SketchUp Pro 2018 for Planning and Building Professionals
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Evaluating SketchUp as a Design Tool
Speaker introduction
Features of SketchUp Pro
Comparisons to Revit, AutoCAD, and other drafting software
Working with SketchUp
Design space and file creation
The SketchUp user interface and basic navigation
SketchUp drawing tools (lines, arcs, shapes)
Measure tools and construction lines
Organizing Your Drawings
Working with groups and layers
Creating, editing, and using components
Advanced Editing
Push/pull
Moving, copying, rotating, and scaling
Offset and follow-me
Coloring and Texturing
Paint bucket – colors, transparency, and texturing
Viewing, Navigating, Printing and Rendering
Creating sections and dimensioning your drawing
Printing and exporting
Extending SketchUp
3d Warehouse and Extension Warehouse
Working with Location
Adding a location and working with aerial images
Modeling Architectural Details
Photomatch and tracing images
Working with Styles & LayOut
Introduction to styles and Style Builder
Introduction to LayOut
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Architects
7.0 Contact Hours
7.0 AIA Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 PDHs to professional engineers and 7.0 contact/CE hours to architects in most states, including Illinois. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Illinois.
The American Institute of Architects has approved this event for 7.0 Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES. Architects Note: The subject matter of this seminar is not deemed to be HSW by the American Institute of Architects.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar also offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been submitted to any state contractor licensing board for continuing education approval.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Nik Davis
Houseal Lavigne AssociatesPrincipal at Houseal Lavigne AssociatesMr. Davis brings more than 10 years of professional design and planning experience to Houseal Lavigne Associates. As a principal he manages much of the firm’s versatile studio work, and he hones skill specializations in urban design, landscape architecture, site plan development, streetscape design, and sustainability planning, from the individual lot level up to the regional scale. He provides the connection between the plan making process and document creation, using a breadth of software tools and drafting techniques. Mr. Davis enjoys the challenge of ensuring that land use recommendations and zoning regulations actually correlate with what gets built, and he therefore works to ensure that community goals and urban design expectations are grounded in reality and site-based limitations. He approaches his role as a problem solver, acting to understand how a community’s current challenges can be improved through better design solutions. Prior to joining Houseal Lavigne Associates, Mr. Davis worked for consulting firms specializing in urban design, landscape architecture, streetscape design, zoning, and development planning. He has a bachelor of science degree in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University. Mr. Davis is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and some of his past work has been awarded recognition in sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Devin Lavigne
Houseal Lavigne AssociatesAICP, LEED AP Principal/Cofounder of Houseal Lavigne AssociatesMr. Lavigne has special expertise in urban design, land use and site planning, illustration and development visualization, web development and geographic information systems. He is recognized as a leader in the planning profession for his illustrations, graphics and for his ability to communicate planning and development concepts clearly and concisely. Mr. Lavigne’s contribution to his firm’s graphics and plans has helped distinguish Houseal Lavigne’s body of work and garnered national attention and recognition. He has managed, directed, authored, and contributed to numerous plans throughout the country, and has received multiple awards for these efforts. Mr. Lavigne is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois, where he teaches an urban design studio. He is also a SketchUp Visiting Professional (VPP) – one of 20 recognized experts available to lecture about the use of SketchUp. Mr. Lavigne received his bachelor’s degree from the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Ontario. Prior to cofounding Houseal Lavigne Associates, he was the senior planning manager for URS Corporation and Trkla, Pettigrew, Allen and Payne (TPAP).