GETTING STARTED with SketchUp Free - Lesson 1 - BEGINNERS Start Here!

what's up guys Justin here with the sketch essentials calm back with the Sketchup free tutorial for you so in today's video we're gonna talk through we're gonna go through an introduction of the online free version of Sketchup and kind of how that works this is kind of gonna be a beginner level tutorial for getting started with the app so I've gotten a lot of questions about doing a tutorial on this version so let's go ahead and just jump into it alright so in this video we're gonna go through and we're gonna kind of get started with the online version of Sketchup so this is the free version of Sketchup that is now web-based and so you can access that by going to app Sketchup comm or if you just go to Sketchup comm and go to the free version you can also access this that way and so if you're if you're accessing this page for the first time this will give you kind of a getting started page or a getting started view for this that'll walk you through everything in the free version since I've already gone through that it sees that and it doesn't walk me through that but I think there's a start tour button you can click in order to get kind of a tour of the way that everything works and where everything is located so I will also walk you through that so the first area is the home bar up at the top and this is where you can access your model preferences you can save projects up here so this is kind of where you're gonna save things and also access if you want to upload to the 3d warehouse or something like that you can do that here as well so this is where you're going to name your model and you're also going to be able to save it up here and then on the left hand side of the page you've got a toolbar on the left hand side these are going to be your toolbars for the tools that you're gonna use to draw things inside of Sketchup so this is where you're gonna access the things that you're actually gonna use to draw inside of your model so you can access things like your line tools and your eraser tools so these are at your actual drawing tools over here on the left hand side note that if you click on this and there's a little arrow next to it a lot of these have multiple tools contained inside of this toolbar so you can single click on this and then click on one those tools to activate that particular tool if that's what you want to do so you can use this to get to all of those different tools just by clicking on these and so on the right hand side you've got your panels your panels are gonna give you more information about like your selected objects inside of inside of Sketchup so like for example if I select this model you can see how you get the entity info for that model that's also where you're gonna be able to access the outliner which you have to upgrade in order to use that function but you're also going to be able to access information about your components and your materials and things like that and you can open and close these just by clicking on the icons and then coming in here and clicking on this X right here if you want to close something that you've opened over here you can also kind of make this panel go away by clicking in the close panel option right here in the lower left hand corner this is gonna be your status bar so this is gonna give you the ability to undo and redo it's gonna give you access to help files you're also going to get information over here about so whatever your active tool is so like right now I have the Select tool active and so it's telling me that with your current tool active you select objects and then it gives you information about multiple or about all the different things you can do with those tools so like if I was to tap the L key to go into the line tool you can see how this gives me instructions on how to draw a line using the line tool so if you're using a tool inside of Sketchup and you get stuck and you don't know how to use it you may want to take a look at the status bar right here because that don't give you some instruction on what to do with it and then finally on the lower right hand side of your page you have your measurements box and so that's gonna have information about the different dimensions and things associated with the tools that you have active so for example if I was to come in here and draw a line you can see how as I move my mouse the value in that box is changing depending on where my mouse is so this is gonna give you information about the length of things inside of your model so in addition you can also type values into this box and you don't need to click in the box in order to do this just whenever you have a tool active and like for example if I set my first point with the line tool you can just type in a length so let's say I wanted this to be 5 feet long you can see how I can type in a value of 5 feet and that's going to show up in my measurements box so if I hit the enter key you can see how that draws a line that's 5 feet long so that's gonna give you information about the active tool and the measurements of whatever you're doing and so before we get started drawing let's talk just a bit about navigating around inside of your workspace and your workspace is going to be the area where you're actually going to do your work inside of Sketchup and so you can see how inside of this space this is a 3d space that you can navigate around there's really two ways to do that the first is just to come over here and click on either these first person tools or the orbit tool right here and you can see how there's multiple tools in here for adjusting your view and flying around if your camera in order to get to wherever you want to go inside of the 3d model for example the first tool and the tool you're probably going to use the most is called the orbit tool and so you can access that by clicking this button right here and clicking on the orbit tool you can see how when you do that you can then click and drag your left mouse button in order to fly around in orbit around and so you can also pan by clicking a little hand that's gonna allow you to drag your view left or right you can also zoom in by clicking on the zoom button and then clicking and dragging and moving your mouse up and down and then there's a couple other tools in here as well this zoom window is gonna allow you to drag a box around whatever you want to zoom in on and then zoom extents is going to zoom your camera model out so that everything inside of your model is going to be inside of your camera view so you can use this toolbar right here to navigate around I actually do not recommend this because there's a better way to do that and the better way to do that is if you have a three button Mouse with a scroll wheel which is going to be really important if you're going to be using Sketchup a lot you're really gonna want to have that three but mouse what you can do instead is you can click and hold your Center mouse button in order to orbit and so what I'm doing is I'm clicking and holding that scroll wheel down so I'm clicking it like a button not rolling it and holding that so that allows me to orbit and then in addition if I click and hold that button down and I hold the shift key on my keyboard and move my mouse you can see how this allows me to pan my view around really easily so by holding that Center mouse button and holding the shift key around you can pan and then the other thing that's really powerful about this is you can roll the mouse button up and down in order to zoom in and out so I'm scrolling up with my Center mouse button by rolling that by rolling the wheel up and I can zoom out by rolling the wheel down and so that's really going to be the fastest way to move around in your model you can see I can move around really quickly by quickly toggling between the zoom by rolling my mouse wheel up and down clicking and holding that in order to orbit and then clicking and holding the center mouse button and holding the shift key in order to pan you can see how that allows me to move around this model really quickly so there's also some first-person tools in here that I don't really want to get into in this video there are some other navigation tools but we don't really need to talk about those right now and so now that we've gone through and talked about navigation and your toolbars and everything else now let's talk about drawing inside of Sketchup and so drawing is fairly simple you just activate a tool by either clicking on it or typing in a keyboard shortcut and I usually recommend you use keyboard shortcuts because they're a lot faster but you just activate a tool by clicking on it and then you just follow the instructions so in this case this says to select my start point to draw a line so if I activate my line tool you can single click move your mouse and then click again to set the end point and so you can see how this draws a line between those two points that I dictate and one thing that's really important for you to learn from the beginning is don't click and drag when you're doing this because what that does is that removes the ability for you to type in measurements and to do this precisely so you can see how by clicking on this line let's say that we wanted to draw a line that was 5 feet long or 10 feet long let's go with 10 feet so what we would do is we would single click to set our start point we would move our mouse in the direction that we want to draw and then we would type in a value of 10 phim and hit the enter key and so that's why it's really important that you don't click and drag to draw your line it's important that you single click move your mouse and then click again or type in a value because if I click and drag like this I'm holding the mouse button down right here and let's say I wanted this to be a let's say I wanted this to be a 15 foot 4 inch line or something like that you can see I can kind of move my mouse to try to get on that 15 foot 4 inch length but I can't really get there and then I can't type in a value because if I let up on my mouse button and we're to type in that value it just draws the line but on the other hand if you activate the line tool by tapping the L key you single click and then you move your mouse in this direction note that now I can type in a value of 15 foot 4 inches and hit the enter key so as long as you don't click and drag you can type in values for what you want your tool for the dimension that you want your tool to draw things in and so it's fairly simple to draw lines inside of Sketchup but now I want to talk a little bit about creating faces and so a face is something inside of Sketchup where Sketchup actually fills in the space between lines so like for example if I was to draw a line this way like this and then like this what you're gonna notice is you get this filled in face inside of this triangle well the reason for that is because Sketchup is what's known as a face modeler and what that means is Sketchup draws faces anytime you have three or more planar edges inside of inside of your model and so coplanar means that all of these edges are on the same plane so like for example if I was to come in here and I was to draw a line like this along the green axis and we'll talk about the axes in a second and then draw an edge up like this and then draw another edge like this one down here and then close this in you can see how Sketchup doesn't actually fill in a face because even though I have four edges in here they're not on the same plane meaning this edge and this edge are on the blue plane or the flat plane and this edge and this edge are on the red plane which is a vertical plane but you can see how Sketchup isn't filling in a face because this doesn't have three or more coplanar edges however if you were to come in here and draw a line from here to here you can see how Sketchup actually fills a face in both of vertically and horizontally because now you have one two three coplanar edges here you have one two three coplanar edges here and so that works for multiple different edges so like for example if we were to draw like a rectangle all on the same plane you can see how Sketchup would fill that in because all those edges are on that plane and so now let's talk a little bit about healing faces and deleting edges and things like that because what you could do in this situation is if you wanted to you can select both the face or any of these edges just by clicking on them well if you were to come in here and you were to delete out this edge by selecting it and then hitting the Delete key you can see how there's no longer a face inside of the shape because it now doesn't have three or more closed coplanar edges you can see how these edges are all coplanar but it's not actually closed in and so if we wanted to get that face back all we would have to do is just redraw across this edge so you can see I just drew a line from here to here and that allowed me to heal this face inside of Sketchup and so another thing to know is sometimes a face like this one you can actually select it and you can see how this is indicating that it's selected because you get all of these little dots in here usually things turn kind of a bluish color when they're selected inside of Sketchup well let's say this face got selected then you hit the Delete key to delete that face out well if you wanted to heal that face back in what you could do is you could just trace over one of these edges with the line tool and you can see how this fills this back in whenever we draw that edge and so now I want to talk just a bit about these different colors that are showing up when we have tools active so let's say for example that we activate the line tool by tapping the L key again and you can see how if I start moving my mouse over different edges I start getting these little different shapes and colors and dotted lines start showing up and all those different things well what those are is those are a part of Sketchup s' inference engine and sketchup's inference engine is where Sketchup tries to figure out where you want to draw different things so it kind of guesses where you want to draw and it also gives you little tips so like for example if I activate this line tool and move my mouse over this line you can see how this blue circle indicates that this is the midpoint of that line meaning I can find the middle of this edge and I can draw off of that by clicking on that point where that midpoint is so that's one way that you can do that there's different inferences that you get by hovering over edges so like for example if I hover over this edge with the line tool active and then I move my mouse you can see how I get a dotted line coming off of that end that's kind of indicating that if I was to draw a line from this point it would be level with the point that I had kind of mouse over and so we can talk more about those in the future but those give you kind of an idea of what you're drawing along and the most important one that you need to be aware of is when you have a tool active like the line tool you need to be most aware of the ones that are indicating that you're drawing along a certain axis and the reason for that is whenever you're drawing inside of Sketchup you want to make sure you're drawing along an axis so that you can be sure things are coplanar so you can see how as I move my mouse if I move my mouse here it tells me I'm drawing this on the on the red axis but if I move my mouse here it's telling me I'm drawing on the blue axis which would be more of a vertical line and so what you need to do is you need to make sure when you're drawing something like this rectangle that you're drawing along these red and green axes just to make sure that everything's coplanar because if you don't what happens is you come in here and you start drawing and you draw a little edge right here like up like this and then you accidentally draw a line from this edge to this edge and from this edge to this edge and you can see how even though this looks like a full-on rectangle because this edge because this line wasn't actually drawn along the green axis or the red axis you can see how you can't really close this in because all of your edges aren't coplanar so if you're not modeling along the axes when you're doing this you start running into big problems kind of like this one and so one thing that you can do in order to make sure that you're drawing along those different axes is when you activate a tool and like for example with the line tool if I set my first point if you tap either the left arrow key the right arrow key or the up arrow key this will actually lock your different tools to the different axes so let's do another example if we activate the rectangle tool by tapping the R key you can see how I can tap my left right or up arrow keys in order to dictate if I'm gonna draw a line or if I'm gonna draw a rectangle along the green if I'm gonna draw a rectangle along the red or if I'm gonna draw a rectangle along the blue so you can see how by tapping those arrow keys with those tools active you can see how by tapping those arrow keys with those tools active you can force this to draw along whatever axis you want this to draw along and so in the remaining time I want to talk about going to 3d inside of Sketchup and so let's say for example that I have this rectangle right here and I want this to become like a it's not a cube but more of a 3d rectangle so you can see how what I'm doing is I'm coming in here and I'm drawing out all of these different edges and by the way to lock to an inference you can hold the shift key in order to lock that along whatever your inference is you can see how as I hold the shift key down at this tool active whatever axis inference I have active you can see how that's locking in so now I can draw a line that lines up with like one of these edges or something like that just by holding that shift key but you can see how if I come in here and I draw in all of these different faces you can see how I can make a 3d shape like a box by manually drawing in all of these edges the problem is that's really time-consuming so you could come in here and draw everything manually if you really wanted to or you can use a tool inside of Sketchup called the push-pull tool and what the push-pull tool does is that takes a face like this one and it extrudes it into 3d so you can see how by activating that tool either by clicking on this or tapping the P key on your keyboard you can mouse over a face single click and move your mouse in order to extrude this into three dimensions and so basically that's taking this face it's moving it up and then it's filling in the geometry around all the different edges to make this a 3d shape so you're going to use the push/pull tool a lot in order to create different 3d things and so not only can you use the push/pull tool to add material you can also use it to remove material and so let's say for example that I drew an arc across this edge right here you can see how what I did is I split this face into two different faces well now I could activate the push-pull tool and remember how before we use this to add material well if I single click on this face and move my mouse to the back you can see how what this does is this actually removes material and one thing to note about this is you see how I'm getting this message that says the offset is limited you can see how I can't push pull this back any further because this isn't reach the end of the shape that's back here well one thing you're gonna notice is if you move your mouse all the way to the back and then really anywhere along this edge right here and you click what Sketchup is going to do is it's gonna automatically delete out this material that was left over because it's using its inferencing engine to figure out that you've removed the material all the way along an object and it needs to delete out this flat plane right here but this works for curved edges this also works if you were just to draw a single edge across here you can push pull that and then click on this back face and then you can also cut a hole using this same method so if I use the circle tool by tapping the C key and drawing a circle on this face I could then activate the push-pull tool click on this face and move my mouse until I can click on this back face right here so you can see how I can actually push pull this further in this situation and it's just gonna add material to the back right here well you don't want to do that what you can do instead is if you rotate around to the back side using the orbit tool and you click somewhere on this back face sketchup is going to see that you've extruded this all the way through to the backside of an object and it's gonna automatically delete out that face so you can see how this allows you to cut holes in objects really easily so if I draw a rectangle along here and then use push/pull that's gonna allow me to cut a rectangular shape through this object so this is going to be one of the primary tools that you're gonna use for modeling different things inside of Sketchup and so like for example let's say we were to build a house or something like that if we were to draw a wall push pull it up and then draw rectangle across it we would use the push/pull tool to cut an opening for a window inside of that wall and so that's gonna be probably the primary way that you're gonna create 3d geometry inside of Sketchup so that's Remini in this video so in the next video we're probably gonna go through and model something like a basic house to give you a kind of an idea of how all of these tools tie together so that you can model different things inside the free version of Sketchup if you like this video please remember to click that like button down below if you're new around here 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Length: 22min 33sec (1353 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 07 2019