Here's another great SketchUp / Photoshop digital rendering tutorial by Jason Christiansen. Jason uses both SketchUp and Photoshop (with the fotosketcher plugin) to create perspective renderings with a hand-rendered look.
Google created a series of self-paced tutorials (SKP files), that teach various concepts. Newbies should check out an Introduction to SketchUp. Advanced users should review Introducing Dynamic Components.
The full list of tutorials is available at sketchup.google.com
Google has created and posted a series of video tutorials which range in scope from drawing shapes to creating a lens blur effect with SketchUp and Photoshop. You can find all of these videos at http://sketchup.google.com/training/videos.html
Beginner Tutorial: Using the Tape Measure Tool
Advanced Tutorial: Creating a Lens Blur Effect
The official SketchUp blog is a great resource to follow for both new and advanced SketchUp modelers. http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/
Read more: sketchupdate.blogspot.com
(YouTube tutorial by SketchUpVideos)
This is the 3rd of 3 videos covering SketchUpVideo's recommended method for creating models from AutoCAD files. Here they cover a technique to create your door and window openings in an imported AutoCAD drawing.
(YouTube tutorial by SketchUpVideos)
There are varied approaches to using SketchUp with AutoCAD files. This video is the 1st of 3 videos that present one method SketchUpVideos suggest.
In this video they import a AutoCAD plan, group and lock it, delete extra layers and create a unique layer for the floor plan and create scenes to toggle the floor plan visibility on and off.
