Spring 2015

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Google SketchUp

Follow Me Tool

• Can apply a condition to both an entire face and path

Follow Me Tool3 STEPS TO USING THE FOLLOW ME TOOLStep 1

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Follow Me Tool3 STEPS TO USING THE FOLLOW ME TOOLStep 2

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Follow Me Tool3 STEPS TO USING THE FOLLOW ME TOOLStep 3

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Orientation

• Hold shift key to set orientation in a different plane

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NO Shift Key: Circle defaults to drawing on top of face

Pressing Shift Key: Circle stays oriented to where you started (doesn’t default to drawing on face)

Making Spheres

• Must make use of orientation to make a sphere

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Making Spheres• Step 1: Draw a circle on the blue plane.

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• Step 2: Move mouse cursor far away from circle, until your cursor turns either green or red. Hold down shift key!

OR

Making Spheres• Step 3: Draw slightly smaller circle on top of

regular circle, while still holding shift key

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• Step 4: Use Selector tool to click the face of the large circle

Making Spheres• Step 5: Click on “Follow Me” tool, and then click

the face of the smaller circle

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• Step 6: Using Selector tool, click once on outside line of larger circle and hit delete. Voila!

Tape Measure ToolLesson 1 Part 2

Tape measure tool helps you measure specific points for more precise drawings.

The grey dashed lines are guide lines

The points on either end of the dashed line are guide points

Guide Lines• Select Tape Measure Tool, click an edge of object

and move mouse onto a face. If you do not see a grey dotted line, hit CTRL or Command (Mac)

Type in a length and hit enter.

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Guide Lines

• Do this again, but on the right-front face.

In this case, you have found a point 6 inches away from both of these two edges.

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ScalingUsed to scale the entire object or certain faces of the object about the opposite point (eg, corner to corner)

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ScalingUse selector tool and click three times to select entire 3d object. Then select scaling tool and click and drag green cubes that appear

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ScalingUse selector tool and click once to select a 2d face. Select Scale tool to move face

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Original

Scaling

Hold down CTRL (PC) or ⌘ (Mac) to scale about object center

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3d (center of whole object)

2d (center of face)

ScalingHold down Shift to scale non-uniformly

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Non-uniform: does not keep same proportions, but scales about the same point

Uniform: Keeps same proportionsHold SHIFT

Inferred Push/Pull

Sketchup will infer the height of push/pull based on existing parts of your drawing.

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Inferred Push/PullDraw two rectangles next to each other, and push/pull one

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Push/pull the other, while moving your cursor over the other object. If done correctly, a dotted line connecting your objects should appear

OR

“Punching out” Openings

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Offset Tool

Creates lines offset from the main shape. Essentially just a smaller outline of the shape.

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above: example image from Instructor panel

Punching-out

Drawing a 2D shape on a 3D face lets you do this for any shape.

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We will focus on using offset tool, though.

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Click on offset tool.

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Create an offset outline on a face.

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Use push/pull tool to cut out shape

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Paint bucket tool to color offset region

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Custom colors

PAINT BEFORE PROCEEDING

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Try it!

Build a tableLesson 1 Part 2

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X-ray VisionLesson 1 Part 2

Add a bench!Lesson 1 Part 2

I could really use a nice place to sit...

Add a bench!Lesson 1 Part 2

You don’t want to make me a bench, huh?