SketchUp Fundamentals is meant to be a solid base for the modeling tools of SketchUp. All topics covered can be done in any version of SketchUp, Free or Pro.

I have two questions in course 8 on components (pillars exercise). I don’t seem to be able to right click on any of the components in the components window (allowing me to delete or select instances, etc). Is there another way to access this on the web version? After copying the pillars and us…

Good questions. I also could not find the ability to ‘Select Instances’ in the web version. I didn’t know that was a difference, sorry. As for the line on the pillar, it’s irrelevant. I found the same as you, a slight discrepancy between what is shown on screen and the example file, but no differen…

Thanks for the response @TysonK . Good to know I was not overlooking it and happy to help with feedback. I really appreciate the online courses, they have made learning SketchUp much easier than on my own (I gave it a shot a year or so ago, but didn’t have time to dedicate to figuring out all these d…

Is there a lesson or course on coping a drawing or photo to flat art in SketchUp, and then being able to make the 2D into 3D with the SketchUp tools?

Do you mean tracing over an image in SketchUp? I think the upcoming Landscape track has some tips on doing that, importing an image and a dwg to use for creating SketchUp geometry. That’s coming within a few weeks. Did you mean something different?

I work in Model Railroading. I have drawings of loco sides and of various detail parts. The drawings are 2D so I import them and then trace over them line by line in SketchUp. It would be great if the drawings could be brought in (DWG, DXF, PDF or some similar) directly to SketchUp and then allow th…

Right. If you are using Pro you can certainly import DWG, DXF and there are several extensions that will help clean up the resulting geometry. Importing an image though, no plugin or tool that I know of that will do the tracing for you. Illustrator has such a function I think, though I don’t know i…

There’s an extension that will ‘autotrace’ an image and cut it out for you…I’m blanking on the name but will look it up and post link.

In the Sketchup Fundamentals 1 on the second lesson, just after telling you in lesson 1 that the free web version is the same as the desktop version, the teacher asks you to use the “Architectural template”. I don’t seem to have this template in the free web version

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