Course: Complete SketchUp for Garden Designers - Part 2
Course Tutor: John Wood
Together with Part 1, this course provides students with the essential skills to progress to Part 3 of the SketchUp Series.
Part 3 - 04 & 05 June 2026
Building on the foundations of Part 1, this course equips students with the skills needed to work with more complex, asymmetrical garden designs. It introduces techniques for triangulating survey data, allowing for precise transfer from survey drawings into SketchUp. The course also explores working with curves and organic forms, as well as handling vertical level changes, including steps, terraces, balustrades, and railings.
At this more advanced level, students will further develop their modelling skills by:
- Constructing a Pergola: Using solid tools to create timber tenon joints, followed by generating detailed construction drawings from the model.
- Designing Water Features: Creating a pond with convincingly reflective water and water blade cascade.
- Modelling a Curved Path: Building a curved brick path in a running bond pattern.
Introducing Plugins
This course provides an introduction to plugins, demonstrating how they can enhance workflow efficiency within SketchUp. Plugins will be used for:
- Creating a house roof
- Designing a curved brick path in running bond
- Generating bespoke trellising
- Enhancing planting design
- Planting & Visualisation
A key focus of the course is planting and its creative visualisation within SketchUp. Students will learn to integrate planting seamlessly into 3D spaces while also generating technical planting plans. The process of automatically extracting planting schedules into Excel will be fully demonstrated.
Preparing for Layout
The course includes a demonstration of how to set up a SketchUp model for transfer to Layout, SketchUp’s sister program used for creating multi-page scale documentation. Please note that Layout itself is covered in a separate course.
Please note that this event will be recorded and will be made available to delegates after the event. Once you have booked onto the event you will be sent a Zoom registration link, please complete the registration then you will be sent a link to join the Zoom meeting along with a Zoom information sheet and a Zoom recording and privacy statement.