Eric M Sargeant

Below are a series of tutorials created for teaching LA252 and LA565 at Cal Poly Pomona–which are both introduction to technology classes for the landscape architecture program.

The intent of the tutorials is to provide a basic understanding and framework for navigating between common programs used to create typical projects in the LA profession.

Download sources files here to follow along.

Orange County GIS Shapefiles

Ocean Institute CAD Base (250 kb)

Ocean Institute SketchUp Model (4.4 mb)

SketchUp Tutorials

• Model Breakdown: Underwater House (4/1/2018)
• Tutorial – Creating Contour Lines from Google Earth in SketchUp (7/14/2015)
• Tutorial – SketchUp to Photoshop Basics (7/14/2015)
• Tutorial – Slope Analysis in SketchUp (7/17/2015)

Photoshop Tutorials

• Digital Watercolor-Style Tutorial (3/18/2017)
• Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT 1 – Setup, Layers, Color (7/17/2015)
• Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT 2 – Adding Entourage (7/17/2015)
• Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT3 – Adding Shadows (7/17/2015)
• Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT4 – Patterns & Textures (7/17/2015)
• Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT5 – Custom Brush Textures (7/17/2015)
• Tutorial – SketchUp to Photoshop Basics (7/14/2015)

AutoCAD 

• Tutorial – AutoCAD 101 (7/17/2015)
• Tutorial – Exporting GIS Data to DXF / DWG (7/17/2015)
• Tutorial – Plotting PDFs from AutoCAD Using Plot Styles (7/17/2015)

GIS Tutorials

• Tutorial – Exporting GIS Data to Adobe Illustrator (7/17/2015)
• Tutorial – Exporting GIS Data to DXF / DWG (7/17/2015)