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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

Import Options

SketchUp Pro is able to import a variety of file types that can help with modeling, visualization, and providing contextual elements to your SketchUp models. In this section, we will look at three primary categories of files that can be imported: 3D files, 2D files, and image files.

Note

Extensions can be added to SketchUp Pro that make it possible to import additional file types. We will discuss extensions later in this chapter. This section will focus on the files that SketchUp Pro can natively import.

SketchUp will allow 3D files, 2D files, and image files to be imported through the same workflow. Files can be imported by selecting the File dropdown in the Main Menu and choosing Import…:

Figure 12.1 – File –> Import… in the Main Menu

The Import Dialog Box will open and prompt the user to select a file for import. By default, the All Supported Types option is selected in the file type filter located at...