Sketchup 7 Help by Michael Lee

Google SketchUp 7 Help

Customizing the Toolbar (Mac OS X) .................................................................... 112

Contents

Showing and Hiding Tool Palettes (Mac OS X) ..................................................... 113

Contents ....................................................................................................................... 1 Welcome to SketchUp............................................................................................... 21 SketchUp for Mac OS X........................................................................................... 22 SketchUp Versions .................................................................................................. 23 What's New in this Release? ................................................................................... 24 Technical Support .................................................................................................... 27 Learning SketchUp .................................................................................................. 28 Concepts Guide ......................................................................................................... 30 Designing in SketchUp............................................................................................. 31 Drawing Quickly ....................................................................................................... 37 Viewing Models in 3 Dimensions ............................................................................. 44 Adding Detail to Your Models .................................................................................. 47 Presenting Your Models........................................................................................... 56 Modeling Terrain and Organic Shapes .................................................................... 59 Welcome to the SketchUp Getting Started Guide .................................................. 62 Introduction to the SketchUp User Interface (Microsoft Windows) .......................... 63 Introduction to the SketchUp User Interface (Mac OS X)........................................ 65 Using the Mouse in SketchUp.................................................................................. 67 Working in 3D........................................................................................................... 69 Viewing a Model in 3D Space .................................................................................. 70 Creating Geometry With the Push/Pull Tool ............................................................ 73 Drawing Shapes with the Circle, Arc, and Rectangle Tools .................................... 77 Creating Your First Model ........................................................................................ 79 Next Steps................................................................................................................ 97 Welcome to the Dynamic Components Getting Started Guide ............................ 98 Dynamic Components.............................................................................................. 99 Configuring a Dynamic Component ....................................................................... 105

Viewing Tool Tips (Mac OS X)............................................................................... 114 Aligning the Point of View to the Current View ...................................................... 115 Determining Axis Relationship to Real-World 3D Space....................................... 116 Hiding the Drawing Axes........................................................................................ 117 Moving and Rotating the Drawing Axes Relative to Current Position.................... 118 Moving the Drawing Axes ...................................................................................... 119 Invoking a Context Menu ....................................................................................... 120 Encouraging an Inference...................................................................................... 121 Locking an Inference.............................................................................................. 122 Manipulating Dialog Boxes in a Dialog Box Stack ................................................. 123 Minimizing Dialog Boxes........................................................................................ 124 Resizing Dialog Boxes ........................................................................................... 125 Snapping Dialog Boxes to Other User Interface Components .............................. 126 Creating Models to Scale....................................................................................... 127 Sharing Files Between SketchUp 7 and Other Versions of SketchUp .................. 128 Principal Tools......................................................................................................... 129 Adding and Subtracting From a Selection Set....................................................... 130 Expanding the Selection Set Using the Mouse...................................................... 131 Selecting Multiple Entities ...................................................................................... 133 Selecting or Unselecting All Geometry .................................................................. 137 Selecting a Single Entity ........................................................................................ 138 Erasing Entities ...................................................................................................... 139 Softening/Unsoftening Edges ................................................................................ 140 Applying Materials and Color ................................................................................. 141 Painting Groups and Components......................................................................... 142 Face Painting Rules ............................................................................................... 143 Sampling a Material ............................................................................................... 144

Developing a Dynamic Component............................................................... 106

Drawing Tools.......................................................................................................... 145

Welcome to the SketchUp User's Guide ............................................................... 107

Drawing a Line ....................................................................................................... 146

Deleting 2D Person Component ............................................................................ 108

Creating a Face ..................................................................................................... 147

Detaching Toolbars (Microsoft Windows) .............................................................. 109

Drawing Lines by Inference ................................................................................... 148

Using the Layers Toolbar (Microsoft Windows) ..................................................... 110

Creating Precise Lines........................................................................................... 149

Viewing Tool Tips (Microsoft Windows)................................................................. 111

Dividing a Line into Equal Segments ..................................................................... 150

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