Sketchup Advanced Landscape

Landscape Design is a discipline that encompasses many workflows that result in designs ranging from human-scale site fixtures to regional masterplans. While many of these designs can be created from scratch, often AutoCAD files, surveyor data, hand renderings, and existing photography are all incorporated in the design process as well as the end result. Expressing all this information in three dimensions will greatly facilitate communication of the design to others.

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

• Create custom face-me plant material from image files.
• Reload and Replace imported 2D AutoCAD blocks with 3D geometry.
• Import and Export your SketchUp model to and from Google Earth.
• Utilize various plug-ins and ruby scripts such as “drop.rb”, “randor.rb”, and “SimplifyContours.rb”.
• Model terrain utilizing functions of the “Sandbox” tools.
• Understand advanced techniques working with large files including the “Hide Rest of Model” feature when editing components.
• Imports file types from other software packages including AutoCAD, ArcGIS, and Adobe Photoshop.