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Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual

SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly A Note Regarding Supplemental Files The Missing Credits

About the Author About the Creative Team Acknowledgments The Missing Manual Series

Introduction

What You Can Do with SketchUp

SketchUp vs. SketchUp Pro

SketchUp (free) SketchUp Pro ($495)

Entering the Third Dimension

Drawing in 3-D Without Getting Lost

About This Book About the Outline The Very Basics

Macintosh and Windows About These Arrows

About MissingManuals.com

SketchUp Examples Safari® Books Online

I. Basic SketchUp Skills

1. Building a Bench: Your First SketchUp Model

Firing Up SketchUp for the First Time

A Tour of SketchUp's Main Window Looking Around with the Camera Customizing Your Workspace

For Windows For Mac

Creating Your First SketchUp Document

Choosing a Drawing Template Creating Your Own Templates Changing Your Camera View

Bench: Starting Your First Model

Building a Board

Selecting Objects Turning Your Bench Seat into a Component

Building a Bench Leg Building the Bench Support Rotating an Object Moving, Copying, and Deleting Components

Moving components Copying and deleting components

Component Hide and Seek with the Outliner

Assembling the Bench Components Placing Components with Precision Painting Your Bench with Materials

Using the Outliner to Select Nested Components

Adding to Your Scene

2. Starting Off in Two Dimensions

Drawing Lines with the Line Tool

Drawing a Triangle with the Line Tool Turning a Triangle into a Rectangle

Erasing Lines and Surfaces

Adding a Face to Create a New Shape

Drawing Polygons and Circles

Changing the Radius of a Polygon Changing a Polygon Using the Entity Info Window

Drawing Circles Creating Complex Shapes Drawing Rectangles and Arcs Using the Freehand Tool Moving Objects

Moving a Face Moving a Point The Effects of Moving

Editing Geometry Tools Tour

3. Drawing in Three Dimensions

Navigating 3-D Drawings

Introducing the Blue Axis

Finding 3-D Inferences Using the Push/Pull Tool

Aligning Surfaces and Finding References Pop Quiz: Put the Circle Back Bonus Question: Bore a Round Hole Through the Box Click and Rotate to Find a Reference

Surface Orientation and Surface Colors

Changing Surface Orientation: Reversing Faces Intersections in 3-D Objects Working with Complex Intersections Double-Clicking with Push/Pull

Using the Move Tool in 3-D

Understanding Auto-Fold Using Auto-Fold with Circles and Cylinders Using Info Entity to Edit 3-D Objects

II. Building a House

4. Drawing a Basic House

Locking an Inference Working with Sloped Surfaces

Referencing a Sloped Surface Yet Another Way to Reference a Slope Inference Locking with the Move Tool Using Inference Locking with Shape Tools

Making Doors and Windows Using the Offset Tool Building a Roof with an Overhang Initial Landscaping: Front Walk and Driveway

5. Working Smarter with Groups and Components

Creating a Group

Editing and Modifying a Group

Creating Components Speeding Up Construction with Arrays

Creating an Array Between Two Points

Editing Components Using the Make Unique Command Exploring the Components Window

Components Window: Select Tab Components Window: Edit Tab Components Window: Statistics Tab

Using the Flip Along Command Exploding Components and Groups Deleting Components

Purging Components

Using Dynamic Components

6. Changing Styles and Applying Materials

Changing Face Styles Applying Colors and Materials (Windows)

Finding and Applying Materials (Windows) Mixing Your Own Colors and Materials (Windows) Finding New Materials (Windows) Loading with the Eyedropper (Windows) Editing Materials (Windows)

Applying Colors and Materials (Mac)

Mixing Your Own Colors (Mac)

Mixing colors with sliders Choosing colors with image palette

Finding and Applying Materials (Mac) Adding New Materials (Mac) Loading with the Eyedropper (Mac)

Changing Face Styles: Take 2 (Mac and Windows) Working in the Styles Window

Applying a New Style to Your Model Organizing Styles Purge Unused Styles from the In Model View

Editing and Modifying Styles

Changing Edge Styles Choosing Face Settings for a Style Adjusting Background Settings Using a Watermark with a Style Changing the Modeling Settings for a Style

Modifying Styles Using the Mix Tab

7. Organizing with Outliner and Layers

Organizing with Outliner

Creating a Group in Outliner Locking a Group Hiding and Unhiding in Outliner Using the Make Unique Command in Outliner Reorganizing Groups with Outliner Building a Small Angled Roof Creating an Array of Rafters

Putting a lid on it

Drawing Guides with the Tape Measure Erasing and Hiding Guides

Hiding guides

Creating a Nested Group in Outliner

Building Stairs: The Divide and Conquer Method

Using Divide to Build Stair Stringers Making and Placing Stair Treads

Building the stair's railing

Using Outliner's Filter

Working with Layers

Adding, Naming, and Deleting Layers Moving Entities to a New Layer Setting the Active Layer and Hiding Layers Viewing Layers by Color Purging Layers Tips for Working with Layers

III. Advanced Construction Techniques

8. Drawing a Hipped Roof and Using Follow Me

Making Construction Lines Using the Protractor Tool

Protractor Modifier Keys

Using the Follow Me Tool Preselecting the Path for the Follow Me Tool

One more path to hipped roof nirvana

Making Spheres with Follow Me

Using a Reference Object to Draw a Sphere Using Follow Me As a Lathe

Making Complex Profiles Follow a Path Following Complex or Irregular Paths Making Stairs and a Railing

9. Advanced Techniques for Groups and Components

Making Groups and Components Understanding SketchUp's Sticky Behavior

Unsticking Sticky Entities

Editing a Group

Hiding the Rest of the Model while Editing Groups and Components

Hiding similar components

Creating Components with "Glue to" Options

Using a Component's Origin and Axes

Copying and Placing Components

Using Guides to Place Components with Precision The Effects of the "Glue to" Options Ungluing a Component Component's Cut Opening Option

Placing Components in Your Model

Exploring the Components Window

Editing Components

Making Components Unique Renaming Your Component

Saving Components for Reuse

Purging Unused Components from Your Model Creating a Collection Sharing SketchUp Components

Swapping Components in Your Model

Swapping Components Using the Reload Command

10. Matching Your Photos in SketchUp

How Photo Match Works Shooting Photos for Photo Match Importing a Photo for Photo Match

An Alternative Method for Importing Images

Calibrating the Photo Match Image

Adjusting the Grid

Building a Model from a Picture

Adding 3-D Details to Your Model

Applying an Image to a Model Creating 3-D Details from a Texture Image

Creating 3-D Details for the Bottom of Villa Savoye

Finding Models with Photo Textures

IV. Adding Realism and Movement

11. Adding Shadows and Placing Your Model in Google Earth

Flicking the Light Switch Changing Shadow Angles

Changing Shadows Using Time Controls Changing Shadows by Changing Location

Positioning Your Model by Pointing North

Using Google Earth to Set Geographic Locations

Controlling the Strength of the Shadows Choosing Whether Faces and Edges Cast Shadows

Using Sun for Shading Creating Windows That Transmit Light Turning Shadows On and Off for Individual Entities

12. Saving Views and Animating with Scenes

Creating a Scene

Playing the Scenes Animation Changing the Animation Timing Changing the Order of Scenes Renaming Scenes Deleting (Removing) Scenes Turning Scenes into Video

Studying Shadow Movement with Scenes

Including or Excluding Scenes in an Animation What's Saved in a Scene What's Not Saved in a Scene Updating Scene Details

More Ways to Move the Camera

Using the Position Camera Tool Setting the Field of View Looking Around Walking the Camera

Using the Walk tool modifiers

Walk On

View Cross-Sections with Section Planes

Rotating a Section Plane Saving Section Planes and Section Cuts in Scenes Copying a Section Plane Setting the Active Section Plane

V. Saving, Printing, and Sharing Projects

13. Importing, Exporting, and Printing

Importing 3-D Models

Importing SketchUp SKP and SKB Files Importing AutoCAD 3D DWG or DXF Files Importing 3DS Files

Importing 2-D Images

Importing 2-D AutoCAD DWG and DXF Files Importing Photoshop PSD Files

Exporting from SketchUp

Exporting 3-D Images Exporting Models to Google Earth Exporting 2-D Images

Exporting from SketchUp Pro

Exporting 2-D Images

Exporting Animations Printing SketchUp Views

Printing from Windows Printing from a Mac

14. Finding, Creating, and Sharing Components

Finding Components in the 3D Warehouse

Exploring the Model Browser Window Advanced Searching in the 3D Warehouse

Creating a Dynamic Component (SketchUp Pro Only)

Preparing Your Component with Color Swatches Creating Material Attributes for a Dynamic Component

Hiding color and material swatches

Making a Resizable Dynamic Component Constraining the Dimensions of Dynamic Components Preventing Dynamic Components from Scaling

Sharing Components

Purge Before Saving Uploading a Model to the 3D Warehouse Editing Your Model Details in the 3D Warehouse Removing Your Model from the 3D Warehouse Changing the Share Options for Your Model in the 3D Warehouse Uploading a Dynamic Component

15. Designing Edge Styles in Style Builder (SketchUp Pro)

Style Builder Overview Creating Images for New Sketchy Edge Styles

Generating a Template for Strokes Drawing New Strokes

Drawing strokes on a graphics tablet Drawing strokes on paper

Editing Strokes

Importing and editing strokes drawn on paper

Editing Strokes in Style Builder

Changing the Stroke Settings Adding More Strokes Saving a New Style

Opening a New Style in SketchUp

16. Presenting Your Model with LayOut (SketchUp Pro)

Workflow for a LayOut Project Starting Up LayOut

Choosing a Template Saving a Custom Template

LayOut Program: The Quick Tour

Menus Toolbars

Customizing Windows toolbars Customizing Mac toolbars

Trays Status Bar, Measurements, and Zoom View

Manipulating Your Model in LayOut

Managing LayOut Pages Organizing Elements with Layers Creating Content that Appears on Multiple Pages Inserting a Model into LayOut Changing the View of a 3-D Model in LayOut Updating Links to SketchUp Models Drawing in LayOut Adding Text to Your LayOut Storing Favorites in Scrapbooks

Printing from LayOut

Exporting PDF Files

Presenting from LayOut

VI. Appendixes

A. Installing SketchUp and Getting Help

Installing SketchUp

Downloading SketchUp Installing SketchUp in Windows Installing SketchUp on a Mac

Getting Help for SketchUp

SketchUp Hints The Instructor Window SketchUp Help Center Downloading SketchUp Documents Google SketchUp Help Group Third-Party Help and Tutorials

B. SketchUp Menu by Menu

File

New Open Open Recent (Mac) Save Save As Save a Copy As Revert Send to LayOut (SketchUp Pro Only) 3D Warehouse Export Import Print Setup (Windows) Print Preview (Windows) Page Setup (Mac) Document Setup (Mac) Print Generate Report (SketchUp Pro Only) Recent Files (Windows only) Exit

SketchUp Menu (Mac Only)

About SketchUp License (SketchUp Pro) Check Web for Update Services Hide SketchUp Hide Others Show All Quit SketchUp

Edit

Undo Redo Cut Copy Paste Paste In Place Delete Delete Guides Select All Select None Hide Unhide

Unhide → Selected Unhide → Last Unhide → All

Lock Unlock Make Component Make Group Close Group/Component Intersect

Intersect With Model Intersect With Selected Only Intersect With Context

No Selection/Entity/Group/Component

Edge → Select Edge → Soften Edge → Divide Edge → Zoom Extents Face → Select Face → Area Face → Intersect Face → Align View Face → Align Axes Face → Reverse Faces Face → Orient Faces Face → Zoom Extents Group → Edit Group Group → Explode Group → Make Component Group → Unglue Group → Reset Scale Group → Reset Skew Group → Intersect Group → Flip Along Group → Zoom Extents Component → Edit Component Component → Make Unique Component → Explode Component → Unglue Component → Reload Component → Save As Component → Change Axes Component → Reset Scale Component → Reset Skew Component → Scale Definition Component → Intersect Component → Flip Along Component → Soften/Smooth Edges Component → Zoom Extents Component → Dynamic Components

Special Characters (Mac Only)

View

Toolbars (Mac: Tool Palettes) Scene Tabs Hidden Geometry Section Planes Section Cuts Axes Guides Shadows Fog Edge Style

Edge Style → Display Edges Edge Style → Profiles Edge Style → Depth Cue Edge Style → Extension

Face Style

Face Style → X-ray Face Style → Wireframe Face Style → Hidden Line Face Style → Shaded Face Style → Shaded With Textures Face Style → Monochrome

Component Edit

Component Edit → Hide Rest of Model Component Edit → Hide Similar Components

Animation

Animation → Add Scene Animation → Update Scene Animation → Delete Scene Animation → Previous Scene Animation → Next Scene Animation → Play Animation → Settings

Hide Toolbar (Mac Only) Customize Toolbar (Mac Only)

Camera

Previous Next Standard Views

Standard View → Top Standard View → Bottom Standard View → Front Standard View → Back Standard View → Left Standard View → Right Standard View → Iso

Parallel Projection Perspective Two-Point Perspective Match New Photo Edit Matched Photo Orbit Pan Zoom Field of View Zoom Window Zoom Extents Zoom to Photo Position Camera Walk Look Around

Draw

Line Arc Freehand Rectangle Circle Polygon Sandbox

Sandbox → From Contours From → Scratch

Tools

Select Eraser Paint Bucket Move Rotate Scale Push/Pull Follow Me Offset Tape Measure Protractor Axes Dimensions Text 3D Text Section Plane Google Earth

Get Current View Toggle Terrain Place Model

Interact Sandbox

Sandbox → Smoove Sandbox → Stamp Sandbox → Drape Sandbox → Add Detail Sandbox → Flip Edge

Windows

Minimize (Mac Only) Zoom (Mac Only) Model Info Entity Info Materials Components Styles Layers Outliner Scenes Show Fonts (Mac Only) Shadows Fog Match Photo Soften Edges Instructor Preferences (Windows Only) Hide Dialogs Ruby Console Component Options Component Attributes (SketchUp Pro Only) Bring All to Front (Mac Only) Model Windows by Name (Mac Only)

Help

Welcome to SketchUp Help Center (Mac: Online Help Center) Contact Us License (Windows Only) Check for Update (Windows Only) About SketchUp (Windows Only)

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