6-10: Assembling a bunch of rounded corners to make objects is relativel...FIGURE 6-11: Using the Scale tool on parts of objects changes their shape.FIGURE 6-12: The Scale tool is a cinch to use.FIGURE 6-13: Grips depend on what you’re trying to scale.FIGURE 6-14: Using Scale and Push/Pull together is a simple way to make organic...FIGURE 6-15: You can go back and scale any profile at any time while you work.FIGURE 6-16: Use Scale with Follow Me to create long, tapered forms like this b...FIGURE 6-17: Use the From Contours tool to turn a set of contour lines into a 3...FIGURE 6-18: How many triangles are created depends on the number of edge segme...FIGURE 6-19: Use the From Scratch tool to create big swatches of flat terrain. ...FIGURE 6-20: You can create irregular terrain surfaces very quickly with the Fr...FIGURE 6-21: Smoove creates shapes that are unlike anything else you can make w...FIGURE 6-22: Preselect faces and edges to smoove shapes other than circles.FIGURE 6-23: Use the Stamp tool to create a nice flat spot for your building.FIGURE 6-24: Use Drape to transfer edges onto your terrain surface.FIGURE 6-25: Solids can’t contain any extra edges or faces.FIGURE 6-26: Check the Entity Info panel to see whether your selection is a sol...FIGURE 6-27: The Solid Tools let you do additive and subtractive modeling opera...FIGURE 6-28: Using Union or Outer Shell to combine several solids gets rid of i...FIGURE 6-29: If you have orthographic views of the thing you’re trying to model...FIGURE 6-30: The Trim tool is perfect for modeling joinery and other close-fitt...7 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: The Outliner lists the components in a model.FIGURE 7-2: In 2D software, layers are pretty straightforward.FIGURE 7-3: The tags panel.FIGURE 7-4: All of SketchUp’s organizational tools were used to build this mode...FIGURE 7-5: Each floor of the house, as well as the roof and the exterior walls...
8 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: Tell SketchUp you want to use the image as a texture.FIGURE 8-2: Click once to locate one corner of the image you’re using as a text...FIGURE 8-3: Use the green pin (only) to realistically orient and scale textures...FIGURE 8-4: Use Fixed Pin mode to stretch four parts of an image to four endpoi...FIGURE 8-5: Manipulate colors and see the impact in your model.FIGURE 8-6: All curved surfaces are either single-direction (left) or multidire...FIGURE 8-7: The Adjacent Faces method lets you map images to simple curved surf...FIGURE 8-8: Mapping projected textures; you’ll know when you get it right.FIGURE 8-9: Choose the style that best describes your photograph’s camera posit...FIGURE 8-10: The photo-matching interface includes your picture, plus lots of o...FIGURE 8-11: The perspective bars are aligned with the roofline and siding.FIGURE 8-12: The axis origin is on a corner that touches the ground.FIGURE 8-13: As you begin tracing your model, align your edges with the drawing...FIGURE 8-14: When you orbit, your photo disappears. Click the scene tab to see ...FIGURE 8-15: Draw a temporary line to create an edge for a roofline or other ed...FIGURE 8-16: Use Add Location to add a satellite image to your SketchUp model.FIGURE 8-17: Applying a simple display style to a model with imported CAD data ...FIGURE 8-18: Select things you don’t need and hide their tags.FIGURE 8-19: Modeling a simple wall based on a couple of edges in an imported C...FIGURE 8-20: Use the Rectangle and Push/Pull tools to model walls that meet at ...FIGURE 8-21: Use Intersect Faces to model walls that form non-90-degree corners...FIGURE 8-22: The Arc tool lets you easily draw arcs with a given radius.
9 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: Reorienting a part can make it print faster and leave little or no ...FIGURE 9-2: A chamfer can turn an unprintable 90-degree angle in to a printable...FIGURE 9-3: Often, a subdivided part is faster and cleaner to print than a part...FIGURE 9-4: When is a door frame a bridge? When it’s 3D-printed.FIGURE 9-5: Using a section plane to look at all overlapping parts that make up...FIGURE 9-6: This poor print never stood a chance.FIGURE 9-7: Booleans are great for simple things. But don’t rely on them for co...FIGURE 9-8: An imported STL file, before and after running CleanUp3.FIGURE 9-9: Solid Inspector is great at finding problems that need a quick fix.FIGURE 9-10: Erase overlapping geometry to create an outer shell.FIGURE 9-11: A correct normal is a happy normal.FIGURE 9-12: Too big and too small. There is something there on the right; it’s...FIGURE 9-13: The line is far less objectionable when it’s well thought out.FIGURE 9-14: Do the seams look out of place?FIGURE 9-15: The cutter object can be a single plane; it’s going to become part...FIGURE 9-16: Lines of intersection created between the two groups.FIGURE 9-17: Make one copy of the group for each part of your model.FIGURE 9-18: It still fits!FIGURE 9-19: Works cosmetically, but don’t expect much durability unless you us...FIGURE 9-20: A snap fit joint is great for reusable connections.FIGURE 9-21: A press fit is an easy connection to draw in SketchUp.FIGURE 9-22: Nothing says strength like an exposed bolt.FIGURE 9-23: Captive joints bring the power of multiplication to life.FIGURE 9-24: A system of pin joints used to make a simple toy.FIGURE 9-25: Welcome to the New Industrial Revolution. Time to gear up.FIGURE 9-26: An impossible assembly.
10 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: Use styles to make your model look any way you want.FIGURE 10-2: The Styles Collections drop-down list is where you find all your s...FIGURE 10-3: The Edge section comes in two flavors: regular (left) and NPR (rig...FIGURE 10-4: Choose among the edge settings to give your model the desired look...FIGURE 10-5: The Face section controls the appearance of your model’s faces.FIGURE 10-6: Use Face styles to change the way your faces appear.FIGURE 10-7: Use the Background section to turn on the sky and the ground and t...FIGURE 10-8: The Watermark section.FIGURE 10-9: The Create Watermark series of dialog boxes.FIGURE 10-10: The controls in the Modeling section are every bit as simple as t...FIGURE 10-11: Sample from different styles to update the style you’re working o...FIGURE 10-12: Use the Select section to manage your styles without leaving Sket...FIGURE 10-13: Dial up the sun in the Shadows panel.FIGURE 10-14: Brighten the room by increasing the Dark slider.FIGURE 10-15: Tell the ceiling not to cast a shadow.FIGURE 10-16: Some tips for making objects stand out with shadows.FIGURE 10-17: Giving your model a geographic location when you’re not online.FIGURE 10-18: Make sure your model is correctly oriented relative to north.FIGURE 10-19: Studying the effect of the sun on your model.
11 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: Drop yourself into your model with the Position Camera tool.FIGURE 11-2: Click and drag with Position Camera to aim your view.FIGURE 11-3: The wider your field of view, the more you can see.FIGURE 11-4: To show very specific views, create scenes.FIGURE 11-5: A scene appears in two places.FIGURE 11-6: You can modify scenes by right-clicking scene tabs or by using the...FIGURE 11-7: Choose which scene properties to save in the expanded Scenes panel...FIGURE 11-8: When you click the Update button in the upper left of the Scenes p...FIGURE 11-9: A plan is a horizontal cut, whereas a section is a vertical one.FIGURE 11-10: Add a section plane wherever you want one and then move it into p...FIGURE 11-11: Moving, rotating, and copying a section plane.FIGURE 11-12: Right-clicking a section plane gives you some options.FIGURE 11-13: Control section plane visibility with Section Planes and Section ...FIGURE 11-14: Turn on Perspective for a section perspective; choose Parallel Pr...FIGURE 11-15: Making a section animation is a fairly straightforward process.
12 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: Welcome to LayOut!FIGURE 12-2: Pages and layers enable you to control what appears where in a doc...FIGURE 12-3: In LayOut's Layers panel, icons control sharing and visibility.FIGURE 12-4: Associate a scene from your model with a viewport in LayOut.FIGURE 12-5: The SketchUp Model panel in LayOut.FIGURE 12-6: Use the Line Scale field to make your models look their very best.FIGURE 12-7: Choose a rendering method for each viewport in your LayOut documen...FIGURE 12-8: Assign a precise drawing scale to any orthographic viewport.FIGURE 12-9: Scrapbooks contains all sorts of images you can insert into a LayO...FIGURE 12-10: Draw shapes and customize their outlines, fills, pattern, and col...FIGURE 12-11: Clipping masks are powerful ways to call attention to details in ...FIGURE 12-12: Add text callouts with the Label tool.FIGURE 12-13: Creating an angular dimension takes some getting used to.FIGURE 12-14: The anatomy of a LayOut dimension: Linear on the left, angular on...FIGURE 12-15: The Dimension Style panel.FIGURE 12-16: Dimensions can show model space or paper space.FIGURE 12-17: Bring spreadsheets into LayOut as tables.
13 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: Once you have scenes with your desired style settings, you’re read...FIGURE 13-2: More pixels yield a much more detailed image.FIGURE 13-3: The print preview canvas: Very similar to the image export canvas.FIGURE 13-4: You’ll need a paid subscription to print to scale in SketchUp for ...FIGURE 13-5: The Animation Export Options dialog box.FIGURE 13-6: 3D Warehouse is chock-full of models shared by people like you.FIGURE 13-7: The models
