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Beginning in SketchUp

Online course

When Wed 8 Oct 2025, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Wed 15 Oct 2025, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Wed 22 Oct 2025, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Wed 7 Jan 2026, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Wed 14 Jan 2026, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Wed 28 Jan 2026, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Wed 4 Feb 2026, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Wed 11 Feb 2026, 6.00pm – 7.00pm

Duration 8 week course 1hrs / wk

Price £144

Location Online (live)

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Overview

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.

 

The course has run for this year, and we hope to run it again in 2027. Please email us on gem@gardenmasterclass.org if you are interested in joining the mailing list

 

 

The 8 sessions

Week 1: Introduction and setting up SketchUp
Week 2: Building basic 3D geometry
Week 3: Moving geometry, importing garden objects
Week 4: Setting up scenes and using shadows
Week 5: Adding details
Week 6: Adding functionality to SketchUp
Week 7: Layout: introduction to creating drawings from SketchUp models
Week 8: Questions and problem solving