Hi! I just wanted to say 'Thank You!' for the quick and clear tutorial! I needed something to model a landscape VERY FAST, but I had no cad (or other modeling knowledge) and this was PERFECT!! Outstanding video! Again, many many Thanks!

Nice work. Good pace for your narrative and demonstration. Everything you did was clear and fully explained. Thanks for contributing this!

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you found it helpful.

Wow i didn't think it would be that easy! Thank you for this great tutorial. :D

Clear and concise. I appreciate your effort here.

Nice job man! Easy to understand and executable steps. Very nice! Very helpful for my techfair project!

Nice work. Great tutorial. I had learned this a while ago and forgot how to grab points on the map. Thanks for the refresher.

If you cannot find Sandbox tools in Prefrences.Go into View,then Toolbars,then turn on Sandbox.

Beautiful man, you're the only one who could help me, I watched videos and yours was the only saved me

dude, you're a life saver!! thanx for making this video ... i'm so grateful!! kudos!

Hi David I have watched many SketchUp videos and been confused and find them hard to follow. I really appreciate how you take your time and communicate what your are doing while keeping the cursor movements slow. I enjoyed this video and wanted to let you know that you helped me by posting this. I am using SketchUp professional 2017 and found that some of the settings are different from you but with a little exploration they are easily enough to find. Thank you.

Very good tutorial.... I thank you for taking the time to put it together.

Thank you. You really explain it nicely and slowly to make it understand .

Very nice ! Concise and to the point !! Thanks a lot.

This was an excellent tutorial! Thank you.

This helped so much. You've earned a subscriber!

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

I've just been taught by snoopy, nice tut helped me a lot re terrains, keep it up snoopy.

Is there a way to color only part of the landscape?

Thank you so much bro for this video! You solve my problem in doing landscaping.

Thanks dude. Keep spreading the knowledge.

Wow, thanks a million. Great video.

WOW, thank you for sharing, this has been very helpful.

Thank you for this tutorial! It was very clear and helpful!

Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. God bless you .

Amazing, fabulous, thank you.

thank you for the tutorial, a very good one, simple and easy.

Well done geek boy great tute!

Perfect and straight to the point!! THX

awesome video dude. This is going to be so useful

Thank you so much! This gave me so many ideas for my videos!

Simple, clear, and helpful - thank you.. 👍

Great tutorial, thank you!

that was very helpful …. thank you

Thank you for the great tutorial

its what i call art!! awesome

Very Clear Instructions.Good job

Not exactly what I was looking for but glad I watched it, great vid!

Awesome - Great starter Tutorial

Thank you so much for this!

The "From Scratch" is a tool in the Sandbox Menu. It is the second icon, showing multiple boxes. Hovering over the icon, on the bottom left, you should see the tool tip telling you what the tool is. A issue some people have is the "Grid Spacing" is too large. Make sure you adjust it on the bottom right before creating your terrain. You have to draw your "From Scratch" line longer than the Grid Spacing, and you will probably want it to have a modulo of 0.

Nice, keep up the awsome work

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Thank youuuuu soooo much!!! this helped me a lot, as a beginner :D:D

Thank you for the video. This is very helpful ☺️

Thanks, David! I'm no longer limited to drawing on flat land!

Hi man. How do you autofill the grid? What command do you use to auto-make those lines to match up the bottom square ends? :)

thx a lot, I v some questions concerning the animation, how can I include the dynamical tools interaction with scene capturing ? when I use the interact tool on a dynamical component the scene does not hold the interaction is there a plugin that helps me, or there is some thing I don't know , thanks a lot again for sharing this with us

I feel like it's no exaggeration to say you are a godsend. I've been making my own soft since i was 14ish and since then it's beco my

Can i make contours in other shape other then rectangle or square. my site shape is in triangle-ish shape

Thanks for the great advice :)

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

It's just awesome

Thanks for the tutorial.It Really helped

Adam, My solution was simply to turn off hidden geometry. It turned out that they were gone but that you will always see grid lines when hidden geometry is on. You can also select any line that you want hidden & hit Command E (on mac), probably Ctrl E on PC, and it will disappear. Good luck. Susan

Beautiful!

Thank you so much man! really helped

help please my from scratch sandbox tool just does not work :(

Man I have a 12gb ram and 1050TI laptop but it lags when I tried this. Any suggestions to speed things up???

amazing! thanks for sharing!

Nice tutorial brother i just want to ask you wNice tutorialch software is easy and best to learn as DAW soft soft or abelton live. Pls reply as soon as you can

When I soften or smooth out my lines not all of them do the command

By "points" you mean "faces", right?

thank you so much for the video.... helpful God Blesses

Thank you! Wonderful video!

Wow, I just spent an hour trying to do this in sketchup 14. Impossible. I can do all the steps but my result is nothing like yours. I am trying to create a "river" running through a mini golf course design. When I use smoove on a test "lake" I've selected within the grid, I just get very gradual gradients and it isn't affected by scale or density of points selected. Any ideas? I'm bummed because it looks like such an elegant way to create water bodies!

Great video. Thanks.

when i press soften an smooth edges it dose a little bit of it, but it dosen't come up with the gui that it did when you did it?

When I go to get rid of the lines only the outside ones do, even though ive moved the bar thing all the way along, what can I do?

You weren't wrong about trying to adjust a lot of squares at once, just tried a 256x256 grid...

do you know what's the plugins that we can use for parametric design in sketchup?? Or use any tools available in Sketch up for parametric design. TKS Geek This

Can you make a note of what version of SketchUp you are using? Thanks

There is a folder on that URL for 3D Models. You can most likely download the GZip'd files and import them in SketchUp since SketchUp can support a lot of different 3D File Formats. Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any help since a lot of the URL's on the site are not working for me, so I can't test it out.

How do I set the number of quads?

Can I do an oval garden? I have a cad drawing done by someone else that I need to redo on sketchup. I can only save as pdf. Is there a way to import it to make it easier update the landscape drawing blueprint?

Very helpful Thanks!

Thanks bro. This is easy.

thank you very much it worked

Very helpful. Thanks

If you're having trouble finiding the sandbox tools, they won't appear on your screen. For me they popped up on the bar in the top, and I didn't notice it. I thought it didn't appear but it was already there. You might have the same thing. You can also move them clicking on the far left of that toolbar. And then resize it and put it on the toolbar on the left.

Hey David, i have a question for you. i literally just downloaded the sketchup pro 2014, and im using to landscape a clients yard. it looks like you have alot more options in your tool bar than i do, adding grasses, foliage, and such, i do i aquire such tool bar options? im really just starting out with this thing today lol, any help or tips you have would be very greatly appreciated, thanks!!

why can't all tutorials be this coherent. might have actually learned something at architecture school if someone explained programmes like this

the sandbox tool is already checked yet no tool bar is appearing. . how to have this feature??please do reply. .

does anyone know how i can get the pirated version of soft soft

Does anyone know a way to do this in illustrator?

and what if I want to add a shoreline?

thankyou,. this was really helpful

make more of these i like these kids keep it up

Hey!! Thanks - that w really good! Best Vid

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how come when i right click is doesn't have the explode option??

Thank you Sir 👍

Thanks man!

Can you show me how to insert a house which is partly in the hill?

thank you ...it really helpful !

How to make square more small ?

It works and all but when I click smoove it just selects all of the points

After closing out of SketchUp and re-opening it. Navigate to "View" > "Toolbars" > "Sandbox". The sandbox option is lower in the list. Also just make sure you have Sandbox Tools enabled under "Window" > "Preferences" > "Extensions". Hopefully that will help you out.

Mine is not working. When I select the points I want to alter, then select smoove, it gives me a yellow ball at every grid point, not the areas I've selected. Any ideas??

Thank You