SketchUp for intermediate users

Tags, materials, advanced modelling tools, and presentation with scenes, styles and section planes.

4 lessons · about 1 hours · free

Organising and presenting

1. 1. Tags and model organisation

   Tags control visibility. Used correctly — on groups and components, never on raw geometry — they make large models manageable and drive your scenes.

   • • Understand what tags do (and don't)
   • • Follow the ‘raw geometry untagged’ rule
   • • Organise tags with folders

   14 min

2. 2. Materials and textures

   Materials bring models to life. Learn to apply colours and textures, set their real-world size, position them on faces and keep file size under control.

   • • Apply materials with the Paint Bucket
   • • Create and edit materials
   • • Set texture size and position

   14 min

3. 3. Follow Me, intersect and solid tools

   Beyond boxes: Follow Me sweeps profiles along paths, Intersect Faces and Solid Tools combine shapes, and Move/Copy arrays repeat elements precisely.

   • • Sweep profiles with Follow Me
   • • Combine shapes with Intersect Faces and Solid Tools
   • • Make linear and radial arrays

   18 min

4. 4. Scenes, styles and section planes

   Scenes save views with their settings; styles control the look; section planes cut the model for plans and sections. Together they turn a model into a presentation.

   • • Create and update scenes
   • • Choose and edit styles
   • • Cut plans and sections with section planes

   16 min