New Specialty Book: Modeling with SketchUp for Interior Design

The second book in the SketchUp Specialities Series is now officially released! (The first book is Modeling with SketchUp for 3D Printing.)

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Modeling with SketchUp for Interior Design

This book is an updated version of the book I wrote for Pearson Press back in 2011, when SketchUp 8 was current. This book is changed a bit and updated for SketchUp 2014. (If you're working with an earlier version of SketchUp, the projects in the book still work the same way; only a few icons have changed.)

If you're an instructor, the book works perfectly as a textbook. Each section contains a step-by-step project, followed by a "Model It Yourself" project that reinforces concepts, and can be used as class or home assignments. There are 40 of these projects. And each chapter comes with a set of review questions.

What's covered in this book? You can see the entire book's contents here, and here is a list of topics:

• Modeling an empty room
• Furnishing a room with 3D Warehouse models, correcting common model errors
• Modeling furniture from scratch (straight and curved pieces including tables, sofas, cabinets)
• Working with colors and materials (changing base colors, resizing, texture positioning)
• Working with digital images ("free pin" positioning, tracing, modeling based on a photo)
• Kitchen design (dynamic components, cabinet plans, counters and sinks)
• Model presentation (layers and scenes, presenting multiple design or material options, walk-throughs)
• Working drawings (labels, dimensions, plans)
• Additional resources (tutorials, models, rendering applications)

If you're an instructor and you're interested in viewing an evaluation PDF of this book, please email us to receive a copy. Be sure to let us know where and what you teach.

Here's the link again for this great new book. Enjoy!

 





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