Learn how to use the template feature in SketchUp to further organize your workflow. In this video, George shows you how to create a basic kitchen design template that will preload scene assets to make starting new projects easier. This method can be used for all sorts of projects and applications.
- [Instructor] Hi, I'm George Mastrey…and today I'm going to show you how to make your life…a little bit easier with templates.…Now, you may be familiar with templates,…but a lot of sketch abusers really don't use 'em that much.…The extent of their use is that they select a template…when they first start up SketchUp and they leave it at that.…But templates can be actually very powerful…if you do standard types of tasks.…Now, before we get into customizing templates,…I just want to show you where they live…and how to work with them.…
So if we go into window, preferences,…you'll see that under template,…we have all sorts of different templates.…Now I have, by default,…my simple template which is feet and inches.…Yours may be different.…And this includes this color scheme,…it includes this guy called Chris…in the center of the scene,…as well as a lot of other parameters.…Now if I scroll down,…I can change my default drawing tablet to something else.…Let's say for example, I choose urban planning and click OK.…
Well, nothing changes right now, but as soon as I select…
Author
George Maestri
Updated
4/18/2018Released
3/1/2017Skill Level Intermediate
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