How to Model a House in SketchUp Free (10 EASY Steps)

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[@atpo1151]

Hi Alex. I'm from Greece and I'm learning sketchup now. I have a problem with Vray with materials. I right clicked and closed them and now I can't find them anywhere. You can help me;

[@evancemwakapala4367]

Hello alex I'm from Tanzania I'm learning sketchup can you help me the link of 3d bim objects?

[@nicklasbohlin4502]

Hello, is it possible to print with the background picture in it? I would like to have the background picture and the part that i have done in the same print.

[@CarlosRodriguez-rf8qx]

WOW! I almost feel like this program is easier to use than what I thought, Thank you! I'm not sure if to buy this program or Autocad. From my research they are very similar. What do you suggest?

[@manuelsomseb232]

Thanks you so much I really appreciate this video

[@drayerink]

Thank you so much for this video! I last tried to use SketchUp a few years ago and gave up in frustration. Now I have a lot more experience in general with digital software and I think I am going to get exactly what I need out of it. This video is exactly what I needed to understand the tool and make my decision. I appreciate you!

[@RooKieDesignz]

Honestly, this is some of the easiest-to-follow instructions I have ever encountered on KZbin. THANK YOU!!

[@fizmon3439]

Group early and often. This piece of advice has completely changed my life. lol. I have been testing SketchUp for awhile by just exploring the tools. I have looked at a few other videos along the way but your video by far helped me change the way I need to approach the software. Kudos for hitting the important points. Just an excellent teaching video all the way the way around. Succinct, clearly spoken and fun. Thank you for doing this video!

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[@paimcfly4800]

zero experience with Sketup, this video get me started in only few minutes, from sketch to 3D model.. amazing guide. 👍🏻 the kind of crash course intro we need.

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Glad to hear the video was helpful!

[@theophillusbaloyi5485]

I am a revit user and I've been trying to find beginner tutorials for sketchup, and I must say I've struck gold with this video. Absolutely incredible how you explained everything so clearly and even made it fun. Love it!

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Glad you liked it!

[@cupbowlspoonforkknif]

Excellent tutorial! Covers everything I need to get started in 30 minutes!

[@luiswerner30pg]

The structure of this tutorial is incredibly good! I wish everyone would do tutorials structured like this one about anything really. This is not only a SketchUp masterclass it's also a "how to make a tutorial" masterclass. I did learn all I need to know, thank you!

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You're very welcome - glad to know you liked the tutorial!

[@avani2955]

i love the little 'thank you from the future' sketch in EVERY video

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[@marika_keepcalm]

I am completely new to Sketchup and I was able to built the model follwoing your instructions. Very useful, please keep continuing making them. Much appreciated!

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Glad to hear you were able to follow along! Definitely take a look at more of our videos, and we will definitely add more in the future!

[@marika_keepcalm]

@@SketchUpSchool Thanks a lot, will do !

[@paynewhit]

Thank you! I must say that the speed and the detail level you gave in this tutorial were spot on! Very clean and clear. I will definitely be looking at your other videos! I really appreciate your time and effort to put this out for us - happy I found your channel!

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[@Chouby3]

Thank you very much, i am using Sketchup for the first time and I already know this is going to save me HOURS

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[@andreasommedal1785]

Dude, I learned alot as a beginner from this, and your "stupid-humor" is so funny and makes this a pleasure to watch!

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wow...He is such a nice teacher i have ever seen on youtube... i recommend everyone to follow him if you want to learn sketchup as fast and easy as possible.

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Thanks for the kind words!

[@peterlaidlaw8655]

Excellent... Just excellent and got me on my way .... Thank you for preparing this very well organized material

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[@christinaarandall5728]

I have found this tutorial to be the best one I have viewed to date. So easy to follow and makes total sense!

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Really happy to hear that you enjoyed this tutorial!

[@alexmozmtl]

Thank you, very useful. I learned about the "recopy" (forward slash) and how textures work. Also, that V-Ray rendering is impressive.

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You're welcome! Glad you learned a few things!

[@joetkeshub]

The best pedagogy around! Thank you so much! You save my day! I wasted hours using exotic online equivalent, a real pain in the arse with issues of alignment and angles settings. I don't want to name them. I'm glad that I eventually found the RIGHT tutorial for beginners. Thank you! I'm going to watch other tutos of yours as well.

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[@dodgercain6433]

You are an amazing teacher! thank you SO MUCH, you obviously have taught many neophytes how to do this and solved problems along the way, so you have predicted/prevented so many issues! Two things I had to look up elsewhere that you might want to cover (I viewed only your "Get Started with SketchUp" and this video) were: 1. To have the "group objects" option come up, you have to select objects by drawing a rectangle around all the objects, you can't select them by clicking on them; if you do, then right click, the "group objects" option does not appear. 2. to use the push-pull tool for an object in the direction you want to, you have to click on the FACE of the object you want to move. I wanted to move a wall in to make a room narrower and I kept clicking on the wall in floorplan view (so, unbeknownst to me selected the face of the wall thickness) and all the push-pull would do is make the wall taller or shorter. Thank you so much for making this so valuable in such a short amount of time!

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You're very welcome! Thanks for the kind words and for sharing your experience!

[@wtgwithjayles]

This is a gem! Almost feel bad that I'm getting these info for free. Thank you a bunch!

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You aren’t. Google is selling YOUR info/stats to the highest bidder.

[@fjaconete]

That's an amazing tutorial. Thanks a lot for the great content, very nice and easy to understand explanations and good follow through steps. You just managed to stinguish a lot of doubts I had about some features and way to do stuff. You also have a very nice didactic.

[@Adeadbraincell]

This guy teach better than my institute teachers......thank you so much this is really help full ❣

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[@mattatkinson5187]

Great video! I have been using SketchUp Free for a while now, mostly for woodworking projects, but I did learn some new skills. the most helpful tip is getting the angles for the roof.

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Great to hear!

[@seankrake4776]

4:16 something to mention here is that the bottom left corner gives a guide on what to do with the selected tool, and any options you many need to choose. Several of the tools give you multiple options, and it is a very helpful reference for remembering the hotkeys. an example would be when placing circles it gives the option for inscribed, circumscribed, and changing the number of segments. this can be helpful for drawing polygons without changing tools. 19:27 you can also use the arrow keys to lock the rotate tool, or any of the drawing tools to a specific axis. I find it really helpful with rotate, as the tool tends to jump around, and it means I don't have to change my view.

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[@antruman1]

thanks a lot, your explanation is easy to grasp, I am enjoying this one. Surely I'll have sometimes to watch all of your videos. cheers from Indonesia.

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[@doyouknowtheway647]

Thnakyou so much! it was really easy to learn sketchup thanks to you. the free models are an absolute life saver too. give your future self a highfive for me!

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[@varshajain-u6u]

Such an incredible way to explain. All doubts cleared so far.. Tones of thanks from INDIA.

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Finally found my sketchup school, thanks Sir! You are such a great teacher! Detailed and Concise...

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@@SketchUpSchool no way I wouldn't Sir, your tutorials are complete. You make sure we learn every detail with very clear explanations.

[@ianfisher390]

Wow. Really helpful. Clear, concise, incremental, easy to follow. Thank you.

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This channel is pure gold! Thank you! 🥰

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[@CharlPe]

Wow - great tutorial, thank you! You have a deft touch of delivering at the right pace and explaining just the perfect amount to make things very understandable. I was able to follow right along and make the model of the barn I needed IN THE FIRST TRY, without EVER having used SketchUp before! Absolutely NO WAY I could have done that w/o your tutorial here. Again, THANK YOU!

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[@stevenstewart617]

Really great. So easy to follow and you preface everything with a great overview of the tool you are demonstrating.

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[@JoshuaJournals]

As a daily Revit user, I tried using SketchUp back in 2010/11 and found it so frustrating I quit using it. Now 12 years later I thought I'd give it a second chance, and came across this video. You're a great teacher, so this is no reflection of your teaching ability, but I am so glad I don't use SketchUp and am definitely not going to give it that second chance now. Oh my goodness, this is so painful to watch someone have to go through 5-10 steps to do something that takes 1 step and 5 seconds in Revit. I get that they are two totally different programs and that Revit is literally for architecture while Sketchup is more of a jack-of-all-trades software similar to AutoCAD, but I will never understand why people subject themselves to the torture of using SketchUp for home design. Again, you really are a good teacher and I really did want to give SketchUp a second chance. But there is just no way now. I would abandon my career if I had to use this program.

[@raptormatt21]

It is pretty painful how many steps you have to go through if you've been used to a dedicated 3D Cad package.

[@smellypunks]

Learned more from this one video than from all the other videos I watched today put together.

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Wow - thanks for the kind words!

[@stevebarron1793]

Bravo! should have watched this long ago. Now going to go watch the before video and all the others . Nicely done.

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Really happy to hear this video helped!

[@architectlivesmart]

great video mate i enjoy watching you with your clear accent thanks for that

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This learning speed is quite easy to keep up with, and the tutorial is informative and very interesting! I really appreciate your work!

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Glad it was helpful!

[@robertdufour2456]

Starting with the overhead view is brilliant!

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Happy to hear that tip worked for you!

[@narlycharley]

Thank you SO MUCH for this. I'm helping renovate my in-laws' kitchen, and this is helping us out so much.

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[@lovablepersona5000]

This is so well done. So easy to follow. Thank you!

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[@alexivanov9652]

Don't get fooled, these are not tutorials but the videos Google used to create Sketchup :D Jokes aside, Alex's tutorials are brilliant and easy to follow as they make logical sense! A piece of advise to anyone who's never worked with a similar piece of software in the past and this is their first to actually try and stay one step behind the the video

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Great tutorial. Helped me understand some Sketchup basics. Thanks

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Thanks for your lessons, simply and easy for understanding!

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[@Guy-bh1iq]

Thank you soo much! This has really been helpful for projects I have in school

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[@tallgirlswagg]

This was so helpful. I'm new to SketchUp but I purchased the Ipad version. So i'll need to find something similar for that. But this covered the basics. Ty

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You're welcome! We'll be sure to add iPad specific topics to our list of possible future videos!

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[@BobbeeSingh]

11:00 Couldn't figure out why the door wouldnt punch in/out. Then realized that the wall needs to be selected thru double click till a dotted outline shows up. Worked like a charm after that.

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Glad you were able to figure it out!

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[@debbieferguson2359]

Thank you! This was a great in outlining the steps for modeling a house.

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The best tutorial! I can't thank you enough brother.

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Thank you. This is an excellent tutorial.

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[@BellaMaruma]

13:20 so far so good. simple and straightforward.

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Great tutorial. Many thanks.

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This is an amazing tutorial. Thank you. Very well organized and great depth.

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We did launch a similar school for learning Blender: www.youtube.com/@BlenderAcademydotcom

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[@johnbee209]

Thank you, just got sketch up this morning and i have a similar model built, no furniture but colors and a few windows. thanks a second time!!

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[@juliaroch5997]

I rarely comment on KZbin, but I have to say that I have never seen such a perfect tutorial. The speed was on point, everything was clear, clean and easy. Anything I started wondering about - you talked about it the next moment. And the fun accents were also great! Really loved everything about this tutorial, I learned more in these 30 minutes than on any other channels. Thank you!!

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Wow - thank you for the kind words! Really happy to hear you liked the video - and you're welcome!

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Good tutorial! Never gets old

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Thanks so much i was wondering how can i start my project, until i found this video, it's really clear, thanks a lot.

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MashaALLAH woooow thats so great tutorial have ever learned in easiest way. thanks👍

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Brilliant lecture. Thank you so much

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This is an incredibly informative video, Thanks!

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I can't believe this is free, thank you for providing these videos. Very well done and extremely helpful for beginners!

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this is the best teaching video i see in my life and it's so easy to learn from it thank you so much , ❤‍🔥

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[@larswaara7025]

Very good tutorial. I have been modeling with sketchUp since long time ago and I learned how to use mulitple copies in a new way and also bit better way of making tutorials.

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This was an excellent tutorial! Ive since upgraded to sketchup go and im finding it great! 💯💛😎

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The introduction was very helpful, thanks!

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[@robertdufour2456]

I love the humorous cuts scenes!

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Glad you liked those scenes!

[@davidhutchinson-adom4944]

Thanks a lot man. Explained the groups part perfectly. Needed that.

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0:25 This is me!!! Thank you for this HElp. God bless you sir.

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[@Janetogur]

hi from Turkey and you are the best sir

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Thanks! Glad you like the video!

[@davidbernier5154]

I've been using SketchUp since 2002 and still learned a few tricks in this video, so thank you! One question: I use SketchUp Pro, so the interface on this looks a bit different than my version, but is there a difference between Tags and Layers? They seem to function similarly and offer the same benefits.

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Layers and Tags are essentially the same thing. Layers was the name for that feature in older versions of SketchUp, then in more recent versions that feature was renamed "Tags".

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i love every bit of your lessons

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[@abbernales]

This is really a very informative tool to remember when doing My SketchUp Projects. Kudos to Sir Alex Oliver!

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The note and lesson was very very wonderful

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Great tips with nice smile 😊 thanks man

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[@jayhernandez6498]

basics it's encouraging to learn a little bit more! Well done!

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[@moviereelnews]

such a great tutorial. i need to learn 3d to help my concept art portfolio. learning how to make a how in sketch should really be beneficial to speed up lineart creation with proper perspective. life savior! what are some other good tutorials that i can use to make a vehicle?

[@pikifrino]

Congratulations! Excellent video! Thank you..

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[@xAshe10x]

I did everything correctly up to 17:25 in the video, but my copies don't get edited, Ive grouped and added components as well

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Please send this message to [e-mail] and an instructor can try to help.

[@xAshe10x]

@@SketchUpSchool Its okay I figured it out, I had to make the first copy then do slash amount haha thank you for the videos I appreciate it

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Thank you very much!

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[@RachelSeed-iw8fc]

Absolutely brilliant! I have learnt more in this session than I have on the umpteen courses I've previously been on! Thank you!

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Great tutorial!! Excellent teaching strategies!

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[@JORJWELDER]

Great class , thanks so much .

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[@rafaelalarcon8299]

You are awesome thank you sir for this presentation I want to build my own house and this is a big big help. Thank you.

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[@matemon]

Very good explained. Excellent!

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[@madelinegrudens]

You're an absolutely phenomenal teacher!!! I haven't come across this level of perfection until now! You demystified the whole process and now I'm going to bake a house!!!! Unbelievable 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 new subscriber 😍

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Thanks for sharing this!

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Love your teaching style dude it's awesome, exemplary, keep it up.

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amazing video, I mean the way you presented, my question do you guys do online curses ???thanks!!

[@kk1200ts]

To the point and very clear. Thanks.

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[@rocksteadyjew]

Really great video. Been using sketch up for years and I learned so much following your work flow. Thanks!

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[@matjazkranjc3511]

Very good tutorial. One of the best in software actually! Now I'm off to make my own house :D

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Good luck!

[@tobgyel9450]

Thanks a lot🙏🙏🙏

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[@abriz6688]

The hero’s face is dominating the video. Why not just show the whole beef.