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Week 13: Sketch Up Eight How to draw in sketch up
Use the ‘Line Tool’ to make shapes
The person can be seen from various angles by using the ‘Orbit Tool’.
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Establishing professional practice Tasks: • • •
Make houses with the ‘Push/Pull Tool’ and use ‘Offset Tool’ to make walls. Use Edit, Copy and Paste to copy objects. Make doors by adding rectangles and deleting the object.
Draw a box with the ‘Rectangle Tool’ before using ‘Push/Pull Tool’
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To offset walls, click on the offset tool
Then use ‘push/pull tool’ to push box down
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Establishing professional practice Door
Use the ‘Rectangle Tool’ to draw the door
Delete the rectangle so that the door is exposed
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Use ‘Paint Bucket Tool’ to add color to objects Task 2 • • • •
Make a kennel Draw a circle and rectangle for the door and then delete the objects. Draw a Triangle with the ‘Line Tool’ and Push’ it backwards to make the roof. Offset the roof
I used the ‘Arc Tool’ instead of the circle because I found that easier to work with.
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The triangle drawn with ‘Line Tool’
Used ‘Push/Pull Tool’ to fill the space behind the triangle.
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Establishing professional practice Offset of roof
Offset of triangle
Triangle pushed in
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Establishing professional practice Kennel after using ‘Paint Bucket Tool’
The kennel is as big as the house at the moment. I can reduce the scale by clicking on tools and then scale.
Select the object using the ‘Select Tool’ 8
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Completed drawing
The kennel and the house are now at the right size in comparison to person.
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