

Other options can be accessed via the menu system, or you can choose to place extra palettes on the workspace to save wading through menus. Instructor hints pop out on the right of the screen when it thinks you need them.

SketchUp Pro doesn't lack in functionality though despite its ease of use and includes all the usual collection of drawing and filling tools you'd expect, neatly accessible in the toolbar across the top of the screen. Sketchup Pro intelligently predicts where you want endpoints to meet and snaps them shut for you, saving lots of time messing around. There are plenty of helpful hints and guides throughout too helping you get to grips with 'snapping' when you draw rectangles, circles and other shapes. There's a refreshing lack of technical jargon in SketchUp Pro and unfamiliar terms to beginners such as the 'Extrude' tool have been renamed to the more obvious 'Push/Pull' for example.

It features some useful advantages over the basic version including ability to Export to CAD, add text and graphics to layouts and more advanced features. This professional version of Sketchup is aimed at professionals who need CAD software that's high on power and features, and low on learning curves. SketchUp Pro 2015 The latest version has been integrated with Google Maps too so that geo-tagging your creations is easier than ever. Can't do that with Perspective.SketchUp Pro bucks the trend of expensive 3D modeling software such as 3DSMax and Cinema4D and presents a free, easy to use alternative with which you can even post your creations onto Google Earth for the world to see. That way I can actually make measurements in the shop on the drawings. I do the same with my furniture drawings only one or two Perspective scenes to show a potential client and the rest are Parallel Projection which are printed out to scale for shop drawings. The rest actually must be in Parallel Projection because these will be scenes I will import into LayOut and create scaled build drawings. Only the All scene should be in Perspective - my bad. And it doesn't cost me anything to build <) I am going to use Anderson windows because they have detailed SketchUp plugin and models that are a breeze to import. After the Styrofoam I'll put on the sheathing and then the windows. I am in the middle of putting the Styrofoam insulation on and have some pieces that are not on the correct layer yet. I am actually going to do a tutorial on the strategy of component, layer and scene naming and creation for my American Woodworker Magazine blog in a month or so. What's the weird header thing on the eave of the garage? oh nm I see its Styrofoam on the entity info I don't mean creating any geometry.I mean the scenes. Mics_54 wrote:I would like a basic tutorial on creating a model like that.
