The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture: Modeling Buildings, Visualizing Design, and Creating Construction Documents with SketchUp Pro and LayOut

A flexible workflow for incorporating SketchUp into your design process, from early schematics to final documentation

Want to take your SketchUp skills to the next level? The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is packed with in-depth techniques and tips that will help you take full advantage of SketchUp and its related suite of tools. It presents a flexible workflow that makes common design tasks easier and lets you incorporate varying degrees of SketchUp use into your design process. Best practices for organizing models, drafting schematics, and developing designs in SketchUp will allow you to share drawings with consultants, move designs into other CAD programs, and utilize SketchUp Pro and LayOut’s BIM features for creating construction documents. A section devoted to LayOut guides you through this often-underused program included with SketchUp Pro.

This one-stop resource includes:

• An introduction to SketchUp basics followed by more advanced techniques for using SketchUp Pro in every design stage, from preliminary schematics to construction documentation
• A flexible workflow that can take you from start to finish, or just through the design development phases of a project
• Unique techniques developed by the author for using SketchUp Pro to make common design tasks easier
• In-depth explanations for using the entire LayOut tool set?information that’s hard to find anywhere else
• Online video tutorials that demonstrate some of the more advanced SketchUp techniques

SketchUp is the 3D-modeling tool of choice for architects, interior designers, and construction professionals. The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is the obvious choice for anyone who wants to make the most of this extremely useful software.

MICHAEL BRIGHTMAN is President and Lead Instructor of Bright Ideas Consultants, a SketchUp authorized training center, where he teaches architecture, construction, engineering, and design firms how to leverage SketchUp 3D models in their workflows. A frequent teacher and presenter on the topic, Mike also designs and creates dynamic 3D presentations and architectural drawings for a variety of clients and projects.