Google sketchUp for site design : a guide for modeling site plans, terrain and architecture / Daniel Tal

Part I Introduction to SketchUp-- Chapter 1 How to Use this Book-- Who Can Use This Book-- What the Book Covers-- Learning Tutorials-- Free Downloadable Tutorial Models-- Download Pre-Made Components-- The Four Parts-- Chapter 2 SketchUp Basics-- Geometry-- Basic SketchUp tools-- Chapter 3 Components and groups-- Component Instance-- Components within Components-- Components and Layers-- Pre-made Components-- Additional Information-- Chapter 4 Problem Solving-- Problem Solving SketchUp-- Chapter 5 Ruby Scripts-- Downloading Ruby Scripts-- Part II SketchUp Process Modeling-- Chapter 6 Introduction to SketchUp Process Modeling-- The Built Environment-- 2D = 3D-- Drafting the Flatwork Base-- Applying Material and Color-- Model Organization-- Adding Volumes-- Adding objects to the Flatwork Base-- Review the Completed Model-- Modeling from Imagination-- Chapter 7 Detailed Site Plan Modeling-- Download Tutorial Model-- What are Site Plans? Tutorial-- Preparing the drafting "Trace"-- Trouble Shooting the Subdividing of Face-- Review the Completed Base-- Preparing to Add Color-- Adding Detail to Volumes-- The Completed Flatwork Base-- Chapter 8 Custom Components - Site Furnishings-- Modeling Process-- How Components (and Groups) Work-- Follow Me-- Model Organization-- Exercises-- Chapter 9 Custom Components - Architecture-- Sculpting the Building-- Building Mass-- Making Window and Door Components-- Tutorials-- Setting the work space-- Chapter 10 The Completed Model: Arrangement and Presentation-- Arrangement Methods-- Order and Adjustments-- Creating and Exporting Scenes-- Chapter 11 Architectural Tutorial-- Case Study: Jefferson County Courthouse Building-- SketchUp Process Modeling-- Working with Arcs and Circles-- Hidden Geometry-- Components and Faceted Surfaces-- Components and Adjusting Massing-- Courthouse Tutorial-- Part III- Sandbox Tools-- Chapter 12 Introduction to the Sandbox Tools-- Playing in the Sandbox-- Ruby Scripts and Sandbox tools-- Additional tools and concepts-- Summation-- Chapter 13 Conceptual 3D Grading-- Conceptual Grading-- SketchUp Process Modeling and Conceptual Grading-- Tutorials-- Chapter 14 Complex Canopies-- 2D Plan to 3D Form-- SIMPLE CANOPY TUTORIAL-- COMPLEX CANOPY TUTORIAL-- Chapter 15 Sandbox Architecture-- Drape Tool-- SANDBOX BUILDING TUTORIAL-- Part IV AutoCAD to SketchUp-- Chapter 16 Overview of AutoCAD to SketchUp-- General Overview-- Chapter 17 Organizing AutoCAD-- AutoCAD tutorial file-- The Nature of AutoCAD Re-organization-- Importing the Flatwork File-- Chapter 18 Modeling the AutoCAD Flatwork Base-- The Problem with AutoCAD Lines-- Methods for Healing the AutoCAD Flatwork Base-- Method #1 - Healing with the Line Tool-- Method #2 - AutoCAD Clean Up Ruby Scripts-- Next Steps-- Chapter 19 Arranging the Model-- Replace the Components-- Final Touches.

This guide details the capabilities of Google SketchUp and describes techniques that best incorporate it into a landscape architecture-and-design firm. Users will learn how to use the software within project scopes, fees and services and how to integrate it into each design phase: schematic, design, design development and construction