Beginning in SketchUp, with John Brooks

For garden designers, students and keen amateurs who are new to SketchUp. Over six sessions you’ll learn to navigate the model, draw accurately to real dimensions, use groups and tags to keep your models organised, model in 3D with Push/Pull and Offset, navigate and use the 3D Warehouse correctly, apply colour, and set up scenes to aid future presentation of your work. By the end you’ll have built and presented a simple, properly structured 3D garden of your own. A short pre-course pack covers computer set-up and hardware, so no live time is lost getting ready. Downloadable course notes, a training model and a keyboard shortcut sheet are included.

This course is a foundation in starting with SketchUp, it assumes no previous knowledge, or very basic experience.

It will establish professional workflows and give a firm grounding on the fundamentals of the software.

This is not designed as a “model-along” course

It will suit PC or Mac users

It will use SketchUp pro and is not suitable for Web/ iPad versions of the software.

As with all our courses, each session is recorded and links sent out to students, and will be kept online for three months.

John Brooks is the UK’s leading specialist in SketchUp for garden and landscape design. A garden designer with twenty years in practice, he founded SketchUp for Garden Design in 2017 and has since trained over 500 designers and landscape professionals across the UK and worldwide. His clients include the RHS, David Austin Roses and The English Gardening School, and his students range from sole practitioners to the studios of renowned designers such as Juliet Sargeant and Richard Miers. He is the designer and developer of PLANT25, the planting design extension for SketchUp now used across the profession to create planting plans and schedules.

Non-UK students,  £120, book here for non-VAT/Sales tax