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Getting Started with SketchUp Pro

By : David S. Sellers
Book Image

Getting Started with SketchUp Pro

By: David S. Sellers

Overview of this book

Owing to its ability to create models quickly and with high level of dimensional accuracy, SketchUp Pro has become a popular choice for many industries, including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and video game design. If you are seeking to adopt Trimble's exceptional design software, Getting Started with SketchUp Pro serves as an ideal primer to prepare and equip you for its use. This book will help you lay the foundation of a project from scratch, set up appropriate units, and follow a guided path to structure your 3D models. You’ll explore the workflows used for creating designs from sketches, making CAD drawings (DWG), and even updating your existing 3D models. Finally, you’ll work with extensions and 3D Warehouse to find new workflows and models to add to your skill set. By the end of this SketchUp book, you’ll be able to confidently create and share models of your design through CAD drawings and 3D views, and even take them online through the 3D Warehouse
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – User Interface and Beginning Modeling!
7
Part 2 – Views, Animations, and Materials
11
Part 3 – Advanced Modeling and Model Organization
12
Chapter 9: Entity Info, Outliner, and Tags Dynamically Organize Your Models
13
Chapter 10: Model Info and Preferences

Outliner

The Outliner panel shows the Objects in the model in a hierarchical tree. This view shows only Objects (Groups, Components, and Section Planes) and their relationship to each other, specifically if they are nested. Object attributes and visibility can also be controlled in the Outliner panel. The Outliner panel can be activated in the Window | Default Tray dropdown:

Figure 9.24 – Window | Default Tray Menu Dropdown

The Outliner panel contains the following tools:

  1. A Filter search bar
  2. The Details Flyout Button
  3. The Model Title
  4. The Selection pane

These tools are shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.25 – The Outliner panel with the Filter Search Bar, Details, Model Title, and Selection Pane

The Filter search bar can be used to find specific Objects by searching for part of the Instance or Definition name. The search term must not contain typos, but it can use any letters of the...