Enhance your SketchUp skills in your spare time. Tune into this series to get expert tips on creating precision-based models for your architectural and interior designs.

Learn how to use and create dynamic components in SketchUp Pro: from fences that automatically add pickets as you scale to cabinets with animated drawers.

Design the kitchen of your dreams with SketchUp. Learn how to design a new kitchen that fits your existing space with this easy-to-use 3D drawing program.

Learn how to create a detailed model of a house lamp in SketchUp Pro—and add new organizational and design techniques to your 3D modeling toolbox along the way.

Twinmotion is a real-time visualization tool for the AEC and product design world that enables photo-realistic renders for a variety of platforms. In this course, multidisciplinary designer Jonathan Racek shows you the workflow between Twinmotion and SketchUp Pro. Jonathan explains how Twinmotion can improve your workflow, then shows you how to get started with the Gizmo, the Scenegraph, and the Library. He steps through how to sync your SketchUp file and add materials and furniture in Twinmotion. Jonathan covers environments, including tools you can use to add vegetation and swap objects, then goes into weather functions, nighttime renders, and more. He concludes with useful information on how to export your images and animations and how to share your work with the Presenter tool.

Note: This course was created by Jonathan Racek. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Add some clever new techniques to your SketchUp repertoire. Tune in to discover a tip or trick that helps you work smarter with this popular 3D modeling software.

Get a weekly infusion of SketchUp Pro tips and tricks, so you can spend less time fussing with the program and more time designing amazing things.

Learn how to use SketchUp—the easy-to-use 3D modeling software—to input your existing bathroom and model it in 3D using ten of the hottest remodeling trends.

Learn how to transform SketchUp models into presentation-worthy concept drawings with Photoshop.

Design your dream kitchen with the 3D drawing tool SketchUp. Learn how to model and demolish your current kitchen to make room for a new design that fits your existing space.

Learn how to create a texture-mapped 3D model of a building exterior using SketchUp.

Use photos and 3D models to bring your designs to life. Learn how to use SketchUp Pro, a 3D modeling program, to explore new design ideas.

Learn critical techniques for creating renders of your 3D visualizations in compositing applications such as Photoshop while using V-Ray Next with SketchUp.

Learn how to work with Twilight and Sketchup to prepare and optimize 3D models, materials, lighting, and environments for photo-realistic rendering, post-processing, and animation.

Learn about tools and features in the rendering solution V-Ray for SketchUp. Discover how to navigate the interface, add illumination to scenes, and work with the V-Ray camera.

Learn how to use V-Ray directly in SketchUp, and explore the V-Ray suite of creative tools for lighting, shading, and rendering.

Discover how to approach shadow studies with SketchUp. Learn how to calculate and draw solar azimuths, geolocate and reorient a massing model, animate time-lapse shadows, and more.

Get tips that can help you use SketchUp to efficiently create 3D models.

Discover what a career in the trades can offer you. Learn about opportunities in the skilled trades, how apprenticeships work, and how to land a job in the trade of your choice.

Explore the different types of skilled trades—as well as how to carve out a career in your trade of choice—in this weekly series of interviews with industry professionals.