Digital Watercolor-Style Tutorial
Introduction This tutorial covers the steps to quickly turn a basic SketchUp/VRAY view into a watercolor-style drawing. While there is no substitute for the real thing, the effect can be easily applied to give a drawing a softer and more conceptual or artistic feeling in contrast to the clean and perfect renderings that are now commonplace […]
Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT 1 – Setup, Layers, Color
This tutorial cover the basic features of getting a drawing open and ready to color in Photoshop. It covers importing PDFs, layer set up, naming, and grouping, selection tools including lasso and magic wand, and finally filling with solid gradients.
Tutorial – AutoCAD 101
This tutorial covers several important drafting techniques in AutoCAD, including: drafting methodology, layers, blocks, UCS, ortho, grips, match properties, distance/measure, offset, trim, extend, poly lines, explode, fillet.
Tutorial – Slope Analysis in SketchUp
This tutorial provides an overview of the Color by Slope Plugin by Chris Fulmer. This tool comes in hand for creating simple slope analysis in SU. Download plugin her: extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/clf-color-slope
Tutorial – Creating Contour Lines from Google Earth in SketchUp
This tutorial looks at the method for creating quick contour lines in SU from imported Google Earth terrain. This feature comes in handy when no topo or survey data is available for a site. Contours can then be flattened and exported to Illustrator or CAD for further refinement and integration into other drawings.