No matter how simple or complex your model, every model in SketchUp is really just edges and faces. The drawing tools enable you to create those edges and faces.
Models are consisting of all buildings and I need to insert into database the buildings like one by one and in the solid form to make on them some operations. Eng.zehrakoc August 8, 2019, 7:11am #6.
If you’re a beginner to drawing in SketchUp, start simple:
- Learn how drawing lines and shapes in 3D is different from drawing in 2D. Make sure you understand a few drawing basics and concepts, like how to align lines and shapes to the correct drawing axis. (Hint: The SketchUp inference engine can help.)
- Explore the shape tools and handy selection techniques.
- Discover all the ways you can push/pull your geometry into 3D.
- Draw outside the box with arcs.
If you’re eager to draw detail and complex 3D models, these Help Center articles can help you expand your drawing skills:
- To make curved faces look more polished, check out how to soften round edges so they look smooth.
- To move beyond basic shapes, you need to know how to divide and split faces, move entities, copy entities, erase lines and faces, flip and rotate entities, scale entities, and extrude shapes along a path with the Follow Me tool.
- You can also model complex shapes with the Solid Tools, which enable you to modify 3D shapes by choosing how one shape adds to or subtracts from a second shape.
- Give your model a polished look with text, a custom background, or fog.
If you need to draw precisely, discover how to offset a line and measure angles and distances.
If examples help you understand how to apply and combine drawing techniques, check out the articles on creating specific shapes, such as a cone or sphere, and objects, such as a chair or building footprint.
- 1) Export your model from Sketchup as usual.You will get X file. 2) Open Fragmotion. Go to the menu and select: File / Import.and choose your x file you just made by sketchup. 3) You can rotate your model by the right mouse button. In the upper icons you can switch different views, styles, etc. When you already played with this enough, go to the right panel, called Tools.
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Before you know it, you’ll be modeling your house, that custom dining room table you’ve been wanting to make, or the modern storefront that you envision (where others see only a dilapidated parking lot).
I’m working on my first real (i.e., not just doodling) project in Sketchup - a simple flat surface of a gambrel-roofed building (a gambrel roof is barn-shaped). The purpose of the sketch is to create a template that I can use to cut foam-core board to the proper dimensions for a mockup I’m building.
I created the sketch successfully in full scale; 50 feet across the base, 20 foot vertical outside walls, then the gambrel roof itself, which is another fifteen feet tall. From the base of the wall to the peak of the roof, the drawing is 35 feet tall.
I then used Scale tool to reduce it to HO, using a conversion factor of 0.01149 (1/87), and printed the result using internet instructions. However, my printed drawing is 57 feet wide by about 40 feet tall.
Any thoughts on why this is? This may be as simple as a bad conversion factor, or perhaps the way the print job is handled by my Mac (this is what I’ll explore next). Or it could be something I don’t yet understand in scaling / printing in Sketchup.
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Thanks!