Work Smarter - Interior Design in SketchUp Live

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Join Eric in a commercial interior design journey turning a 2D plan into a complete design concept with SketchUp, 3D Warehouse, and YOU! Tune in!
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0:00 Starting soon
1:56 Intro
11:20 Tracing reference plan
29:25 Walls
44:44 Furnishings
1:34:07 Outliner & light
1:54:13 Scenes & Alts

[@gregschoolland5551]

As a fairly amateur user, General Contractor who uses SketchUp to model houses and interior renovations, I’m amazed by your knowledge and approaches. Super eye opening to me! Thanks so much for making this available.

[@DaraHijazi]

Thank you, very helpful !!!

[@peenpa]

i love the way you keep everything organized

[@ericsargeant3254]

Thanks @peter....Bucky Fuller once said 'A problem well defined is a problem half solved'...that's how I feel about setting up/organizing my models!

[@arayahomes4308]

Eric, if you used a simple two button space mouse and paired that with an mmo mouse, you'd have access to almost 100 shortcuts without having to touch the keyboard. You would navigate the model and do things much faster then you currently do with your current right click of mouse wheel to orbit the model, if you used a setup like that. It's also much more smooth and rhythmic to model this way, then to jitter about using the orbit tool to orbit the model, much harder to get into a flow state then being able to orbit and pullout tools at teh exact same time. Not to mention the amount of times you are going up on the screen and selecting tools in far corners of the screens or via menus, you could use the fredo lott plugin to access all plugins quickly from the center of your screen (which would be the closest point to your mouse most of the time when modelling). For the colour by axis, etc, the colour by axis style can be used as a shortcut via downloading the fredo mr hide plugin, as well as black and white, as well as hidden edges shortcut, etc, you could access all of this right from an mmo mouse as well as up to 100 more shortcuts when you combo the 3d spacemouse buttons (two buttons no need for the spacemouse pro) with the mmo mouse. Using a combination of the mmo mouse and spacemouse will allow you to model much faster then you currently do and I say that from experience. All of the little things add up to a lot of time lost in the long run.

[@AussieInSeattle]

my space mouse arrives in 2 days. how do I get the 100 shortcuts from just 2 buttons? can you explain in a little more detail? I have a mx master 2s mouse which has clickable scroll, 2 side buttons and a thumb wheel.

[@ericsargeant3254]

Yes will get there some day. Many items on the 'to do' or 'to learn' list currently.

[@arayahomes4308]

@@AussieInSeattle The most ideal setup is to use an mmo mouse with roughly 12 buttons, like a $40 amazing mouse. Use that in combination with the spacemouse wireless which has 2 buttons. You assign spacemouse wireless to be alt, then one key to be control, then a mouse button at the top I ususally assign to shift, etc, you can combo the buttons to unlock another 12 shortcuts on your mmo mouse. The spacemouse wireless is best because you're fingers don't go far away from the spacemouse to press the buttons, unlike if you buy the spacemouse pro with the multi buttons everywhere, it's much harder to orbit the model and press space mouse pro butons at the same time on that huge pad because they are so far away from your fingers. Cheers

[@PaulineFerguson]

Is this the same place that was used for the alternate options video? (Which was a great video, and I learned a lot) It looks very similar. Ahhhh. As I get further along, apparently it is the same model. It was really handy watching you model that light... deceptively simple design, and you've made it even easier. Thanks.

[@AussieInSeattle]

link to the alternate options video? I did a quick search and couldn't find it

[@ericsargeant3254]

Thanks! This model came from my course in Commercial Interiors on SketchUp Campus...so yes, I show that technique there as well.