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1 Chapter 1TABLE 1-1 SketchUp Versions
2 Chapter 5TABLE 5-1 Component Alignment Options
3 Chapter 6TABLE 6-1 The Solid Tools
4 Chapter 13TABLE 13-1 Suggested Image Sizes for Onscreen Use
5 Chapter 15TABLE 15-1 Ten SketchUp Extensions
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1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: Important features in SketchUp Pro.FIGURE 1-2: Important features in SketchUp for Web.FIGURE 1-3: Search for tools or search for what you want to do with tools in Sk...FIGURE 1-4: Using the scroll wheel to pan (left) and orbit (right).FIGURE 1-5: One of a few ways to imagine a sphere in SketchUp: a circle rotatin...
2 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: The desktop Welcome screen (left) and the web Welcome screen (right...FIGURE 2-2: Draw a 3D rectangle on the ground.FIGURE 2-3: Use the Push/Pull tool to extrude your rectangle into a box.FIGURE 2-4: Draw two diagonal lines that will become your peaked roof.FIGURE 2-5: Use the Push/Pull tool to form a peaked roof on your box.FIGURE 2-6: A rectangle drawn on the front of your pointy box.FIGURE 2-7: Draw an arc on top of your rectangle.FIGURE 2-8: Create the door opening by erasing its bottom edge.FIGURE 2-9: The Materials panel in Windows (left) and on a Mac (right).FIGURE 2-10: Choose the Orbit tool, and drag your cursor to spin your model.FIGURE 2-11: Orbit (spin) your model to paint all the faces.FIGURE 2-12: Use Zoom Extents any time you can’t figure out where your model we...FIGURE 2-13: The Assorted Styles library is a sampler of ready-mixed SketchUp s...FIGURE 2-14: The same doghouse with four very different styles applied to it.FIGURE 2-15: Change the time and date to see the shadows change.
3 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: SketchUp models are made from edges and faces.FIGURE 3-2: Even curved lines are made up of straight edges.FIGURE 3-3: Even organic shapes and curvy forms are made up of straight edges.FIGURE 3-4: You need at least three coplanar edges to make a face.FIGURE 3-5: All faces are flat, even the ones that make up larger, curvy surfac...FIGURE 3-6: SketchUp automatically makes a face whenever you create a closed lo...FIGURE 3-7: You can delete a face without deleting the edges that define it.FIGURE 3-8: Just retrace any edge on a closed loop to tell SketchUp to create a...FIGURE 3-9: Splitting a face with an edge and then extruding one of the new fac...FIGURE 3-10: Visual cues tell you when you’re drawing or moving geometry parall...FIGURE 3-11: The axes help you create 3D models on a 2D screen.FIGURE 3-12: Point inferences appear when you hover your cursor over key points...FIGURE 3-13: SketchUp’s linear inferences help you align new geometry with exis...FIGURE 3-14: Lock and encourage inferences as you draw new geometry in relation...FIGURE 3-15: The Orbit tool lets you see your model from any angle.FIGURE 3-16: Use the Zoom tool to get closer to the action.FIGURE 3-17: You can move the box 5 meters, change your mind, and move it 15 me...FIGURE 3-18: Try single-, double-, and triple-clicking edges and faces in your ...FIGURE 3-19: Dragging left to right selects everything inside your selection bo...FIGURE 3-20: To move things precisely, choose precise points to grab things and...FIGURE 3-21: You can use the Move tool on vertices, edges, and faces to model d...FIGURE 3-22: Using the Move tool when you have a selection moves only the thing...FIGURE 3-23: Press Ctrl (Mac: Option) to tell SketchUp to make a copy while you...FIGURE 3-24: Use the Measurements box to make multiple copies.FIGURE 3-25: Define a custom axis of rotation by click-dragging.FIGURE 3-26: Use guides to measure things before you draw.FIGURE 3-27: Use the Tape Measure tool to create guide lines and points.FIGURE 3-28: Press Shift and click with the Paint Bucket (B) tool to replace on...
4 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Use single faces for exterior models and double faces for interior ...FIGURE 4-2: Your modeling window should look like this before you start drawing...FIGURE 4-3: All the tools you need to draft in 2D in SketchUp are on the basic ...FIGURE 4-4: Use the Eraser tool to erase edges. Erasing an edge that defines a ...FIGURE 4-5: Using an Arc tool is a three-step operation.FIGURE 4-6: Drawing circles is easy with the Circle tool.FIGURE 4-7: The Offset (F) tool lets you create edges based on other edges.FIGURE 4-8: Using the Offset (F) tool on a set of preselected edges is handy fo...FIGURE 4-9: To make an exterior model, measure the outside of your building to ...FIGURE 4-10: A paper sketch.FIGURE 4-11: Start by drawing an edge 17 feet long; then draw a perpendicular e...FIGURE 4-12: The completed interior perimeter of the house.FIGURE 4-13: Use the Offset (F) tool to create an exterior wall thickness and t...FIGURE 4-14: Draw a guide to help you locate your first interior wall; then dra...FIGURE 4-15: Use the Line tool to create edges where guides come together.FIGURE 4-16: Using the Eraser, delete your guides and any little edge segments ...FIGURE 4-17: Before you start work in 3D, switch over to a 3D view.FIGURE 4-18: The Push/Pull tool extrudes faces to make the walls of the house. ...FIGURE 4-19: Floor levels are like trays stacked inside a box consisting of you...FIGURE 4-20: Draw right on top of the lower floor; then push/pull the interior ...FIGURE 4-21: The outline of the second floor doesn’t exactly match that of the ...FIGURE 4-22: Use the Offset (F) tool to draw faces that represent new exterior ...FIGURE 4-23: Delete extra floor faces; then push/pull down the walls.FIGURE 4-24: Do what you need to do to make your exterior walls look right.FIGURE 4-25: Placing window and door components in your model is a breeze.FIGURE 4-26: With guides and the Push/Pull tool, create an opening through para...FIGURE 4-27: The anatomy of a staircase.FIGURE 4-28: The Subdivided Rectangles method of building stairs.FIGURE 4-29: The Copied Profile method.FIGURE 4-30: Using Follow Me with the Copied Profile method produces some impre...FIGURE 4-31: Different kinds of roofs and their various and sundry parts.FIGURE 4-32: Modeling parapets on flat-roofed buildings is easy.FIGURE 4-33: Eaves are the parts of the roof that overhang a building’s walls.FIGURE 4-34: Gabled roofs are relatively easy to make in SketchUp.FIGURE 4-35: If your gabled roof is part of a larger roof structure, it may jus...FIGURE 4-36: Some common gabled roof details.FIGURE 4-37: To make a hip roof, start with a gabled one.FIGURE 4-38: Using Intersect Faces to cut a partial cylinder out of a cube.FIGURE 4-39: Here’s a typically complex roof that Intersect Faces can unify.
5 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Making the roof into a group means that it won’t stick to the rest ...FIGURE 5-2: Changing one instance of a component changes all the other instance...FIGURE 5-3: Quickly count all the window instances in your model (top) or even ...FIGURE 5-4: What do these things have in common? They’re symmetrical.FIGURE 5-5: The Components panel is chock-full o’ goodness.FIGURE 5-6: The Statistics tab of the Components panel: Geek out on numbers.FIGURE 5-7: The Create Component dialog box (so many options …).FIGURE 5-8: Deselect the Shadows Face Sun check box if your component touches t...FIGURE 5-9: DCs can do all kinds of things.FIGURE 5-10: Scaling a nondynamic window (center) stretches the whole thing. Th...FIGURE 5-11: When you make the staircase taller, this dynamic staircase adds st...FIGURE 5-12: The Component Options dialog box looks different for every Dynamic...FIGURE 5-13: Clicking stuff with the Interact tool makes things happen.FIGURE 5-14: Bilateral symmetry (top) and radial symmetry (bottom) make your Sk...FIGURE 5-15: Getting set up to build a bilaterally symmetrical model.FIGURE 5-16: Test your setup to make sure that everything works.FIGURE 5-17: Draw a polygon to start, draw two edges to create a wedge, and era...FIGURE 5-18: Use the Rotate (Q) tool to make copies of your wedge component ins...FIGURE 5-19: Model a single step, making sure that the depth and height are acc...FIGURE 5-20: Make your step into a component instance, move a copy into positio...FIGURE 5-21: A flight of stairs with side stringers and a handrail; on the righ...
6 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: Follow Me lets you create all kinds of shapes.FIGURE 6-2: Using Follow Me to create a simple extruded shape.FIGURE 6-3: Setting up to make a lathed part.FIGURE 6-4: The finished product.FIGURE 6-5: A few examples of lathed objects created with Follow Me.FIGURE 6-6: Drawing an extrusion profile in place by starting with a rectangle.FIGURE 6-7: Draw a short tail on your extrusion profile to help you position it...FIGURE 6-8: Creating a rounded edge with Follow Me.FIGURE 6-9: Making
