Creating Flat Areas ON TERRAIN in SketchUp!

One of the more difficult things you can do with SketchUp is to work with terrain. The irregularity of terrain just makes it really tricky to work with.

However, but using extensions, you can make working with terrain a lot easier!

In this video, learn to use extensions to easily flatten out areas on your terrain areas in SketchUp!

EXTENSIONS USED

JOINT PUSH PULL

SOLID TOOLS

SOAP SKIN AND BUBBLE

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:35 - Terrain with Sandbox
2:27 - Solid Terrain with Joint Push Pull
3:44 - Flat Pad with Solid Tools
6:25 - Sloping Edges with Soap Skin and Bubble
8:16 - Hiding Edges for Smoother Geometry

[Thesketchupessentials]

Hi everyone - hope your week is going well! Let me know what you think about this method in the comments below! :)

[SnapClips]

Thank you thank you thank you! I'm working on a complicated site at the moment and you've saved me so much time with this tutorial. Legend 👏

[zhuyt]

i used the plugin Fredo6: Joint Push Pull Interactive v4.4e from the link you gave, but I dont have the "Borders" or "Misc." option window. Any idea why?

[judisamuelsgardendesign]

Amazing, thank you! I'm currently working on a garden design on a sloping site and I shall follow your recommendations and have a go.

[lankyalpaca]

my joint push pull don't have an option to project the shape on a plane. how do i fix this?

[nickyking]

Fantastic! Thanks Justin - you have explained it so well and saved me so much frustration!

[lamkalil]

why does the borders and Misc. window disapper in sketchup pro 2021?

[PemboDave]

Brilliant something I have been looking for - for quite some time.. well done

[red-rjdf]

the site i create is not a solid and i cant continue with the tutorial.what should i do

[esranurdemircan]

Thank you soo much Justin! That's exactly what i needed right now... (: Your tutorial is awesome as usual.

[georgenavarrete]

Very informative, some of my projects have areas of lower grade and i often wonder how i can navigate and adjust grade without any other program avail. this helps out a lot. my suggestion can you do a site were you have loading dock with change of grade heights.

[gammonface]

If only Sketchup had a Boolean function that wasn’t destructive, being able to move and adjust the reference geometry again later would be cool.

[SUL-KSA]

It would be useful to model topo from contour lines or numbers. As it happens in real-world practice.

[Matias_sebastian]

Good day Justin. Hope that you are doing well. I am having trouble doing turning radius in sketchup web. I need to do a 30 or 40 foot turning radius for a garbage truck. I am making a drive way of the alley way into my lot to have the truck enter the property and not stop at the alley way since it is narrow and there are sings that says no stoping at the alley way at anytime. So they can enter and pick up the trash from the mixed-use building I am designing? Can you help me with tips and maybe explain how the radius is taking into consideration? Also on how to do that in sketchup web

[PemboDave]

Hi Justin Sorry I do not appear to have that Misc box to click onon my updated Joint Push Pull - am i missing something?

[christopherrogers]

wow, there is no shortage of extensions :) could you explain the purpose of "reversing" faces thx Justin

[johnclouse]

I've got one for you . . . how can I "Drape" a texture image over a terrain geometry? Basically having a photograph with an organic form.

[sohanjadhav]

Very Thankful for making such good content .

[edwardhoover]

When I use the vector push pull and hit the project shape on a plane, doing everything exactly as in the video my mesh grid does not automatically become a solid group. I have tried everything, but cannot make it a solid group. It just remains a simple group. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or maybe a bug somewhere? Thank you Justin for all your video's!!

[sohanjadhav]

Great method, i really liked it, very helpful for mi .