Tutorials & Tips

Basic Tutorials and Tips

Whether you need to begin, build, or polish your Google SketchUp skills, we have the resources that you need.

• If you’ve only got a moment to get started, check out our Getting Started with Google SketchUp video, or our Getting Started Guide.
• To get the basics down, we suggest you start modeling with our Self-Paced Tutorials, special SketchUp files designed to let you learn at your own pace.
• If you’re trying to figure out how a particular feature works, we suggest the Google SketchUp User Guide.
• If you’re a visual learner, view hundreds of videos on our Official Google SketchUp YouTube channel.
• For great tutorials on geo-modeling, view our video on How to Model for Google Earth Using Google SketchUp, or our Your World in 3D site.
• Visit our Google 3D Warehouse to see thousands of SketchUp components available to download right into your own model.

View our Google SketchUp video tutorials playlist!

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5 Cool Ideas for How to Use SketchUp in Your Classroom

Ready to explore SketchUp? Here are some ideas of how you might want to use it in your classroom:

1. Build a 3D model of your school.
2. Use SketchUp to visualize the geometry concepts you are teaching.
3. Create a 3D model of the California Missions and then incorporate those models into Google Earth.
4. Have students build a model of their houses, and geo-locate them in Google Earth.
5. When studying architecture of the past, create a 3D model of an ancient pyramid.

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