Sketchup Tutorials: If you have one fell free to post it!

[Soran77]

Hello fellow trekBBSers, with the encouragement of my fellow artists I have decided to Open this thread to anyone who wants to post their Sketchup Tutorial, note: this thread is for Sketchup tutorials exclusively. So weather you have a link to your tut on a separate webpage or a video, or an image tutorial or just a text based tutorial please post it here Sketchup is a wonderful free program, it has so much potential, to be one of the most powerful free 3D modeling applications out there! So this is just the Opening post, I actually have special Tutorial i am Planning that i will start today, I should have it posted within a few days (Hopefully! lol)


P.S. Let's get out our tut teaching hats on and tlets help the artist harness the full potential of THE SKETCHUP

 

[Soran77]

Part 1: Introduction to the Sketucation Plugin Store.

Sorry about the Audio being choppy in some spots guys, But you'll get the gist of it I hope. More to come!

 

[Sgt_G]

Do the plug-ins work with Sketch-Up Make, or do you need Sketch-Up Pro??

 

[Soran77]

They work with sketchup make

 

[Soran77]

Pro isn't as cracked up as people claim, you can get all the features of pro and even more capability than pro with the plugins

 

[Sgt_G]

Good. Because $590 is not in my budget right now. I just spent $10K on plumbing, so no more fun-money until X-mas at the earliest.

And thanks again for doing these!

 

[Sgt_G]

Is there a way to create an object, such as a chair or table, and save it to a library to be pasted into another larger drawing? Thanks!

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Hi Sgt G Use the import command in the file menu. to bring in sketchup files or jpgs and other files.

 

[Warped9]

Is there a way to create an object, such as a chair or table, and save it to a library to be pasted into another larger drawing? Thanks!

As I understand it there is a SketchUp warehouse (so to speak) where models of various chairs and tables and such are stored to be used by anybody.

Not really a tutorial but it's gratifying to learn that SketchUp is a lot more versatile than I had thought initially. Initially I thought it was oriented much more towards architectural models, but upon seeing examples of aircraft and cars and such made with SketchUp I saw that what I was interested in was possible.

 

[BK613]

Is there a way to create an object, such as a chair or table, and save it to a library to be pasted into another larger drawing? Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjoawk2vrAg
Very similar on Windows.

 

[Sgt_G]

BK: Yep, that's what I wanted. Thanks!

 

[BK613]

^^YW
These I've had bookmarked for a while; not mine but very useful.

https://www.youtube.com/user/SketchUpVideo/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/user/MasterSketchupdotcom/videos

My first tips to people just starting out:
-Turn on almost all the tools. Sketchup starts with a limited set.
-Add the Sandbox tools. From Contours and Drape are essential, IMO.
-Learn to use layers. Primary hull on one layer, secondary on another, guides on a third, etc.
-Learn to use Parallel Projection.
-Read ALL the text in the Instructor window. And keep it open until you don't need to reference it again.

 

[Sgt_G]

Sorry for dredging up an old topic, but it seemed like the best place to ask this.

I want to draw a thruster nozzle. I know I can draw the profile and use the Follow Me tool to have it chase around a circle. But I was wondering if there isn't another way. Let's say I draw a circle, say 25cm in diameter, then use the Push/Pull too to stretch is out into a 75cm cylinder. Now, is there a way (Offset tool, perhaps??) to change the diameter of one end of the cylinder to, say, 50cm and make it into a cone???? Thanks!!

 

[Soran77]

Right, the way you do this is draw your cylinder, make it the size you want, then take your line tool, drag it around the edge of the end of the cylinder you want the nozzle to get the center inference, once you have that draw a line on the blue axis past the edge, now complete a square with the line tool, then draw your nozzle, delete the extra lines and use the follow me tool, and wallah
!

 

[Soran77]

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[sojourner]

^Um, that's the way he's been doing it.

Sorry for dredging up an old topic, but it seemed like the best place to ask this.

I want to draw a thruster nozzle. I know I can draw the profile and use the Follow Me tool to have it chase around a circle. But I was wondering if there isn't another way. Let's say I draw a circle, say 25cm in diameter, then use the Push/Pull too to stretch is out into a 75cm cylinder. Now, is there a way (Offset tool, perhaps??) to change the diameter of one end of the cylinder to, say, 50cm and make it into a cone???? Thanks!!

You can easily create a cone. First, create your cylinder as you describe. Then using the select tool, click on the face of one end of the cylinder. Now use the scale tool (grab one of the corner control points) to resize that face while holding the shift key down so it resizes around the center point. Waalaa! A cone.

 

[Soran77]

^Um, that's the way he's been doing it.

 

[Sgt_G]

Soran ... yeah, thanks. That's a very nice looking final result. Way prettier than I need.

Sojiourner ... that's what I was trying to do. But I couldn't get it to changed evenly (like the Offset tools does). Shift-key. Yeah, that's probably the simple thing I was missing. {sigh} I will give that a try. Thanks!

 

[BorgMan]

The only thing is that creating it the way Soran does is 100% correct in relation to the sizes you need. When resizing using the Scale tool, especially while holding shift, you can't be absolutely certain your smaller section will be 25 centimeters smaller than when you started. Outlining your cone and then Follow Me is still the best option...

 

[Sgt_G]

Yes and no. As long as I get them looking okay and all the same, it'll be fine. It's a minor detail, not a key feature, so if it's 20-20 (looks good at twenty feet or at 20 MPH), that's all I need.