SketchUp for Interior Design 3D Visualizing, Designing, and Space Planning (PME0018)

SketchUp for Interior Design 3D Visualizing, Designing, and Space Planning

Contents

Chapter 1: What Is SketchUp and How Do

Interior Designers Use It? 1

What Is SketchUp?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Who Uses It?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Is It Easy to Learn?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

What Is SketchUp Used For? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

The Difference between Traditional CAD Drawings

and Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

How SketchUp Displays the Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Types of Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

What SketchUp Make (Free Version) Can Do. . . . 4

What SketchUp Pro Can Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

How Designers Use SketchUp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Hardware, Operating System, and Browser

Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

The Video Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Space Navigator 3D Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Use a Tablet PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Download SketchUp Make. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

The Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Run Multiple SketchUp Files at the

Same Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Save Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Backup Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 3: Exploring the Interface

Select or Change a Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Add the Large Tool Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Select Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

The Rectangle Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

The Inference Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

The Push/Pull Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Input Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Pan and Orbit Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Modifier Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The Escape Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The Zoom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The Views Toolbar: Generate Orthographic

Drawings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Select with Selection and Crossing Windows. . .35

Select by Clicking, Right-Clicking, and H

olding the Shift and Control Keys. . . . . . . . . . . 36

The Move Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Customize the Desktop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Make a Custom Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

The Help Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Manage Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter 4: Modeling Furniture, Cabinetry, and Accessories

Faces and Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

The Eraser Tool and Erasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

The Pencil and Freehand Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

The Move Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Stickiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Causes of a Non-Filling Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Color-Coordinate the Model’s Lines with the

Axes by Changing the Edge Style Setting. . . . . 52

Model a Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Model a Bookcase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Model a Clock with Radial Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Chapter 5: Drafting, Modeling, and Furnishing a Floor Plan

Prepare a Raster File for Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Draft a Plan by Tracing a Raster Image . . . . . . . . 85

Trace Interior Walls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Edge Styles Again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

From Plan to Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Flashing Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Draft a Plan from a Paper Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Interior vs. Exterior Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Components in Single- vs. Double-Sided

Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Create Plan and Elevation Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Model a Building from an AutoCAD Plan. . . . 121

Interact with Revit, 20–20, and Other

Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

“Clipping” (Disappearing Geometry). . . . . . . . 125

Model a Sloped Ceiling with the

Protractor Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Chapter 6: Modeling a Two-Story House Interior

Model the Shell and First Floor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Model the Second Floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Model the Living Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Model a Cabinet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Model Crown Molding with the

Follow Me Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Model a Stairs Guard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Edit a Downloaded Staircase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

The Outliner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Chapter 7: Painting with Colors, Textures, and Photo-Matching

What Is Painting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Paint with Native SketchUp Materials. . . . . . . 169

Paint with Textures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Paint the Stairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Import Swatches from Other Models. . . . . . . . . 178

Put New Colors and Textures into the

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Check Face Orientation on Painted Surfaces

with Entity Info and Face Style. . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Apply a Real-Life Design Scheme to the Model

Import a Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Import an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Photo-Match an Interior Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Chapter 8: Enhancing and Presenting the Model

Annotate the Model:

Dimensions and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Dimension a Floor Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Scenes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

The Walk-Through Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

What Are Dynamic Components?. . . . . . . . . . . 233

Save vs. Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Enhance with Other Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Enhance with Hand-Rendering. . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Why SketchUp May Run Slow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Chapter 9: Plugins and LayOut

What’s a Plugin?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

LayOut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

SketchUCation Forum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

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