Google SketchUp for Site Design illustrates a holistic approach to SketchUp: how it works and more importantly, what to do with it. Filled with tutorials from front to back, the book focuses on the start and completion of projects that include rich detail and expression. Each part and chapter of the book builds on the previous chapters and tutorial.

Readers will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildings and site elements: from modeling each of these exterior environment elements to piecing them together to generate a singular and expressive model. The book culminates with tutorials demonstrating effective and simple ways to include grades and terrain using the Sandbox tools and how best to integrate the entire approach with AutoCAD and SketchUp. Also included are links to supplemental on-line resources such as YouTube tutorials and free tutorial and example models from 3D Warehouse. 368 pp.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 How to Use this Book.
• Chapter 2 SketchUp Basics.
• Chapter 3 Components and groups.
• Chapter 4 Problem Solving.
• Chapter 5 Ruby Scripts.
• Chapter 6 Introduction to SketchUp Process Modeling.
• Chapter 7 Detailed Site Plan Modeling.
• Chapter 8 Custom Components - Site Furnishings.
• Chapter 9 Custom Components - Architecture.
• Chapter 10 The Completed Model: Arrangement and Presentation.
• Chapter 11 Architectural Tutorial.
• Chapter 12 Introduction to the Sandbox Tools.
• Chapter 13 Conceptual 3D Grading.
• Chapter 14 Complex Canopies.
• Chapter 15 Sandbox Architecture.
• Chapter 16 Overview of AutoCAD to SketchUp.
• Chapter 17 Organizing AutoCAD.
• Chapter 18 Modeling the AutoCAD Flatwork Base.
• Chapter 19 Arranging the Model.