No vocal fry, no pushing subscriptions - just clear, helpful instructions without assuming any knowledge or being patronising in the process. Excellent work.

I'm so glad you're finding my tutorials helpful. Thanks for subscribing!

This man is the clearest trainer on CAD I have ever seen. I am following him!!

I've been everywhere, man, looking for someone who will teach sketchup starting from the true beginning and not flying around the damn universe on that damn orbit tool. Thanks. Subscribed. You're a great teacher who knows how not to pass up the smallest details.

I am brand new to this, and have used Planit Fusion for 5-6 years at my work. I bought sketch up as I am going to go freelance and Planit's software is very expensive It is so different and your tutorials are easy-ish to follow. You have a very listenable voice too which encourages and helps me.

I am a total noob. I want to redesign my garage without wasting a bunch of time. Your tutorials are really speeding up my learning curve. Thank you!

i cannot thank you enough for the tutorial. I already attend beginner class for this software, and your explanation make me understand better.

This is the best video tutorial on SketchUp I've ever watched. Everything is just moderate. It has it all for a beginner to grasp the concept. Thanks a million. I now have hope that I will get started. This is the video I can boldly share with anyone who wants to get started with SketchUp. Mr. T is from South Africa.

Thank You! I have watched a ton of skeychup tutorials, most of which are pretty bad. It seems people are more interested in showing off, impressing others than they are interested in teaching. I have learned more in this one 17 min video about using this app then all the other crap I have watched. Everybody skipped right over the basics and jumped into things that are not easily or consistently doable without the basics. I will stay glued to your stuff from now on. THANK YOU AGAIN...

Good teacher I’m new at this I’m using sketchup pro 2019 this Is my first class I learned a lot make rectangles, you teach slow that the most important I’ve watched lots of videos they just doing it so fast Your a great teacher thank you 🙏

What I found the best is this: I play and stop your tutorial on one computer and then I am designing on a second computer actually experimenting with the tips . I keep pausing and going backwards until I get it. I did feel extremely frustrated about going from the software I mentioned above to sketch up, but your tutorial has kept me from going off the edge!!!

Hey Matt ran into this video while searching and figured I'd stop by and see how you were doing! I'm sure the community misses your tutorials man.

This is a much more useful tutorial than the official ones.

Thanks a lot from someone who used to be quite familiar with version 8 some time ago. Then I was playing, but now I have a purpose - to make suggestions to my future house builder. I am going to check each video in the series, so please accept my thanks in advance.

Right off the bat I just want to say I'm impressed with the amount of attention you give the comments here. I only just downloaded the program the other day and haven't had time to really play with it yet but I'm checking out the tuts and other media. I'm hoping to use this tool to design my tiny house.

it's amazing what you can do with this program! I've been using it for years and recommend it to everyone interested in getting into the field. I submitted a video response to show the power of the program and what is possible with a little practice :)

I love your voice. It is relaxing and makes learning from your videos much easier and more enjoyable. Also, thanks for these videos.

as a self taught beginner I dead ended and did not want to deal with a tutorial, but I got some good insight from this that I missed in my own. One mention that I find useful that probably he will cover on a later vid is in addition to orbit and zoom with with scroll/middle click is using shift+scroll/middle click to pan. Also, it's more enjoyable to put the guy/girl that show up at the beginning into a box, and make a little window for them to see out. relax, the box doesn't have a bottom, they can leave whenever they want.

Thanks so much! May our God continues to give you amazing grace.

TNice tutorials might just be the first motivational comnt ive ever seen on a tutorial vid. ga thanks bro

This is really helpful when I learning how to use Sketchup

So far so good. Easy beginner tutorial. I'm learning self taught with help of youtube videos. I am also using Revit and Chief Architect

so nice to see a video that gets to the point. fast and concise.

To lock the blue axis at the 8 minute, you need to tap the up arrow on your keyboard.

Thanks you so so much I am very new and I am trying to learn without paying, huge money and I couldn't find the easiest way to at least start and play around with it, luckily I found your video and today I have done what ever you have showed in this video, please please keep doing this type of video for people like me GOD BLESS YOU 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤

Thank you, using this to learn Sketchup for schoolwork

Thank you,thank you and thank you . I am a beginner , I'm learning and I am happy . Now I go to part 2 after I practice p.1.

best beginners tutorial ive seen yet, thank you!

"You're probably gonna wanna delete her right away." Lmao.

That "Instructor" feature is brilliant. I've worked with many programs that have an intermediate learning curve or higher and have never seen a feature that shows precise functions of a tool with a little demo of how to use it. Genius.

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FYI on iMac, instead of hitting "control" to copy, hit "option." Great video. Thanks

Very nice intro to Sketchup. I am beginning to build my house using building company and want to be able to determine how much of a deferent type of buildings materials Im going to need. Looking forward to see more of this kind of videos Thanks Man.

Thanks for your excellent video. I’ve had SketchUp for several years but never really learned how to use it. I’ve watched countless videos over the years and kept going back to it but just got more and more frustrated. Most videos move far too fast and assume that you already know a lot of stuff and lose you in the process. I thought I’d give tit one last try and watched your video and hey presto I’ve just drawn my first 3D sketch for shelves that I plan on building so thank you very much. Keep up the good work. Phil.

Fantastic tutorials, I'm a new sketch up user and Matt has got me started in no time. Thanks very much.

Learning as I go! For Mac users the "option" key makes the copy

Perfect? I had given up on Sketchup, but decided to try again with Make. Still, I thought it was like modeling on my hands and knees. This first tutorial now makes me believe that the prom is a keeper!

I've used many complicated, multifaceted softwares in my time: TVPaint, Adobe Illustrator, Blender, professional video editing software, etc. I've encountered NOTHING as unintuitive as Sketchup. Many softwares one can fiddle with and get the gist of the operations; not Sketchup. Everything is connected then they all skew together when you move one thing, right clicking produces nothing that you think it should, it's cumbersome. How this software ever became as popular as it is is clearly a testament to a good marketing team, promotion, and strategy.

Even my mother language is not Eng,and I'm a beginner student of sketchup,it helped me a lot.wow

This is so cool. I wish I had learnt architecture, but I was bad in math :)... Thank you! Helped a lot. I found a new hobby

Very helpful. I am going to go through all the videos. I've been pulling my hair out after the initial tutorial from sketch up. It's time to do some real learning

Very comprehensive, well laid-out and helpful. Thank you and will check out the new series!!!

I appreciate the presentation/tutorial so much..great one..i know Autocadd but never tried Sketchup....im so amazed...thanks bro..

Great Video! I am using sketchup for creating architecture for my comic and it's really helpful learning it by your videos!

So true...Sorry, I don't have a Mac, but I think you just press the option key and it does the same thing.

I am BRAND NEW to Sketchup u r awesome THANK U! this totally helped! nice and easy!!!!

Hi my name is Frederick I'm from Ghana I really like your teaching thanks

I'm not entirely sure of what you mean by "status bar", but I would suggest going to View --> Tool Bars, and make sure "Large tool set" is checked. Start there, and check other tools you'd like to use too.

hello Scott thank you for making these instructional videos you are a very good instructor , I have been a subscriber for many many years and have watched many of your videos the SketchUp Series has been my favorite thank you so much Scott 👍

Awesome video! Helped me finally create the desk I wanted for my gaming rig, I couldn't find it so I decided to build it and this was soooo helpful, thanks a lot dude!

Ah, nice to see a great KZfaq tutorial. Fantastic. Thank you very much.

A very clear and concise tutorial very well produced. Thanks.

Very nice tutorial. I am fairly experienced with sketchup myself, but I watched the whole vid and picked up a trick or two. (I didn't know about the instructor for example) Thank you!

thank you for this very simple and amazing tutorial! I've learnt all you intended us to in this part one. Now you'll be my teacher till I can call myself a master at sketch up as well. Hope you're ready to answer all my questions when I'm stuck. :-)

FINALLY A DECENT TUTORIAL

Very clear explanation; good instruction & voice. Thank you.

thanks dude it's really useful as I just start learning and ur way of teaching is incredible

Very good clear and simple instruction, many thanks.

Excellent tutorial. Being an educator, I am always looking for something useful for my students. This helped me get back into sketchup and I think it would be very good to use with them as well. Thanks!

It would be helpful to us Mac users if the equivalent key or mouse button on a Mac were pointed out as Matt goes along. example: He mentioned the middle mouse button a few times, but there's no middle button on a Mac mouse. That aside, so far I'm impressed with the quality and clarity of this instructional video. Again, I just wish it were more multiple platform inclusive … OR is Sketchup primarily geared to the PC user?

Nice video chief. Very clear tutorial. I'm new to this programme and love it! Thumbs up!!

Really good explanation. It's time to start my first drawing. Thanks

Thanks for the video! There were a surprising amount of good tips in such a short period of time.

i sent my 1st attempt after watching your tutorial, thanks

Amazing video! Thank you for posting. I have no background in SketchUp but this is going to help me get up and running quick!

Great little tutorial!

Your welcome!

I remember this program!! I LOVED it!!!!!

Really helpful, thank you very much.

Now, I started the learning.

Awesome! Thank you.

Yay! I am so happy to have found your tutorials. You make learning the program easy. Thank you so much. I went to your site and subscribed to your newsletter and got the gift of Keyboard Shortcuts! You're awesome.

another thing I noticed is that he's using a licensed version . you can run this app as a free web app from their site , it still works very well obviously with less features, but i'd imagine there'd be some differences.

Rn in my tech class I’m doing this and bruh I was sick yesterday and today I walk in and we are working on this.. like literally I didn’t know what anyyyy Of this so now I’m watchin all these tutorials

Very very very clear and straight to the point! Thank you, it helped me very much!

thank's for everithing. you're a good friend. I hope you get far. God bless you

Awesome tutorial! thanks so much!

Excellent tutorial, I love it! I was intimidated before, now I think I can tackle this.

thanks matt For all that u offers...

Thank you very much I've been using an ancient version of Auto-cad LT for some years and this is so completely different but for drawing a house that I'm planning to build I can see that this is going to be very useful. This is the first of your videos that I've seen and it's very helpful.Kind Regards . . . Andy

Yes, you can use the Free Sketchup program in a school. That's no problem.

I'm starting to get productive with SketchUp after months of tutorials, but I have to say this; The most frustrating element so far is "plug-ins and extensions". First, what's the difference, why two names? Second, they don't go away. After you install one and find out that it is 4 times more difficult to use than the video shows, and you want to get rid of it, good luck. I've cleaned everything SketchUp from my machine except registry keys and the "Terrain extension" controls walls and other elements that seem to be separate in the Outliner and are on different layers, then you uncheck 'terrain extension' and that other stuff disappears to. Maybe because I drew it all during the same session, either way, four hours of work to start over. It used to be good exercise....Ruby is another, stay away and that 3Skeng thing should be left on the continent where it came from.

REALLY HELPFUL FOR BEGINNERS LIKE ME !!!

Thanks, straigh forward, and to the point

thank you! :) I needed to learn this soon and you are very concise and clear. now on to the next video.

You're a very good teacher for this, but I'm on a mac, and things don't work the same for it. I wish you had a mac version, I would stay with you as a teacher.

Thanks for making this video, MasterSketchUp. Some good info here. A few thoughts, if I may: An introduction (or at least a mention) of the three axes you're referencing and how they are the backbone of a 3D modelling program, be it SketchUp or any others. X, Y, and Z dictate everything in this environment, versus a 2D environment like Photoshop (as it's mostly used). Just seemed like a useful, yet glaring, omission. Also, an introduction to the workspace - the layout - would've been useful. For example, what toolbars would you recommend having available for the novice user versus the one on by default. The overall workspace, while not unintuitive by any stretch, could use an introduction. Lastly, it appears that adding the on-the-fly dimension changes, as mentioned here by typing a number directly following adding a shape, may have changed in v.13 (2013). Could've been an errant click (likely, :blush:) on my part but SU'13 does not behave the same way as your video demonstrates. That said, thanks again for putting this series together. It contains useful information and I'll surely be subscribing.

Thanks for sharing! Sketchup was a total mystery to me before watching this.

this is an extremely good tutorial! well done! thumbs up!

Thanks you, very helpful. Coming from the free version of Design Spark Mechanical also known as Space Claim.

Thank you, this helped me with my grade for school

tysvm for the video so far u have the best one i have saw alot of video on programs that go so far an i am glad u took ur time an showed us the tool

thanks for this tutorial

Amazing and Easy to Learn

Thank you a lot it's useful

Keeping it simple and interesting, Good tutorial presentation

Great tutorial, sir. Thank you for the helpful information!

Thanks, you explain very well

Really nice and helpful... Thanks!

Great for beginners like me