TECH-320: Advanced SketchUp - Modeling Buildings (Video Recording)

This one-hour hands-on video webinar will create photo real building models in Google SketchUp and display the buildings in Google Earth. Topics will include importing locations from Google Earth, creating scaled building models, obtaining building imagery from Google Street View, editing the model dimensions, and exporting the results to Google Earth. This webinar will use historic buildings in Estes Park, Colorado, but the techniques are applicable to most places.

You will be able to work concurrently on SketchUp and Google Earth throughout the session. The instructor will demonstrate each step twice – once while you watch the webinar, and a second time while you optionally perform the task yourself.

This is the third part of a series of webinars on Google SketchUp. Learn more about the first part, TECH-120: Introduction to SketchUp for Planners, and the second part, TECH-220: Density Conceptualization with SketchUp.

Video Introduction

Watch this brief video introduction to the webinar session to see what kind of photo-realistic 3D models you'll learn how to make.

• Webinar Outline
• About the Instructor
• Prerequisites
• Additional Notes
• Video Recording
• Purchasing Information

Webinar Outline

1. Import a location from Google Earth
2. Reorient the axis
3. Draw simple building cubes
4. Grab the building image from Street View
5. Edit the building
6. Export to Google Earth

• The webinar will be conducted using GoToWebinar.
• You will need Internet access, a web browser, and access to a telephone to call into the audio portion of the webinar.
• The registration details will be emailed to you 24 hours prior to the webinar start date and time.
• Please login to the webinar 10 minutes prior to the planned start time to ensure that you are able to access GoToWebinar and download the required plugins. (You can attend GoToWebinars using both MacOS and Windows.)

About the Instructor

Charles A. Donley, AICP is an urban planner who specializes in applying technology to planning issues. Chuck is president of Donley & Associates, where he has worked on projects nationally and internationally. Chuck brings 25 years of experience in public and private sector planning, working on current and long range processes. As Technical Director for CommunityViz, he guided training, professional services, technical support, and software development.

Prerequisites

In order to gain the most from this webinar, you must meet the following pre-requisites, and perform the following activities at least one day prior to the webinar.

• SketchUp 7.1 must be installed on your computer. Download and install SketchUp from http://www.google.com/sketchup/downloads/
• The free new user videos offer basic orientation to the software (Help>Video Tutorials>New to Google SketchUp - 25 minutes).
• Google Earth must be installed on your computer. In the demonstration, we will be using the current version 5. If you prefer to use an earlier version, you can, but you will be responsible for knowing your own controls. You can download the application from http://earth.google.com.
• You should be comfortable navigating in Google Earth.
• Ensure that the computer you are using to participate in the webinar has Internet access.
• Ensure that the computer you are using meets or exceeds the following recommended system requirements for running Google Earth:

Windows
Recommended:
- Operating System: Windows XP or Windows Vista
- CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz+ or AMD 2400xp+
- System Memory (RAM): 512MB
- Hard Disk: 2GB free space
- Network Speed: 768 Kbits/sec
- Graphics Card: 3D-capable with 32MB of VRAM
- Screen: 1280x1024, "32-bit True Color"
Source: http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=20701

Mac OS
Recommended:
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.2
- CPU: G4 1.2Ghz
- System Memory (RAM): 512MB
- Hard Disk: 2GB free space
- Network Speed: 768 Kbits/sec
- Graphics Card: 3D-capable with 32MB of VRAM
- Screen: 1280x1024, "Millions of Colors"
Source: http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=32347

Additional Notes

• This course assumes that you are comfortable using a computer and web browser. If you don’t feel confident using a computer, this course is not for you.
• The course will be conducted in a hands-on format where you will first watch the instructor perform a task in the webinar, then switch to SketchUp and perform the same task. You should be comfortable navigating in SketchUp and the advance material will offer guidance on learning this skill. If you have difficulty performing a task on your own, the instructor will be unable to assist you personally. Instead, simply watch the instructor perform the task a second time.
• Toward this end, we will provide access to a video of the webinar for 30 days.
• Cancellations must be made three days prior to the webinar. Cancellations made within 72 hours of the webinar start time will forfeit the course registration fee.
• If you require a certificate of completion, we will (a) evaluate performance based on your participation in the full webinar (as audited by GoToWebinar); and, (b) your satisfactory completion of the course activities, as demonstrated by a screen shot from Google Earth upon conclusion of the hands-on activities. Please request your certificate of completion following the webinar by sending an email to editor@planetizen.com. Include the telephone number from which you accessed the course, and a screen shot of the completed siteplan from Google Earth.

Purchasing Information

Video Course - $34.95

This option includes access for 30 days to the video recording of this session.

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