I LOVE this four-part series on SketchUp paper houses. And so did my kids, and so will yours. Teachers, take note – these projects are fabulous for spatial thinking (geometry) as well as artistic creativity. Part 1 shows the easiest method – printing a blank house and coloring yourself. Part 2 shows how to edit texture graphics from within […]
In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to use an imported image to create a wall poster or painting. In Part 2 I showed how to adjust the component so that it will align to any wall. In this post, I’ll show what I consider to be the best way to model art elements: […]
Here’s where I left off after Part 1 of this series – a room with one painting (so far), brought in as an image and made into an aligned component. But as we’ll see, the default alignment assigned by SketchUp won’t work the way we want. What’s the Alignment Problem? Let’s say I want to move […]
Look at this lovely, sun-filled room (rendered from SketchUp by the free Twilight Hobby rendering extension: It’s missing something, right? How about a couple of fun paintings or posters on the walls: It’s pretty easy to bring images into SketchUp, to use as textures or stand-alone images. But there are also correct and incorrect […]
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