Developing Your SketchUp Workflow
Online course
When Mon 1 Mar 2027, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Tue 9 Mar 2027, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Mon 15 Mar 2027, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Tue 23 Mar 2027, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Tue 30 Mar 2027, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Tue 6 Apr 2027, 6.00pm – 7.00pm
Duration 6 sessions, each one 1 hour
Price £144
Location Online (live)
Overview
Developing Your SketchUp Workflow — 6 weekly sessions, 1 hour each
Follows on from Getting Started and moves into professional practice. You’ll learn to bring real sites into SketchUp by both plotting a hand-drawn survey using triangulation and importing a CAD survey into SketchUp and preparing it for use. You’ll also learn how to take a scanned hand-drawn design, import it into SketchUp and then turn it into an accurate 3D model. We’ll cover modelling terrain from spot heights, working with textures and environment settings, looking at extensions and installing a few recommended ones, and producing professional planting plans and schedules with PLANT25. A third course on LayOut and presentation drawings will be coming later!
£144 – UK Students book here
Non-UK students, £120, book here for non-VAT/Sales tax
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.
What’s on
Sophie Guinness on Foliage-Driven Planting Design
Tuesday 24 November 2026, 6.00pm
Designing planting that always looks good (not just when its flowering)
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Weed control ? – a roundtable, with Sheila Das, Owen Hayman and Noel Kingsbury
Monday 30 November 2026, 6.00pm
Let's be honest! Who doesn't have a problem with weeds.
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Arjan Boekel – Spatial Relations in Planting
Wednesday 16 December 2026, 6.00pm
Learn about a key issue in planting from a leading designer
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Beginning in SketchUp
5 Jan 2027 – 23 Feb 2027 (6 sessions)
A foundation course for a popular design package SketchUp, it assumes no previous knowledge. It will establish professional workflows and give a firm grounding on the fundamentals.
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