sketch up week 13

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Week 13: Sketch Up Eight

How to draw in sketch up

The person can be seen from various angles by using the ‘Orbit Tool’.

Use the ‘Line Tool’ to make shapes

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Tasks:

• Make houses with the ‘Push/Pull Tool’ and use ‘Offset Tool’ to make walls. • Use Edit, Copy and Paste to copy objects. • Make doors by adding rectangles and deleting the object.

Draw a box with the ‘Rectangle Tool’ before using ‘Push/Pull Tool’

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To offset walls, click on the offset tool

Then use ‘push/pull tool’ to push box down

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Door

Use the ‘Rectangle Tool’ to draw the door

Delete the rectangle so that the door is exposed

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Use ‘Paint Bucket Tool’ to add color to objects Task 2

• Make a kennel • Draw a circle and rectangle for the door and then delete the objects. • Draw a Triangle with the ‘Line Tool’ and Push’ it backwards to make the roof. • Offset the roof

I used the ‘Arc Tool’ instead of the circle because I found that easier to work with.

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The triangle drawn with ‘Line Tool’

Used ‘Push/Pull Tool’ to fill the space behind the triangle.

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Offset of roof

Offset of triangle Triangle pushed in

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Kennel after using ‘Paint Bucket Tool’

The kennel is as big as the house at the moment. I can reduce the scale by clicking on tools and then scale.

Select the object using the ‘Select Tool’

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Scale Tool

Completed drawing

The kennel and the house are now at the right size in comparison to person.