How to apply various sketchup tools for creating the drawings of a city
Justin Kreule created this exclusive sketchup video for sketchup professionals. This sketchup video tutorial is designed for beginner’s sketchup user. In this sketchup tutorial video Justin briefly shows how to use sketchup for creating the drawing of a city.
Sketchup contains various toolset which are very useful for users to draw anything in sketchup. For generating your preliminary models, line tool and inference engine are most suitable for the users.
In order to draw swiftly, the users can take help from various concepts provided by SketchUp. These range from dividing and healing, pushing and pulling, sticky geometry, autofold, and intersections.
A large number of entities in SketchUp like arcs and circles, are created with small lines or edges. Besides line tool, there are other tools inside SketchUp which can be fruitful for the users to speed up their drawing process. Some of these tools are used for generating common entities like a circle, arc, polygon, or freehand line. With other tools, the users will be able to instantly sketch complicated models just by adjusting your models (splitting, skewing, and mingling geometry together).
SketchUp tools are segregated into five categories which range from principal tools (tools useful for choosing and resiving geometry), drawing tools (tools for producing geometry), modification tools (tools applied for revising accessible geometry), construction tools (tools to be applied for producing construction lines or points as well as validating your model), camera tools (tools useful for viewing geometry), and walkthrough tools (tools utilized for analyzing your model). Given below the detailed lists of all the Drawing, Principal, Modification, and Construction tools:
Tool
Type
Notes
Line
Drawing
Can be used to create, intersect, or divide a face or other line (edge)
Arc
Drawing
Can be used to create, intersect, or divide a face or other line (edge)
Freehand
Drawing
Can be used to create, intersect, or divide a face or other line (edge)
Rectangle
Drawing
Can be used to create, intersect, or divide a face or other line (edge)
Circle
Drawing
Can be used to create, intersect, or divide a face or other line (edge)
Polygon
Drawing
Can be used to create, intersect, or divide a face or other line (edge)
Select
Principal
Used to select entities
Eraser
Principal
Used to delete geometry and heal faces
Paint Bucket
Principal
Used to applymaterials (combinations of color andtexture)
Position Texture*
Modification
Used to manipulate materials painted on a surface.
Move
Modification
Used to move, distort (autofold), and copy entities
Tool
Type
Notes
Rotate
Modification
Scale
Modification
Push/Pull
Modification
Used to expand and shrink geometry
Follow Me
Modification
Used to duplicate a profile along a path
Intersect With Model*
Modification
Used to create complex geometry by piecing together separate geometry
Offset
Modification
3D Text
Construction
Used to draw 3 dimensional text geometry
Tape Measure
Construction
Used to get a measurement and create construction line entities
Protractor
Construction
Used to set angles
Axes
Construction
Dimension
Construction
Used to calculate and display a dimension
Text
Construction
Section Plane
Construction
Used to create section cut effects
The users (Microsoft Windows) can access the above toolset from menu bar or from tool palette (Mac OS X).
Nearly all drawing tools can be used for revisions. As for instance, the line tool is utilized to draw a line so as to break up a face.
