I show you how to start building a house based on a blueprint, introduce you to layers, FoV (Field of View), show you how to recover deleted components, and how to construct interiors and furnish them as well.
+Aaron Bishop I've been working on ketchup for a week and a half for my dads company in construction, you're awesome and if you could make that it would be greatly appreciated.
The first sketchup tutorial I ever watched. It was all I needed. The video randomly showed up in my recommendation so came to say Thank You Mr. Bishop.
Great video. I just wanted to add, you can double click with the Push/Pull tool and it will repeat the last push/pull distance you did. This prevents you from having to reference another point in your model every time. It's great for bringing up walls, or punching out doors/windows.
In addition to longer videos (which I'm working on), I'm also thinking about starting a Twitch channel for this sort of thing, while also answering some of your questions in the process. Thoughts?
+Aaron Bishop please make a Twitch channel, I will be happy to view you in real time. By the way you are great at teaching and explaining how this software works, I actually started to work with SketchUp because of your tutorials and because I find it hard to learn a 3D software like Maya or 3D Studio Max... Please do more videos like these, random objects, glass, chairs, bridges, everything you can:) I would also like to see more rounded objects, round faces or cloth style of modelling :D Thanks
When sketch first came out I was thinking it was overly simplified when compared for AutoCAD/Revit...But DAMN,for porting these sketches into unity..Its a BEAST.
Excellent - I have attempted to get started with SketchUp once before but failed to understand the concepts. Your first 3 tutorials gave me an excellent starting point. Thanks!!!
Very cool. I have a mansion house plan idea, and never heard of sketchup until today. I have added this program to my project list of something new to learn! Great tutorial! You make it look easy, I'm sure it's much tougher
s9991 Sketchup is actually as easy as he shows it. It is just a matter of getting used to the controls. It also depends of the subject you are trying to model. This video shows a simplistic subject. Bigger houses or more detail may get challenging just because you may chose a complex subject but the program itself is a sinch if you know and are used to the controls. Just play with it a while and continue to watch videos. I may not be Aaron but I, myself am a long-time user too.
Aaron, this is an amazing video. I am a beginner with SU and I you show me greats things that this tool can do. I have to admit though that I have a lot of work to do but thanks this I can study it on my tempo. Thank you for your help and excellent work.
This was the most helpful video video about how to build a house from a floor plan I've seen all day. Thanks. And thank you for not yammering on like a bunch of other videos. To the point. Love it.
Thanks for sharing. Useful tips to budding house designers. I do house sketches using TreblD which uses the same technique. They save you time by providing most of the objects needed. Another useful thing I found is to use drag and drop. If you have your 2D sketch on your desktop it is much easier to simply drag and drop it into SketchUp than to use import.
Hey Aaron, great video (as well as all your others)! You're a fast modeler. I've been an SU user since I stumbled onto it way back with Version 2 and am not at all surprised it's become the AutoCAD equivalent of 3D modelling (meaning: everybody knows about & uses it now). I often build similar models from scanned hardcopy plans, so I wanted to watch this to confirm if I've been doing things the logical way, and maybe learn a coupla new tricks (which I did!) Have never used layers since I never quite understood their purpose; thanks for explaining. One trick you may want to use if it's unfamiliar, is that with push/pull, when you're doing it to multiple objects equally, such as your porch columns, after you do the first one to exactly the distance you want, say 4'-2", the command 'remembers' that distance such that you can simply double-click each face thereafter & it'll push/pull each one to 4'-2" (till you change the distance in the dimension box at screen's lower-right) --- much quicker & less tedious than typing that same distance into the dimension box. Good for lots of things like those window components you created, if you're treating the glass as separate panes. With stairs, b/c each double-click repeats that remembered distance, extruding them is a breeze: pull out & type in value for your first riser; double-click once for second riser below it; double-click TWICE for 3rd riser; and so on.
+modern outside Layers are quite important. Maybe not for a simple drawing like two boxes on top of each other, but if one were to include thickness and other embellishments within those two boxes, then designating layers would make viewing/working so much easier as they can be turned off when not needed. Good post about the double-clicking!
"its really hard to see where they are..........so I'm just going to guess"! (This made me laugh). Aaron, I started learning today and you've got skills. Great tutorial. Enjoyed it.
im just looking fr a simple design of houses and i found this tutorail so entertaining.nice work dude hope you can show me designs of house couz i want to have my own house one of these days
you can double click a face with push/pull tool to push it with the same value that you entered last time with the tool, so you don't have to pull it again to wherever you want it, just double click also you can use the Lock system, using Shift, when you draw a line, put your cursor on an existing edge, and then press and hold shift, and then move your cursor, and see what happens, it locks your mouse in the direction of that edge :) ... and finally, instead of drawing edges to draw the floorplan, use rectangles, it would make the work way more faster and easier as well, ;) ,,, hope these tips helps
***** you can use it to lock ANY thing also ^_^ ,,, any reference line or point or even surface thing can be locked with shift key :D ,,, the whole ting is called locking system
Thanks Aaron. I am just starting to look at SketchUp videos and really trying to soak up some of the information out there. Can you show how to go about the framing of the house and possibly the roof truss.
Remember, you can use inference locking when using the move tool, by press and holding down the Shift key, to lock move operation to that axis or you can press and hold either the up arrow, left arrow, or right arrow keys, while moving to lock the move to a specific axis.
i would like to see a longer video in detail. but i was wondering if you could help me figure out a particular floor plan that im working on. would be greatly appreciated :)
Aaron Bishop how do you get so good at this program?? I am starting school for architecture in Sept and would love to learn this program however everytime I think I am getting somewhere I get stuck, any suggestions on how to get good at this, are there any books that can help or any type of school I can take please advise. Thanks for the vid please keep them coming !!!
Tons of plugins, and yet You scale with line and scale tool? Simply use measure tape at any surface and write down desired lenght. Sketchup will automaticly rescale it to fit your adjustments. ✌
Unfortunately I no longer have that image, but www.eplans.com has tons of free blueprints. Here's one I found that's very similiar: www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/designers/designer-1002/hwepl76837.html
nice video. Have you ever built a house from the floor plan using the plugin house builder where you are making actual walls out of 2x not a solid wall like yours.
Hello Aaron, First of all, you're videos are very helpfull i just started with sketchup today and i learn quite quick because of them so thank you. What i wanted to ask you is how you push out the windows and the doors. cause sometime it does work when i do it but most of the time i get a tin leyar inside the form i try to push out. even when i type in the distance. do you know what i could be doing wrong?
liselot smulders I may not be Aaron but I am a long-time user myself and I think I can troubleshoot your problem. When you create a wall, it consists of two planes (The front of the wall and the back). Make sure both planes are parallel with one another. If so, the hole will cut out on the other side when you extrude the window/door hole. If the wall planes aren't perfectly parallel, then the hole won't cut out on the other side. The best way to make parallel lines when making walls would be to make sure (after clicking once) the colors either show red or green before clicking the second time. When I started Sketchup, I had this issue from time to time and it was annoying. I saw it to be "crooked" walls, non-parallel planes. Hope this helps.
Hi Aaron, can you direct me to a tutorial for creating the floor plans, as you call it a blueprint, as an architectural 2D image, as my starting point. I want to be able to draw accurate plans for the structural components, then add the layouts, then add the dimensions, then the fittings (kitchens, bathrooms etc.), then create from that a furnished (brochure style) plan. Basically all the different layers, you would need to produce a full set of construction and marketing plans. Following on from that I can then produce a 3D image following this tutorial presumably. I am an architect of almost 50 years standing, but have avoided this technology, being a bit of a technophobe, but trying to draw with pens and ink on tracing paper in the tropics is becoming rather wearing and impractical. Thanks, Chris.
I do this a lot at work. what i do before starting is taking the blueprint drawing into paint.net and change the colors so black is not used. It would be nice if they let you change the color of the line. My old method was to do tracing using visio and exporting it as cad, importing it to sketchup.
thank you for the video, appreciate ur professionalism, may i ask you if you have any video about a small house design at land of (42x38 meters elevation of 12 meters ) thnx
I noticed that you frequently use the keyboard to input push/pull amounts, instead of double-clicking the mouse to duplicate the action, is there a reason why you take the time to do that, as opposed to just double tapping the desired surface?
You can draw a line inside the image of the floor plant that extends from limit to limit (what should be 42 feet), of course, this line won't have the proper measures, but if you put it all inside a group and then edit it, you can use the tape measure tool to scale everything, so your entire image will be scaled 1:1, and simplify the tracing
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Would you guys like to see a longer video about this; building a cool house from scratch, furnishing and rendering screenshots?
Aaron Bishop Yes, mainly furnishing and designing surfaces + rendering
Aaron Bishop I got into SketchUp literally 10 mins ago.Would love to see that =)
Aaron Bishop Hi Aaron - me too, I'd like to be apart of your audience. Please consider showing us how to add custom textures too.
+Aaron Bishop aw yes
+Aaron Bishop I've been working on ketchup for a week and a half for my dads company in construction, you're awesome and if you could make that it would be greatly appreciated.
The first sketchup tutorial I ever watched. It was all I needed. The video randomly showed up in my recommendation so came to say Thank You Mr. Bishop.
You're a great teacher, all the information is concise and to the point. We use Sketchup at my new job and this helped me a lot.
Great video. I just wanted to add, you can double click with the Push/Pull tool and it will repeat the last push/pull distance you did. This prevents you from having to reference another point in your model every time. It's great for bringing up walls, or punching out doors/windows.
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He'sprobably know how to use it he's just not showing it to us
In addition to longer videos (which I'm working on), I'm also thinking about starting a Twitch channel for this sort of thing, while also answering some of your questions in the process. Thoughts?
+Aaron Bishop please make a Twitch channel, I will be happy to view you in real time.
By the way you are great at teaching and explaining how this software works, I actually started to work with SketchUp because of your tutorials and because I find it hard to learn a 3D software like Maya or 3D Studio Max...
Please do more videos like these, random objects, glass, chairs, bridges, everything you can:) I would also like to see more rounded objects, round faces or cloth style of modelling :D
Thanks
I love the pace of your tutorial!
lol
Aron just signed up to Sketch up. First time user, getting ready to do plans for my addition. Subscribed to your channel. Thank you!
When sketch first came out I was thinking it was overly simplified when compared for AutoCAD/Revit...But DAMN,for porting these sketches into unity..Its a BEAST.
Excellent - I have attempted to get started with SketchUp once before but failed to understand the concepts. Your first 3 tutorials gave me an excellent starting point. Thanks!!!
I'm a beginner, as usual self-taught like many others. This tutorial is very informative and to the point. Many thanks for sharing.
this was my first sketchup tutorial... now, after 9 years im here to remember how was simpler
all these video tutorials yet this almost 20 min. vid taught me everything. I saw this randomly in my video suggestions.
Amazing tutorial. I am currently using sketchup and I feel pretty confident with it and this tutorial has definitely made me more confident.
Very well done with great tips for a beginner. the pace is perfect as to not waste time on repetition. Nice work!
Very cool. I have a mansion house plan idea, and never heard of sketchup until today. I have added this program to my project list of something new to learn! Great tutorial! You make it look easy, I'm sure it's much tougher
s9991 Sketchup is actually as easy as he shows it. It is just a matter of getting used to the controls. It also depends of the subject you are trying to model. This video shows a simplistic subject. Bigger houses or more detail may get challenging just because you may chose a complex subject but the program itself is a sinch if you know and are used to the controls. Just play with it a while and continue to watch videos. I may not be Aaron but I, myself am a long-time user too.
Amazing. Very concise and a greatly shown demonstration. Keep up the good work, Aaron.
Thank you for your complete and comprehensive training. Very good!
Your tutorials are the best I found after repeated looking at others.
Really helpful video. Usually people just do stuff without elaborating what they did but you really did a great job!
This is a brilliant tutorial. You covered an awesome range of useful tools in a short time.
Aaron, this is an amazing video. I am a beginner with SU and I you show me greats things that this tool can do. I have to admit though that I have a lot of work to do but thanks this I can study it on my tempo. Thank you for your help and excellent work.
Cheers Max, keep at it!
very well thought out tutorial aaron! from house plan, layers, field of view. really helpful!
This was the most helpful video video about how to build a house from a floor plan I've seen all day. Thanks. And thank you for not yammering on like a bunch of other videos. To the point. Love it.
That was an awesome intro to SketchUp. I'm planning to design my own house, so these videos will be super helpful. Great job!
i love your tutorials. Sincerely speaking, u have inspired me a lot to build my Channel. Thanks Aaron.
This video was so beautiful and satisfying in so many ways! great content, I want to learn sketchup!
Thanks for this video! Just did all this and used IrisVR to WALK around the model in VR with my HTC Vive. Less than 2 hours from start to finish.
Thanks for sharing. Useful tips to budding house designers. I do house sketches using TreblD which uses the same technique. They save you time by providing most of the objects needed.
Another useful thing I found is to use drag and drop. If you have your 2D sketch on your desktop it is much easier to simply drag and drop it into SketchUp than to use import.
Many thanks Aaron! Great video, showing how to work with sketchup!
Loved It! Thank You, Mr. Aaron, for sharing with us your experience.
this is a GREAT tutorial. Excellent work, Aaron.
Hey Aaron, great video (as well as all your others)! You're a fast modeler. I've been an SU user since I stumbled onto it way back with Version 2 and am not at all surprised it's become the AutoCAD equivalent of 3D modelling (meaning: everybody knows about & uses it now). I often build similar models from scanned hardcopy plans, so I wanted to watch this to confirm if I've been doing things the logical way, and maybe learn a coupla new tricks (which I did!) Have never used layers since I never quite understood their purpose; thanks for explaining. One trick you may want to use if it's unfamiliar, is that with push/pull, when you're doing it to multiple objects equally, such as your porch columns, after you do the first one to exactly the distance you want, say 4'-2", the command 'remembers' that distance such that you can simply double-click each face thereafter & it'll push/pull each one to 4'-2" (till you change the distance in the dimension box at screen's lower-right) --- much quicker & less tedious than typing that same distance into the dimension box. Good for lots of things like those window components you created, if you're treating the glass as separate panes. With stairs, b/c each double-click repeats that remembered distance, extruding them is a breeze: pull out & type in value for your first riser; double-click once for second riser below it; double-click TWICE for 3rd riser; and so on.
+modern outside Layers are quite important. Maybe not for a simple drawing like two boxes on top of each other, but if one were to include thickness and other embellishments within those two boxes, then designating layers would make viewing/working so much easier as they can be turned off when not needed.
Good post about the double-clicking!
"its really hard to see where they are..........so I'm just going to guess"! (This made me laugh). Aaron, I started learning today and you've got skills. Great tutorial. Enjoyed it.
Hey Aaron! Thanks for showing how to recover deleted components, that's so helpful!
Best lesson about sketchup I have seen! Thank u a lot!
im just looking fr a simple design of houses and i found this tutorail so entertaining.nice work dude hope you can show me designs of house couz i want to have my own house one of these days
Keep at it =]]
Absolutely solid tutorial Aaron!
Thank you so much for the tutorial. Was totally lost on the controls or anything, really helped me out!
Very good and useful video!!! Lots of tricks seen in practise. Awesome! Thanks!!!
I really love your free sketchup lessons! Hope I can see more from you! You're one awesome dude. Thumbs up and subscribed to you :)
Great tutorial. Simple explanation. Please keep continuing advance so far.
Thank you so much, Ive been watching so many videos, you explanation is awesome, u r making things very simple and easy, please keep on the good work
Thank you, very easy to follow. Just started to use sketchup and this was extremely helpful
I didn't even know about the camera controls. Thanks for the tip!
Fantastic video for beginners! Great pace for the most part. Thank you so much for this!
One of the best tutorial i found !! Thank you so much
if only all teachers taught like this. What a wonderful world we would live in.
you can double click a face with push/pull tool to push it with the same value that you entered last time with the tool, so you don't have to pull it again to wherever you want it, just double click
also you can use the Lock system, using Shift, when you draw a line, put your cursor on an existing edge, and then press and hold shift, and then move your cursor, and see what happens, it locks your mouse in the direction of that edge :) ...
and finally, instead of drawing edges to draw the floorplan, use rectangles, it would make the work way more faster and easier as well, ;) ,,, hope these tips helps
***** you can use it to lock ANY thing also ^_^ ,,, any reference line or point or even surface thing can be locked with shift key :D ,,, the whole ting is called locking system
I didn't know Jeff Goldblum teaches sketchup!
jointheresistence123 Life ah, finds a way.
I was always fascinated by trap soft, been listening to trap long ti and i finally decided that i will try to make my own but i was so
Amazing vidoe, hands down!!! Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks Aaron. I am just starting to look at SketchUp videos and really trying to soak up some of the information out there. Can you show how to go about the framing of the house and possibly the roof truss.
Great video tutorial. Thank you! It was well done and easy to understand.
so far you are the best in teaching this sort of stuff :)
we're big fans, keep up the good work. big ups
I have learnt many things from here. Thanks for the tutorial:)
click on the magnet, and from there you can adjust how the tracks snap onto the grid. if you want it to be each 1/4 of a bar, click "line"
Hi, Aaron! Nice done!
I'd like to see a longer video:)
Which program helps to make such cute blueprints?
Great to watch the video Nice plan
Would you kindly share what are the tools/plugins/extensions that you use? I'm new to sketchup and learned a lot with your technic.
You do great work bro. Keep it up bro.❤❤
Awesome tutorial! Keep up the good work
At 18:30 , all you have to do is press the up arrow key on your keyboard after clicking on a bottom corner and then click anywhere on the floor.
Remember, you can use inference locking when using the move tool, by press and holding down the Shift key, to lock move operation to that axis or you can press and hold either the up arrow, left arrow, or right arrow keys, while moving to lock the move to a specific axis.
Cheers!
i would like to see a longer video in detail. but i was wondering if you could help me figure out a particular floor plan that im working on. would be greatly appreciated :)
+Dustin McGarrah Still on it? Maybe I can help.
Dude 🙂 thank you so much! I just got heaps of tips from that 😃 + a few things it might have been good to know before I started this design... 😏
Aaron Bishop how do you get so good at this program?? I am starting school for architecture in Sept and would love to learn this program however everytime I think I am getting somewhere I get stuck, any suggestions on how to get good at this, are there any books that can help or any type of school I can take please advise. Thanks for the vid please keep them coming !!!
you are a great instructor
I love and used Sketchup for over 5 years, but for making a House, home designer pro is $500 and is amazing.
Hi would you be able to upload the jpeg file for the blueprint so that we could follow along?
u are lightning fast!! keep it up!!
Tons of plugins, and yet You scale with line and scale tool?
Simply use measure tape at any surface and write down desired lenght. Sketchup will automaticly rescale it to fit your adjustments. ✌
Simple and Amazing work !!!
This is an awesome tutorial for beginners like me. Cheers! :)
thank you very much for the tutorial! i'll come back to this video for further guidance.
Great Aaron. Is there a link with your plans so we can work on it together with your video?
Unfortunately I no longer have that image, but www.eplans.com has tons of free blueprints. Here's one I found that's very similiar: www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/designers/designer-1002/hwepl76837.html
Superb tutorial, thank you.
Excellent video, thanks a lot for the upload!!
Very good work/ teaching
Aaron, It's a nice video, very helpful. where can I get the exact blueprint which u have used in this video?
Very helpful and insightful
Thank you very much Aaron! Your tuts helped me alot! And of course it will be great if you build a cool house from scratch :3
great tutorials , thanx for posting them
nice video. Have you ever built a house from the floor plan using the plugin house builder where you are making actual walls out of 2x not a solid wall like yours.
Hello Aaron, First of all, you're videos are very helpfull i just started with sketchup today and i learn quite quick because of them so thank you. What i wanted to ask you is how you push out the windows and the doors. cause sometime it does work when i do it but most of the time i get a tin leyar inside the form i try to push out. even when i type in the distance. do you know what i could be doing wrong?
liselot smulders I may not be Aaron but I am a long-time user myself and I think I can troubleshoot your problem. When you create a wall, it consists of two planes (The front of the wall and the back). Make sure both planes are parallel with one another. If so, the hole will cut out on the other side when you extrude the window/door hole. If the wall planes aren't perfectly parallel, then the hole won't cut out on the other side. The best way to make parallel lines when making walls would be to make sure (after clicking once) the colors either show red or green before clicking the second time. When I started Sketchup, I had this issue from time to time and it was annoying. I saw it to be "crooked" walls, non-parallel planes. Hope this helps.
Hi Aaron, can you direct me to a tutorial for creating the floor plans, as you call it a blueprint, as an architectural 2D image, as my starting point. I want to be able to draw accurate plans for the structural components, then add the layouts, then add the dimensions, then the fittings (kitchens, bathrooms etc.), then create from that a furnished (brochure style) plan. Basically all the different layers, you would need to produce a full set of construction and marketing plans. Following on from that I can then produce a 3D image following this tutorial presumably. I am an architect of almost 50 years standing, but have avoided this technology, being a bit of a technophobe, but trying to draw with pens and ink on tracing paper in the tropics is becoming rather wearing and impractical. Thanks, Chris.
Superb Aaron, thank you, great video.
Hi😊thanks for the vedio. But what apps. You used for making this?thanks a lot for incoming answer.
Awesome tutorial, i learned a lot
I do this a lot at work. what i do before starting is taking the blueprint drawing into paint.net and change the colors so black is not used. It would be nice if they let you change the color of the line.
My old method was to do tracing using visio and exporting it as cad, importing it to sketchup.
Hi Aaron,
How do you 'fill in the floor'? When I erase the line, the fill disappears. Thanks for posting, Tracy
very clear lesion,
tks a lot
Thank you so much. You have been very helpful.
Hey Aaron Bishop.
How did you make the blueprint of the house? is it a program you can download or what? Great house btw!
I think it was made using the softeware SmartDraw.
Skilled technique . Great!!
thank you for the video, appreciate ur professionalism, may i ask you if you have any video about a small house design at land of (42x38 meters elevation of 12 meters ) thnx
I noticed that you frequently use the keyboard to input push/pull amounts, instead of double-clicking the mouse to duplicate the action, is there a reason why you take the time to do that, as opposed to just double tapping the desired surface?
You can draw a line inside the image of the floor plant that extends from limit to limit (what should be 42 feet), of course, this line won't have the proper measures, but if you put it all inside a group and then edit it, you can use the tape measure tool to scale everything, so your entire image will be scaled 1:1, and simplify the tracing
This is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much, I really learnt a lot here!!
Very simplistic. Thank you
Fantastic tutorial! Thanks!