SketchUp 8 Lessons: Advanced House Building

I show you how to start building a house based on a blueprint, introduce you to layers, FoV (Field of View), show you how to recover deleted components, and how to construct interiors and furnish them as well.

[@AaronBishopDesign]

Would you guys like to see a longer video about this; building a cool house from scratch, furnishing and rendering screenshots?

[@Volamrt]

Aaron Bishop Yes, mainly furnishing and designing surfaces + rendering

[@hieui9937]

Aaron Bishop I got into SketchUp literally 10 mins ago.Would love to see that =)

[@eggsactlyrobin]

Aaron Bishop Hi Aaron - me too, I'd like to be apart of your audience. Please consider showing us how to add custom textures too.

[@mp-277]

+Aaron Bishop aw yes

[@BruhMakesGlass]

+Aaron Bishop I've been working on ketchup for a week and a half for my dads company in construction, you're awesome and if you could make that it would be greatly appreciated.

[@graffix21]

You're a great teacher, all the information is concise and to the point. We use Sketchup at my new job and this helped me a lot.

[@AsithMahatHD]

The first sketchup tutorial I ever watched. It was all I needed. The video randomly showed up in my recommendation so came to say Thank You Mr. Bishop.

[@AaronBishopDesign]

In addition to longer videos (which I'm working on), I'm also thinking about starting a Twitch channel for this sort of thing, while also answering some of your questions in the process. Thoughts?

[@djplayer142]

+Aaron Bishop please make a Twitch channel, I will be happy to view you in real time. By the way you are great at teaching and explaining how this software works, I actually started to work with SketchUp because of your tutorials and because I find it hard to learn a 3D software like Maya or 3D Studio Max... Please do more videos like these, random objects, glass, chairs, bridges, everything you can:) I would also like to see more rounded objects, round faces or cloth style of modelling :D Thanks

[@Mastersketchup]

Great video. I just wanted to add, you can double click with the Push/Pull tool and it will repeat the last push/pull distance you did. This prevents you from having to reference another point in your model every time. It's great for bringing up walls, or punching out doors/windows.

[@graukwood]

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[@ma.isabeltan3962]

He'sprobably know how to use it he's just not showing it to us

[@aicx40]

I'm a beginner, as usual self-taught like many others. This tutorial is very informative and to the point. Many thanks for sharing.

[@leonardosouza2767]

this was my first sketchup tutorial... now, after 9 years im here to remember how was simpler

[@AlqGo]

I love the pace of your tutorial!

[@dequavisharold6463]

lol

[@rlange3536]

Excellent - I have attempted to get started with SketchUp once before but failed to understand the concepts. Your first 3 tutorials gave me an excellent starting point. Thanks!!!

[@DatGuyCharlie]

Amazing tutorial. I am currently using sketchup and I feel pretty confident with it and this tutorial has definitely made me more confident.

[@joeybarbosa9812]

Aron just signed up to Sketch up. First time user, getting ready to do plans for my addition. Subscribed to your channel. Thank you!

[@arthercasillas2755]

When sketch first came out I was thinking it was overly simplified when compared for AutoCAD/Revit...But DAMN,for porting these sketches into unity..Its a BEAST.

[@lukemarshall9003]

Very well done with great tips for a beginner. the pace is perfect as to not waste time on repetition. Nice work!

[@marsco25177]

Your tutorials are the best I found after repeated looking at others.

[@angelortiz6687]

all these video tutorials yet this almost 20 min. vid taught me everything. I saw this randomly in my video suggestions.

[@1pun2ky3]

Aaron, this is an amazing video. I am a beginner with SU and I you show me greats things that this tool can do. I have to admit though that I have a lot of work to do but thanks this I can study it on my tempo. Thank you for your help and excellent work.

[@AaronBishopDesign]

Cheers Max, keep at it!

[@ssential]

Very cool. I have a mansion house plan idea, and never heard of sketchup until today. I have added this program to my project list of something new to learn! Great tutorial! You make it look easy, I'm sure it's much tougher

[@SuperPalamara]

s9991 Sketchup is actually as easy as he shows it. It is just a matter of getting used to the controls. It also depends of the subject you are trying to model. This video shows a simplistic subject. Bigger houses or more detail may get challenging just because you may chose a complex subject but the program itself is a sinch if you know and are used to the controls. Just play with it a while and continue to watch videos. I may not be Aaron but I, myself am a long-time user too.

[@zayedalsuwaidi7697]

Amazing. Very concise and a greatly shown demonstration. Keep up the good work, Aaron.

[@jeffharmed1616]

Thanks for sharing. Useful tips to budding house designers. I do house sketches using TreblD which uses the same technique. They save you time by providing most of the objects needed. Another useful thing I found is to use drag and drop. If you have your 2D sketch on your desktop it is much easier to simply drag and drop it into SketchUp than to use import.

[@BKKutterKnifeKills]

Really helpful video. Usually people just do stuff without elaborating what they did but you really did a great job!

[@howardgilmour8464]

This is a brilliant tutorial. You covered an awesome range of useful tools in a short time.

[@himbisadesignacademy5698]

i love your tutorials. Sincerely speaking, u have inspired me a lot to build my Channel. Thanks Aaron.

[@icyhotonmynuts]

This was the most helpful video video about how to build a house from a floor plan I've seen all day. Thanks. And thank you for not yammering on like a bunch of other videos. To the point. Love it.

[@modernoutside9717]

Hey Aaron, great video (as well as all your others)! You're a fast modeler. I've been an SU user since I stumbled onto it way back with Version 2 and am not at all surprised it's become the AutoCAD equivalent of 3D modelling (meaning: everybody knows about & uses it now). I often build similar models from scanned hardcopy plans, so I wanted to watch this to confirm if I've been doing things the logical way, and maybe learn a coupla new tricks (which I did!) Have never used layers since I never quite understood their purpose; thanks for explaining. One trick you may want to use if it's unfamiliar, is that with push/pull, when you're doing it to multiple objects equally, such as your porch columns, after you do the first one to exactly the distance you want, say 4'-2", the command 'remembers' that distance such that you can simply double-click each face thereafter & it'll push/pull each one to 4'-2" (till you change the distance in the dimension box at screen's lower-right) --- much quicker & less tedious than typing that same distance into the dimension box. Good for lots of things like those window components you created, if you're treating the glass as separate panes. With stairs, b/c each double-click repeats that remembered distance, extruding them is a breeze: pull out & type in value for your first riser; double-click once for second riser below it; double-click TWICE for 3rd riser; and so on.

[@swallowedinthesea11]

+modern outside Layers are quite important. Maybe not for a simple drawing like two boxes on top of each other, but if one were to include thickness and other embellishments within those two boxes, then designating layers would make viewing/working so much easier as they can be turned off when not needed. Good post about the double-clicking!

[@chunchunmaru.6969]

Thank you for your complete and comprehensive training. Very good!

[@imanzahari]

very well thought out tutorial aaron! from house plan, layers, field of view. really helpful!

[@Чтоктокак]

Best lesson about sketchup I have seen! Thank u a lot!

[@CarlClassenX]

Thanks for this video! Just did all this and used IrisVR to WALK around the model in VR with my HTC Vive. Less than 2 hours from start to finish.

[@VaShthestampede2]

Absolutely solid tutorial Aaron!

[@ianmedrano1727]

im just looking fr a simple design of houses and i found this tutorail so entertaining.nice work dude hope you can show me designs of house couz i want to have my own house one of these days

[@swallowedinthesea11]

Keep at it =]]

[@YasiruN1]

Great tutorial. Simple explanation. Please keep continuing advance so far.

[@aronoosterman2038]

so far you are the best in teaching this sort of stuff :)

[@kbrodeur]

this is a GREAT tutorial. Excellent work, Aaron.

[@scaleonkhan183]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. Was totally lost on the controls or anything, really helped me out!

[@sergio_grez]

This video was so beautiful and satisfying in so many ways! great content, I want to learn sketchup!

[@soyivancho674]

One of the best tutorial i found !! Thank you so much

[@DesignerhacksPage]

Hey Aaron! Thanks for showing how to recover deleted components, that's so helpful!

[@DanielZajic]

That was an awesome intro to SketchUp. I'm planning to design my own house, so these videos will be super helpful. Great job!

[@kumarsandeep3195]

Loved It! Thank You, Mr. Aaron, for sharing with us your experience.

[@howardgilmour8464]

"its really hard to see where they are..........so I'm just going to guess"! (This made me laugh). Aaron, I started learning today and you've got skills. Great tutorial. Enjoyed it.

[@Ididntfindfreenick]

Many thanks Aaron! Great video, showing how to work with sketchup!

[@SustainaBIT]

you can double click a face with push/pull tool to push it with the same value that you entered last time with the tool, so you don't have to pull it again to wherever you want it, just double click also you can use the Lock system, using Shift, when you draw a line, put your cursor on an existing edge, and then press and hold shift, and then move your cursor, and see what happens, it locks your mouse in the direction of that edge :) ... and finally, instead of drawing edges to draw the floorplan, use rectangles, it would make the work way more faster and easier as well, ;) ,,, hope these tips helps

[@SustainaBIT]

***** you can use it to lock ANY thing also ^_^ ,,, any reference line or point or even surface thing can be locked with shift key :D ,,, the whole ting is called locking system

[@Fabio-wz3yg]

Thank you so much, Ive been watching so many videos, you explanation is awesome, u r making things very simple and easy, please keep on the good work

[@NikolKleinova]

Very good and useful video!!! Lots of tricks seen in practise. Awesome! Thanks!!!

[@kirstylee1759]

Thank you, very easy to follow. Just started to use sketchup and this was extremely helpful

[@thecynicalafro160]

if only all teachers taught like this. What a wonderful world we would live in.

[@queenkitty7100]

we're big fans, keep up the good work. big ups

[@ricardomateran3549]

I was always fascinated by trap soft, been listening to trap long ti and i finally decided that i will try to make my own but i was so

[@SetAside78233]

Fantastic video for beginners! Great pace for the most part. Thank you so much for this!

[@keithdaily6781]

Thanks Aaron. I am just starting to look at SketchUp videos and really trying to soak up some of the information out there. Can you show how to go about the framing of the house and possibly the roof truss.

[@aliates316]

click on the magnet, and from there you can adjust how the tracks snap onto the grid. if you want it to be each 1/4 of a bar, click "line"

[@YuriiMChan]

I didn't even know about the camera controls. Thanks for the tip!

[@clinicaqorpomarketing505]

You do great work bro. Keep it up bro.❤❤

[@jacksani4426]

u are lightning fast!! keep it up!!

[@Guill0rtiz]

You can draw a line inside the image of the floor plant that extends from limit to limit (what should be 42 feet), of course, this line won't have the proper measures, but if you put it all inside a group and then edit it, you can use the tape measure tool to scale everything, so your entire image will be scaled 1:1, and simplify the tracing

[@Igor-ge1py]

Awesome tutorial! Keep up the good work

[@marioryanaljama9541]

I really love your free sketchup lessons! Hope I can see more from you! You're one awesome dude. Thumbs up and subscribed to you :)

[@esterlinalimos1029]

Great to watch the video Nice plan

[@muhammadbasheer6180]

Simple and Amazing work !!!

[@christinaperry4225]

Amazing vidoe, hands down!!! Thank you for sharing this.

[@hibaat3704]

you are a great instructor

[@arthub3288]

I have learnt many things from here. Thanks for the tutorial:)

[@Zraupp10]

I love and used Sketchup for over 5 years, but for making a House, home designer pro is $500 and is amazing.

[@rongill6515]

Very good work/ teaching

[@Danio88]

Tons of plugins, and yet You scale with line and scale tool? Simply use measure tape at any surface and write down desired lenght. Sketchup will automaticly rescale it to fit your adjustments. ✌

[@antmallett6065]

Superb tutorial, thank you.

[@jayXohXen]

Great video tutorial. Thank you! It was well done and easy to understand.

[@schm147]

At 18:30 , all you have to do is press the up arrow key on your keyboard after clicking on a bottom corner and then click anywhere on the floor.

[@leovanb4201]

great tutorials , thanx for posting them

[@sunkistjeruk]

Remember, you can use inference locking when using the move tool, by press and holding down the Shift key, to lock move operation to that axis or you can press and hold either the up arrow, left arrow, or right arrow keys, while moving to lock the move to a specific axis.

[@AaronBishopDesign]

Cheers!

[@TheAustinSparks]

i would like to see a longer video in detail. but i was wondering if you could help me figure out a particular floor plan that im working on. would be greatly appreciated :)

[@swallowedinthesea11]

+Dustin McGarrah Still on it? Maybe I can help.

[@robertaaime2121]

Superb Aaron, thank you, great video.

[@rolanclarino9160]

Awesome tutorial, i learned a lot

[@jointheresistence123]

I didn't know Jeff Goldblum teaches sketchup!

[@AaronBishopDesign]

jointheresistence123 Life ah, finds a way.

[@shuiji7387]

Would you kindly share what are the tools/plugins/extensions that you use? I'm new to sketchup and learned a lot with your technic.

[@maazawan7629]

Very helpful and insightful

[@Techmometer]

This is an awesome tutorial for beginners like me. Cheers! :)

[@emileogier]

Great video, great pace, thanks so much!

[@il779]

Hi, Aaron! Nice done! I'd like to see a longer video:) Which program helps to make such cute blueprints?

[@PeterKegels]

Great Aaron. Is there a link with your plans so we can work on it together with your video?

[@AaronBishopDesign]

Unfortunately I no longer have that image, but www.eplans.com has tons of free blueprints. Here's one I found that's very similiar: www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/designers/designer-1002/hwepl76837.html

[@tangwyip]

Skilled technique . Great!!

[@jamestomson1391]

thanks for doing this it helped me a lot for my school project

[@mazenchaaban6923]

Aaron Bishop how do you get so good at this program?? I am starting school for architecture in Sept and would love to learn this program however everytime I think I am getting somewhere I get stuck, any suggestions on how to get good at this, are there any books that can help or any type of school I can take please advise. Thanks for the vid please keep them coming !!!

[@discflight]

Dude 🙂 thank you so much! I just got heaps of tips from that 😃 + a few things it might have been good to know before I started this design... 😏

[@christurner3857]

Hi Aaron, can you direct me to a tutorial for creating the floor plans, as you call it a blueprint, as an architectural 2D image, as my starting point. I want to be able to draw accurate plans for the structural components, then add the layouts, then add the dimensions, then the fittings (kitchens, bathrooms etc.), then create from that a furnished (brochure style) plan. Basically all the different layers, you would need to produce a full set of construction and marketing plans. Following on from that I can then produce a 3D image following this tutorial presumably. I am an architect of almost 50 years standing, but have avoided this technology, being a bit of a technophobe, but trying to draw with pens and ink on tracing paper in the tropics is becoming rather wearing and impractical. Thanks, Chris.

[@verononparker7327]

nice video. Have you ever built a house from the floor plan using the plugin house builder where you are making actual walls out of 2x not a solid wall like yours.

[@LegionOfChaosGamer]

I do this a lot at work. what i do before starting is taking the blueprint drawing into paint.net and change the colors so black is not used. It would be nice if they let you change the color of the line. My old method was to do tracing using visio and exporting it as cad, importing it to sketchup.

[@TheMesoPeaks]

I have learned a lot. Thanks..

[@TheloniusJ]

Fantastic tutorial! Thanks!

[@omeliaemmons8630]

Nicely Done!

[@KSliauderis]

thank you very much for the tutorial! i'll come back to this video for further guidance.

[@robertpotter626]

Oh man, loved this video

[@geoffphil]

Brilliant. Well done.

[@happispaces]

Very simplistic. Thank you

[@sudhammikalaksiri1479]

very clear lesion, tks a lot

[@rogerpacific8824]

Thank you so much. You have been very helpful.

[@msvenkat]

Just fantastic.

[@shyamsubrahmanya]

Aaron, It's a nice video, very helpful. where can I get the exact blueprint which u have used in this video?

[@compatiblesystem]

great tutorial! really cool!

[@BismillahArif]

thanks Aron really we r learning from ur video

[@MonkeyMan26Mc]

thanks for this video. it helped me a lot. i just got sketchup 20 mins ago. you just got a sub from me :) thanks!!!