TEN MISTAKES BEGINNERS MAKE IN SKETCHUP and How to Avoid Them!

[@redhotgalego]

Select left to right vs right to left was a real eye opener!

[@MaDeL14]

I just started exploring this SketchUp thing... without any background of 3d designing and other drawing tools. your tutorial really helps... appreciate your time for doing this! Thanks!

[@riodiaz7241]

Thx, I'm starting off with valuable time-saving tips.

[@stevensrmiller]

Another good one. Your videos consistently find the right balance of detail and efficiency. Never excessive nor incomplete. And you devote the right amount of time to each one. Great for a "working" coffee break or (as now) on a Saturday morning when the part of my household that doesn't get up before 10:00am is still asleep. Been using SketchUp for a few months, and still didn't know about saving views. Worth a few minutes to get that tip!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - really glad you found the tips helpful!

[@momphard]

Two weeks into Sketchup, this is exactly what I needed to see, when I needed to see it.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome! :)

[@gouravdey2856]

you are such a good teacher indeed (y)

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much!

[@mrrv6apilot]

rare to find tutorial that doesnt drag on. clean, precise, excellent examples. perfect speech [no "ahhs"] score - 10+

[@edbouhl3100]

Just saved me hours of frustration! Thank you,

[@bullet_tooth_tony]

Thanks man, really great tips! Oh, the arrow keys, amazing!

[@falconlara]

Number 4 seems like the one I probably still do although I don't consider it a waste because there's always that thing especially in architectural representation where clients will ask for a virtual model or VR views or additional renders then the objects you put in your model become necessary. Good video!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - if there's a use for them, it's not a waste or a mistake! :) - Thanks Oscar!

[@davidschoenberg5222]

Once again, you're swingin' for the fences man, and knocking it outta the park... thanks!

[@johnmoe2806]

I come back to Sketchup every now and then. Every time the same mistakes is made. Sticky geometry, forget to group and/or make component. Misaligning objects. Usually I get quite far with my model and then I start over doing it right the second time. I do love Sketchup because it is easy to use but you get punished hard for doing stupid mistakes. Love you videos. This one was right on the money.

[@venusonmars]

Who would go out of their way to dislike this video?? LOL! Bless your eternal patience, man.

[@manokito04]

The selection tool. I never knew it has two different functions 😂 thanks a lot!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@melvinweeks9172]

I think that might have originated in AutoCAD back in the early 90s. It is extremely helpful in busy workspaces.

[@nb..badhon..4309]

thank you it actually works you're a king

[@stellahahnert2256]

THANK YOU! I've been trying to move a roof, and it just ended up sticking to the wall and all, now I know why! I need to group the geometry, THANK YOU!!!!

[@georgevankirk5595]

Very helpful, Justin! You are my #1 go to for Sketchup learning, troubleshooting, and problem solving.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome! Glad I've been able to help!

[@droneclass]

Start to get serious learn on Sketchup for my upper-grade students! and you are my man! Thanks so much for your videos. God bless you

[@mohamedashiq4831]

Very useful/practical-oriented video!! Thanks a ton Justin...

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@trihanmarsudi]

Very good and usefull tutorial for me as beginner in sketchup. Thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad you liked it!

[@jimboelterdotcomm9153]

I am seriously tempted to invest in the actual course. After 3 weeks of experimentation, I still didn't know (or had forgotten) quite a bit of these tips. Nicely presented.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it :)

[@pedrorobles6824]

Just you putting the mistakes on the description makes me love you more.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

LOL - I'm not here to hold out on you 😜👊

[@ltwoodproducts3265]

Quick helpful tips like these lets me know what I didn't know I needed to know.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - that's the goal! :)

[@nitrosense8827]

this is very life changing. thank you so much, you are very much appreciated!

[@izzatyameera3423]

This is very helpful for beginners like me.

[@ideaguyinks]

The last tip was something I always struggle with. Thanks.

[@Machinify]

I'm a carpenter for Cabeen Originals. We make do all things Custom for commercial buildings, mainly wood products. Been watching for awhile, and really love it. I've just registered to support your patreon, thanks a bunch, keep it up.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much - I really appreciate it and am glad you're finding the videos helpful!

[@timothyshearer4964]

Eyy Justin, you kind of saved my life during 2020, not to be overly dramatic, but seriously, man: THANKS ! I appreciate your "simplified" explanation of this SoftWare is quite inspiring. THANKS for that!

[@PATHAK1982]

Sir this is really helpful videos! Thank you🙏

[@vladkagreen1824]

Love it! Simple and fast. And I didn't use Sketchup for last 13 years!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@simpledesign5305]

Thanks for this tutorial

[@skipwaelty3974]

Very helpful. Thanks

[@michaelwebb8788]

Great video. Thank you. I am new to Sketchup and found myself making several of these mistakes.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad the video helped!

[@saklvichhea]

THE BEST TIP AND TRICK !

[@jaimereyes7480]

Huge thanks for these videos. I'm just using sketch up for fun but I've learned a lot from just 4 of your videos

[@ajsiemers]

These are the proper Sketchup essentials! Great video!

[@angelesboronat7953]

Thank you really good.

[@viJILLante3636]

OMG mistake number 9! I did not know this. You have saved me so much time and confusion!

[@djonesx]

That selecting from left-right, or right-left just broke my brain! Well played sir!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad it helped!

[@DragonSlayer.Unicorn]

Excellent!

[@mrchedda]

Very good info! I literally just started a day ago and I was victim to all these! Thanks to you, I am no longer!! Keep up the good work!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@binaryLV]

Lots of videos mention groups for organizing stuff - great way to make an object that doesn't stick to surrounding geometry, can be moved around, copied etc without polluting model's "Components" storage. But this was actually the first time I saw outliner (although it wasn't even mentioned, if I'm not mistaken). I wish I knew about it earlier, because now I have a model with couple of hundreads of "flat groups", and many of them are called just "Group" :) Didn't know about left/right selection difference, too. Thanks!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad I could help!

[@melvinweeks9172]

Great video but I hated watching it because you point out hours of frustration i put myself through. Thanks for taking the time. I am grateful

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - I had YEARS of doing all this stuff myself ;p

[@fredrenee6185]

I was going to "S-can" this whole app. Then I ran into your Video. Your explanations, directions, and tips are spot on for someone that thought to give it a look see. Thank you for taking the time to point out important Key Strokes and aspects that even Louis and Clark (Frodo Baggins, for you younger folks) would not have found.

[@madhukawijesingheinteriors]

You always do very useful videos

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much!

[@19560618]

Just want to thank you man; Great instruction, as usual, I don;t like your instructions, I do Love them, really appreciate

[@russellschundler6559]

Great video ... after doing several models, it was time to view this video which addressed most of the productivity issues I originally missed.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped! :)

[@jaysam41]

very knowledgeable and well explained. thanks

[@tamunghauzel17]

JUSTIN you're really great man. I learnt alot for your videos.

[@stevegrey5396]

Justin, thank you for this tutorial. Out of the ten things you covered, I learned that I've been doing 2,3,5,9 & 10 wrong and driving myself NUTS!!! You have saved me hours of frustration. Thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome! Glad it helped Steve!

[@WIKA.GAMING]

thank you so much, it works fine with me !

[@Range_Development_Services]

Very helpful! !

[@JeffCrowell11]

Thank you Justin. This was helpful.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@simoncastao]

Really helpfull! Thank you very much!

[@adrianjones5492]

So useful for me self learning. Keep it up!

[@FranCarreira]

When you import models from the warehouse or any where else, there is something I often forget, to remove the tags they come with so they do te mess with those in my model if you have it organized. (Tags are very useful, as groups and components naming are, to have your model well organized and easy to work with as it grows big)

[@yasir358]

Gr8 this not only for beginners its helps people in all levels 👍👍👍👍👍

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@zerodarkthirty8223]

hahaha...guilty as charge. Appreciate the heads up and info. Truly it helps!

[@mycats7321]

I'm coming back to say that I have now gained enough skills to make cabinets better using the offset tool. Before I manually drew each line & did not hit an arrow to lock it and I did approximate measurements instead of typing in specific ones. Now I will make the largest size rectangle & use offset to reduce for outlines of where doors start. Put a line down the middle. Offset again for individual door frames, etc. I was able to complete in just a few minutes something that took me hours before- and I have much more accurate ones that I saved as a group.

[@adrianjones5492]

Doing a garden design course and learning SketchUp from you. Have you done a video on how to create a basic garden and where to find the best plants from 3D warehouse? Loving your tutorials!

[@ChinhNguyen-yb3cp]

Enxtremly helpfull. I am enjoying every lessons.

[@keshavsingh1672]

Really helpful tips! I learnt it hard way to use the grouping tool so as to save time and effort!!! Thanks a lot!

[@harshitkhandelwal7767]

good video keep it up bro!!!! please make a video on how to model a sunken open air theatre.

[@virgisnaujokas8500]

For People on MacOS looking for the preference feature. It's under the SketchUp button (Next to the Apple Button) and in the drop menu.

[@carljunker1123]

I learned how to use sketchup on my own, sure wished that I had seen these videos before designing 80 cabinets for our new home. Would of saved me days of work designing instead of being in the shop constructing cabinets. You do a great job explaining how to use program.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much - really glad you found it helpful :)

[@elainelangeles4099]

Hi am very new here and thank you so much for this tips, I really love it.. this will be noted because I am planning and learning more about sketch up.. and this is very useful for making a start up..

[@YOUTUBSTERR1]

Great video! really helpful, it will saves so much time in future

[@Thesketchupessentials]

👍

[@passerirc]

Thank you so much!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@OlavSchneider]

Hi there, I like your videos, they are a great source of knowledge for beginners and also for advanced users. So thanks for going to the trouble of making all of these videos. I also just want to throw in, that I do not like the scale tool for flipping objects, because it has shown over and over again that many users try to do a quick one and make scaling mistakes as a result. I do prefer, in order to make sure all stays accurate, to use the context command flip along red, green, or blue axis.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much Olav - I think this one comes down to workflow preference - for me I have trouble picking the correct axis to flip along on the first try, so I use the scale tool. That said, if users have trouble scaling to the right value, they should probably use the flip along command instead. Thanks!

[@antoineharb4271]

great tips and a huge help. Thank you justin

[@cassidykenneth316]

excellent .. well done

[@JosephKim]

Very nice tips to the beginners! I also had few points too. +1 for dragging mistake.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Yeah...I did too, actually :-p

[@diremaroliveira7042]

video super bien explicado muchas gracias bro...

[@petrusheigers7538]

Very Good

[@relacc1912]

Thanks a lot, very helpful video!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@johngalonska5753]

Thanks for the vid. I am a newbie with SketchUp and love learning a new system. I love good info tutorials and would ask for any recommended ones that are current. I have tried several older one but they truly are way out of date, and much newer one are concentrated on getting clicks and subscriptions. This one sides solid. Thanks for the pointers.

[@martaf2173]

thanks bro worked 100%

[@kevinstaymates8958]

Can you make a video on how to create a wall cap that can sit on a wall or block for hardscaping projects? And also how to curve/bend that cap?

[@haseebali197]

thank you very much brother this video resolve my modeling problem special the trick that you told about axis

[@Thesketchupessentials]

👍😎

[@chouderr1089]

Yeah! 8/10! The only ones I didn't know were the veiw save and layer system!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@spacecreative386]

You start archicad.. You teach a lot with easy .. i am form bangladesh

[@ChristopherCobra]

#2 - I just learned yesterday after using SU for 5 years! Where was I when the video came out! #5 only sounds like a good idea - trust me - the moment you make it you will want to fix only one corner. Every time I get smart - I find out I wasn't.

[@keithteschner6225]

That was very informative. Many thanks from Berlin Germany.

[@PriyanshuBharadwa]

Love you Justin! ☺☺☺♥♥♥♥

[@Deontjie]

So I (again) learn t something new today. Thanx.

[@tonytonychopper9048]

10/10 😅 I'm trying to use sketch for a project now but I'm a beginner. I can't seem to put an opening on an exterior wall for my doors and windows. I'm not sure if the problem is that the wall and the windows/doors are not in the same plane. I'm usually seeing a magenta-colored axis, not RGB

[@nazmulhassan1838]

2nd number was really great thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it! :)

[@kylielorimer9915]

OMG you really make everything so easy! I have recommended you to my friend who is also studying interior design, and we love your work. Thank you sooooo much!

[@mdfarhajahmed]

Amazing

[@kennyardoin8885]

i use your videos more than any other. my probem is that my default tray is covering the whole workspace. can you tell me how to restore it to the side of screen. Thank you

[@penton6015]

Thank a lot!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Welcome!

[@snew61]

Thanks for some great time saving tips!

[@doronoogjen9384]

You're video's are mighty helpfull and nice to watch. Many thanks.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks - glad you're liking them!

[@Rage-of-War]

Your vids are the best!!!!!!!!

[@yourlifeshouldbefun]

thanks! you answered a lot of my questions

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Great! Glad you found it helpful!

[@dhruvalsuthar8754]

such a good video i have learned many new tricks from it thank you !!!!!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad it helped!

[@anteandrovic]

a video showing essential conceputal differences with popular cad and graphics wares would be great. also the exporting options... which are what makes this program very useful and complimentary with others..

[@brenroseartsoul6713]

Thanks, I just subscribed ❤️

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Welcome!

[@ChrisCiber]

You would think after years and years of development they would have squashed the sort of bugs that crash everything.

[@talishainia4902]

Dude your Awesome...I have learned alot for the past 2 years