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Lesson 1: Introduction To Sketchup (1) : The Working Environment

This document provides an introduction to Google SketchUp, a 3D modeling program. It discusses who uses SketchUp, including architects, designers, engineers. It notes there is a free version and paid Pro version. The document describes the basic SketchUp interface, including the title bar, menu bar, toolbar, artboard, and status bar. It explains how to change the units of measurement to centimeters using the Model Info window. Finally, it discusses the Getting Started toolbar and how to display the Large Toolset toolbar instead.

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Lesson 1: Introduction To Sketchup (1) : The Working Environment

This document provides an introduction to Google SketchUp, a 3D modeling program. It discusses who uses SketchUp, including architects, designers, engineers. It notes there is a free version and paid Pro version. The document describes the basic SketchUp interface, including the title bar, menu bar, toolbar, artboard, and status bar. It explains how to change the units of measurement to centimeters using the Model Info window. Finally, it discusses the Getting Started toolbar and how to display the Large Toolset toolbar instead.

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Google - SketchUp

Lesson 1: Introduction to SketchUp (1)


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The working environment
For all those of you who do not know what SketchUp is,
SketchUp is very easy to use 3D program, you can learn very
quickly and easily.
Who uses SketchUp? I would say anyone who wants to make
something in 3D.
Google SketchUp comes in two versions, you have the free
version, and you have a paid version (SketchUp Pro). In this
course I am using the free version, what did you think!
Todownload Google SketchUp surf
to http://www.google.com/sketchup/downloads/.
SketchUp makes use of the Push / Pull (Push-Pull) technique,
wherein we can easily create a 3D model by means od pushing
and pulling a 2D plane.
The image below is the screen you see when you open SketchUp:
At the top we find the title bar (titlebar), below we have the menu
bar (Menubar), then we have the toolbar (toolbar), the Artboard,
and at the bottom we have the status bar (status bar).

The Title Bar, mentiones the name of our document and name of the
application, the right buttons are minimize, maximize, and close.
Actually they are not much different with any Windows
application.

In the menu bar, we find the majority of tools in SketchUp.


Commands and settings are available within these menus.

In the Toolbar, we find the various tools and controls to create our
3D runs smoothly. We have various toolbars in SketchUp.
By default, the “Getting Started” bar is displayed.
The drawing area is where we make our model.
In the drawing area, we find three axes, a vertical axis
(blue), a horizontal axis (red), and a depth axis (green).

At the bottom of the screen, a tip for the currently


selected tool in the toolbar is displayed in the left of the
statusbar and on the right side, we have the value control
box (VCB).
VCB displays dimensional information while we draw.
In the VCB box, we may enter values, to adjust the
element shown at that time to the specified dimensions
Set metric
By default the English version of SketchUp is set to
inches, because I, and I suppose you also, usually
work with meters and centimeters, we must first
change this setting.
Click on “Window” in the menu bar and choose
“Model Info”.
This opens the “Model Info” dialog.
Choose “Units” on the left, and click on the down
arrows on the right of the “Format” box.
Select “Decimal” in the first box, and “Centimeters” in
the second box.
In the “Precision” imagine exactly how you want to
work. That is 1 decimal place or 2 decimal places, etc.
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Lesson 2: Introduction to SketchUp (2)
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The “Getting Started” toolbar
By default, the “Getting Started” toolbar is displayed when
we first open SketchUp.
But if it is still not there,
Click on the “View” button in the menu bar and select
“Toolbars” from the drop-down menu.
The first one is “Getting Started” toolbar:
Large Toolset
The second is the “Large Toolset”:
The “Large Toolset” actually consists of 6 different
toolbars.
Before starting this course, it is best if you made this
toolbar visible and hide the “Getting Started” toolbar by
unchecking it.
Click the “View” button in the menu bar, choose
“Toolbars” from the drop-down menu and click the
“Getting Started” option to deselect it.
Click the “View” button again in the menu bar, choose
“Toolbars” from the drop-down menu and click the
“Large Tool Set” option to place a checkmark next to it.

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