Hi! I just wanted to say 'Thank You!' for the quick and clear tutorial! I needed something to model a landscape VERY FAST, but I had no cad (or other modeling knowledge) and this was PERFECT!! Outstanding video! Again, many many Thanks!
Hi David I have watched many SketchUp videos and been confused and find them hard to follow. I really appreciate how you take your time and communicate what your are doing while keeping the cursor movements slow. I enjoyed this video and wanted to let you know that you helped me by posting this. I am using SketchUp professional 2017 and found that some of the settings are different from you but with a little exploration they are easily enough to find. Thank you.
Adam, My solution was simply to turn off hidden geometry. It turned out that they were gone but that you will always see grid lines when hidden geometry is on. You can also select any line that you want hidden & hit Command E (on mac), probably Ctrl E on PC, and it will disappear. Good luck. Susan
The "From Scratch" is a tool in the Sandbox Menu. It is the second icon, showing multiple boxes. Hovering over the icon, on the bottom left, you should see the tool tip telling you what the tool is. A issue some people have is the "Grid Spacing" is too large. Make sure you adjust it on the bottom right before creating your terrain. You have to draw your "From Scratch" line longer than the Grid Spacing, and you will probably want it to have a modulo of 0.
If you're having trouble finiding the sandbox tools, they won't appear on your screen. For me they popped up on the bar in the top, and I didn't notice it. I thought it didn't appear but it was already there. You might have the same thing. You can also move them clicking on the far left of that toolbar. And then resize it and put it on the toolbar on the left.
After closing out of SketchUp and re-opening it. Navigate to "View" > "Toolbars" > "Sandbox". The sandbox option is lower in the list. Also just make sure you have Sandbox Tools enabled under "Window" > "Preferences" > "Extensions". Hopefully that will help you out.
There is a folder on that URL for 3D Models. You can most likely download the GZip'd files and import them in SketchUp since SketchUp can support a lot of different 3D File Formats. Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any help since a lot of the URL's on the site are not working for me, so I can't test it out.
Nice tutorial brother i just want to ask you wNice tutorialch software is easy and best to learn as DAW soft soft or abelton live. Pls reply as soon as you can
thx a lot, I v some questions concerning the animation, how can I include the dynamical tools interaction with scene capturing ? when I use the interact tool on a dynamical component the scene does not hold the interaction is there a plugin that helps me, or there is some thing I don't know , thanks a lot again for sharing this with us
Make the terrain a component, and then you can work outside the terrain component without anything happening to it. You should do this to any item that you are finished with or need to duplicate.
Mine is not working. When I select the points I want to alter, then select smoove, it gives me a yellow ball at every grid point, not the areas I've selected. Any ideas??
Wow, I just spent an hour trying to do this in sketchup 14. Impossible. I can do all the steps but my result is nothing like yours. I am trying to create a "river" running through a mini golf course design. When I use smoove on a test "lake" I've selected within the grid, I just get very gradual gradients and it isn't affected by scale or density of points selected. Any ideas? I'm bummed because it looks like such an elegant way to create water bodies!
do you know what's the plugins that we can use for parametric design in sketchup?? Or use any tools available in Sketch up for parametric design. TKS Geek This
Can I do an oval garden? I have a cad drawing done by someone else that I need to redo on sketchup. I can only save as pdf. Is there a way to import it to make it easier update the landscape drawing blueprint?
I just don't understand the 'from scratch' part.... no matter what I do (even following you step by step) I cannot seem to get a visible drawable grid???
OMG! Just figured it out. It was a radius problem. Another question: after you've created the terrain you want, how do you get rid of all the gridlines? I tried the From Contours button but it didn't fill in all of the squares--only half or so. I also tried Smoothing Edges and that doesn't work either...
Help, when I smooth the surface there are lines on top of the mountians and i made my scale 1000',10000 because i needed a larger mountain biome any idea how to get rid of those lines. The lines only appear when i create an animation!
+Matthew T. Carpenter, Sr. It's been a really long time since I've used Sketchup, so I'm unsure of the best way to actually do this. One method is to create a texture file that fits to the terrain size you created and use that texture (positioning will be difficult). The other option is to split up the terrain into components and then paint the components using different textures. To do this, you will use the select tool and select a part of the terrain, right click and "Create Component" or something similar. Do this so at the end you have a few components created that make up the full terrain. Then you are able to paint each component with a different texture. The last option I have is create two (or more) different terrains and texture each one sand, dirt, grass, etc. Then stack the various terrains on top of each other and adjust them so the proper texture ends up appearing. This method is messy but would probably be fairly easy to do.
GeekThis, When I click smooth edges the normals get smoothed and no menu pops up to let me select coplanar edges to be smoothened and no slider bar to choose "Angle between normals" Please help!
Hey David, i have a question for you. i literally just downloaded the sketchup pro 2014, and im using to landscape a clients yard. it looks like you have alot more options in your tool bar than i do, adding grasses, foliage, and such, i do i aquire such tool bar options? im really just starting out with this thing today lol, any help or tips you have would be very greatly appreciated, thanks!!
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you found it helpful.
If you cannot find Sandbox tools in Prefrences.Go into View,then Toolbars,then turn on Sandbox.
Life Saver!
thank you!
This Shit is not on my Toolbars
👌
Thankyou
Hi! I just wanted to say 'Thank You!' for the quick and clear tutorial! I needed something to model a landscape VERY FAST, but I had no cad (or other modeling knowledge) and this was PERFECT!! Outstanding video! Again, many many Thanks!
Beautiful man, you're the only one who could help me, I watched videos and yours was the only saved me
Nice work. Good pace for your narrative and demonstration. Everything you did was clear and fully explained. Thanks for contributing this!
Wow i didn't think it would be that easy! Thank you for this great tutorial. :D
Clear and concise. I appreciate your effort here.
dude, you're a life saver!! thanx for making this video ... i'm so grateful!! kudos!
Nice work. Great tutorial. I had learned this a while ago and forgot how to grab points on the map. Thanks for the refresher.
I feel like it's no exaggeration to say you are a godsend. I've been making my own soft since i was 14ish and since then it's beco my
Hi David
I have watched many SketchUp videos and been confused and find them hard to follow. I really appreciate how you take your time and communicate what your are doing while keeping the cursor movements slow. I enjoyed this video and wanted to let you know that you helped me by posting this.
I am using SketchUp professional 2017 and found that some of the settings are different from you but with a little exploration they are easily enough to find.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. God bless you .
Thank you. You really explain it nicely and slowly to make it understand .
Adam,
My solution was simply to turn off hidden geometry. It turned out that they were gone but that you will always see grid lines when hidden geometry is on. You can also select any line that you want hidden & hit Command E (on mac), probably Ctrl E on PC, and it will disappear. Good luck.
Susan
Nice job man! Easy to understand and executable steps. Very nice!
Very helpful for my techfair project!
Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!
The "From Scratch" is a tool in the Sandbox Menu. It is the second icon, showing multiple boxes. Hovering over the icon, on the bottom left, you should see the tool tip telling you what the tool is. A issue some people have is the "Grid Spacing" is too large. Make sure you adjust it on the bottom right before creating your terrain. You have to draw your "From Scratch" line longer than the Grid Spacing, and you will probably want it to have a modulo of 0.
Very Clear Instructions.Good job
WOW, thank you for sharing, this has been very helpful.
I've just been taught by snoopy, nice tut helped me a lot re terrains, keep it up snoopy.
If you're having trouble finiding the sandbox tools, they won't appear on your screen. For me they popped up on the bar in the top, and I didn't notice it. I thought it didn't appear but it was already there. You might have the same thing. You can also move them clicking on the far left of that toolbar. And then resize it and put it on the toolbar on the left.
BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)
Thank you so much for this!
why can't all tutorials be this coherent. might have actually learned something at architecture school if someone explained programmes like this
make more of these i like these kids keep it up
It's just awesome
After closing out of SketchUp and re-opening it. Navigate to "View" > "Toolbars" > "Sandbox". The sandbox option is lower in the list. Also just make sure you have Sandbox Tools enabled under "Window" > "Preferences" > "Extensions". Hopefully that will help you out.
There is a folder on that URL for 3D Models. You can most likely download the GZip'd files and import them in SketchUp since SketchUp can support a lot of different 3D File Formats. Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any help since a lot of the URL's on the site are not working for me, so I can't test it out.
Thanks dude. Keep spreading the knowledge.
Thank you so much bro for this video! You solve my problem in doing landscaping.
Is there a way to color only part of the landscape?
Well done geek boy great tute!
Thank you so much! This gave me so many ideas for my videos!
Nice tutorial brother i just want to ask you wNice tutorialch software is easy and best to learn as DAW soft soft or abelton live. Pls reply as soon as you can
awesome video dude. This is going to be so useful
Thank you for the video. This is very helpful ☺️
This helped so much. You've earned a subscriber!
thank you for the tutorial, a very good one, simple and easy.
Perfect and straight to the point!! THX
Very good tutorial.... I thank you for taking the time to put it together.
Very nice ! Concise and to the point !! Thanks a lot.
Can you make a note of what version of SketchUp you are using? Thanks
its what i call art!! awesome
Your voice is oddly relaxing lol
+Michaela Blanchfield it made me so fucking angry could hardly watch the video
kkkkkk
sounds like a southpark character.
thx a lot, I v some questions concerning the animation, how can I include the dynamical tools interaction with scene capturing ? when I use the interact tool on a dynamical component the scene does not hold the interaction is there a plugin that helps me, or there is some thing I don't know , thanks a lot again for sharing this with us
Thanks, David! I'm no longer limited to drawing on flat land!
Not exactly what I was looking for but glad I watched it, great vid!
when i press soften an smooth edges it dose a little bit of it, but it dosen't come up with the gui that it did when you did it?
Wow, thanks a million. Great video.
When I go to get rid of the lines only the outside ones do, even though ive moved the bar thing all the way along, what can I do?
You weren't wrong about trying to adjust a lot of squares at once, just tried a 256x256 grid...
Make the terrain a component, and then you can work outside the terrain component without anything happening to it. You should do this to any item that you are finished with or need to duplicate.
Simple, clear, and helpful - thank you.. 👍
Thank you!
Thanks man!
Can you show me how to insert a house which is partly in the hill?
This was an excellent tutorial! Thank you.
help please my from scratch sandbox tool just does not work :(
Same here
Thank you Sir 👍
thank you so much for the video.... helpful
God Blesses
Thank you for this tutorial! It was very clear and helpful!
Mine is not working. When I select the points I want to alter, then select smoove, it gives me a yellow ball at every grid point, not the areas I've selected. Any ideas??
that was very helpful …. thank you
the sandbox tool is already checked yet no tool bar is appearing. . how to have this feature??please do reply. .
Wow, I just spent an hour trying to do this in sketchup 14. Impossible. I can do all the steps but my result is nothing like yours. I am trying to create a "river" running through a mini golf course design. When I use smoove on a test "lake" I've selected within the grid, I just get very gradual gradients and it isn't affected by scale or density of points selected.
Any ideas?
I'm bummed because it looks like such an elegant way to create water bodies!
Thank you for the great tutorial
do you know what's the plugins that we can use for parametric design in sketchup?? Or use any tools available in Sketch up for parametric design. TKS Geek This
Can I do an oval garden? I have a cad drawing done by someone else that I need to redo on sketchup. I can only save as pdf. Is there a way to import it to make it easier update the landscape drawing blueprint?
Nice, keep up the awsome work
galing talaga wooooooooooooo
Hi man. How do you autofill the grid? What command do you use to auto-make those lines to match up the bottom square ends? :)
thank you very much it worked
Awesome - Great starter Tutorial
Can i make contours in other shape other then rectangle or square. my site shape is in triangle-ish shape
I just don't understand the 'from scratch' part.... no matter what I do (even following you step by step) I cannot seem to get a visible drawable grid???
how come when i right click is doesn't have the explode option??
When I soften or smooth out my lines not all of them do the command
How to make square more small ?
OMG! Just figured it out. It was a radius problem.
Another question: after you've created the terrain you want, how do you get rid of all the gridlines? I tried the From Contours button but it didn't fill in all of the squares--only half or so. I also tried Smoothing Edges and that doesn't work either...
how did you fix the radius problem?
does anyone know how i can get the pirated version of soft soft
Amazing, fabulous, thank you.
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the tutorial.It Really helped
Great tutorial, thank you!
Thanks ❤️
and what if I want to add a shoreline?
Brilliant
Yo can anyone pls help out....I have got tNice tutorials weird problem in soft soft in the soft roll...I can’t see the notes that I am drawing or
How do I set the number of quads?
Man I have a 12gb ram and 1050TI laptop but it lags when I tried this. Any suggestions to speed things up???
Help, when I smooth the surface there are lines on top of the mountians and i made my scale 1000',10000 because i needed a larger mountain biome any idea how to get rid of those lines.
The lines only appear when i create an animation!
+Xxelite_IllusionistxX you dont have to make it so big. you can always adjust the size later
Great video. Exactly what I was looking for.
Question: How would you change the color of the ground under the water to a sand color?
+Matthew T. Carpenter, Sr. It's been a really long time since I've used Sketchup, so I'm unsure of the best way to actually do this. One method is to create a texture file that fits to the terrain size you created and use that texture (positioning will be difficult). The other option is to split up the terrain into components and then paint the components using different textures. To do this, you will use the select tool and select a part of the terrain, right click and "Create Component" or something similar. Do this so at the end you have a few components created that make up the full terrain. Then you are able to paint each component with a different texture. The last option I have is create two (or more) different terrains and texture each one sand, dirt, grass, etc. Then stack the various terrains on top of each other and adjust them so the proper texture ends up appearing. This method is messy but would probably be fairly easy to do.
+Geek This do u need to have the water as water well i mean do u need it
+Pixel Pootis
no, he just wanted to create a lake
Beautiful!
GeekThis, When I click smooth edges the normals get smoothed and no menu pops up to let me select coplanar edges to be smoothened and no slider bar to choose "Angle between normals" Please help!
Edit: I had the drop-down menu placed at the right of the screen and it popped up inside that. Problem solved!
Thank you so much man! really helped
Thank youuuuu soooo much!!! this helped me a lot, as a beginner :D:D
Hey David, i have a question for you. i literally just downloaded the sketchup pro 2014, and im using to landscape a clients yard. it looks like you have alot more options in your tool bar than i do, adding grasses, foliage, and such, i do i aquire such tool bar options? im really just starting out with this thing today lol, any help or tips you have would be very greatly appreciated, thanks!!
Never mind, i found the extended tool bar options, but if you still have tips or useful info i would still love all the help i can get! thanks.
i have a hard time trying to figure out how to build on the landscape. Every rectangle shape i draw seems to stick with the terrain ._.
Try using groups and components.
how to create contours from the google photo .. plz upload the video or provide the link
Does anyone know a way to do this in illustrator?