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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

3D Warehouse

We have introduced 3D Warehouse in multiple chapters in this book, including Chapter 11, Working with Components, when we introduced Dynamic and Live Components, and Chapter 8, Materials, and Chapter 9, Entity Info, Outliner, and Tags Dynamically Organize Your Models, when discussing how to clean up Components downloaded from 3D Warehouse. 3D Warehouse is the largest collection of downloadable, searchable 3D models that work seamlessly with SketchUp Pro. Models in 3D Warehouse can be downloaded directly into any SketchUp model, saving time and effort while working on projects. The 3D Warehouse logo is an abstract representation of the old SketchUp Pro logo, which is a cube within a curved shell. In SketchUp, the 3D Warehouse logo is often shown with a downward–facing arrow representing downloading SketchUp models.

Figure 12.112 – The 3D Warehouse Logo and the 3D Warehouse Logo with a Download Arrow

The 3D Warehouse Button can be found...