SketchUp 3D Introduction to Advanced Evening Course for Interior Designers & Architects

Ready to achieve your creative and career goals? Unlock your full potential and increase employability by upskilling with London Software Training.

SketchUp is a 3D modelling software used to develop design and modelling skills for architectural, interior, landscape, civil, mechanical, furniture and product design with a range of practical, hands-on lessons. You will learn how to create and edit 3D models to a professional standard, ensuring you leave with the skills and confidence to fully take advantage of SketchUp and Layout software. Our course will ensure you are able to use the program with ease, enhancing your current workflow or leading to further study or employment within the field.

This SketchUp course price includes:

• Free group course re-take within 18 months
• Expert teaching from practising architects, designers and software pros
• Hands-on, practical lessons
• Tailoring of syllabus and work on your projects
• Video tutorials and digital reference book for revision and development
• LST certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn
• Free career guidance

All courses are available in-classroom and online. London Software Training is located in Hackney, East London. Our SketchUp Intermediate to Advanced course can also be taken online, the virtual classroom offers the same quality as face-to-face training.

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included

Our SketchUp Introduction to Advanced 10-Week Evening Course will teach you to make the most of this powerful yet user-friendly software. Perfect for complete beginners and those with some experience in SketchUp who need to brush up and take their skills to the next level.

You will learn to produce 3D models and 2D deliverables, before moving on to produce renderings and learning to maximise the software's potential with advanced plug-ins. Learning SketchUp will give you the skills for a wide range of creative projects. From creating detailed architectural, interior, landscape, engineering, jewellery and furniture projects, and even 3D printing.

SketchUp Introduction to Advanced 10-Week Evening Course Outline:

• Create your own template
• Create basic geometry in 2D (Lines, arcs, circles, and rectangles)
• Understand the stickiness of geometry
• Create basic geometry In 3D
• Understand stickiness In 3D
• View a model in 3D
• Organise your model using layers
• Create geometry with the Push/Pull Tool
• Move entities to manipulate geometry
• Maintain coplanar geometry
• Connect and generate forms
• Lock inferences
• Generate forms quickly
• Restore/heal a surface
• Create and apply surfaces to a model
• Mirror and array a model
• Apply materials
• Create 3D text
• Use all key tools for creating and manipulating 3D forms
• Import component models from 3D Warehouse
• Display options and styles
• Position and export models to Google Earth
• Overcoming stickiness In your model
• Use component nesting for efficient modelling
• Effect of scaling on similar components
• Use groups and components to isolate geometry
• Component browser
• 3D Warehouse - getting components and sharing your model
• Dynamic components
• Understand component inferencing and editing
• Combine components
• Import a site into SketchUp
• Work with photographs
• Using the Follow Me tool
• Working with the materials browser
• Entouraging with the 3D Warehouse
• Styling your model
• Creating a scene-based walk-through
• Create sections and animated scenes for presentations
• Export to AutoCAD and LayOut
• Nurbs modelling
• Advanced freeform modelling
• Push/ Pull curved surfaces
• Bend complex 3D geometry
• Create complex stairs
• Create 3D objects from 2D profiles
• Create components
• Custom window and door components
• Import components from 3D Warehouse
• Position and export SketchUp models to Google Earth
• Use PhotoMatch to add photographs to your model
• Create, edit, mix and apply styles; create a basic presentation.
• Use existing CAD files for reference.
• Organise your model using layers
• Create sections and animated scenes for presentations
• Rendering for photo-realistic output
• Installation and operation of free SketchUp plugins: LibFredo, True Bend, Weld, Joint Push/Pull, Fredo Scale, Curviloft andTwinmotion
• Advanced Modelling
• Bend complex 3D Geometry (True bend)
• Creating components
• Create complex stairs (and bend)
• Window and door components
• Adding lights
• Types of light
• Point (all directions, inside lamp, translucent curtain), spot, projector, emitter (edit material, templates, emit)
• Spotlights
• Adjust colour of bulb
• Edit falloff
• Environmental lighting
• Creating renders (Twinmotion)
• Quality (pixels)
• Materials (templates)
• Reflections
• Transparencies
• Cast shadows
• Water
• Colour - from SketchUp to white
• Alpha - lower alpha makes the material clear
• Bump - adds rough texture/ ripples
• Gamma, exposure = brightness
• Use PhotoMatch
• Export to LayOut

Please note that course delivery is available either in-class (£895) or live online (£695).

What our students say about this SketchUp course:

Elena - What an incredible course with an incredible teacher! I could not recommend London Software Training enough. Liam was our teacher and he was absolutely fantastic. I could not recommend it highly enough!

Michael - Completed SketchUp beginner training. The tutor Sam was knowledgeable and friendly, and I learned a lot over the course. Good for transport and food as well, with Broadway Market/Hackney close by. Would definitely do a course here again.

Llewellen - London Software Training is a great place to come and learn.

Perfect for complete beginners and those with some experience in SketchUp who need to brush up and take their skills to the next level.

No previous experience of SketchUp required, just a keenness to learn!

SketchUp opens up many opportunities within various industries, we offer guidance on CV and portfolio building as part of the course. For example as an Architect (average annual salary £69,500). You may also want to look at London Software Training’s Career Development Packages to develop your creative opportunities.

• Architecture
• Interior Design
• Construction
• Engineering
• Landscape Design