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Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience

Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience

Instructor: Chase Mullen

Creating a VR experience is one thing, but managing its use at public events and integrating it into the urban design workflow is an extra, separate step. This course considers the bigger picture and covers a few ways to fine-tune the user’s experience for maximum success.

74 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity

Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity

Instructor: Chase Mullen

This course provides a high-level overview of the process involved in creating a virtual reality application and teaches viewers how to assemble a virtual reality application from scratch using Unity how to make the process as successful as possible.

64 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp

Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp

Instructor: Chase Mullen

This course provides a step-by-step SketchUp tutorial and teaches users how to create content appropriate for a virtual reality environment. Viewers will learn how to optimize the performance of their software and ensure success in the next steps of the process, including final model export to Unity.

72 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Urban Design for Planners 2: Getting Started with QGIS and SketchUp

Urban Design for Planners 2: Getting Started with QGIS and SketchUp

Instructor: Emily Talen

Course instructor Emily Talen guides viewers through the process of transferring a shapefile of building outlines into SketchUp and processes of basic manipulation necessary to create a 3D model. Learn how to load data into QGIS, set the coordinate reference system, and change the graphic display of data layers.

46 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools

Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools

Instructor: Emily Talen

Urban planners and urban designers are interested in building places that embody beauty and hope. In this course, Emily Talen, PhD, FAICP, presents free urban design software tools that can help urban planners and urban designers visualize changes in the built environment to support the overarching goal of creating better places.

59 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp 2016 for Planners: Site Planning

SketchUp 2016 for Planners: Site Planning

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

This course introduces intermediate SketchUp skills, like the program's geolocation functions, and demonstrates how to create more complex models of planned projects or developments.

39 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp 2016 for Planners: Introduction

SketchUp 2016 for Planners: Introduction

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

This course introduces how planners and architects represent three-dimensional objects in two-dimensions, with step-by-step instructions for creating and using simple 3D models.

44 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
GIS Fundamentals: Geocoding, Geoprocessing, and Online Sharing

GIS Fundamentals: Geocoding, Geoprocessing, and Online Sharing

Instructor: Mike Ernst

This fifth installment of the GIS Fundamentals series provides instruction on how to geocode addresses, the basics of geoprocessing, and the use of ArcGIS Online for collaborative mapping and processing.

54 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
GIS Fundamentals: Importing, Selecting, and Managing Data

GIS Fundamentals: Importing, Selecting, and Managing Data

Instructor: Mike Ernst

The fourth installment of the Geographic Information Systems Fundamentals series explains how to configure data sets, including advanced methods for selecting data through spatial and SQL queries, working with relational databases and geodatabases, and importing non-spatial data into ArcGIS.

55 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
GIS Fundamentals: Thematic Maps

GIS Fundamentals: Thematic Maps

Instructor: Mike Ernst

This third GIS Fundamentals course covers the basics of making several kinds of thematic maps, including choropleth, dot density, and proportional symbol maps.

55 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
GIS Fundamentals: Projections and Map Design

GIS Fundamentals: Projections and Map Design

Instructor: Mike Ernst

The course will continue core concepts of GIS that began in the first course, including projections, coordinate systems, cartography, and the difference between raster and vector data models.

108 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
GIS Fundamentals: An Introduction

GIS Fundamentals: An Introduction

Instructor: Mike Ernst

This first of a series of courses covering Geographic information Systems (GIS) will guide beginners interested in learning more about GIS, especially with the use of Esri's ArcGIS software.

56 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
AutoCAD for 3D Modeling

AutoCAD for 3D Modeling

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Most planners and designers don't use just one drawing or visualization program. In this course you'll learn how to create 3D drawings in AutoCAD and how to use AutoCAD in concert with other programs, such as Adobe Illustrator and Sketchup, to create illustrative plan, section, and perspective views.

66 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Visual Simulation: Rendering Styles and Presentation with SketchUp

Visual Simulation: Rendering Styles and Presentation with SketchUp

Instructor: Mike Ernst

Learn to create finalized drawings in SketchUp that look more hand drawn than photorealistic. Using SketchUp and Adobe Photoshop, this course will help you take more control over final images than possible when only exporting from SketchUp.

29 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Visual Simulation: Advanced Rendering in SketchUp

Visual Simulation: Advanced Rendering in SketchUp

Instructor: Mike Ernst

In this course, you'll learn to create an advanced rendering of a SketchUp site model, using a free third-party renderer called Kerkythea to design realistic lighting and shading. Then add components to your rendering in Adobe Photoshop.

46 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp for Planners - An Introduction

SketchUp for Planners - An Introduction

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Get started using SketchUp, the popular, easy-to-learn 3D digital modeling program. This course provides an introduction to how planners and architects represent three-dimensional objects in two-dimensions, with step-by-step instructions for creating and using simple 3D models.

39 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 1

SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 1

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Building on Introductory SketchUp for Planners, this course introduces intermediate SketchUp users to the program’s geolocation functions and demonstrates how to create more complex models of planned projects or developments. Additionally, this course illustrates how to create and export video walk-throughs of SketchUp models using the program’s animation features.

54 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 3

SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 3

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Combining SketchUp and Adobe Creative Suite, this course demonstrates how to use SketchUp together with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to create illustrative and informative photo simulations, perspective views, sections and site plans.

50 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 2

SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 2

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

In addition to accurately modeling projects, as demonstrated in the introductory courses, SketchUp is also useful for illustrating more abstract concepts, such as FAR, dimensional requirements and design guidelines. This course demonstrates how planners use SketchUp to illustrate requirements in zoning codes, design guidelines and form based codes.

66 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp for Planners - Modeling Complex Forms and Structures

SketchUp for Planners - Modeling Complex Forms and Structures

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Master the advanced features of SketchUp, including modeling historic structures and real-world buildings, working with SketchUp Plugins, and modeling complex forms.

70 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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