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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

Understanding how Faces Heal

SketchUp will help you heal your model! Faces in SketchUp can be created automatically, even when using tools that do not seem to generate Faces. The Line tool can even be used to help heal your SketchUp models when Faces seem to be missing! Let’s explore how some of these tools can be used to generate Faces.

Creating Faces by Drawing Edges

Faces are generated whenever a flat, closed shape is created. This is automatically done whenever using the Rectangle, Rotated Rectangle, Circle, Polygon, and Pie tools. Additionally, Faces can be created when using the Push/Pull and Follow Me tools, but this is a slightly different process. We will discuss the Edit tools in the next chapter.

It is important to see that there is no “3D Face Tool,” “Mesh Tool,” or any other tool that creates independent Faces in SketchUp Pro. There may be plugins or extensions in the SketchUp universe, but these tools are not included in SketchUp...