Drawing and Modeling Urban Spaces with AutoCAD and SketchUp

Overview

“In this lesson, you will review the SketchUp interface and discover some plugins that will help you work more efficiently. In addition, you are going to import the AutoCAD plans that you drew in the previous unit and geolocate the workspace. Finally you are going to create the layers that you will use to organize the elements that you are modeling, I will also show you how you have some plugins available for download. ”

In this video lesson Bruno Arancibia addresses the topic: SketchUp: how to import drawings from AutoCAD, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing and Modeling Urban Spaces with AutoCAD and SketchUp. Learn to create three-dimensional models of the spaces in your city, including squares, streets, and gardens.

Partial transcription of the video

“SketchUp: how to import drawings from AutoCAD It's time to start working on SketchUp. First of all, let's do a general review which is the program interface and the plugins that we are going to use. Then I will show you how to import the plans from AutoCAD and prepare them to start working on modeling. Let's see how to do it. The assembly plans that I drew in the previous unit are ready. I already have the plant fully acclimated and the cut as a whole. You can see that I finished setting it up, adding elements like vehicles, trees, silhouettes of human scales, also from external reference I...”

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Course summary for: Drawing and Modeling Urban Spaces with AutoCAD and SketchUp

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (56)
• 3095 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 45m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Architecture & Spaces

• Software

  AutoCAD, SketchUp v21

• Areas

  3D Modeling, Architectural Illustration, Architecture, ArchVIZ, Digital Architecture, Landscape Architecture