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SketchUp for Architecture: Details

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Overview

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Learn the principles of architectural detailing with SketchUp and LayOut. Discover how to create professional 3D visualizations and 2D construction drawings.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Unpack construction detail with SketchUp
  • What should you know?
  • Use the exercise files
  • Layout 2019 vs. 2019
1. The Architectural Detail
  • What is a detail?
  • How do you show details?
  • Choose a detail
2. Scale and Detail
  • Understand scale and appropriate sale
  • The main elements of the house
  • Wall layering
  • Roof layering
  • Floor layering
  • Openings
3. Modeling the Foundation and Groundworks to Timber Sill
  • Foundation
  • Below ground blocks
  • Concrete slab base
  • Insulation and membrane placement
  • Place the reinforcement mesh
  • Pour the slab
  • Backfill and grade
  • Timber sill or sole plate
4. Building the Timber Stud Wall to First Fix
  • Timber frame and insulation
  • Timber frame window and door openings
  • Internal layers and membranes
  • External layers and membranes
5. Installing the Window and Door
  • Insert the high-level window
  • Insert the doors
  • Build up the rainscreen
  • Add the three-coat stucco at a high level
  • Add the flashings and trim
  • Build up the external levels
  • Add the low-level stucco
  • Finish off the internal walls
6. Building the Roof
  • Wall plate and the cut rafters
  • Roof deck and insulation
  • Membrane and shingles
  • Soffit
  • Facia
  • Finish the internal timber ceiling
  • Self-leveling screed and door trim
7. Exporting Details for CAD and Layout
  • Export 2D CAD as image
  • Create group from slice option
  • Import into AutoCAD
  • Set up template files
  • Insert files in LayOut
  • Work with vector lines in LayOut
  • Add pattern fills and styling lines
8. Combining Plans, Sections, and Details
  • Add to LayOut from the Scrapbook
  • Reference details from views
  • Set an appropriate scale
  • Add annotation
9. Materials and Rendering
  • Add convincing materials
  • Use the axis for texture alignment
  • Adjust texture to avoid repetition
  • Completed model with textures
  • Load V-Ray render settings
  • Create the line overlay files
  • Use blend mode in Photoshop
  • Combine images in Photoshop
  • Incorporate 2D with 3D in LayOut
  • Export to PDF
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Paul J. Smith

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