The darker base cabinets provide some visual grounding and will show less dirt/food splatters/etc.
The bluish-gray base cabinets are IKEA Abstrakt as are the upper white horizontal cabinets (both have a high gloss finish similar to our bathroom vanity). We’re pretty happy with where things are at, but will likely continue to adjust things here and there in the next couple of months.
We then went to IKEA to more closely examine colors, sizes, and door and drawer operation. As a result, we did a good deal of tweaking. While we had worked out the general cabinet layout and “what goes where” in autocad, we wanted to see how the materials and colors were coming together. The book is available in Amazon in paperback and Kindle format.During the last week or so, we have been updating our sketchup 3D model in order to study our ever evolving design ideas for the kitchen.
#KITCHEN SKETCHUP HOW TO#
Scaling the image, inserting new elements and matching the existing photo are the main topics of chapter 5.Īs kitchen designers can not set them apart of working with patterns, seamless materials and tiles, Designing Kitchens with SketchUp will teach you the best practices to create new materials and how to avoid falling into big file sizesĬhapter 7 and 8 will teach you how to prepare your construction documents, how to insert texts and dimensions, manage scales, tips and tricks to print getting the best quality investing less time, and how to complement SketchUp with Layout.Ī quick exploration adding lighting effects to designs with freeware and shareware alternatives will complete the knowledge you need to succeed in your daily professional life. If you are the type of designer that enrich your imagination looking in magazines for others’ ideas, or may be adding an island in an existing kitchen, you will learn how to take a photograph and create a 3D model of the entire room starting from that picture. The reader will also learn how to create a dynamic component able to list different materials, show different prices according to the finish material, varying different quantities of shelves inside a cabinet, change handle sides, and of course have different size options. Preparing scenes that can enhance the design and help to work easily reaching different views are other topics of this chapter.Ĭhapter 3 and 4 show plug-in and how to create your own dynamic components that allow to customize your design and optimize your performance. You will also learn how to create a material from an existing picture. The second chapter covers how to create a kitchen using pictures and images to share ideas with the client. In the first chapter the reader will learn how to create a 3D model starting from a 2D layout, drag and drop cabinets from the 3D Warehouse, sample materials, create design alternatives for backsplashes, using on-lays, and show the interior of the cabinets with the Interact tool. The guide covers all aspects of kitchen design in a easy to follow hand holding fashion from 'Good Practice' to 'Preparing your construction documents' with Layout and everything in between the kitchen designer needs to know. This nine chapter, 221 page master class is the ultimate Step by Step Tutorial guide for anyone wishing to get the grips with kitchen design using SketchUp. Any custom design can be approached in a simple way, and designers can grow their own libraries for future use.
An open system such as SketchUp offers the end-users unlimited tools to accomplish everything that is in their imagination curves, materials, photos, dynamic components, presentation tools are just some of the offered elements. Finally, the versatility of designs and materials available to apply on surfaces cannot be compared.
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