Sketch up is a key tool for Landscape architects is features, usability, pricing and its ability to syn with other apps make it my number one choice in architecture software
- Sketch up can combine with Lumon to create beautiful 3D renders
- Sketch ups core routes are CAD which makes it a great tool for creating detailed engineering diagrams
- Sketch up has a 3D archive with thousands of pre-made pools, spas pergolas, arbors, courts and buildings
- using sketch ups tools you can download and of these pre-made objects, adjust and modify them into your desired piece. Then insert them into your drawing
How to use Sketch up
Step 1
- After a meeting with your client, open google earth on crome and zoom in on your clients property.
- Snap a screenshot of the property.
- Edit the screen shot to just show the Clients property
- Open Sketchup and import the screenshot image using the import feature under file
- make sure the image is on layer 0 rename this to background
Step 2
- Click create new layer under the default trey, call this layer Tracing
- Proceed to trace your background image to your best ability the better you trace the better your drawings will be.
- Be sure you have traced every last detail including property boarder. home, house, roofpitch lines, Driveway, curb and pathway.
Step 3
- Click create new layer under the default trey, call this layer house,
- proceed to create rectangles as each room of the house