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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)
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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
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Chapter 9: Entity Info, Outliner, and Tags Dynamically Organize Your Models
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Chapter 10: Model Info and Preferences

Dynamic and Live Components

Dynamic Components and Live Components are special types of Components that rely on Extensions to give them additional features. Dynamic Components were released in 2008 in SketchUp Version 7. Since then, users have been able to create and modify their own Dynamic Components, and use the Dynamic Components created by the SketchUp team. The Components panel even has a Dynamic Components Training Collection in the Select pane to help users get started with Dynamic Components.

Figure 11.65 – Dynamic Components Training Collection in Components Panel

Live Components are the more recent addition, as they were introduced in 2020. Live Components are web-generated Components that can be loaded into a SketchUp model but rely on a connection with the SketchUp cloud server to be updated. Live Components cannot be created by users but can be edited from a collection in 3D Warehouse, and then used in local SketchUp models.

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