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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

Working with Components

In this chapter, we will explore Components and what makes them special in SketchUp Pro. Components allow us to keep our files more organized, easily use Objects in multiple files, and automatically align Geometry in our models. Component attributes can be set and edited to achieve many different functions in SketchUp Pro. We will wrap up this chapter by briefly discussing Dynamic and Live Components.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • Using the Components Panel
  • Creating Components:
    • Creating New Components
    • Nested Components
  • Updating and Editing Components
  • Component Statistics
  • Component Instances
    • Instance Options
  • Component Attributes
  • Dynamic and Live Components