Week 2 SketchUp 8

Ana Silvia Hernandez Balcazar

4/02/13

SketchUp Week 2

Today we will be making a house and working on making a door and some windows to it.

First things first, we need to make a rectangle:

Now do a triple click on top of the rectangle to select all of it:

Hit the right click of your mouse and make it a group:

Ana Silvia Hernandez Balcazar

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To start working with our house we will have to enter the group:

Using the push up

tool “P” make a block.

Use the Offset tool “F” make

a smaller rectangle on the

inside.

Use the push up tool again,

and take the inner rectangle

down, align it with the

bottom line, like this.

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Orbit around your drawing so now you can work on the blue axis to make the door and the windows:

Use the rectangle tool

“R” to create the shape

of the door.

Use the Push Up tool,

select the rectangle and

drag it to the back and

align it with the edge of

the wall, like this.

Your door now looks like

this.

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We have now done some circle windows, and we will do the same we did with the door to make them look like a window.

It should have a look like this.

We will add a little detail to the windows by offsetting them.

Using the Push up tool we will give the windows this aspect.

Ana Silvia Hernandez Balcazar Making the roof:

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You need to make another rectangle on top of your house (be aware that you are not inside the group) after you’ve done the rectangle you need to make it a new group

Go inside the group and use the push up tool to make this block, also use the push up tool to make it a little bigger than the house by dragging all the walls outside a little bit.

Go to one side and draw to lines, from one bottom corner to the top line midpoint to create this triangle.

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Giving colour to the house:

Use the Paint Bucket “B” to

give colour to your house.

When you enter “B” on your

keyboard this window will

pop out.

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Use the push up tool to drag the outside triangles and cut them off to give the roof this shape.

Your house should look like this.

Then select the texture palettes option.

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Choose from colours and textures to paint your house.

If you want to colour all one group with one colour you need to be outside the group.

If you want to paint small details like the windows or inner walls, then you have to go in the group to do so.

Final example.