SketchUp

Duration: 2 Months

Sketch Up Certification Course

SketchUp is a widely used piece of software in the interior design and architecture community and is great for bringing architectural or design plans to life. The software helps you take 2D drawings and turn these in to fully customized 3D models – complete with furniture, accessories and custom joinery. SketchUp is also extremely fun to use!

SketchUp is preferred by many designers due to it being much easier to learn than other 3D modelling platforms like 3D Max or Revit or 2D design platforms like AutoCAD. It is also much less expensive to purchase than those platforms as well.

Along with being able to create full custom designs, inside SketchUp there is an extensive database of user-created models (called the 3D warehouse) that are available for download. You can find almost anything you might be looking for in the 3D warehouse from almost the entire IKEA catalogue full of furniture (great for those who love IKEA like me!) all the way through to high end furniture and design pieces (great for those who love high end design, also me!).

But SketchUp is also great because you can draw your own fully customizable designs as well – including joinery or custom furniture pieces. It is widely used by joiners and woodworkers along with landscape designers, engineers, video game designers and, of course interior designers and architects as well. This course is a full length SketchUp learning package which contains almost all of the topics that you will ever need to work with this software.