The Ultimate Sketchup Course – For Interior Design by Anna Rangel
Duration:13.5 hours
Actual Duration:11h 6m
Release date:2026, May
Publisher:Udemy
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Software:SketchUp Pro, LayOut
Course URL:https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ultimate-sketchup-course-for-interior-design
Build a complete home in SketchUp, even if you have never opened the program before. You start with a simple 2D plan and finish with a furnished 3D model, styled scenes, and scaled LayOut drawings ready for a client.
π― What you’ll learn
- Model faster in SketchUp with groups, components, tags, and clean file habits
- Draw 2D floor plans and spatial plans from a sketch, digital plan, or DWG import
- Build 3D walls, windows, arched openings, and doors for a full residential project
- Apply, scale, and fix materials and seamless textures without distortion
- Furnish and style entryway, office, bedroom, living, and dining areas with FF&E
- Design functional bathrooms, laundry rooms, and kitchens with correct clearances and appliances
- Set up cameras, styles, shadows, and scenes for images and video walkthroughs
- Create professional documentation in LayOut with viewports, dimensions, and lighting plans
β Requirements
- Skills: No prior SketchUp experience needed, basic computer skills are enough
- Tools: SketchUp Pro license required for modeling and LayOut work
- Hardware: PC or Mac that can run SketchUp Pro, 3-button mouse recommended
π Description
This is not a button-tour. You learn SketchUp Pro the way interior designers actually use it: one real house from start to finish.
We start with the boring-but-important stuff. Units, templates, navigation, tags, groups vs components. Then you draw the Eden Springs floor plan three ways β from a sketch, from a digital plan, and from a DWG import. That alone saves you hours on real client work.
Then we go spatial. You lay out every room β entry, office, bedroom and closet, bathrooms, laundry, kitchen, living and dining β and learn why furniture sizes and walkways matter before you model a single wall in 3D. It is practical space planning, not just pushing geometry.
From there it is full build mode. Walls, cut-outs, arched openings, windows, doors. Then materials and textures: how to scale them right, pull from 3D Warehouse, make your own seamless textures, and fix that stretched-wood look with texture projection.
Furnishing is where it clicks. Baseboards, molding, wall panels, paint, wallpaper, then full FF&E styling room by room. Plus a whole time-lapse module where you watch custom pieces get built β console tables, mirrors, lamps, armchairs. Great for picking up speed tricks.
Special rooms get special attention. You get dedicated builds for bathroom design, laundry, and kitchen β tiling, fixtures, benchtops, islands, joinery, appliances. These are the rooms clients nitpick, so we slow down and get heights, depths, and layout right.
Finally, you make it presentable. Cameras, styles, shadows, scenes for images and video. Then you take it all into LayOut and turn the model into scaled plans, elevations, dimensions, and a lighting plan with proper viewports and templates.
π§βπ Who this course is for
- Beginners who want to learn SketchUp and LayOut specifically for interiors
- Interior designers and students who need cleaner models and faster documentation
- SketchUp users who can model a bit but struggle with materials, scenes, and LayOut output
π§βπ« About the Author
Anna Rangel is an interior designer and founder behind Balika Homes, working on residential projects and teaching her own production workflow.
She teaches SketchUp for interiors from real project experience β full-home modeling, FF&E selection, and construction-ready LayOut sets β not generic 3D theory. Her lessons focus on habits that keep files light, drawings accurate, and presentations client-ready.
π Final Result
- A complete Eden Springs home project: 2D floor plan and spatial plan, fully furnished 3D model with kitchen, bathrooms and laundry, plus styled scenes and a scaled LayOut document set with dimensions, elevations, and lighting plan
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