SketchUp: Drawing Terrain and Landscapes

[@stefanandrejevic2570]

If you cannot find Sandbox tools in Prefrences.Go into View,then Toolbars,then turn on Sandbox.

[@ussamabinnaveed]

Life Saver!

[@nuhuh420]

thank you!

[@cronenex4207]

This Shit is not on my Toolbars

[@Nick-vv1ut]

👌

[@AGUSRAHMATHIDAYAT]

Thankyou

[@geekthisnet]

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you found it helpful.

[@axetone]

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!

[@RevenRVM]

Beautiful man, you're the only one who could help me, I watched videos and yours was the only saved me

[@krmullen1]

Clear and concise. I appreciate your effort here.

[@_bhimsainik_gaurav358]

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

[@punilrajsinh]

dude, you're a life saver!! thanx for making this video ... i'm so grateful!! kudos!

[@panrealitymedia]

Nice work. Good pace for your narrative and demonstration. Everything you did was clear and fully explained. Thanks for contributing this!

[@marcelkostwinder5201]

Wow i didn't think it would be that easy! Thank you for this great tutorial. :D

[@initiativeoccitanie165]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

[@insignamiadamaregesu8755]

Nice work. Great tutorial. I had learned this a while ago and forgot how to grab points on the map. Thanks for the refresher.

[@abubakarahmed7997]

Thank you. You really explain it nicely and slowly to make it understand .

[@ricardobortolin6332]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. God bless you .

[@bobchin6163]

Nice job man! Easy to understand and executable steps. Very nice! Very helpful for my techfair project!

[@ramoncarfrae5474]

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.

[@susanlsolarz8920]

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

[@geekthisnet]

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.

[@studioadrianiz5519]

Very Clear Instructions.Good job

[@darkan99el]

I've just been taught by snoopy, nice tut helped me a lot re terrains, keep it up snoopy.

[@MrJohn2475]

WOW, thank you for sharing, this has been very helpful.

[@dina237]

why can't all tutorials be this coherent. might have actually learned something at architecture school if someone explained programmes like this

[@rrayzzIII]

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

[@foyjullahfoyez]

Thank you so much for this!

[@rcon257]

Thanks dude. Keep spreading the knowledge.

[@COLORPAPERPRINCESS]

its what i call art!! awesome

[@hyperMcraft]

Perfect and straight to the point!! THX

[@salvatoresaccone6689]

It's just awesome

[@TJDrumsRHCP]

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.

[@jshanker2005]

Very nice ! Concise and to the point !! Thanks a lot.

[@geekthisnet]

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.

[@wiambenlarbi369]

make more of these i like these kids keep it up

[@michaelablanchfield]

Your voice is oddly relaxing lol

[@easysteezy58]

+Michaela Blanchfield it made me so fucking angry could hardly watch the video

[@vseady]

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[@sponspiere]

sounds like a southpark character.

[@karldaniel3208]

Thank you so much bro for this video! You solve my problem in doing landscaping.

[@finnandshivay5274]

Thank you so much! This gave me so many ideas for my videos!

[@arespinoza85]

Wow, thanks a million. Great video.

[@PIANOFREDERIKDENMARK]

This helped so much. You've earned a subscriber!

[@LanceCampeau]

Very good tutorial.... I thank you for taking the time to put it together.

[@subashlimbu8075]

thank you for the tutorial, a very good one, simple and easy.

[@jtsarchitectureinteriors7976]

Thank you for the video. This is very helpful ☺️

[@ThingEngineer]

Not exactly what I was looking for but glad I watched it, great vid!

[@Nat0ri0us]

awesome video dude. This is going to be so useful

[@CuzzaFuturism]

Thank you Sir 👍

[@SineEyed]

Simple, clear, and helpful - thank you.. 👍

[@PatrickWard4]

This was an excellent tutorial! Thank you.

[@hendryjk14]

thank you so much for the video.... helpful God Blesses

[@piglet1ification]

Well done geek boy great tute!

[@DesignerhacksPage]

Thanks, David! I'm no longer limited to drawing on flat land!

[@AGUSRAHMATHIDAYAT]

Thank you for the great tutorial

[@Calmandsilent]

Thank you for this tutorial! It was very clear and helpful!

[@sohailai.darwesh]

that was very helpful …. thank you

[@brant-bi8563]

Thank you!

[@gihandilantha3881]

Thanks man!

[@lsnaturecreations7665]

Thanks ❤️

[@Altazmuth]

Amazing, fabulous, thank you.

[@MikeF66]

Brilliant

[@geekthisnet]

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.

[@geekthisnet]

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.

[@timwalker2233]

Awesome - Great starter Tutorial

[@Galdring]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@darshans186]

thank you very much it worked

[@peterstecks7660]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[@angelcaban2387]

Nice, keep up the awsome work

[@zinatibrahim3444]

Beautiful!

[@notta3d]

Great video. Thanks.

[@AkshaySahu]

Thanks for the tutorial.It Really helped

[@farizaboranbayeva7746]

Thank you! Wonderful video!

[@phys1014]

Very helpful. Thanks

[@paulvelasco_]

gosh soooo ohelpful

[@abdelhak50]

Thank you so much man! really helped

[@sparxwil]

You weren't wrong about trying to adjust a lot of squares at once, just tried a 256x256 grid...

[@Mrsuffu-qi3zr]

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

[@pauloguardados8032]

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[@cassie_chimmy]

amazing! thanks for sharing!

[@Snoboi]

Thanks for the great advice :)

[@fadakfadak114]

Thank you so much ..from lraq

[@ShakemBeckford]

Thanks bro. This is easy.

[@_okaego_]

Thank youuuuu soooo much!!! this helped me a lot, as a beginner :D:D

[@21DAGUILAR]

Very helpful. Thank you. :)

[@dianazlochevska5597]

Very helpful Thanks!

[@dognamedpaul385]

Thanks now i know how to Make it

[@alyssonsillva9084]

True

[@Tyrant1717]

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?

[@geekthisnet]

+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.

[@Harro4870]

+Geek This do u need to have the water as water well i mean do u need it

[@Falkon-oe5ld]

+Pixel Pootis no, he just wanted to create a lake

[@prodbymvtias]

Nice

[@manugupta1091]

this is jussssssst what i needed! thanks saviour

[@rizadewinurul2465]

very clear.. i'm surprised :)

[@t.n.1953]

Can you make a note of what version of SketchUp you are using? Thanks

[@1whitemoon]

hey, thanks for the tutorial :) I'm very new to 3D art, and I have a question: can this program create non-square stuff? all the tutorials for SketchUp I found so far show people creating buildings, tables, chairs, etc. which are basically a bunch of squares put together. can SketchUp create, like, a 3D human body, using this terrain tool or some other tool?

[@geekthisnet]

I believe it can be done, but if you want to do face modeling or humans I suggest you use Blender. Blender is also free and is a very powerful 3D tool.

[@1whitemoon]

alright, I'll try Blender. thank you :)

[@izak4nafa]

Geek This love your school,nice am on a project i will get intouch with you when needed.

[@mightygamercasting8697]

+1whitemoon blenderbis way more complicate than sketchup though.

[@samehamer.]

great, thanks a lot

[@kirikurookie4509]

thank you ...it really helpful !

[@susanlsolarz8920]

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...

[@derrickpatrick6406]

how did you fix the radius problem?

[@drosha9314]

thankyou,. this was really helpful

[@vid1001]

Hey!! Thanks - that w really good! Best Vid

[@htetshineaung9028]

Thanks a lot!

[@Hard17Styler]

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???

[@alisabry1967]

Thank You so much...Thank you...thank you thank you :)

[@carloflo]

Thank You.

[@isriissrr7692]

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

[@joeljones4422]

Good skills. Thanks.

[@-solarstorm-4392]

Thank You

[@susanlsolarz8920]

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!