SketchUp Basics for K-12 Education - 2 Video Lecture | Learn Google Sketchup from Scratch - Design

now that we've learned how to navigate
in Sketchup let's take a look at
creating geometry and building a 3d
model fast we want you to realize how
easy it is to use Sketchup and create a
real model real fast in Sketchup let's
click on our rectangle tool and zoom out
and let's draw a rectangle from the
origin we'll click once to start our
rectangle move our cursor away from the
starting point and let go of the mouse
at this point we'll type in 10 feet , 10
feet and press Enter and you notice that
in the bottom right hand corner our
measurements dialog box is telling us
our input keep in mind that we never
actually have to come down here and
click in that measurements dialog box
it's always awaiting our input so we
also want to draw another rectangle to
create our doghouse I'm going to click
to define my starting point and then
move my cursor to suggest a direction
I'll let go of the mouse and type 5 '
comma 3 ' and that's going to make a
rectangle at 5 feet by 3 feet when I
press ENTER it dials in those dimensions
next let's use the push/pull tool
activate your push-pull tool and keep in
mind that the hot spot of the push-pull
tool is at the tip of the red arrow
position your push-pull tool on that new
rectangle and we click once to start
move our cursor to suggest a direction
and let go of the mouse now I'm going to
type in 3 ' enter and now we've extruded
that rectangle up by 3 feet you can see
how easy it is to create a lot of
geometry really quick and also we can
create very accurate geometry with
precise input next let's use our line
tool activate the line tool and we want
to draw a line right down the middle of
this doghouse to split that top surface
in half so I'm gonna hover around on
this edge until I find my midpoint I can
click once on my midpoint and move
straight back on the green axis and
connect the dots to
midpoint at the back and click again to
finish so now we've drawn that line in
and we can use our move copy tool to
lift that guy up and create a roof so
I'll activate my move copy tool which is
up there on our large tool set hover on
my edge click once to pick it up I'm
gonna move it straight up on the blue
axis and again I'm suggesting my
direction I found my blue axis it's best
to just let go of the mouse and type in
1/8 enter and now we've drawn this up at
exactly 18 inches because of the
template that we selected our default
units are in inches so we don't actually
have to put the little quotation mark
after our 18 sketch up just assumes that
we're thinking in inches now that we've
created our roof slope let's give our
roof some dimension or thickness so
we'll go back to our push-pull tool and
then I'm going to click once on my
angled roof to start my push-pull and
then I'm going to tap control or option
on the Mac and so now I'm creating a
copy or more of leaving a copy of the
starting surface behind so I suggest my
direction by moving my cursor away and I
can really exaggerate I don't have to be
real real precise and keep my mouse down
here I can just move it away suggest a
direction let go of the mouse and type
for enter and now we've pulled that guy
out by exactly 4 inches now the
push-pull tool also has a memory so we
can come over to this side and double
click and when we double click it's
going to pull that surface out by
exactly 4 inches now that we've created
this from this roof thickness we have to
kind of adjust this guy to fix it so I'm
going to again hover my push-pull tool
on that surface that's in the V between
those two roof thicknesses keep in mind
the hot spot of the push-pull tool is at
the tip of the red arrow so you notice
that it's no longer selected if I put my
push-pull tool above that edge I need to
put that arrow and
on that surface I will click once to
start but I only want to push pull up as
far as that other angled surface so in
Sketchup we can use our inferencing and
hover on this surface and it will snap
to it and I can click to finish so now
we've matched those guys exactly now
again with the push-pull tool we want to
add some roof overhangs so we can zoom
in here and take a look at these roof
overhangs I can double click and I can
pull that guy out by 4 inches double
click here double click here and I can
move around this guy and add those roof
overhangs so far we've been very
accurate with our Sketchup dimensions
but let's take a look at how we can just
kind of sketch as well I can use my
rectangle tool and I can draw a door on
the front of this I want to make sure
that I start on edge so with your
rectangle tool selected we want to hover
on edge and click once to start and move
the cursor away and I'm just gonna
eyeball this and click again to finish
so we don't have to be extremely
accurate and Sketch up we can in fact be
very sketchy and loose with our
dimensions next using your art tool up
there on the large tool set its that
half circle will click on that guy to
activate it and we want to click once on
the top left endpoint of that new
rectangle click again on the top right
endpoint and that's going to set the
distance of our arc but now we need to
set the Bulge if you move your mouse
around you can find where it'll snap to
a half circle and so once it snaps to
that I can click again and now we have
that perfect half circle now to finish
creating our door we'll use the
push/pull tool and let's push this guy
in by 4 inches I click once to start
suggest my direction let go of the mouse
and type for enter I can also double
click on this semicircle above to push
that in at 4 inches as well