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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

Scenes

Scenes can be understood as View snapshots, which save the View and Camera options. Scenes will be shown in the Scenes tabs that appear at the top of the Drawing Area when a Scene is created. Additionally, more Scene options can be found in the Scenes Panel in the Default Tray panel:

Figure 7.123 – The Scenes Tab and Scenes Panel in the Default Tray Panel

Note

The Scene tabs can be toggled off in the View dropdown in the Menu Bar if you are interested in preserving the Drawing Area space:

Figure 7.124 – The Scenes Panel in the Default Tray Panel with Show Details Toggled On

The Scene Tools can be found in the View | Animation area in the Menu bar dropdown:

Figure 7.125 – Animation Flyout in the View Menu

It may be confusing to see Scene tools located in the Animation flyout, but we will see later in this chapter how Scenes and Animation are closely connected in SketchUp Pro.

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