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LifestyleSketchUp Pro For Garden Design (Udemy.com)
Using SketchUp to Develop and Present Your Landscape Design Solutions
Created by: Rob Littlepage
Last updated January 2023
What you will learn
- In this course you'll learn of three different ways to get your site plan into SketchUp - Using PDF's, DWG files and drawing directly into SketchUp
- You'll learn how starting your design on paper, rather than in the program directly, can open your creativity to explore different design approaches
- How Groups and Components help to keep your model organized and easier to naviagate
- You'll master using tags and tag folders to explore and present alternative design solutions
How it compares
Against the other 545 rated Udemy courses in 3D Modeling on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 26% of them
- Reviews87#464 of 546 by number of reviews
- Length4.2 hoursshorter than 63% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2023more recently than 52% of them
Course Description
This class is an extension of my Fundamentals of Garden Design Course, also hosted on Udemy. While in the Fundamentals course we learned how to draft and design conceptual plans using pencil, pen and ink, in this class we'll go a step further and develop our designs into 3-Dimensional presentations for study, review, and comment by team members and our clients.
Please note: This is not an introduction to using the SketchUp software! You will need to be familiar with using SketchUp so that you will be able to jump straight in as we create our designs.
This course will be using SketchUp Pro 2022.
CAD is a powerful tool, but CAD does not DESIGN the garden - we do! We design a garden in our imaginations using a combination of skills and observations. I still strongly suggest that when you start any new design you do it on paper. The reason for this is to have your ideas flow quickly and organically. Drawing rough sketches on paper allows your creativity to open up and you can try different patterns in a rapid manner.
Once you have a strong idea of what you want the new landscape to look like then, AND ONLY THEN, should you open your computer and start drawing in CAD - whether that program be SketchUp or any number of other design software that is available.
This course will take you through the processes of importing different file types and bringing in your own site survey . Since this course is based on using SketchUp Pro, I will be using LayOut to scale a base plan for developing a design.
Once a rough idea of the design solution is developed we'll refine design ideas into a 3-D model that will help you to better see and understand what you are looking to build. It will also be the visual aid you may need to sell your idea to a client, spouse or friend.
With Layout you can quickly scale your drawing, fill in a title block and export to a PDF or AutoCAD file for printing.
Welcome to SketchUp 2022 in Garden Design!
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Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
87 Reviews
Rob Littlepage
Robert Littlepage, as his many former students can attest, is a dynamic instructor who brings real-world experience and a touch of humor to his teaching style. His love of teaching and enthusiasm for his topic is a source of inspiration to his students. Mr. Littlepage founded the California School of Garden Design in 1998 to fill a much-needed void. He discovered that other than two-year junior college programs and a few correspondence courses, there was no place in the United States where someone interested in becoming a garden designer could learn these skills quickly and at minimum expense. Rob created the School to provide an opportunity for those individuals to learn necessary skills and to become proficient in Garden Design in a short but intensive period of time. This has lead to his now offering on-line classes through Udemy.
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Reviews
By Julian Millo on 5/10/2026
Some repition. Too much assumed knowledge of SU for me. The background music is deelply irritating!
By William McCone on 9/27/2025
Great course, it showed me a lot of alternative methods in using Sketchup tools.
By Mark Falconer on 1/12/2025
A very descriptive course on how to present a good 3D plan and some alternatives to the client. I found the animation and scenes a really good tool.
By Jim Thomson on 11/27/2024
So far so good! I enjoyed the landscape design exercises using the tracing paper and I felt I was learning by doing!
By Jacoba Kotze on 9/3/2024
It is OK, but very annoying that it is in inches. I keep having to convert the measurements in the lecture while he speaks as the metric layout does not have all the heights in metrics.
By Brooke Addison on 1/25/2024
The instructor is a fabulous teacher! The pacing was great and he's very clear with how to use the program. It was very helpful to work through an entire project from start to finish. SketchUp feels less intimidating now. I'm really glad I purchased this course.
By Kiki Spek on 12/19/2023
Tot nu toe goed al wordt er af en toe een functie gebruikt die heel logisch is als je al met sketch-up hebt gewerkt maar in mijn geval is dit niet zo en zou het fijn zijn als deze functies ook kort worden uitgelegd, bv. waar vind ik de rolmaat, waar wordt de dimensie van 6 inch ingevoerd voor de dikte van de muur. Wellicht goed om vooralsnog aan te geven dat er al een basis kennis wordt geacht voor het starten van de cursus
By Heather edgington on 2/14/2023
Great match. I've been using Sketchup for 7 years on and off and am learning a lot here.
By Zoe van Baaren on 1/25/2023
Clear, concise, and simple. Master teacher. This is my second class with Rob, he is super.
By Bruno Terrasi on 1/25/2023
Very informative. I was able to use the information and apply it within my landscape designs. Hope to see more SketchUp courses from Rob in the future.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100
- Video Duration:
4.2h - Price: $10.99
- Provider: Udemy
- Updated:
January 2023 - Level:
Intermediate - Language:
English - Certificate:
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