How to Design a Gazebo & Backyard in 3D (SketchUp)

what's up guys in today's video we're going to be taking a look at how I came up with the design for this gazebo how I designed it on SketchUp in 3D and then how I applied for a permit this is where I'd like to build the Gazebo currently it is usless space it's about 500 square ft of dirt in this entire inspiration exploration I like to create a Pinterest board and start saving the things that I like this is already starting to pull towards something I like ooh I really like this I love those wood lats up on top I really like the wood big posts and big Beams I lean to roof I think that's going to work well in my yard I really liked the timber frame joinery I just there was something about it and I had a feeling that I would be able to come up with something timber frame but modern all this to say that I was sucked into a dark hole of design choices first thing in design that I had to do was go out and get all of my measurements if you have a certificate of location that'll definitely be a lot easier because you'll already have kind of a drawing of your property what I have here is all of the measurements and everything close to that area and this is going to help me out later to really put everything on one drawing so now that I've shown you all the measurements we could actually take all of this and recreate it in sketch up 28 by [Music] 14 I like to use the P tool to push pull so you click on P then you click on the face now you can go like this freehanded but I like to type in something so I'm just going to type in two for 2 in and then press enter and now you have a 2in uh piece it's good practice to always group cuz if you create one rectangle and then do another one right beside it they will merge we can orbit around it so this tool is orbit and that is letter O So on the keyboard you hit o and now you can orbit around it and now I'm going to use the measuring tape so letter T and that gives us 14 28 I'm going to take this now and just move it on that axis and then on this axis so you see when it turns green or red I just wanted to take a pause here and mention that I am no expert at SketchUp I'm just giving you a introduction to how SketchUp can help you if you wanted to get the plan for free I'm giving it away to the first thousand subscribers that I get so let's get back to it one meter by 1 meter and the way I do that I just click I'm using the tape measurement so t for tape measurement and now I click and I type in 1 M enter so now let's just make sure that we are inside side of the group so double click into it and now I'm going to click on the circle tool and now I could actually use the Eraser tool to remove the other shapes I'm going to press P for the push pull tool and we're going to delete these sides we're going to remove the tape measurement lines and now what we're going to do we're going to create the sidewalk so now just to visualize it better we can come here on the side and pick out material so we're going to look for water the offset tool is very handy for things like the sidewalk we just want to have 3 ft of sidewalk and we're going to push pull tool 2 in and give it a different color 176 18 so this is going to be our house wall so the way I do this is I click here and now I'm just going to click I'm not going to click I'm just going to hover over the line and hold shift and now you see that that's just making the line go all the way perfectly parallel onto that already created line I'm going to do the same this way I'm going to do this and now go this way and now I'm just missing this one here so I need once again I'm going to line this up from there to there and now with the line tool I could once again hold shift and come this way and do the same this way useful tool is the hand tool so you click on H to be able to kind of like drag uh unlike the orbit that kind of just orbit orbits the hand is really stays at the same direction but you just drag so I'm just going to delete anything that I don't need anymore like this marking here I don't need I'm going to use the erase tool now to remove any extras so now I just need to take a look at these measurements and then we could actually start building the Gazebo one thing I forgot to mention before is that I reached out to my city and they sent me my restrictions I have to be within 226 Square ft so now we're going to Design Within those restrictions I'm going to just Mark a line here to get guides and I think that's what we're going to try and align ourselves to we really want to try and align to the pool I'm also going to take this side because I think we want to be parallel now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start drawing out some posts I think I just want to start making rectangles at first and then after we could start looking into how to make them I think I want to go with 8 by 8 so I'm just going to do 8 comma 8 Push Pull and we're going to bring it up 10t so take this and I'm going to create a component a component is cool because you can duplicate it and then when you modify one it'll modify to every single one of them and now what I'm going to do I'm actually going to select another color so to duplicate it I'm going to use the move tool it's this one here and you can use your M letter on the keyboard as a shortcut and as soon as I click on that corner I'm going to hit option and now as you can see it's going to duplicate it and I'm going to snap it to this side and now we have four posts I think now it's pretty important to check if we're uh within the the limit so I'm just going to do o for orbit if you don't let go it still uh creates that so R for rectangle and now I'm just going to hit here for the rectangle and we're going to double click into it and click on area selection that is 200 square feet we said the limit was 226 Square ft so I think what I want to do is try and find a good balance between this and this so this is currently 14t I think we could bring it in a little and then maybe make it wider and now I should have from this side of the post to this side I should have 13t that's perfect 13 * 16 13 * 17 I had on edge 15 foot4 which means that I could move both of these let's try four inches more so four enter always holding shift for enter and now we should be 16 okay so 16 * 13 is almost the limit and I'm also watching this so I think the problem if I go 17 these posts will kind of be in the way here so as we're walking away from the pool I kind of want to have a you know a smooth path um cuz I do have a door here in the fence so I don't want to forget that I have a door something like this here um it's not exactly there but you know you get the point I kind of want the flow to be pretty smooth to go into into the Gazebo and you know to the pool or or to the backyard so you also want to keep that into consideration so now that we have these lines we could at least know that we are parallel with the pool we are uh 4 in away from the lines and here I'm actually going to mark this side and I'm I'm just going to hold shift when I see the red line so it stays on it and it does doesn't move to other ones and now you can actually use other corners or edges to snap to so that pretty much gave us the back line we have the back line the front line and now I'm going to create a rectangle so rectangle on the blue axis here hit o for orbit H for hand tool and now R again and you see it's still on it so when when you get the blue rectangle now I'm going to hit I'm going to double click area selection 208 so 208 Square ft I'm good there I guess one now we have you know more engineering problems so I think it's pretty Common Sense uh if you know a bit of construction 16 foot span I'm going to need a massive beam you know probably I don't even know maybe 14 in uh high beam that would be kind of ridiculous and probably would need a crane to get it up here so I think to simplify my life I think 13t span for Rafters because I'm thinking the the lean to pitch is actually going to be like this like the the slope and the gutter is going to be near the fence on this backs side so I think that's what I'm going to try and do here this is where we're actually going to have to modify these three posts and we're going to have to click on make unique so now if I modify this post it'll modify these three but not the front ones do this upwards and then I hold shift and now I could actually move over to this corner that is 1 foot 6 inch higher I think I like that let's see what the height is from here to here 10 feet I think we want to go less than that let's see what what is this height here now that's 8 fo6 yeah let's let's do let's do back posts be 8 foot so 6 in drop and then we'll make the front ones be 6 in less which should bring us down to now 9 foot6 9 foot6 okay it's going to be great now I guess we could start talking about beams this is now a 7t span so I think we could create now a rectangle like this now we're going to use the push tool and we're going to do 8 in and so now it's 8 in by 8 in by 16 make component we're going to write beam I think what we could do actually because the city permission is from post to post I think it'd be pretty cool also we saw it in our inspiration I think it'd be cool to extend this maybe by 2T now that's going to be one hell of an overhang I like that and I think I'm going to do the same I'm just gonna copy paste it wow that's going to be amazing I guess it's time to work on the Rafters unless we start working on the joinery I think I'm going to finish the rafters and then we'll come back and do the wood joinery so I did buy this book here here uh that taught me pretty much everything I know about uh you know timber frame joinery and timber frame buildings I actually did buy it after doing all that inspiration research I kind of fell in love with timber frame so I figured why not you know do my research buy a book and now I guess I kind of know how to do that I'm going to start creating a rafter I think the rafters I'm just going to create a rectangle here you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to select the plane that it's drawing on I like that I'm going to do uh 13x 8 I'm going to go 8 8 in so that's 13 by 8 and now I'm actually going to push this to be 3 in so something else I'm seeing here is that we actually have the potential to increase this and make this maybe also a 2T overhang so I think that's what I'm going to do here and now I'm going to take this this side and I think because of the fence here let's let's do uh 16 in let's try that to rotate something you got to select letter q and now to rotate you need to click on which point you want the hinge to be and then you select what side you want to rotate so here for instance I could select this one or this one I think this is the good point to select from and then you select the other corner and now we can start rotating downwards nope that did not work out I'm going to hit escape to get out of that that was not right something is clearly messing up here oh that's why I said to always group your thing so I'm actually going to create a component out of this and this is why it was uh breaking I'm going to call this rafter now that I created a component now it's going to work well so now I could actually do this and it works perfectly I think that would look pretty darn cool what I'm going to do now is actually cut out these they're called bird mouth you're going to use the line tool and I'm going to go right here intersect with that and draw there and I hope I'm selected yes I am select it from here now and go all the way here going to hide the beam I'm going to double click back into the rafter and push pull all that out and that creates the notch I'm going to do the same thing on the other side go back here the little ey glasses and unhide all now I have one rafter that is perfect going to use the M for the move tool and I'm going to do I'm going to hit this little edge here end point and rafter where it's touching the beam and I'm going to start moving I'm going to hit option on my keyboard so now it zooms out and I will zoom in to this side and now it snaps to the corner here don't click away just yet there's a really cool tool with SketchUp and as soon as you move something or you duplicate something somewhere else all we have to do now is hit the slash 8 and it creates all the rafters for us um and what's really cool about this is that if you don't like this now you could just click on slash 9 enter and then maybe SL sl10 enter uh and I think I like them being spaced out so I'm going to go back to slash maybe 7 and that might be too much um I'm going to take my measuring tool now and just check the distance that's 2 6 I only want one by twos on the top so that's for sure too much also it snows a lot where I live so I don't want to be risking snow collapsing this thing already that you know this looks pretty darn over kill so I'm just going to redo that again and I'm going to do sl8 sl9 I actually like this more because these line up with the posts and the middle one actually doesn't get any but I also would wouldn't mind the middle one getting it the only thing that's bothering me is this here how it's not aligning sl9 and now we're just going to check the measurement between these now so that's oh that's kind of perfect it's almost 2 feet apart very very close uh very close to 2 ft apart which is kind of great I like that these ones line up pretty much exactly where we want it this is a 20t beam so now what we can do we can actually come up here and start planning the roof I'm going to do one by 1 by two 20 ft make it a component we're going to call Wood lot this corner and we're going to put it up top here and now we're going to hit Q to rotate and we're going to select this and this now rotate down until it snaps to this rafter hi I'm youtubing so now what I'm going to do is actually use a 1in spacer so I'm just going to use the M tool to move I just realized I made a mistake I'm going to delete that I'm going to go back and once again I'm going to hit the M letter I'm using the move tool tool I'm going to use option and now I'm going to type 3 in enter and before clicking away I'm just going to do time 100 that's amazing that was way too many okay so now we just hit space bar to get the and let's delete here let's let's give them a color and now maybe we could actually color everything the same now we're talking I wanted to stop here and just mention that I don't think I'm going to get the result I want by putting these knee braces feel like it just looks like a barn and it's not looking as modern as I would have liked it to um obviously I'm still missing like the wood pegs and stuff I really like the the the roof effect with that light shining through um I'm just not a fan of these knee braces so I think I'm going to remove them uh but then we're going to have to figure out how I could solidify the entire structure I'm going to hide the beam let's go 5 in 5 in up we're going to make a 2in Tenon so I'm going to go 3 in and then 3 in which should leave us with 2 in yep and now I'm just going to draw a line like this and a line like this let's go down 5 in and let's go down five in now I'm going to bring back the beam and I'm going to hide but now if I do it to this one it won't have one yeah so what I'm going to do is I'm going to hide this and instead of pulling the other ones I'm actually going to lift this one up five in so I kind of did it the other way around but they both work now I'm just going to delete the guides and we're going to bring back the last okay so now if I move this up I have those that's perfect I was debating on keeping the knee braces but I realized that you know what without it it looks so much better um I think what we're going to end up doing is actually digging massive deep holes and we're just going to figure out a way to cement those in and assemble everything standing I'm going to create the mortises you're going to bring down this by 12 in uh similar to the other one I'm actually going to do 3 in from there let's just make sure we're on the right Axis and we're going to do 3 in from here and I have to bring this one back up 12 so now I'm just going to take this and I'm going to make sure to do that so now I have that I'm going to do another one here there's probably a quicker way to do this I just don't know it so I'm going to do what I know 8 by two and we're actually going to punch this one through 5 in and A4 so 5 and 1/4 in and now we have a 5 and 1/4 in socket which is called a mortise and we're going to go ahead and do the same thing here Hide so I took a few hours and I refined a lot of things I added a bit more detail and components I even put you know the uh the wood Peg holes that are going to be there I even added polycarbonate sheets so this is going to be the polycarbonate sheet the plastic it's almost like plexiglass uh I also added a board here on this side and the other side and some drip edge which is used on Roofing uh redid the fence and added a few plants there I also added some lights so little details but I think now I'm pretty much ready to rumble and get started with this build build are you going to watch me build this by myself cuz that's the plan if you want to purchase the design of this gazebo I have it up for sale but it is totally free to the first 1,000 subscribers because I only have 62 subscribers at the time of this recording I just remembered at the beginning I did mention that I was going to show you the process on applying for a permit well the bad news is that I applied for it and they refused it so watch the next video on how I actually got them to prove it

Channel: Mateo Stabio

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Id: 3IfJQddWFlo

Length: 23min 31sec (1411 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 17 2023