Designing Green - SketchUp Part 1
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Intro to SketchUp
- Orbit tool - orbit around your 3D objects
- Zoom tool - move in and out
- Pan tool - move side to side and up and down
Video: Drawing Shapes
- What are the 4 rules of drawing shapes?
Tutorial: Start a Drawing Part 1
- Rectangle tool - for drawing flat surfaces
- Push/Pull - for pulling up flat surfaces into 3D volumes
- Pencil or Line tool - for drawing lines. Make sure to "infer edges, corners, etc.
- Move tool - pay attention to the axis you are moving on (blue, red or green)
- Arc Tool - click for each end point then drag the mid-point of the arch up
- Eraser
Tutorial: Start a Drawing Part 2
- inferences
- Paint Bucket for texture/color
- Shadows
Tutorial: Start a Drawing Part 3
- Window > Styles
SketchUp Resources
- Video Tutorials: Google has provided a very good set of SketchUp introductory video tutorials
- Additional Self-paced tutorials: There are also a additional Self-Paced Tutorials you can download and run within Sketchup.
