1- Whats SketchUp?

2- What do you think

you will learn in this
course?
3- Why SketchUp?

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Exterior Design with Full

Details

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Exterior Design with Full Details

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The models can be

rendered
And worked on further
in photoshop
To bring a realistic Result
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The models can be rendered

And worked on further in photoshop
To bring a realistic Result
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Interior Desings are easy...

You can see the buildings with all the
furniture and you can do any changes in
the colors , window and door and even
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Do you raelly like this plan?!!

Is this what you want?!
You think you need more
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Different Views Are Better...

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Different Views Are Better...

This Time with The Sun & Shadow
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Effect of Sun on the inside of the

house

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Not only house...Bigger and

Bigger

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OOHHH...
What is this bicycle doing
here?!!
Well....its
not by
mistake...
SketchUp if for Every
thing...
Every 3d
Door, Widnow....
Tv
Car
What else you want?

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1- Whats SketchUp, huh?

This time you must know what it
is..
2- Installation guide...Will be
Uploaded in The Page
(Geotechnical Engineering Page)
3- overview of the programm
Screen
4- Necessary tools
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In this Course...
Part 1: Getting Stated with
SketchUp
Ch1: Whats SketchUp
Ch2: Basic Concepts
Ch3: Basic end to end workflow
for creating and sharing a model

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In this Course...
Part 2: Modeling in SketchUp
Ch4: Drawing and Extruding
plans, modeling stair and
constructing roofs.
Ch5: Managin Models
Ch6: Modeling cars, furniture
and other objects.
Ch7: Using Photo & Photomatch
in SketchUp
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 Part 3: Viewing Your Model in

Different Ways
Ch8: Styles
Ch9: Shadows & Geo Locations
Ch10: Sections & Using Sections
to make animatons
Part 4: Sharing What Youve
Made
Plugins
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Dont Get Confused if you

see
this..
Introduction:
Understanding the difference between paper
and clay
Sketchup is a surfaces modeler...

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What You Should Expect

SketchUp to Do
Things You Can do with
SketchUp:

Start a model in lots of different ways

Building From Scratch
With another computer file
From a photograph..Pic up your Phone and
capture a building...withing a couple of
hours.. The building withe all its colors and
detials are in your hand...
In Google Earth...Yes ofcourse ...This is
Amazing
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Things You Can do with

SketchUp:
Modeling without worrying about
space limit
Share Your Model
Print
Export image (Jpg, pdf, dwg.....) or 3d
(Google Earth.Kmz or cad files...etc)
Export movies
Upload to the 3D Warehouse
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The Interface...
There Functions are more Imporant

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 Roghly Explain the Getting

Started & Standard Toolbar
Roughly Explain the Menu Bar
Go to SketchUP & Create a
simpe model for (view, Axis
and Pannig)

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Notes about the axis

When you draw, move, or copy
something parallel to one of the
colored axes, you are working in
that colors direction
Go to SketchUP

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 Notes about View of what you

are doing
Orbit: a free style for viewing your
model....
You can select (Orbit) From the
camera menu
Or
You can select (Orbit) by holding the
Go to SketchUP &
scroll button
Give Example

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 Zooming in and out:

The worst way is from the Camera menu
The next worst way is to click the zoom tool
button in the toolbar
The best way to zoom is to roll your
finger on the scroll wheel of your
mouse to zoom in and out.
Use zoom extents to see everyting.
Go to SketchUP &
Give Example

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Panning Around:
Pan is on the camera menu
Pan is also on the toolbar
OR THE BEST WAY IS
Hold down your mouses scroll
wheel button and press Shift

Go to SketchUP &
Give Example

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 Drawing Edges ((Lines)) (Give Illustrations))

Select the Line tool (Pencil tol)

Click where you want your line to begin
Move your cursor to the desired endpoint for
your line, and click again to end.
When you want the Line tool to stop drawing
Lines, Press ESC to snip the line at the last
spot you clicked.
{ Turning off Rubber Banding lines}
(continous line)
{WindowsPreferencesDrawing
Deselect continous line drawing check
box}
Eraser: Either by clicking certain
edges or
Go to SketchUP
& by
Give Example
dragging over edges...
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Injecting Accuracy into your model

Using Value Control Box (VCB)

List of things you can use it

to do:

Make a line a certain length (Give Example)

Draw a rectangle a certain size (Give Example)
Push/Pull a face a certain distance (Give Example)
Change the number of sides in a polygon (Give Example)
Move something a given distance (Give Example)
Rotate something by a certain number of degree (Give
Example)
Make a certain number of copies (Later)
Dive a line into a certain number of segments (Later)
Changing a field of view (how much you can see) (Later)
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Notes on VCB:

You dont have to click in the VCB to enter a number

You set the default units for the VCB in the Model
Info dialog box.
(( you can type the measurement regardless of
what has been chosen in the Model Info))
Sometimes the vcb does more than one thing:
Example: click on circle and write 6 and press enter
You will end up with a circle of 6 inch radius
Or
Click on circle and write 6 and press enter and then
6s and press endter
You will end up with a hexagon (6 sided circle) with
a radius of 6 inches.
The VCB lets you change your mind
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 Resizing Everything with the

Tape Measure Tool
You can resize any object using the
measure tool...

Two Rectangles (10*10*10) with and

without components...

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 Selecting What you mean to

select:
Just click anything in your model to
select it (while you are using the
select tool of course)
To select more than one thing, hold
down shift while you click all the
things you want to select

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 Important: Selected objects in Sketchup look

different depending on what king of objects they are
Selected edges and guides turn blue
Selected faces look covered in tiny blue dots
Selected groups and components get a blue
box around them
Selected section planes turn blue
Importnat :
A much fancies way to select things in your
model is to
Doubel click & Triple Click
When you double click a face, you select that
face and all the edges defining it
When you triple click a face, you select the
whole object that its a part
of.& Triple
Double
Click example
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 Move tool:
You can move, shape and make
copies with the move tool
Press ctrl to copy using move
tool
You can make more than one
copy at a time.

Example..(10x)
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Multiple spaced copies

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 Making and Using Guides:

Sometimes you need to draw
temprary lines while you are
modeling. These temporary lines,
called guides, are useful for lining
things up, making things the right
size, and gnerally adding precision
and accuracy to what you are
building.

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When you see (+) next to your cursor,

your Tape Measure can make guides

** you can create different kinds

of guides using (Tape Measure
tool)
** Parallel Guide Lines: Click
anywhere (Except the endpoints or
mid points) along an edge and just
move your mouse
** Linear Guide Lines: Click one of
the endpoints or the midpoint
once
Example
and then click again some where else
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Important
Note: Tape Measure tool has two
modes and it only creates guides in
one of them.
Pressing Ctrl toggles between
the modes.
When you see (+) next to your
cursor, your Tape Measure can
Show them
make guides, when
there is no
(+) it cant.
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Deleting Guides
How to delete guides?
Just click or drag over the with the Eraser tool to delete
guides individually or you can also dete them by rightclick and choose Erase from the context menu.
To Erase all your guides at once: EditDelete guides
To hide guides: Right click a single guide and choose
Hide
or Deselect ViewGuides to hide all of them (its a good
idea to hide guides instead of erasing them, especially
while you are still modeling)
*You can select, move, copy and rotate guides jut
like any other entity in your model
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Painting your faces with color and texture

Material Dialog box

to open it: Windows Materials
it consist mainy of Colors and
Textures
Materials can be translucent
Textures can have trasparent areas
(for windows)
You can edit materials and even
make your own
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 The paint bucket tool

You fill it by clicking in the materials
dialog box
Holding down Alt switches to the
sample tool
Holding down Shift paints all similar
faces.

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CHAPTER 3
GETTING OFF TO A RUNNING START

After finishing the introduction its time to

Create a simple model
Giving your model Some Style
To open the Style Dialog box
Windowsstyle
Switchin on the Sun
This feature gives shadows to our model
To activate shadows
Windowsshadows
Select the Display Shadows check box to turn on
the sun

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 Sharing Your Masterpiece

Now that you have a model that looks about the way you
want it to, you probably want to show it to somenone
And the easiest way to do that is by exporting a JPEG
image
Steps to Export your model in JPEG format are
Navigate around (using orbit, zoom and pan) until
you like the view of your model that you see in your
modeling window
Choose FilesExport2D Graphic
In the Export dialog box that opens, choose JPEG from
the Export Type drop-down menu
Pick a location on your computer system and give
your exported imae a name
Click the Exrpot button to create a JPEG image of
whats visible in your modeling window
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