CAD Skills

SketchUp

John Wood

John offers private 1-2-1 and group in person CAD tuition. Where distance is too great and for those based internationally, he offers online tuition via Zoom. He focuses primarily on Procreate, Morpholio Trace and SketchUp for iPad. John also offers tuition in Layout and Twinmotion. His Twinmotion tuition covers both 2D rendering and the creation of fully animated, photorealistic fly-throughs.

  • 1-2-1 and small group in person or online tuition

  • SketchUp at all levels from beginners to advanced (both desktop and iPad versions), inclusive of working with topographic surveys and 3D botanical plant modelling

  • Procreate

  • Morpholio Trace

  • Twinmotion

  • Layout

SketchUp for Garden Design

SketchUp for Garden Design offers a range of Sketchup Pro courses specifically developed for garden designers and other professionals working in the landscape industry.  All courses are delivered ‘live’ with a tutor and can be taken one to one (either online via Zoom or in person), or in small groups.  Courses are focused on using SketchUp for garden or landscape design, and include an innovative process for creating detailed planting plans and reports using Sketchup Pro.

Kate Wolseley-Charles - The Garden Design Professional

Kate offers 1-2-1 ‘SketchUp Surgeries’ designed to address specific workflow areas, and solve the problems and challenges you’ve encountered - each session is tailored to your needs.

Kate has created a series of tutorial videos specifically aimed at Garden Designers

Series 1 - From SketchUp to Twinmotion, a whole garden workflow.

This series of videos shows the whole process from raw data to finished and rendered model. Each step is shown clearly, with both subtitles and an easy to follow commentary.

Justin at The SketchUp Essentials

A great You Tube Channel covering numerous Subjects - not all related to Garden Design, but extremely useful and current

Garden Design Tools

Another great You Tube Channel - from the channel’s ‘About’ page - “This channel is part of Garden Design Tools, this platform has the objective to show and educate garden designers and landscapers about 3D tools so they can create amazing renderings for their landscaping projects.” 

Vectorworks

Oxford College of Garden Design

The online Vectorworks Tutorials are ideal for those using Vectorworks 2018 to Vectorworks 2022.

Vectorworks

The official YouTube channel of global design & BIM software developer Vectorworks

iPad-Procreate and Rendering

Other Courses and Resources

Shoot

“Garden designers tell us they need comprehensive plant information, a place to store all their plant lists and a simple way to produce planting plans, but don’t want to spend £000s.”

Justin at The Rendering Essentials

A great You Tube Channel covering numerous rendering engines - not all related to Garden Design, but extremely useful and current

For bookings and more information

email Claire Denham at -

johnwoodtuition@gmail.com

Instagram: jwood_digital_design_tuition

Instagram handle - @sketchupforgardendesign

Paul Hensey

Paul Hensey is an experienced and award-winning garden designer, in practice for over 20yrs. He lectures and writes extensively on materials, construction and SketchUp related issues. 

  • Dozens of courses available online!

  • Too many to list here - please click the link on the right to go to Paul’s Eventbrite Page

Richard Easton

A professional garden designer, RHS Master of Horticulture and Lecturer, with over 30 years experience. Richard offers one-to-one mentoring for newly qualified designers, in all aspects of garden design.

  • Introduction to Vectorworks

  • Planting Design

  • Intermediate Vectorworks

  • Advanced Vectorworks

Services can be booked via the Vectorworks for Garden Design website.

SGD Courses run a couple of times a year.