SketchUp Basics for K-12 Education - 3 Video Lecture | Learn Google Sketchup from Scratch - Design

let's add some more detail to our
doghouse
using our paint bucket tool so click on
the paint bucket tool up there on your
large toolset and this automatically
launches your materials browser now this
is a little bit different between PC and
Mac so on a Mac you want to click on the
brick icon up there on your materials
browser and that will get you to a point
where you can then select from our
libraries here that are very similar
what's first select our brick and
cladding and then I'm going to click on
a material and that way it'll become
active and I can paint with it so I'll
click on my siding tan material and it
becomes active and now to apply that
material to a surface I simply click on
a surface in my model so I can add
materials to my model very easily now
let's go back to our materials browser
click on the drop-down and choose
roofing I'm going to select a roofing
shingles asphalt material I click on
that and then I just click on the
surface in my model and I can apply that
roofing material now if for some reason
you decide that you want to change a
material there's no need to erase a
material from a surface you simply just
paint over it so I could select a
different shingle and then just click on
that surface again and paint over that
existing material also go to my colors
in the colors menu I can select from all
kinds of different colors I'll choose
this dark brown and use that as a trim
so I'm using my orbit tool and
navigation tools to kind of get in there
and really see what I'm working on
there's a common tendency to want to
stay really zoomed out that's no good
you're not using your screen real estate
there so really practice using those
navigation tools get in there
zoom in and look at what you're working
on next I might select one more color I
have this black paint my door black and
then last let's go to our vegetation
library and I can paint some grass on
the ground so all of these material
libraries over here on this drop-down we
can select from a lot of pre-loaded
Sketchup materials now that we've
applied some materials let's take a look
at how we can edit materials and change
these so first thing I want to do is
come over here into my material browser
and I want to select the in model
collection I can either click on this
house icon or I can click on this
drop-down and select my in model
collection this shows me all of the
materials that have actually used in
this model so to edit a material I can
either select it and click on my edit
tab or the really the easiest way is
once you're in this in model collection
is to just double click on it and this
will this will help for both PC and Mac
if we just double click on this guy
that'll open up our edit tab now again
there are some differences between PC
and Mac on the Macintosh it's instead of
having these different dropdowns for all
these ways to choose a color there's a
couple of icons on your materials
browser so you can click on those to get
these different color wheel hue
lightness saturation that's the one that
I like to use so we can kind of modify
our material color by sliding this
around I'm gonna choose something that's
pretty bright yellow maybe lighten it up
a little bit and then also I can adjust
the scale so you can see down lower on
my cladding siding tan we can adjust
this to maybe twelve inches
so that adjust the scale now since we've
adjusted our siding material our trim
might not be a real good choice so our
trim color might not be the perfect
choice for that so we can go back to our
select tab and double click on our trim
color and now we can edit this now I
could either slide this around and pick
something manually or I can also sample
from the screen this little icon here I
can click on and match color on screen I
click once to activate that sampler tool
and then I just click on a color on my
screen and now my trim matches my siding
but I want to either just darken that up
a little bit make it a little bit
different so it is a trim color maybe
we'll even just make it white let's go
ahead and close our material browser we
don't need that open right now and let's
add another object in here let's add a
water bowl so we can kind of zoom in
here so we can really see what we're
working on and to start a water bowl
we're gonna use the circle tool so click
on that circle tool up there on your
large tool set and then on the ground
here I'm gonna hover on face click once
to start move my cursor away from my
starting point and let go of the mouse
at this point I can be very accurate and
type 6 enter and now our water bowl has
an exact radius of 6 inches now we can
use our push-pull tool and pull this guy
up by 4 remember that hotspot is right
at the tip of that red arrow so I'll
position that red arrow pointing at my
surface click once to start suggest my
direction let go the mouse and type 4
enter now we've pulled that guy up by
exactly 4 inches now let's add some more
detail to this water bowl we'll use a
tool called the offset tool activate
your offset tool up there on the large
toolset and I'm gonna zoom in even
closer so I can really see what I'm
working on
notice that the offset tool has that red
square that kind of defines the actual
starting point so the offset tool will
create a copy of the circle and then
automatically basically scale it creates
concentric shapes so when I click once
to start I can move my mouse cursor in
towards the middle let go and type one
enter so now I've created a basically
created a copy of that perimeter line in
by one inch so the dimension between
this edge and this edge is one inch all
the way around next I'll use my
push-pull tool and let's push this guy
down by three and you notice what
happened here I actually have a surface
selected I think I just moused over it
and it it automatically selected for me
so we can always right-click off away
from geometry to clear our selection so
I'm going to do that now and then come
over here and click on the middle of my
water bowl and push it down to select a
direction let go of my mouse and type
three enter and now I've pushed that guy
down to create my water bowl now let's
go back to our Paint Bucket tool and
let's make this a different color so I
click on my paint bucket tool which
automatically launches my material
browser I want to go back to the Select
tab on Mac you usually have to just
click on that brick and then I'll get
you back to where you can select from
your material libraries now click on the
drop down and go to colors and let's
just select maybe an orange something
colorful and then I'll paint all of
these different surfaces so that my
water bowl is orange now we're gonna
leave that material browser open for the
time being and let's do another
push-pull I'll click on my push-pull
tool to activate it position that red
arrow pointing at the bottom I'm water
bowl click once to start and then tap
control or option on the Mac and
remember that creates a copy leaves a
copy of the starting surface behind
I'm gonna move my mouse to suggest a
direction let go of the mouse and type
to enter now we want to paint a water
material on the top of this water bowl
to really give it the effect of being an
actual water bowl so I'll in my material
browser I'll click on my drop down menu
here to look at my libraries and let's
go to our water library and we can
select maybe this water pool light
that'll probably look pretty good so now
we have water in our water bowl now that
we have this whole scene set up we can
close out of our materials and let's
look at something called components
under window components we go to window
components and launch the component
browser components are pre-built
Sketchup models and there are a couple
of collections that are automatically
installed when we install Sketchup so a
lot like the material browser you can
always see which components are in your
model by clicking on the house icon you
can see that we have this one component
in our model we can also click on this
drop-down and select from component
libraries let's choose the components
sampler library and here you can see we
have a bunch of different pre-built
Sketchup models and we're just going to
add the 2d girls dog component we click
once on that in our components browser
and then we click again in our Sketchup
model and now we have completed the
scene