sketchup lesson 1

Spring 2015

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WelcomeTime to learn Sketchup!

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Basics

SELECTION TOOL

DRAWING LINES

DRAWING SIMPLE FIGURES

PULLING/PUSHING

PANNING AND ORBITING

ROTATING AND MOVING

ZOOMING

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Opening Screen

Instructor

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Large Tool Set

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Selector Tool

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Line Tool

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Click once to start line - do not click and drag!

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Can align to axis

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Click again to finish line

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Now you try it!

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Build a square

** Tip: press esc to cancel a line mid-build

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Grey signifies solid shape

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Push/pull tool

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Hover over a face and click once to select

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Click again to finish

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Orbitting, Pan, Zoom

** Press o to orbit

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Rectangle tool

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Circle tool

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Selection tool

• Click once to select a line or face• Click twice to select a 2D object • Click three times to select whole object

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Click once

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Double click

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Triple click

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Moving • **Always move on an axis to avoid “floating” objects

Rotate

• With selector tool, triple click to select whole object

• With rotate tool selected, double click face center

ROTATING AROUND CENTER

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Rotate

• Double click face center

ROTATING AROUND CENTER

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Rotate

• Orient, hold shift, click

ROTATING AROUND POINT

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Rotated Rectangle

Good for drawing rectangles at an angle to the 3 axes

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Rotated Rectangle

• Can orient to any axis, or on a face of an object

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Rotated Rectangle

• Click once and move line

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Click twice and place rectangle to an angle to the indicated plane (in this case, red)

Rotated Rectangle

• End result

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Orbit and extrude to best show angles

Lines and shapes

Inferring

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Lines and shapesShape by size

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Click once to start shape, move mouse to “get shape started”, then simply start typing. Once you hit enter shape should finish on its own.Tip: Don’t click on the dimensions box. Just start typing.

Lines and shapes

Sides

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Circles and polygons the number of sides can be changed. Then you enter the radius.

Lines and shapes

Sides

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Circles and polygons the number of sides can be changed. Then you enter the radius.

Try it!

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2 point Arcs

• Click for start point, click for end point, move mouse to bend

• Measured: Click to start, enter length of line, enter ‘radius’ for curve

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3 point Arcs

• Click for start point

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Click again for rotation point and adjust arc

Click again to finish

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Type in angle and hit enter to finish

• Measured: Click for start point, type a length and select enter

Move mouse to display “pacman”

Pie ArcsLesson 1

Why am I standingon pizza?

finished product

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Click once to select centerpoint of “pie”

Click again to define edge of the slice of pie

Move mouse and click again to finish the pie

Arc Tangents

• Create tangents to soften edges

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TextANCHORED COMMENTS

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Text3D TEXT OBJECTS

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Text

• Comments ‘swivel’ with camera, 3D text objects act like any other element and do not ‘swivel with camera

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