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Author: Steven Holzner
ISBN : B004KKXNSW
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Sams Teach Yourself Google SketchUp™ 8 in 10 Minutes
Steven Holzner
Sams Teach Yourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons you’ll learn all you need to use Google’s free SketchUp 8 to create pro-quality 3D models of practically anything!
Tips point out shortcuts and solutions
Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls
Notes provide additional information
10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…
- Quickly get up and running with SketchUp 8
- Draw basic figures with the Rectangle, Circle, Polygon, and Arc tools
- Create freehand drawings of any shape
- Incorporate text into your models–even 3D text
- Convert 2D models to 3D using Push/Pull, Move, Rotate, and other tools
- Control your view of 3D objects with Orbit, Pan, and Zoom
- Accurately measure lengths and angles
- Create construction guides with Tape Measure, Dimensioning, and the Protractor
- Organize your models into components and groups
- Paint SketchUp objects in realistic colors
- Scale your models simply by dragging your mouse
- Use the innovative Follow-Me tool to quickly create complex 3D models
- Instantly repeat edges and surfaces at offsets from the original
- Draw cross-sections through any surface
Category: Graphics & Design
Covers: Google SketchUp 8 Free Edition
User Level: Beginning
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- Print Length: 240 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0672335476
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Sams Publishing; 1 edition (January 13, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004KKXNSW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Free Download Sams Teach Yourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes
Google Sketchup is a powerful, free, 3d drawing program. Some aspects are immediately intuitive, some become intuitive with practice, and some parts... well, having a book helps a lot to figure them out. (But before you buy one, try out Sketchup's built-in tutors, and the extensive online help.)
This book is mainly about basic capabilities: drawing simple geometric or freehand objects of various types. It introduces a variety of 2d shapes you can draw, and how you can push or pull them into a third dimension. It tells you how to make them measured sizes. All of the basic shapes in Sketchup are covered. The book discusses moving, rotating, scaling, and taking cross sections. Essentially, the purpose of the book is to explain what each Sketchup tool does, separately.
The problem is, the most complex thing they teach you to do is to create a solid abstract geometric object. They do tell you how to cut holes into it. What I need to do is to build real models. The back of the book says: "...you'll learn all you need to use Google's free Sketchup 8 to create pro-quality 3D models of practically anything!" but there is no example of combining shapes or objects to create real models of the sort you will find in the 3d warehouse, which are compound models made from creating separate objects and assembling them precisely.
While this book does discuss groups and components, it shows separate simple 3d objects that are placed near each other, but not positioned accurately or joined. If you think about how a real object is built - a simple table, for example - it involves assembling separate pieces that are each simple 3d objects (think of pieces of wood) that have surfaces snap together in specific locations.