Beginner

I was immersed in the world of design education for eight and a half years – first as a graduate student and teaching assistant and then as an instructor. I …

In today’s SketchUp Tutorial, we’re going to learn how to build a basic kitchen cabinet. My hope is that you’ll be able to use the techniques and process demonstrated in …

In our last tutorial, we created a simple recessed panel door with basic doorknob for the front door of our house. In this SketchUp door tutorial, we’ll modify that component …

In this SketchUp tutorial, we will learn how to create a simple 3D door for our house model step by step. The techniques discussed will also include: How to adjust …

In our last tutorial, we used a PDF floor plan of a small house to create a simple three-dimensional model of the walls with openings for the doors and windows …

In this blog post, I will walk you through how you can to draw a 3D house model in SketchUp from a 2D floor plan image. You can use a PDF …

In our last tutorial, we added the interior walls to a basic 2D floor plan that we drew in SketchUp from a PDF plan file. In this tutorial, we’re going …

In my everyday experience, I usually start drafting a floor plan in SketchUp one of two ways. Either I start from scratch using measurements I’ve taken at the home, usually …

In this tutorial, I will explain how to draw a floor plan in SketchUp accurately and to scale from measurements taken on site of an existing space. I will demonstrate …

In our last tutorial, we learned how to draw a floor plan of a house to scale using the image found on the assessor’s page for the property. Today we’re …

In this beginner tutorial, we will learn step-by-step how to create a basic 2D SketchUp floor plan from image files such as the ones found on most property assessor websites. …