Welcome to PreDesign - Skill Builder

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Get a few tips about using clear geometry, erasing lines, and grouping! Check out this Skill Builder, whether your new to SketchUp or an expert, there is something for everyone!

Do you find yourself re-creating viewports over and over in LayOut? Watch this Skill Builder to save some time and remove those repetitive tasks from your workflow as we teach you how to create templa

See how we bring a live edge piece of wood to life in SketchUp, manipulating it in the product and using a few extensions to add realistic touches. Watch this video for some quick and easy tips on how

Thanks to many requests, we are here to show you how to draw bezier filigrees in SketchUp. Learn how to manually design intricate, detailed, bezier filigrees that ideal for SketchUp by turning them in

Jump back into dynamic components as we show you how to create a sliding door, and how to set the component so you can slide the panels open and close with just a single click.

We cap off our Dynamic Component - Building a Fence series by adding pickets across the whole fence. Using exact spacing to set the picket components in place, follow along as we show you how to make

Jump into part two of our Dynamic Components - Building a Fence series, and learn how you can apply a little math to your components to place your fence posts at maximum spaced even distances.

Check out our multi-part series on building a fence using dynamic components

Are you using templates yet? See how you can put them to use saving dimension styles, and learn how to set properties for things you are going to draw in LayOut before you draw them. Doing so ensures

Check out some meaningful ways to use the volume command to calculate how much something weighs, in addition to replicating and multiplying geometries. Who knew?!

Check out the replay of our International Space Station live model in SketchUp!

Leverage line scaling to create depth of field in your SketchUp model inside LayOut without losing any details.

Make toggle inferencing work for you and your project! If you’re ever working on geometry that is just a few degrees off axis, learn how to customize inferencing so you can do your best ‘just slightly

See how easy it is to create angle and running dimensions, ensuring that your design is accurate, as we deep dive into these workflows in LayOut.