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Designing a Tiny House with SketchUp

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Overview

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Build a tiny house—an entire home on wheels—with SketchUp, the free 3D modeling software.

Whether you are a tiny home aficionado or just want to improve your SketchUp modeling skills, this course will help you build an entire home on wheels—with many clever space-saving features and a scope to keep you interested and challenged.

In this course, author Scott Onstott shows step-by-step how to build a tiny house, including every virtual stud, sheet of plywood, and appliance going into the project. Along the way, he explores SketchUp features such as components, groups, layers, and textures. By building a house in SketchUp in this detailed manner, you can work out any unforeseen spatial conflicts in the design and virtually eliminate construction problems before you are in the field.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • What you should know before watching this course
1. Getting Started
  • Editing the template and default style
  • Configuring keyboard shortcuts
  • Importing tiny house plan and building subfloor
2. Framing the Structure
  • Adding bottom plates with 2x4s
  • Laying out studs on the long wall
  • Creating the remaining studs
  • Building the top plate on the long wall
  • Designing a rafter
  • Framing the end wall
  • Framing a beam and window openings
  • Framing the end wall and laying out rafters
3. Sheathing the Exterior
  • Assigning layers and texturing plywood
  • Adding plywood around clerestory window openings
  • Sheathing the end wall with the door
  • Sheathing the long wall
  • Completing the exterior sheathing
  • Paneling the roof
4. Applying Exterior Trim, Windows, and Siding
  • Adding exterior trim to the end walls and roof
  • Trim the roof with custom profiles
  • Trimming out two windows with Offset and Push/Pull
  • Trimming out four windows and the door
  • Creating the metal frame for slide-out and trim plywood
  • Applying metal siding
  • Applying roofing
5. Working on the Interior
  • Inserting rigid insulation and windows
  • Adding interior plywood
  • Spacing studs and adding insulation
  • Sheathing the interior of the window wall
  • Working on the inside of the door wall
  • Detailing the opposite end wall
  • Modeling windows and frames
  • Insulating and sheathing the roof
6. Designing the Slide Out
  • Designing the slide-out metal frame
  • Adding exterior skin to the slide-out
  • Detailing the inside of the slide-out
  • Modeling windows and frames
  • Detailing the rain shield
7. Integrating Built-in Features
  • Designing the bed and rolling platform
  • Building a platform floor above the bed
  • Modeling the toilet room and its door
  • Laying out cabinets
  • Making a counter and sink
  • Completing the kitchen cabinets
  • Simulating a tambour door
  • Adding appliances
  • Designing the shower
8. Adding Furniture
  • Modeling a sofa with rounded edges
  • Making a desk and two kinds of seating
  • Building a fold-down table and custom support
9. Modeling the Trailer and Animating the Tiny House
  • Designing the trailer frame
  • Making wheels and axles
  • Animating the design
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Scott Onstott

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