Selecting Materials
Let’s say you want to draw a tile floor. How would you select that texture to paint it?Follow these steps:
1. Click the Start Using SketchUp button.
2. Select the Rectangle tool in the toolbar.
3. Draw a horizontal rectangle.
4. Select the Paint tool in the toolbar.
The materials browser opens. You can select a collection of textures from the drop-down texture list box (next to the button displaying a house). Then you can choose from the following texture collections:
- Carpet and textiles
- Colors
- Colors–Named
- Fencing
- Groundcover
- Markers
- Metal
- Roofing
- Sketchy
- Stone
- Tile
- Translucent
- Vegetation
- Water
- Wood
5. Select the Tile texture collection from the textures drop-down list.
6. Select a tile texture of your liking by clicking it.
7. Click the horizontal rectangle. The rectangle is painted in the texture you’ve requested, as shown in Figure 7.5.
FIGURE 7.5 A tile floor.
There you have it—now you’re drawing with textures.
Thanks :
Steven Holzner,
SamsTeachYourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes
