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The SketchUp Pro – Complete 3D Modelling & Architectural Visualization Masterclass is specially designed for architects, civil engineers, urban planners, landscape designers, interior designers, quantity surveyors, and other design professionals who want to develop comprehensive skills in 3D modelling and architectural visualization using SketchUp Pro. Starting from the fundamentals and progressing toward advanced modelling techniques, this course focuses on mastering the complete SketchUp Pro toolkit through a practical, project-based approach, using the iconic Barcelona Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1929 as the central modelling project.
Whether you're working as an Architect, 3D Modeler, Interior Designer, Landscape Designer, BIM Modeler, or Design Engineer for a client, consultant, contractor, or architectural firm, this course is perfect for you. It is also ideal for freelancers, students, fresh graduates, and experienced CAD users who want to strengthen their 3D modelling skills. Whether you're completely new to CAD software or already experienced with other design tools, this course will help you develop the skills to transform your creative ideas into accurate and professional 3D models using SketchUp Pro.
Our expert trainer, Manuel Pallarés, is a freelance architect with over 10 years of professional SketchUp experience and extensive teaching experience in creative schools and architectural practices. Drawing on his background in professional modelling, rendering, and teaching, he will guide you through a structured, hands-on learning experience that explores all major SketchUp tools through a single architectural project. You'll gain practical experience in workspace navigation, scale control, 2D and 3D modelling, groups and components, dynamic components, tags, materials, furniture and external elements, terrain modelling, Google Earth integration, Photo Match, styles, scenes, sunlight settings, sections, dimensions, text, plugins, and creating MP4 animations from model scenes.
By the end of this course, you will be able to confidently use SketchUp Pro to develop detailed architectural 3D models, organize complex projects, apply materials and visualization techniques, create professional scenes and animations, and present your design ideas effectively. Through the Barcelona Pavilion project, you'll gain practical experience in applying multiple modelling tools within a real architectural context, allowing you to handle projects of varying complexity. You'll not only strengthen your design and visualization capabilities but also significantly enhance your professional opportunities and earning potential in the architecture, engineering, and AEC industry.
Note: If you're working toward APC, this course can help you claim CPD hours.
Navigation
Import the Floor Plan
Extrude Tool Drawing the Podium
Start using the groups. Preferences
Drawing the Walls. Preferences
Advanced info about the groups
Drawing the Pillars. Arcs and Scale
Components
Drawing the Roofs Layers
Drawing the Glassmakers
We continue with the Glassmakers, Rotate and Scale
Applying materials
More about materials
Materials 3rd part
Drawing the Stairs, Model info menu
Drawing the Toilets, Constrain Axes
Follow me Tool
Entrance Doors, Dynamic components
Import a Sketchup model
Wharehouse library
Plugins
Sections
Styles
Scenes
Animations
Dimensions
Text
Protractor and General Axes
Geolocation
Correct errors
Export our images in JPG
How to keep learning?
How to keep learning?
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Manuel Garcia Pallares
Editorial and Graphic Designer
My name is Manuel Pallarés. I am an architect from the University of Alcalá de Henares and the Sapienza in Rome. After finishing my studies and working in different studios, I specialized in graphic design through a master's degree at the Artes Creactivas school in Madrid, where I also began my career as a teacher. At the end of the master it turned out that they needed a teacher for the Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator module and there I was. Since then my professional activity has been linked both to creative projects of different kinds (editorial design, graphic design, landscaping, architecture ...), but I have always had one foot in teaching. I have worked as a teacher at the Universidad Superior de Diseño de Valladolid (ESI). Also today I work as a teacher at the Creative Arts School of Madrid and I teach courses in the cultural space of La casa Encendida, in Madrid. The truth is that I love teaching! It is a great satisfaction to transmit your knowledge to another person and also we teachers also learn, because if you want to explain something well, you have to be very clear about it. I take teaching very seriously. I know how important a good teacher is at any given time. I hope that my passion for teaching reaches you through these online courses and I declare myself at your disposal for everything you need. A cordial greeting, Manuel Pallares
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