Sketchup for Interior Design: 3D Visualizing, Designing, and Space Planning - Softcover

SketchUp for Interior Design

3D Visualizing, Designing, and Space Planning

The interior designer’s guide to harnessing the power of SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro

Already a popular tool for architects, SketchUp is now finding its way into the professional interior designer’s toolbox. This clear and practical guide shows both PC and Mac users how to use SketchUp’s tools to model interior spaces and furniture, apply manufacturer textiles and finishes, print underlays for hand rendering, and create presentations and animated walkthroughs for clients.

SketchUp for Interior Design offers step-by-step guidance for beginners, covering everything from understanding the interface to creating construction documents with LayOut. Explaining the many ways interior designers can use SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro, the book covers:

• Manipulating tools to model floor plans, multi-level interior spaces, and stairs
• Applying colors, textures, and photo-texturing
• Editing textures inside SketchUp with Photoshop
• Organizing models with layers and the Outliner
• Finding and editing components from the 3D Warehouse
• Installing plug-ins from the Extension Warehouse
• Manipulating dynamic components
• Creating a LayOut document

With step-by-step tutorials and practical tips SketchUp for Interior Design: 3D Visualizing, Designing, and Space Planning will teach you how to create models that are detailed, organized, easy to work with, and manageable in size for optimal computer performance.

The book includes access to online exercises, models, and 39 tutorials that expand on the book’s projects.

Lydia Sloan Cline is a professor at Johnson County Community College, where she teaches SketchUp, AutoCAD, manual drafting, and interpreting architectural drawings. She is also the author of Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers and Drafting and Visual Presentation for Interior Designers.