) different terrains and texture each one sand, dirt, grass, etc. Then stack the various terrains on top of each other and adjust them so the proper texture ends up appearing. This method is messy but would probably be fairly easy to do.
If you're having trouble finiding the sandbox tools, they won't appear on your screen. For me they popped up on the bar in the top, and I didn't notice it. I thought it didn't appear but it was already there. You might have the same thing. You can also move them clicking on the far left of that toolbar. And then resize it and put it on the toolbar on the left.
After closing out of SketchUp and re-opening it. Navigate to "View" > "Toolbars" > "Sandbox". The sandbox option is lower in the list. Also just make sure you have Sandbox Tools enabled under "Window" > "Preferences" > "Extensions". Hopefully that will help you out.
so.. when i select the grid, and explode, then try to move the landscape, the water goes with it. So for example, I can never move the landscape under the water.
DOes anyone know if there is a "offline" version, like a downloadable program, of this is still around? I can only find the browser app, which, to be honest, sucks a lot. ^^
I just don't understand the 'from scratch' part.... no matter what I do (even following you step by step) I cannot seem to get a visible drawable grid???
There is a folder on that URL for 3D Models. You can most likely download the GZip'd files and import them in SketchUp since SketchUp can support a lot of different 3D File Formats. Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any help since a lot of the URL's on the site are not working for me, so I can't test it out.
Make the terrain a component, and then you can work outside the terrain component without anything happening to it. You should do this to any item that you are finished with or need to duplicate.
***** When you first select the SMOOTH tool, look at the bottom right part of Sketchup. You'll see that the status is set to Radius. More than likely your Radius is larger than your grid. So before you click on the grid, just type in a radius number smaller than your grid. You'll then see the ghostly circle around the cursor that shows what it will effect.
