Hey guys, In this video I'll show you
what is it acquired before we
start diving deep into
creating a drawing and layout for SketchUp.
So you can open the master resource sheet,
but you will find the download section of this class,
so you just need to click on the mastery. So she do.
And that will open up a Google Sheet
which contains all the links of
the software that we require for
the course and also the link of the exercise files.
I'll talk a brief about exercise
files so you can open this up.
Now each file is around 200 MB.
So what you can do is you can work with
a single layout master file.
So once you reach the sixth lesson of the scores,
you would understand the importance of
using a single file for the rest of the course.
So in this case I'm using sent to load master file.
But you can go ahead and start with the basics.
For each lesson I ever fail,
which you can work with.
It would make more sense once you reach
those sent to layout part of the course.
Then you have the main software which is SketchUp 2021.
Node layout comes along with SketchUp.
So all you need to do is just installed SketchUp.
And it would install layout.
What SketchUp as well.
It's a fairly simple process
to download and install SketchUp.
And you can just open this link and
follow the instructions on those SketchUp.com website.
I'd like to know we'll jump into SketchUp and
then show you how I use SketchUp and
just the basics so that you can
follow the course along quite easily.
Once you open SketchUp,
you will find a template called baffling stateful layout.
Now this is the template I use when I create
drawings in Lao-Tzu SketchUp.
So I will be showing
you how to create this template as well in this course.
For now I will open this.
No, the only quick change that I
need to change the background to white.
So I'm just going to go to my style, my default.
And then I'll go to Edit.
And then you'll get an option here called
Background Settings and click
here to change the color and make it completely white.
So that's 255 for all the values for RGB.
But it's okay.
It becomes white backgrounds is what I need.
You can also update the style.
You can also update statement.
Now this is something which I missed
out in the course video.
So keep a lookout for this.
And how I use SketchUp is
just some shortcuts that I
personally use which benefits me as well.
So before I use the shortcuts, I will assign them.
You can go to Windows preferences,
click on shortcuts. You can search for height.
I use the shortcut F2.
Now sometimes F2 may not work
in your keyboard because the function keys,
which is F2, F3, F4,
is not turned off in the bios settings.
In that case, you can assign a shortcut,
for example, control one for height.
Knight Hall could be controlled
to night loss could be controlled three,
this is another shortcut which you can use,
but in my case I use F2, F3, and F4.
Now another cool shortcut which I use is
toggle visibility, whichever saying j.
Then finally there's X-Ray mode as well,
which is why another shortcut which are used as group.
If I click on Edit may group,
you can see that I've assigned the shortcut G.
Now this is previously assigned for components,
but I get more groups then components.
So it made more sense for me to make this shortcut G.
I'll show that to you quickly know if I make a rectangle
and just double-click and that would make it a group.
Minimizing one step right
after right-click and click on Make group.
So it LTE model faster as well.
Then I can enter the group, push those out.
Now if I want to hide this,
I can select this group and press
F2 to height or you can best.
Then you can press F3 to unhide lost and photo and Idle.
Now another cool shortcut which I used this Alt W,
which switches to pilot prediction mode.
So you can go to camera and
see that I've assigned this shortcut
Alt W. I will also assign a shortcut Alt D,
which is for top use FIPS.
It goes to the top. You.
You can maybe assign that shortcut as well.
Just search for camera.
You can see that Ira assigned
valid projection is all W and standard views.
These are some of the shortcuts that has
worked for me to help me moderate
phospho and sketch up an overall increase productivity
and save a lot of time in the long run.
Now that's about it that you need to
know to get started in this course,
I will be using an existing model.
We're just part of my bedroom design course,
where you learn how to create
a photorealistic render of the bedrooms.
I'm going to use the same model in
this course and place it in the center of the scene,
and then create some nice drawings out of that model.
You will find all the models
and mode in the exercise files.
So nothing, nobody, right?
So hopefully that'll help you out
in following the scores properly.
If you have any doubts you can reach out on
the Facebook group or on
the discard so that we have for this class.
You can also ask away in
the discussions box for this course.
I'll let, I'll see you guys next video.