Ana Silvia Hernandez Balcazar
4/03/13
SketchUp Week 6 In this session we will see how to import an image into our model. We’ll start off by making a rectangle on the floor and making it into a group. Enter your group and using the push u p tool to extrude your rectangle until you have a block like this. Still inside your group go into File/ Import ...
Ana Silvia Hernandez Balcazar In this case I selected the yellow school bus. When your image appears it will give you a point from where your image you should put this will start, point on t he left bottom corner block like this. of your
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A window like this will pop out where you will be able to choose the image you want to import. Remember to select the option “Use as image”.
It will also gives you the option to scale it, if not just enter “S” for the scale tool to appear. Now scale your image so it is the same length of your block.
Ana Silvia Hernandez Balcazar
4/03/13
Use the push up tool to make even your block regarding the height.
We will get rid of the white parts, so we need to be facing our figure straight so we can draw on it, and the lines can stay on the same axis.
Use the push up tool to get rid of the white part.
Ana Silvia Hernandez Balcazar
4/03/13
Do the same for the underneath part.
Around the wheels and the back part of the bus.
At the end it should look like this.
Ana Silvia Hernandez Balcazar
4/03/13
Go outside of the group and with the paint bucket “B” give the bus a yellow colour like the one on your image.
You can hide the black lines by entering your group, selecting the eraser tool “E” and hold SHIFT while you select your black lines. What this will do is just hide them.