Google SketchUp Workshop

Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating

Discover the secrets of the Google SketchUp with the 16 real-world professional-level projects including parks, structures, concept art, and illustration. Google SketchUp Workshop includes all the wide variety of projects that SketchUp can be used for-architectural visualization, landscape design, video game and film conception, and more. SketchUp masters in every field will get you up to speed in this agile and intuitive software and then show you the real uses with through projects in architecture, engineering, and design.

Table of Contents

PART 1: ARCHITECTURE 1
Chapter 1. Creating Virtual Concept Models in SketchUp 3
Chapter 2. Te Wero Bridge Competition in Auckland, New Zealand 19
Chapter 3. Restorative Urban Design for Lescar Lane Park, Sheffield, United Kingdom 41
Chapter 4. Redevelopment of Place Van Zeeland, Belgium 61

PART 2: ENGINEERING 83
Chapter 5. A Window Installation 85
Chapter 6. Building in Four Dimensions! 101
Chapter 7. Process Plant Design 117

PART 3: DESIGN 131
Chapter 8. SketchUp for Woodworking 133

PART 4: SET DESIGN 151
Chapter 9. SketchUp Powers Theatre Scenic Design 153

PART 5: ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS 167
Chapter 10. A Virtual House 169
Chapter 11. Compositing Images Using SketchUp and Artlantis 189
Chapter 12. Modeling a Complex Structure 203

PART 6: GRAPHIC DESIGN 227
Chapter 13. Road Rage Book 229
Chapter 14. Concept Art Techniques 241

PART 7: GEOLOGY AND GEOREFERENCING 255
Chapter 15. SketchUp for Geoscientists 257
Chapter 16. Visualization of Historic Landscapes 277