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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

Export Options

Importing files into SketchUp Pro is only one of the ways SketchUp works with outside files – SketchUp Pro can also export files! SketchUp can export even more files than it can import. We will discuss exporting files in six categories – 3D Files, 2D Files, Image Files, Animations, 2D Section Slices, and Send to LayOut. Let’s begin by looking at 3D Files.

Exporting 3D Files

SketchUp models can be exported by going to File –> Export –> 3D Model…. This workflow will export the entire 3D Model.

Figure 12.62 – File –> Export –> 3D Model…

This will open the Export Model Dialog Box. The file can be saved in many file types and these can be chosen from the Save as type: dropdown. Many of these file types have unique Export Options, and these can be accessed by clicking on the Options… Button.

Figure 12.63 – The Export Model Dialog...