The Sketchup Workflow for Architecture: Modeling Buildings, Visualizing Design, and Creating Construction Documents with Sketchup Pro and Layout (Paperback, 2)

Part I: Starting the Flow               

Chapter 1 Introduction

The Updated Workflow

Who Should Read This Book?     

What’s in This Book?     

What Are the Prerequisites?      

SketchUp Make or SketchUp Pro?            

Online Content

Mental Preparation        

Portfolio             

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Chapter 2: Building Information Modeling          

What Is BIM?    

SketchUp and LayOut as BIM     

Filling in the BIM Blanks

BIM Burnout     

The SketchUp Outlook  

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Chapter 3: Hardware    

Mac vs. PC

Specs

Comparison Shopping

Systems

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Chapter 4: File and Folder Management

Folders and Files

Cloud Storage

Archiving

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Part II: SketchUp             

Chapter 5: SketchUp Basics        

Five Core Concepts        

Leveraging SketchUp     

Precise Modeling

Modeling Strategy

Creating Geometry        

Organizing Geometry with Containers   

Section Planes  

Layers, Styles, and Scenes           

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Chapter 6: The Professional’s SketchUp Template           

Base Template 

Model Info         

Standard Layers

Styles   

Utility Scenes    

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Chapter 7: The Professional’s SketchUp Environment

Toolbars              

Trays and Dialogs            

System Preferences       

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Chapter 8: SketchUp Collections             

Material Collection         

Component Collections

Styles Collection              

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Chapter 9: Extensions  

Find Extensions

Installing Extensions      

Using Extensions             

Recommended Extensions         

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Part III: LayOut 

Chapter 10: Introduction to LayOut        

What Is LayOut?              

Why LayOut?    

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Chapter 11: The LayOut Interface           

Getting Started

Main Toolbar    

Document Setup             

Preferences Window    

Inspectors          

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Chapter 12: The Professional’s LayOut Environment      

New Presentation          

System Preferences       

Custom Toolbars             

Trays    

Basic LayOut Template 

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Chapter 13: LayOut Tools            

Navigating LayOut          

Drawing Tools   

Annotation Tools

Tables  

Modification Tools          

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Chapter 14: Inserting Content   

Working with SketchUp Models

Working with Images    

Working with Text

Working with Tables

Managing References   

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Part IV: Model Organization      

Chapter 15: Model Organization Overview         

Core Concepts of Model Organization    

Nesting Groups and Layers

Simplify the System       

Expand the System         

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Chapter 16: New Construction  

New Construction Process

The BLVD Coffee Shop Project

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Chapter 17: Renovation

Renovation Process

The Milwaukee Street Renovation Project

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Part V: Visualization

Chapter 18: Introduction to Visualization/Preparation 

Presentations   

Level of Detail   

Real Objects      

Populating a Scene

Preparing a Model          

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Chapter 19: Rendering 

SketchUp Stills  

SketchUp Animations

Photorealistic Rendering             

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Chapter 20: Altered Reality        

Virtual Reality   

Augmented Reality

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Part VI: Construction Documents

Chapter 21: Crucial Concepts for Construction Documents

Visual Merge

Representing Objects

Section Planes

Rendering Settings Theory

Line Weight Theory

Stacking Viewports

Hatching

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Chapter 22: Title Blocks

Templates

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Chapter 23: Drawings

Drawings

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Chapter 24: Annotations

Annotations

Scrapbooks

Using Collections

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Chapter 25: Exporting

Exporting to PDF

Exporting to CAD

Conclusion

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Index