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SketchUp by Aidan Chopra and Rebecca Huehls
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Contents at a GlanceIntroduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Part 1: Getting Started with SketchUp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5CHAPTER 1:CHAPTER 2:CHAPTER 3:Meeting SketchUp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Getting a Running Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Establishing the Modeling Mindset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Part 2: Modeling in SketchUp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69CHAPTER 4:CHAPTER 5:CHAPTER 6:CHAPTER 7:CHAPTER 8:CHAPTER 9:Building Buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Falling in Love with Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Going Beyond Buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Keeping Your Model Organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Modeling with Photos and Other Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2153D Printing with SketchUp Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259Part 3: Viewing Your Model in Different Ways. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291Working with Styles and Shadows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293CHAPTER 11: Presenting Your Model inside SketchUp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329CHAPTER 10:Part 4: Sharing What You’ve Made. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359Paper or Cloud? Printing and Uploading Your Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361Exporting Images, Animations, and CAD Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381CHAPTER 14: Creating Presentations and Documents with LayOut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403CHAPTER 12:CHAPTER 13:Part 5: The Part of Tens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .433Ten SketchUp Traps and Their Workarounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435CHAPTER 16: More Than Ten Ways to Learn About SketchUp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443CHAPTER 15:Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Foolish Assumptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Icons Used in This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beyond the Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12233PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH SKETCHUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5CHAPTER 1:Meeting SketchUp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Things You Ought to Know Right Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Comparing SketchUp to Other 3D Modeling Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Jumping right in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Understanding the difference between paper and clay . . . . . . . . . . 9What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Expect SketchUp to Do . . . . . . . . . . 10Taking the Ten-Minute SketchUp Tour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Customizing the toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Checking out some special tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15CHAPTER 2:Getting a Running Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Setting Up Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Making a Quick Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Slapping On Some Paint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Giving Your Model Some Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Switching On the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sharing Your Masterpiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHAPTER 3:171925283032Establishing the Modeling Mindset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33All about Edges and Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Living on the edge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Facing the facts about faces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Understanding the relationship between edges and faces . . . . . .Drawing in 3D on a 2D Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Giving instructions with the drawing axes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Keeping an eye out for inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Using inferences to help you model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Warming Up Your SketchUp Muscles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Getting the best view of what you’re doing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Drawing and erasing edges with ease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Injecting accuracy into your model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Selecting what you mean to select. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Table of Contents34343537394041434545474852v
Moving and copying like a champ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rotating the right way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Making and using guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Painting your faces with color and texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55606265PART 2: MODELING IN SKETCHUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69CHAPTER 4:Building Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Drawing Floors and Walls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Starting out in 2D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Coming up with a simple plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Going from 2D to 3D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Adding floors to your building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Inserting doors and windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Staring Down Stairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101The Subdivided Rectangles method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102The Copied Profile method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Raising the Roof. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Building flat roofs with parapets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Creating eaves for buildings with pitched roofs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Constructing gabled roofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Making hip roofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Sticking your roof together with Intersect Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114CHAPTER 5:Falling in Love with Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119Grouping Things Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Working with Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121What makes components so great?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122Exploring the Components panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Creating your own components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Editing, exploding, and locking component instances. . . . . . . . . . 134Discovering Dynamic Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Taking Advantage of Components to Build Better Models. . . . . . . . . 142Modeling symmetrically: Good news for lazy people. . . . . . . . . . .143Modeling with repeated elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149CHAPTER 6:viGoing Beyond Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153Extruding with Purpose: Follow Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Using Follow Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Making lathed forms like spheres and bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Creating extruded shapes like gutters and handrails . . . . . . . . . .Subtracting from a model with Follow Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154154156157163SketchUp For Dummies
Modeling with the Scale Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Getting the hang of Scale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scaling profiles to make organic forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Making and Modifying Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Creating a new terrain model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Editing an existing terrain model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Building a Solid Tools Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Understanding solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Checking out the Solid Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Putting the Solid Tools to work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHAPTER 7:CHAPTER 8:167167171177177184193193195198Keeping Your Model Organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203Taking Stock of Your Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seeing the Big Picture: The Outliner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Taking a good look at the Outliner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Making good use of the Outliner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Discovering the Ins and Outs of Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .What layers are — and what they’re not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Navigating the Layers panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Moving entities to a different layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Staying out of trouble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203205205206207207208209210211Modeling with Photos and Other Resources . . . . . .215Painting Faces with Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216Adding photos to flat faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216Editing your textures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Adding photo textures to curved surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226Modeling Directly from a Photo: Introducing Photo-Matching. . . . . . 230Choosing a Match Photo-friendly image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Modeling by photo-matching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232Making your matched photo reappear (or disappear) . . . . . . . . . 238Modeling on Top of Photo Textures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Making a texture projected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Modeling with projected textures: A basic workflow. . . . . . . . . . . 240Adding Geographic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241Geo-locating your model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242Viewing your model in Google Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244Working with Imported CAD files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Importing a CAD file into SketchUp Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Cleaning up imported CAD data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Modeling on top of imported CAD data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251Table of Contentsvii
3D Printing with SketchUp Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259Building Up a View of 3D Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Building a Model in Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Supporting layers from below. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Designing to avoid support material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bridging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Preparing a SketchUp Model for 3D Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Peeking inside a model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowing what makes a solid model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Using Solid Tools to combine groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CleanUp3 and Solid Inspector2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Combining groups with Intersect Faces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Checking a model’s normals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Checking your model’s size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Breaking Your Model into Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Exporting Your SketchUp File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowing Your 3D Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Desktop 3D printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Professional 3D printers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3D printing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Using Your 3D Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Print early, print often. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Inside your model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Going beyond Basic 3D Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Designing parts that connect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Testing your model’s moving parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Designing Things That Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Captive joints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gears. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77279279280280281282282286286287287288PART 3: VIEWING YOUR MODEL IN DIFFERENT WAYS . . .291Working with Styles and Shadows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293CHAPTER 9:CHAPTER 10:Styling Your Model’s Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294Choosing how and where to apply styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294Applying styles to your models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295Editing your styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297Creating a new style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313Saving and sharing styles you make. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314Working with Shadows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317Discovering the shadow settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317Adding depth and realism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319Creating accurate shadow studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323viiiSketchUp For Dummies
Presenting Your Model inside SketchUp . . . . . . . . . . .329Exploring Your Creation on Foot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .These tools were made for walking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Stopping to look around. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Setting your field of view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Taking the Scenic Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Creating scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Moving from scene to scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Modifying scenes after you make ’em . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mastering the Sectional Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cutting plans and sections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Animating sections with scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330330332333334336337341347348356PART 4: SHARING WHAT YOU’VE MADE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .359Paper or Cloud? Printing and UploadingYour Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .361Printing Your Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Printing from a Windows computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Printing from a Mac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Printing to a particular scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Working with the 3D Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Why Warehouse?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Getting to the 3D Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Uploading a model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Managing models online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362362367371374375376376378Exporting Images, Animations, and CAD Files. . . . .381CHAPTER 11:CHAPTER 12:CHAPTER 13:Exporting 2D Images of Your Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381Introducing raster versus vector files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382Exporting a raster image from SketchUp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382Looking at SketchUp’s raster formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387Making sure you export enough pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389Making Movies with Animation Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394Getting ready for prime time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394Exporting a movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395Figuring out the Animation Export Options settings . . . . . . . . . . . 397Exporting a CAD File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399Preparing your file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399Exporting a 2D DWG file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400Exporting a 3D DWG file. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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