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Getting Started with SketchUp There’s a huge amount of material to cover when talking about SketchUp, so we’re going to spend this first l...

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Drawing Lines When you first start SketchUp, the Line tool is selected by default. And, as you might expect, you can draw lines with this ...

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Drawing Simple Figures Using tools such as the Rectangle tool, you can draw 2D shapes, like the rectangle you see in Figure 1.4. Besides r...

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Pushing (or Pulling) for 3D Converting objects from 2D to 3D in SketchUp is one of the coolest things you can do. How does it work? You dr...

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Panning and Orbiting Given that objects exist in 3D in SketchUp, you might think that there are various tools that let you see objects fro...

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Rotating and Moving Although these tools are fairly self-explanatory, they are incredibly useful, as you might imagine. Note that while th...

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Painting Google SketchUp lets you paint the objects you create. You can paint them with solid colors, and you can select from dozens of te...

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Using the Component Libraries Google maintains a 3D warehouse of prebuilt models for you to download and use. There are dozens of such pre...

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Zooming Another powerful tool is the Zoom tool, which lets you zoom in and out. For example, suppose you have the drawing in Figure 1.23, ...

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Creating Guides and Dimension Indicators There are all kinds of construction aids in SketchUp as well. For example, take a look at Figure ...

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Lots of Cool Stuff Coming Up There is a lot of cool stuff coming up, such as the Follow-Me tool, which lets you specify a path and a shape...