Has this happened to you? You’re happily working on a large SketchUp model . . . . . . and you start to zoom in on some detail – maybe to clean up an edge or change a material. Suddenly, your model starts to disappear – note the big chunk of empty white space in […]
In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to set up just the right camera view for this room interior. And in Part 2, I painted an autumn panoramic image onto a large billboard outside the room, to convey the view of the great outdoors offered by this wonderful room. Here’s the interior view I left off […]
In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to set up a camera view of this room interior, so that everything worth seeing in the room can seen. I left off with saving the camera view as a scene, so that I can easily return to the view. Now I want to place a big picture outside […]
Look at this beautiful room, with the lovely view of autumn foliage seen through the windows: It looks as if this model includes a lawn and colorful trees on the other side of the purple wall. But if I had really taken the time to model all of those landscaping elements, the model would be […]
If your’e a SketchUp Pro user, you have the LayOut program as well, so this post is for you. And if you’re not (yet) a SketchUp Pro user, read this post anyway – the stunning images might convince you to go Pro (and learn LayOut). This is the first of what I hope will be many […]
The very useful Scale tool in SketchUp enables you to adjust object size or proportions. An overview of the Scale tool can be found in SketchUp’s Help Center. The Scale tool is generally pretty straightforward, but sometimes it can drive you crazy. This post will demonstrate a few tips that might help preserve your scaling sanity, and maybe […]
In Part 1 of this tutorial, I gave a quick overview of how to quickly model a residential house (walls, roof, framing), using the 1001bit Tools extension. In this post, I’ll show a few more of these tools, to punch holes in the wall and detail out grills. The tools I’ll show here are for openings, panels, and louvers. […]
The 1001bit Tools extension has been around for a long time, and should be a household name (in your SketchUp house). Written by a smart guy named Goh Hun Chee, it’s a free script you can install directly from the Extension Warehouse. We’ll have a series of posts in the near future about finding and […]
If you’re a PC user who’s using SketchUp 2016, all of your UI windows are now in one or more trays. (In versions before 2015, windows could be displayed separately. Mac still works the “old” way, too.) This post will show how you can manage trays, create new ones, and set up shortcuts to open specific trays and […]
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