SketchUp 2014 For Dummies E-Book

Aidan Chopra

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 660

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Start building your 3D model today with a comprehensive guide toSketchUp 2014 SketchUp 2014 For Dummies is a user-friendly guideto creating 3D models, adding textures, creating animatedwalkthroughs, and more, using one of the most popular 3D modelingprograms on the market. Fully updated to align with the release ofSketchUp, the book guides you through the interface, tools,techniques, and tricks in SketchUp and SketchUp Pro, on bothWindows and Mac platforms. Written for designers with no prior 3Dmodeling experience, the book provides beginner- tointermediate-level instruction in this powerful program. With a strong emphasis on usability rather than features,SketchUp has found widespread success around the world. Availableas a free download, the program allows you to get comfortable anddevelop your skills before investing in the Pro version'sadditional features. SketchUp 2014 For Dummies getsyou up to speed fast, beginning with an overview of the basicconcepts of 3D modeling before getting down to business with thesoftware. Organized for easy navigation, the book can also serve asa handy desk reference for more experienced designers gettingacquainted with the latest update. Topics include: * Using SketchUp 2014 to create 3D models * Printing on a plotter or 3D printer * Sharing designs via SketchUp 3D Warehouse * Exporting to another design package The book also walks you through the creation of a detailed setof plans, and demonstrates how to give virtual "tours" of yourdesign. A 16-page color insert illustrates the possibilities, andmay just trigger your inspiration. Whether you're a designer,architect, engineer, or hobbyist, SketchUp 2014 For Dummiesgets you started quickly.

Leseprobe

SketchUp® 2014 For Dummies®

Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, www.wiley.com

Copyright © 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Published simultaneously in Canada

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, [phone], fax [phone], or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions.

Trademarks: Wiley, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and may not be used without written permission. SketchUp is a registered trademark of Trimble Navigation Limited. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book.

LIMIT OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: THE PUBLISHER AND THE AUTHOR MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS WORK AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO WARRANTY MAY BE CREATED OR EXTENDED BY SALES OR PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS. THE ADVICE AND STRATEGIES CONTAINED HEREIN MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR EVERY SITUATION. THIS WORK IS SOLD WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PUBLISHER IS NOT ENGAGED IN RENDERING LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. IF PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE IS REQUIRED, THE SERVICES OF A COMPETENT PROFESSIONAL PERSON SHOULD BE SOUGHT. NEITHER THE PUBLISHER NOR THE AUTHOR SHALL BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES ARISING HEREFROM. THE FACT THAT AN ORGANIZATION OR WEBSITE IS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK AS A CITATION AND/OR A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF FURTHER INFORMATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE AUTHOR OR THE PUBLISHER ENDORSES THE INFORMATION THE ORGANIZATION OR WEBSITE MAY PROVIDE OR RECOMMENDATIONS IT MAY MAKE. FURTHER, READERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT INTERNET WEBSITES LISTED IN THIS WORK MAY HAVE CHANGED OR DISAPPEARED BETWEEN WHEN THIS WORK WAS WRITTEN AND WHEN IT IS READ.

For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 877-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax [phone]. For technical support, please visit www.wiley.com/techsupport.

Wiley publishes in a variety of print and electronic formats and by print-on-demand. Some material included with standard print versions of this book may not be included in e-books or in print-on-demand. If this book refers to media such as a CD or DVD that is not included in the version you purchased, you may download this material at http://booksupport.wiley.com. For more information about Wiley products, visit www.wiley.com.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954223

ISBN 978-1-118-82266-1 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-118-82264-7 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-82276-0 (ebk)

Manufactured in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

SketchUp 2014 For Dummies , IBM Limited Edition

Visit www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/sketchup2014 to view this book's cheat sheet.

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with SketchUp 2014

Chapter 1: Meeting SketchUp

Things You Ought to Know Right Away

Comparing SketchUp to Other 3D Modeling Programs

Jumping right in

Understanding the difference between paper and clay

What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Expect SketchUp to Do

Taking the Ten-Minute SketchUp Tour

Hanging out at the menu bar

Checking the status bar

Taking a peek at the dialog boxes

Chapter 2: Establishing the Modeling Mind-Set

All about Edges and Faces

Living on (with, actually) the edge

Facing the facts about faces

Understanding the relationship between edges and faces

Drawing in 3D on a 2D Screen

Giving instructions with the drawing axes

Keeping an eye out for inferences

Using inferences to help you model

Warming Up Your SketchUp Muscles

Getting the best view of what you’re doing

Drawing and erasing edges with ease

Injecting accuracy into your model

Selecting what you mean to select

Moving and copying like a champ

Rotating the right way

Making and using guides

Painting your faces with color and texture

Chapter 3: Getting a Running Start

Setting Things Up

Making a Quick Model

Slapping on Some Paint

Giving Your Model Some Style

Switching on the Sun

Sharing Your Masterpiece

Part II: Modeling in SketchUp

Chapter 4: Building Buildings

Drawing Floors and Walls

Starting out in 2D

Coming up with a simple plan

Going from 2D to 3D

Adding floors to your building

Inserting doors and windows

Staring Down Stairs

The Subdivided Rectangles method

The Copied Profile method

Raising the Roof

Building flat roofs with parapets

Creating eaves for buildings with pitched roofs

Constructing gabled roofs

Making hip roofs

Sticking your roof together

Chapter 5: Falling in Love with Components

Grouping Things Together

Working with Components

What makes components so great?

Exploring the Components dialog box

Creating your own components

Discovering Dynamic Components

Taking Advantage of Components to Build Better Models

Modeling symmetrically: Good news for lazy people

Modeling with repeated elements

Chapter 6: Going Beyond Buildings

Extruding with Purpose: Follow Me

Using Follow Me

Making lathed forms like spheres and bottles

Creating extruded shapes like gutters and handrails

Subtracting from a model with Follow Me

Modeling with the Scale tool

Getting the hang of Scale

Scaling profiles to make organic forms

Making and Modifying Terrain

Creating a new terrain model

Editing an existing terrain model

Building a Solid Tools Foundation

Understanding solids

Checking out the Solid Tools

Putting the Solid Tools to work

Chapter 7: Keeping Your Model Organized

Taking Stock of Your Organization Options

Seeing the Big Picture: The Outliner

Taking a good look at the Outliner

Making good use of the Outliner

Discovering the Ins and Outs of Layers

What layers are — and what they’re not

Using layers in SketchUp

Staying out of trouble

Putting It All Together

Chapter 8: Modeling with Photos and Other Resources

Painting Faces with Photos

Adding photos to flat faces

Editing your textures

Adding photo textures to curved surfaces

Modeling Directly from a Photo: Introducing Photo-Matching

Looking at all the pretty colors

Getting set up for photo-matching

Modeling by photo-matching

Modeling on Top of Photo Textures

Making a texture projected

Modeling with projected textures: A basic workflow

Adding Geographic Data from Google

Geo-locating your model

Viewing your model in Google Earth

Working with Imported CAD files

Importing a CAD file into SketchUp Pro

Cleaning up imported CAD data

Modeling on top of imported CAD data

Chapter 9: 3D Printing with SketchUp Models

Building Up a View of 3D Printing

Building a Model in Layers

Supporting layers from below

Designing to avoid support material

Bridging

Preparing a SketchUp Model for 3D Printing

The Section Plane tool, your secret cleanup weapon

Solid objects and 3D printing

Groups and components

Using Solid Tools to combine groups

CleanUp

3

and Solid Inspector

Using the Intersect tool to combine groups

What about the normals?

Sizes Matter

Too small to print

Too big to print

Breaking Your Model into Parts

Where to cut

How to cut

Exporting Your SketchUp File

Knowing Your 3D Printers

Desktop 3D printers

Professional 3D printers

3D printing services

Using Your 3D Printer

Print early, print often

Inside your model

Going beyond Basic 3D Printing

Designing parts that connect

Testing your model’s moving parts

Designing Things That Move

Captive joints

Pins

Gears

Part III: Viewing Your Model in Different Ways

Chapter 10: Working with Styles and Shadows

Styling Your Model’s Appearance

Choosing how and where to apply styles

Applying styles to your models

Editing your styles

Creating a new style

Saving and sharing styles you make

Working with Shadows

Discovering the shadow settings

Adding depth and realism

Creating accurate shadow studies

Chapter 11: Presenting Your Model inside SketchUp

Exploring Your Creation on Foot

These tools were made for walking

Stopping to look around

Setting your field of view

Taking the Scenic Route

Creating scenes

Moving from scene to scene

Modifying scenes after you make ’em

Mastering the Sectional Approach

Cutting plans and sections

Creating section animations with scenes

Part IV: Sharing What You've Made

Chapter 12: Paper or Cloud? Printing and Uploading Your Work

Printing Your Work

Printing from a Windows Computer

Printing from a Mac

Printing to a Particular Scale

Working with the 3D Warehouse

Why Warehouse?

Getting to the 3D Warehouse

Uploading a model

Managing models online

Chapter 13: Exporting Images and Animations

Exporting 2D Images of Your Model

Exporting a raster image from SketchUp

Looking at SketchUp’s raster formats

Making sure you export enough pixels

Making Movies with Animation Export

Getting ready for prime time

Exporting a movie

Figuring out the Animation Export options settings

Chapter 14: Creating Presentations with LayOut

Getting Your Bearings

Some menu bar minutiae

Perusing LayOut’s panels

Building a Quick LayOut Document

Starting with a template

Inserting SketchUp model views

Adding images and other graphics

Annotating with text and dimensions

Getting Your Document Out the Door

Printing your work

Exporting a PDF

Exporting an image file

Exporting a DWG or DXF file

Going full-screen

Chapter 15: Diving Deeper into LayOut

Staying Organized with Layers and Pages

Using layers to maintain your sanity

Making layers and pages work together

Working with Inserted Model Views

Framing exactly the right view

Making your models look their best

Simplifying Your Life with Auto-Text

Using Auto-Text tags

Customizing Auto-Text tags

Discovering More about Dimensions

Editing your dimensions

Keeping track of model space and paper space

Drawing with LayOut’s Vector Tools

Customizing LayOut with Templates and Scrapbooks

Creating your own templates

Putting together your own scrapbooks

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 16: Ten SketchUp Traps and Their Work-arounds

SketchUp Won’t Create a Face Where You Want It To

Your Faces Are Two Different Colors

Edges on a Face Won’t Sink In

SketchUp Crashed, and You Lost Your Model

SketchUp Is Sooooo Slooooooooow

You Can’t Get a Good View of the Inside of Your Model

A Face Flashes When You Orbit

You Can’t Move Your Component the Way You Want

Bad Stuff Happens Every Time You Use the Eraser

All Your Edges and Faces Are on Different Layers

Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Discover Even More

Put Away Your Wallet

Now Get Out Your Wallet

About the Author

Cheat Sheet

Supplemental Images

More Dummies Products

Guide

Table of Contents

Begin Reading

Pages

1

2

3

4

5

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

38

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

47

48

49

50

51

52

53

54

55

56

57

58

59

60

61

62

63

64

65

66

67

68

69

70

71

72

73

74

75

76

77

78

79

80

81

82

83

84

85

86

87

88

89

90

91

92

93

94

95

96

97

98

99

100

101

102

103

104

105

106

107

108

109

110

111

112

113

114

115

116

117

118

119

120

121

123

124

125

126

127

128

129

130

131

132

133

134

135

136

137

138

139

140

141

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

149

150

151

152

153

154

155

156

157

158

159

160

161

162

163

164

165

166

167

168

169

170

171

172

173

174

175

176

177

178

179

180

181

182

183

184

185

186

187

188

189

190

191

192

193

194

195

196

197

198

199

200

201

202

203

204

205

207

208

209

210

211

212

213

214

215

216

217

218

219

221

222

223

224

225

226

227

228

229

230

231

232

233

234

235

236

237

238

239

240

241

242

243

244

245

246

247

248

249

250

251

252

253

254

255

256

257

258

259

260

261

262

263

264

265

266

267

269

270

271

272

273

274

275

276

277

278

279

280

281

282

283

284

285

286

287

288

289

290

291

292

293

294

295

296

297

298

299

301

302

303

304

305

306

307

308

309

310

311

312

313

314

315

316

317

318

319

320

321

322

323

324

325

326

327

328

329

330

331

332

333

334

335

336

337

338

339

340

341

342

343

344

345

346

347

348

349

350

351

352

353

354

355

356

357

358

359

360

361

362

363

364

365

366

367

368

369

370

371

372

373

374

375

376

377

378

379

380

381

382

383

384

385

386

387

388

389

390

391

392

393

394

395

396

397

398

399

400

401

402

403

404

405

406

407

409

410

411

412

413

414

415

416

417

418

419

420

421

422

423

424

425

426

427

428

429

430

431

432

433

434

435

436

437

438

439

440

441

442

443

444

445

446

447

448

449

450

451

452

453

454

455

456

457

459

460

461

462

463

464

465

466

467

469

470

471

493

494

495

496

497

498

499

500

501

502

503

504

505

506

507

508

509

510

Introduction

Years ago, I was teaching a workshop on advanced SketchUp techniques to a group of extremely bright middle and high school (or so I thought) students in Hot Springs, Arkansas. As subject matter went, I wasn’t pulling any punches — we were breezing through material I wouldn’t think of introducing to most groups of adults. At one point, a boy raised his hand to ask a question, and I noticed he looked younger than most of the others. Squinting, I read a logo on his T-shirt that told me he was in elementary school. “You’re in sixth grade?” I asked, a little stunned. These kids were motoring, after all. The boy didn’t even look up. He shook his head, double-clicked something, and mumbled, “Third.” He was 8 years old.

SketchUp was invented in 1999 by a couple 3D industry veterans (or refugees, depending on your perspective) to make it easier for people to see their ideas in three dimensions. That was it, really — they just wanted to make a piece of software that anyone could use to build 3D models. What I saw in Arkansas makes me think they were successful.

Before SketchUp was acquired (for the first time, by Google) in 2006, it cost $495 a copy, and it was already a mainstay of architects’ and other designers’ software toolkits. No other 3D modeler was as easy to understand as SketchUp, meaning that even senior folks (many of whom thought their CD/DVD trays were cup holders) started learning to use it.