Hi! I just wanted to say 'Thank You!' for the quick and clear tutorial! I needed something to model a landscape VERY FAST, but I had no cad (or other modeling knowledge) and this was PERFECT!! Outstanding video! Again, many many Thanks!
Hi David I have watched many SketchUp videos and been confused and find them hard to follow. I really appreciate how you take your time and communicate what your are doing while keeping the cursor movements slow. I enjoyed this video and wanted to let you know that you helped me by posting this. I am using SketchUp professional 2017 and found that some of the settings are different from you but with a little exploration they are easily enough to find. Thank you.
The "From Scratch" is a tool in the Sandbox Menu. It is the second icon, showing multiple boxes. Hovering over the icon, on the bottom left, you should see the tool tip telling you what the tool is. A issue some people have is the "Grid Spacing" is too large. Make sure you adjust it on the bottom right before creating your terrain. You have to draw your "From Scratch" line longer than the Grid Spacing, and you will probably want it to have a modulo of 0.
Adam, My solution was simply to turn off hidden geometry. It turned out that they were gone but that you will always see grid lines when hidden geometry is on. You can also select any line that you want hidden & hit Command E (on mac), probably Ctrl E on PC, and it will disappear. Good luck. Susan
After closing out of SketchUp and re-opening it. Navigate to "View" > "Toolbars" > "Sandbox". The sandbox option is lower in the list. Also just make sure you have Sandbox Tools enabled under "Window" > "Preferences" > "Extensions". Hopefully that will help you out.
If you're having trouble finiding the sandbox tools, they won't appear on your screen. For me they popped up on the bar in the top, and I didn't notice it. I thought it didn't appear but it was already there. You might have the same thing. You can also move them clicking on the far left of that toolbar. And then resize it and put it on the toolbar on the left.
Nice tutorial brother i just want to ask you wNice tutorialch software is easy and best to learn as DAW soft soft or abelton live. Pls reply as soon as you can
Make the terrain a component, and then you can work outside the terrain component without anything happening to it. You should do this to any item that you are finished with or need to duplicate.
+Matthew T. Carpenter, Sr. It's been a really long time since I've used Sketchup, so I'm unsure of the best way to actually do this. One method is to create a texture file that fits to the terrain size you created and use that texture (positioning will be difficult). The other option is to split up the terrain into components and then paint the components using different textures. To do this, you will use the select tool and select a part of the terrain, right click and "Create Component" or something similar. Do this so at the end you have a few components created that make up the full terrain. Then you are able to paint each component with a different texture. The last option I have is create two (or more) different terrains and texture each one sand, dirt, grass, etc. Then stack the various terrains on top of each other and adjust them so the proper texture ends up appearing. This method is messy but would probably be fairly easy to do.
There is a folder on that URL for 3D Models. You can most likely download the GZip'd files and import them in SketchUp since SketchUp can support a lot of different 3D File Formats. Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any help since a lot of the URL's on the site are not working for me, so I can't test it out.
thx a lot, I v some questions concerning the animation, how can I include the dynamical tools interaction with scene capturing ? when I use the interact tool on a dynamical component the scene does not hold the interaction is there a plugin that helps me, or there is some thing I don't know , thanks a lot again for sharing this with us
OMG! Just figured it out. It was a radius problem. Another question: after you've created the terrain you want, how do you get rid of all the gridlines? I tried the From Contours button but it didn't fill in all of the squares--only half or so. I also tried Smoothing Edges and that doesn't work either...
Mine is not working. When I select the points I want to alter, then select smoove, it gives me a yellow ball at every grid point, not the areas I've selected. Any ideas??
Can I do an oval garden? I have a cad drawing done by someone else that I need to redo on sketchup. I can only save as pdf. Is there a way to import it to make it easier update the landscape drawing blueprint?
do you know what's the plugins that we can use for parametric design in sketchup?? Or use any tools available in Sketch up for parametric design. TKS Geek This
I just got my school computer, and it's a mac, so everything looks different. I can't find 'preferences' at all. I did find the large toolbar though, even if I had to find it another way. So if it's possible, could you do a tutorial of where to find everything on a mac?
Precious Eagle Cactus Fruit I am unable to do a tutorial on a mac since I don't own one. By default I believe "Sandbox Tools" are now enabled. All you would have to do is make them visible. Try right clicking on the toolbar and select "Sandbox". Since I believe macs don't have a right click, you may have to try Command+Click or similar (I'm not a mac person). Preferences should still be visible under the "Window" menu on the top of the screen though.
Wow, I just spent an hour trying to do this in sketchup 14. Impossible. I can do all the steps but my result is nothing like yours. I am trying to create a "river" running through a mini golf course design. When I use smoove on a test "lake" I've selected within the grid, I just get very gradual gradients and it isn't affected by scale or density of points selected. Any ideas? I'm bummed because it looks like such an elegant way to create water bodies!
I just don't understand the 'from scratch' part.... no matter what I do (even following you step by step) I cannot seem to get a visible drawable grid???
hey, thanks for the tutorial :) I'm very new to 3D art, and I have a question: can this program create non-square stuff? all the tutorials for SketchUp I found so far show people creating buildings, tables, chairs, etc. which are basically a bunch of squares put together. can SketchUp create, like, a 3D human body, using this terrain tool or some other tool?
I believe it can be done, but if you want to do face modeling or humans I suggest you use Blender. Blender is also free and is a very powerful 3D tool.
Hi! I just wanted to say 'Thank You!' for the quick and clear tutorial! I needed something to model a landscape VERY FAST, but I had no cad (or other modeling knowledge) and this was PERFECT!! Outstanding video! Again, many many Thanks!
Beautiful man, you're the only one who could help me, I watched videos and yours was the only saved me
Nice work. Good pace for your narrative and demonstration. Everything you did was clear and fully explained. Thanks for contributing this!
dude, you're a life saver!! thanx for making this video ... i'm so grateful!! kudos!
Wow i didn't think it would be that easy! Thank you for this great tutorial. :D
I feel like it's no exaggeration to say you are a godsend. I've been making my own soft since i was 14ish and since then it's beco my
Clear and concise. I appreciate your effort here.
If you cannot find Sandbox tools in Prefrences.Go into View,then Toolbars,then turn on Sandbox.
Life Saver!
thank you!
This Shit is not on my Toolbars
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Thankyou
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you found it helpful.
Nice work. Great tutorial. I had learned this a while ago and forgot how to grab points on the map. Thanks for the refresher.
Nice job man! Easy to understand and executable steps. Very nice!
Very helpful for my techfair project!
Hi David
I have watched many SketchUp videos and been confused and find them hard to follow. I really appreciate how you take your time and communicate what your are doing while keeping the cursor movements slow. I enjoyed this video and wanted to let you know that you helped me by posting this.
I am using SketchUp professional 2017 and found that some of the settings are different from you but with a little exploration they are easily enough to find.
Thank you.
Thank you. You really explain it nicely and slowly to make it understand .
I've just been taught by snoopy, nice tut helped me a lot re terrains, keep it up snoopy.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. God bless you .
Very Clear Instructions.Good job
WOW, thank you for sharing, this has been very helpful.
Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!
BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)
why can't all tutorials be this coherent. might have actually learned something at architecture school if someone explained programmes like this
awesome video dude. This is going to be so useful
The "From Scratch" is a tool in the Sandbox Menu. It is the second icon, showing multiple boxes. Hovering over the icon, on the bottom left, you should see the tool tip telling you what the tool is. A issue some people have is the "Grid Spacing" is too large. Make sure you adjust it on the bottom right before creating your terrain. You have to draw your "From Scratch" line longer than the Grid Spacing, and you will probably want it to have a modulo of 0.
make more of these i like these kids keep it up
This helped so much. You've earned a subscriber!
Very good tutorial.... I thank you for taking the time to put it together.
Thanks dude. Keep spreading the knowledge.
Adam,
My solution was simply to turn off hidden geometry. It turned out that they were gone but that you will always see grid lines when hidden geometry is on. You can also select any line that you want hidden & hit Command E (on mac), probably Ctrl E on PC, and it will disappear. Good luck.
Susan
Well done geek boy great tute!
its what i call art!! awesome
Not exactly what I was looking for but glad I watched it, great vid!
Thank you so much bro for this video! You solve my problem in doing landscaping.
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Thank you for the video. This is very helpful ☺️
Very nice ! Concise and to the point !! Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much! This gave me so many ideas for my videos!
Nice, keep up the awsome work
thank you for the tutorial, a very good one, simple and easy.
Perfect and straight to the point!! THX
Thank you so much for this!
It's just awesome
Your voice is oddly relaxing lol
+Michaela Blanchfield it made me so fucking angry could hardly watch the video
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sounds like a southpark character.
After closing out of SketchUp and re-opening it. Navigate to "View" > "Toolbars" > "Sandbox". The sandbox option is lower in the list. Also just make sure you have Sandbox Tools enabled under "Window" > "Preferences" > "Extensions". Hopefully that will help you out.
Thanks, David! I'm no longer limited to drawing on flat land!
Wow, thanks a million. Great video.
This was an excellent tutorial! Thank you.
If you're having trouble finiding the sandbox tools, they won't appear on your screen. For me they popped up on the bar in the top, and I didn't notice it. I thought it didn't appear but it was already there. You might have the same thing. You can also move them clicking on the far left of that toolbar. And then resize it and put it on the toolbar on the left.
Awesome - Great starter Tutorial
Nice tutorial brother i just want to ask you wNice tutorialch software is easy and best to learn as DAW soft soft or abelton live. Pls reply as soon as you can
Thank you for the great tutorial
Thank you for this tutorial! It was very clear and helpful!
Can you make a note of what version of SketchUp you are using? Thanks
Thanks for the tutorial.It Really helped
this is jussssssst what i needed! thanks saviour
Make the terrain a component, and then you can work outside the terrain component without anything happening to it. You should do this to any item that you are finished with or need to duplicate.
that was very helpful …. thank you
very clear.. i'm surprised :)
Great tutorial, thank you!
thank you so much for the video.... helpful
God Blesses
Simple, clear, and helpful - thank you.. 👍
Great video. Thanks.
Amazing, fabulous, thank you.
Beautiful!
Great video. Exactly what I was looking for.
Question: How would you change the color of the ground under the water to a sand color?
+Matthew T. Carpenter, Sr. It's been a really long time since I've used Sketchup, so I'm unsure of the best way to actually do this. One method is to create a texture file that fits to the terrain size you created and use that texture (positioning will be difficult). The other option is to split up the terrain into components and then paint the components using different textures. To do this, you will use the select tool and select a part of the terrain, right click and "Create Component" or something similar. Do this so at the end you have a few components created that make up the full terrain. Then you are able to paint each component with a different texture. The last option I have is create two (or more) different terrains and texture each one sand, dirt, grass, etc. Then stack the various terrains on top of each other and adjust them so the proper texture ends up appearing. This method is messy but would probably be fairly easy to do.
+Geek This do u need to have the water as water well i mean do u need it
+Pixel Pootis
no, he just wanted to create a lake
Thank you so much man! really helped
Good skills. Thanks.
Thanks man!
Thank youuuuu soooo much!!! this helped me a lot, as a beginner :D:D
There is a folder on that URL for 3D Models. You can most likely download the GZip'd files and import them in SketchUp since SketchUp can support a lot of different 3D File Formats. Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any help since a lot of the URL's on the site are not working for me, so I can't test it out.
when i press soften an smooth edges it dose a little bit of it, but it dosen't come up with the gui that it did when you did it?
Can you show me how to insert a house which is partly in the hill?
Thanks bro. This is easy.
Thanks now i know how to Make it
thx a lot, I v some questions concerning the animation, how can I include the dynamical tools interaction with scene capturing ? when I use the interact tool on a dynamical component the scene does not hold the interaction is there a plugin that helps me, or there is some thing I don't know , thanks a lot again for sharing this with us
Thanks for the informative video. You have a nice voice, btw.
thank you very much it worked
OMG! Just figured it out. It was a radius problem.
Another question: after you've created the terrain you want, how do you get rid of all the gridlines? I tried the From Contours button but it didn't fill in all of the squares--only half or so. I also tried Smoothing Edges and that doesn't work either...
how did you fix the radius problem?
Hey!!
Thanks - that w really good!
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the sandbox tool is already checked yet no tool bar is appearing. . how to have this feature??please do reply. .
Mine is not working. When I select the points I want to alter, then select smoove, it gives me a yellow ball at every grid point, not the areas I've selected. Any ideas??
Very helpful. Thank you. :)
Brilliant
Thank you!
amazing! thanks for sharing!
Can I do an oval garden? I have a cad drawing done by someone else that I need to redo on sketchup. I can only save as pdf. Is there a way to import it to make it easier update the landscape drawing blueprint?
Thank you! Wonderful video!
Thanks ❤️
thank you so much
Thank you. Much appreciated.
You weren't wrong about trying to adjust a lot of squares at once, just tried a 256x256 grid...
how come when i right click is doesn't have the explode option??
do you know what's the plugins that we can use for parametric design in sketchup?? Or use any tools available in Sketch up for parametric design. TKS Geek This
I just got my school computer, and it's a mac, so everything looks different. I can't find 'preferences' at all. I did find the large toolbar though, even if I had to find it another way. So if it's possible, could you do a tutorial of where to find everything on a mac?
Precious Eagle Cactus Fruit I am unable to do a tutorial on a mac since I don't own one. By default I believe "Sandbox Tools" are now enabled. All you would have to do is make them visible. Try right clicking on the toolbar and select "Sandbox". Since I believe macs don't have a right click, you may have to try Command+Click or similar (I'm not a mac person). Preferences should still be visible under the "Window" menu on the top of the screen though.
Yeah, thanks, I found it :) And you right click by clicking with two fingers.
Thanks for the great advice :)
thankyou,. this was really helpful
Very helpful
Thanks!
Wow, I just spent an hour trying to do this in sketchup 14. Impossible. I can do all the steps but my result is nothing like yours. I am trying to create a "river" running through a mini golf course design. When I use smoove on a test "lake" I've selected within the grid, I just get very gradual gradients and it isn't affected by scale or density of points selected.
Any ideas?
I'm bummed because it looks like such an elegant way to create water bodies!
I just don't understand the 'from scratch' part.... no matter what I do (even following you step by step) I cannot seem to get a visible drawable grid???
gosh soooo ohelpful
Thank you so much ..from lraq
hey, thanks for the tutorial :)
I'm very new to 3D art, and I have a question: can this program create non-square stuff? all the tutorials for SketchUp I found so far show people creating buildings, tables, chairs, etc. which are basically a bunch of squares put together. can SketchUp create, like, a 3D human body, using this terrain tool or some other tool?
I believe it can be done, but if you want to do face modeling or humans I suggest you use Blender. Blender is also free and is a very powerful 3D tool.
alright, I'll try Blender. thank you :)
Geek This love your school,nice am on a project i will get intouch with you when needed.
+1whitemoon blenderbis way more complicate than sketchup though.