This installment of SketchUp for Architecture picks up where Fundamentals left off. Paul J. Smith shows how to create some typical construction details for a residential building project with SketchUp. He'll start with the foundations and then build up the external cavity wall with brick and block components to the slab level before completing the wall, adding a window opening, and installing a timber casement window created from imported CAD profiles. He'll also load and add premade materials for a more realistic appearance and export the model for rendering in LayOut.

This installment concentrates on organizing the details in your scenes with the Outliner and Layers panels. As the course shows, well-built and organized SketchUp components allow architects to have greater flexibility at every stage of the design process.

Topics include:

• Creating the brick and block components
  
• Building walls
  
• Laying courses of bricks and blocks
  
• Trenching and backfilling
  
• Creating the brick halves
  
• Adding mortar fill and insulation to the cavity
  
• Creating windows with casements, sills, and jambs
  
• Organizing the model
  
• Adding materials
  
• Exporting the SketchUp model
  
• Working in LayOut