Introduction to Google Sketchup - 30 Notes

1. To select all visible entities in a model press Crtl+ A
2. Tool pallet consist of 23 tools to use.
3. The orbit tool allows you to view the object in a ny side.
4. When using the orbit tool you are not moving ot rotating the model instead you are moving.
5. While using the orbit tool you can view the model from the top and bottom as well as any side.
6. There is a Zoom tool thats allows you to zoom towards the model as well as away from it.
7. To zoom in you move the mouse foward and to zoom out you zoom backward.
8. The Pan tool is to move the model back and forth on the screen .
9. The zoom, orbit and pan are called the naviagtion tools.
10. When using sketchup you can move easily using this tools.
11. The rectangle tool allows you to make several rectangles in sketch up.
12. Is recommended to not have rectangles crossing over each other.
13. You can look around the rectangles using the orbit tool.
14. The push/ pull allows you pull up the rectangles into a 3d model
15. When using the push/pull model you can use the orbit tool to look around the model and adjust any side that need to be widder, longer or taller.
16. In sketchup the tools will infer to corners edges and other geometry.
17. While having a rectangle on another on you can push and pull on that one as well.
18. Skecthup have a 3d warehouse where you can share and get models.
19. The arrow on the top icons allows you to select anything.
20. The red pencil allows you to draw lines
21. The rectangle, crircle and arce tool is do draw any of this three shapes.
22. The eraser allows you to erase anything you dont wont, you can do side or lines .
23. Another way to access it is by clicking E on the keyboard.
24. The tape measure tells you how long something is .
25. The paint bucket allows you choose from any folder a material to use on the model.
26. The move/ copy tool allows you to move the model around.
27. The ofset tool is to make a side larger or smaller.
28. The box the with yellow arrow allows you to get models.
29. The box with the orange arrow is to share models.
30. They have a parallel projection, and a two point perspective.