Content

• Class 01
  • Introduction to SketchUp Pro and Trimble Connect integration
  • Preliminary BIM collaboration test using SketchUp Pro
  • Trimble Connect Sync

• Class 02
  • Start of the class's collaborative project
  • About design models versus coordination models;
  • Using Trimble Connect Sync with SketchUp Pro
  • Differences between viewing a coordination model and a combination of model views in Trimble Connect

• Class 03
  • Review of component creation
  • Review of solid modeling techniques
  • Checking whether your solids are valid
  • Creating component attributes and properties in Dynamic mode

• Class 04
  • Creating a BIM-oriented SketchUp Pro component library
  • Introduction to SketchUp data dictionaries
  • Creating an XSD data dictionary to populate your library components

• Class 05
  • Understanding and applying a BIM-oriented building modeling structure in SketchUp Pro
  • Exporting your model to IFC for the first time
    • With Trimble's original exporter
    • With the IFC Manager plugin
    • Checking exports in analysis software such as Blender/Bonsai and BIMcollab ZOOM

• Class 06
  • Geometric clash detection in SketchUp Pro and IFC models using Trimble Connect and Blender/Bonsai
  • Creating notifications with Trimble Connect's task tool
  • Viewing notifications in SketchUp Pro
  • Exporting notifications as .BCF (BIM Collaboration Format)

• Class 07
  • Exporting quantities from SketchUp Pro
  • Exporting quantities from Trimble Connect
  • Exporting quantities using SketchUp Pro plugins

• Class 08
  • SketchUp LayOut: creating documents and inserting viewports
  • SketchUp LayOut: tags to display BIM object property information
  • SketchUp LayOut: automatic text for title blocks

• Class 09
  • SketchUp LayOut: scaled drawing dimensions and other graphic attributes
  • SketchUp LayOut: object libraries (scrapbooks)
  • SketchUp LayOut: inserting DWG files

• Class 10
  • SketchUp LayOut: inserting Excel spreadsheets
  • SketchUp LayOut: changing a property in SketchUp Pro and seeing it update in a spreadsheet on a LayOut sheet

Who is this course for?

This course is for professionals and students who already know how to model in SketchUp Pro and want to use it in collaborative BIM-based design processes. It is aimed at architects, engineers and designers who need to structure models and information for IFC exchange, work with teams using other software, extract quantities and integrate modeling, communication and documentation through Trimble Connect and SketchUp LayOut.

Course technical details

• 20 hours of live online classes
• Course materials are provided as BIM models in IFC and other formats, PowerPoint or PDF presentations and Excel tables, with extensive bibliographic references to further your studies.
• PLEASE NOTE: Copies of the ABNT standards mentioned in this course are not provided!
• Access all your classes, recorded live on video! You have three months from the start of the course to download your video classes.
• Our courses count as complementary activities in undergraduate architecture, engineering and design programs.
• At the end of the course, a completion certificate is issued to those who attended at least 75% of the live online classes.

About the instructor

• In education, Gaspar has spent 26 years researching BIM-related tools and processes and developing training under the EBBIM – Empresa Brasileira de BIM brand.
• In academia, Gaspar teaches BIM in postgraduate programs at FIA Business School, SENAI-SP/ISEP and Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie.
• Work on the development and editing of BIM guides and manuals:
  • Co-authorship of the teaching materials for the Democratizando BIM – Agentes Públicos course for the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI): 5 workbooks and instructional video scripts, in 2025;
  • Participation in a working group and content review of 3 BIM manuals for the Urban Infrastructure Department of São Paulo City Hall (SIURB), in 2025;
  • Co-writing and co-editing of the Good Practice Guide for BIM Procurement: Volume I – General Guidelines, for the National Union of Architecture and Consulting Engineering Companies (SINAENCO), in 2024;
• Since November 2022, Gaspar has coordinated ABNT Special Study Commission 134, responsible for creating, editing and publishing Brazilian BIM standards. Between 2018 and 2022, within CEE-134, Gaspar participated in the working group that developed parts of ABNT NBR 15965-4:2021. Construction Information Classification System:
  • ABNT NBR 15965-4:2021. Construction Information Classification System. Part 4. Construction Resources;
  • ABNT NBR 15965-5:202. Construction Information Classification System. Part 5. Construction Results
  • ABNT NBR 15965-6: Construction Information Classification System. Part 6. Construction Units and Spaces.
• Since February 2022, he has been a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at FAU-USP, researching the use of BIM in social housing projects under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gil Garcia de Barros.
• In August 2019, Gaspar obtained a master's degree from the Graduate Program in Architecture, Technology and the City at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), supervised by Prof. Dr. Regina Ruschel.
• With ProBooks Editora, João Gaspar has authored several books, notably “Revit passo a passo – volume I” (co-authored), “ARCHICAD passo a passo”, volumes I and II (co-authored), “Vectorworks passo a passo” and “SketchUp Pro 2013 passo a passo”. With the same publisher, Gaspar edited “101 Conceitos em Arquitetura e Urbanismo na Era Digital”, “Arquitetura contemporânea e automação: prática e reflexão” and “Métricas Urbanas: abordagens paramétricas no planejamento de bairros e cidades sustentáveis”.
• As a researcher, his publications and presentations at major conferences include: Autodesk University (Las Vegas, 2023 and Nashville, 2025), SIGraDI 2024 (Barcelona, 2024), CIB W78 2018 (Chicago, USA), SIGraDI 2017 (Concepción, Chile), CIB W78 2015 (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and TIC 2015 (Recife).