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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!
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Part 2 – Views, Animations, and Materials
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Part 3 – Advanced Modeling and Model Organization
12
Chapter 9: Entity Info, Outliner, and Tags Dynamically Organize Your Models
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Chapter 10: Model Info and Preferences

Updating and Editing Components

Once Components have been created, they are not static models! We change, update, and swap out Components continuously as we work through our SketchUp models. In Chapter 3, Modeling with Groups and Components, we looked at how to activate a Component and Edit the Geometry using the Edit tools. This section will focus on the advanced editing options in the Components panel and in the right-click contextual menu.

The Components panel has some special options when right-clicking a Component. These are Properties, Delete, Reload…, Save As…, 3D Warehouse, Select Instances, and Replace Selected:

Figure 11.34 – Components Panel Right-Click Menu

Additionally, when a Component is right-clicked in the Drawing Area, there are additional options that are not found when clicking on Groups or Geometry, including Make Unique, Change Axes, Scale Definition, and Dynamic Components. We will discuss these options in the...