Which room layout do you like better? This . . . . . . or this? In this four-part series, I’ll show how to combine SketchUp layers and scenes to explore different options for room design. It’s a useful technique for interior/kitchen/bath designers, remodelers, contractors, or any regular Joe (or Josephine) looking to change a room layout […]
I ran this post a few months ago, when the blog was just getting started and our readership was still starting to grow. The post got a lot of views and feedback, so I thought I’d run it again for anyone who didn’t already see it. Enjoy! The very useful Scale tool in […]
In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to set up the elements needed to bend 3D text to fit along a curve. Here’s where I left off – I have: The curved face where the bent text will be moved back to The text itself, which will be bent The straight reference line, […]
I love, love, love the CLF Shape Bender extension (by Chris Fullmer, available in the Extension Warehouse). It does lots of things, but one of my favorite things to do with it is to bend 3D text along a curve. (If you need to learn how to find and install an extension from the Extension Warehouse, […]
In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to use the Tape Measure tool within groups or components, to resize only specific objects and not the entire model. This post also discusses using Tape Measure with groups and components. But the focus here is internal vs. imported (external) components. Read on to see what the difference is. Internal Components, […]
SketchUp’s Tape Measure tool is a handy little thing. It can be used for measuring, creating guide lines, and resizing objects. And when it comes to resizing, you can either resize everything in your model at once, or you can separate out objects you want to resize individually. This is great if you want to size one object […]
I was recently doing a small SketchUp consulting project for a friend who’s a landscape architect. She wanted my help with generating topographical surfaces, while she was going to concentrate on finding the right vegetation components. Because we weren’t working with any kind of fancy file-checkout system, we agreed that we’d work on the same model […]
If you have or use a 3D printer, you know that STL is the format read by nearly all commercial and personal 3D printers these days. In this previous post, I wrote about the SketchUp STL extension, which you can use to generate an STL file from your SketchUp model. This post shows another way to […]
SketchUp is a great tool for creating 3D printed models. (And I happen to have a book on that very subject!) But you can’t feed a SketchUp model directly to a 3D printer; a model must be converted to the STL format. At least as of now, SketchUp doesn’t have a direct export to STL […]
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