Identifying what you are modeling now

The first step in making a plan to get better at something is to figure out how good you are at it right now. Depending on your working environment, this may be easy to figure out or it could be a bit of a struggle. While there are quite a few SketchUp users who have had formal training and work in an office with other designers, many SketchUp users are self-taught and work on their own.

For this reason, it’s not a simple “Are you a beginner, intermediate, or advanced user?” question. Likewise, since SketchUp can be used across so many different industries, it is hard to identify what skills or competencies must be in place to establish a user as being a “good” SketchUp designer.

So, what do we do here? First off, let’s agree to drop simple labeling. I know that there is something in us that wants to categorize and rank our abilities, but the fact is that it does not matter. Who cares if you are...