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Training Course 3
Materials and textures, the key for interior design
Adriana Granados
Training Course 3 Materials and textures, the key for interior design 2nd Edition
Adriana Granados
2011
Acknowledgement
Thank you to Michael Dugas and Jo Dawson for helping me prepare this manual. Michael drew on his experience in renovation and his studies in the Interior Design program at Salem College to help me with accuracy and accessibility in both the text and the illustrations. Jo, a longtime newspaper copy editor aware that English is not my mother language, helped me present my ideas and instructions clearly and succinctly.
Preface
Google SketchUp brings together several important features for people who want to venture into the use of design software. It offers a short learning curve, gratifying results right away, low cost of investment in training and in software, and an open platform that provides libraries of all types. Much has been written for using Google SketchUp in the building shell and its relationship to the environment or the site. Less help has been provided to interior designers who work every day with materials, textures, lights and colors. Students need to know the available tools and how they can apply them in specific cases to a particular discipline. Fundamental concepts, ideas on how to create objects and interior spaces, tips and practical exercises are what this book offers. Rather than endless lines of explanatory text this hands-on book is a compendium of practical exercises that lead students to learn SketchUp from the perspective of the interior designer. This book focuses on the fundamentals for the interior design field and promotes independent study. It offers four separate courses progressing in complexity. They can be read as one source or be consulted separately for those who already have experience with Google SketchUp. At the end of every course you will find practical exercises that will broaden your experience in the acquired knowledge. These resources enable students to think about how the knowledge can be applied to any situation. On-line videos reinforce the concepts. At the end of the four courses you will be able to express your ideas to others in a more efficient and attractive way. Illustrating the feel and look of a space will allow others to understand what you have in mind and will help you in your career success.
Copyright 2011,2010 by Adriana Granados. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any forms or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Adriana Granados, 3033 Kinnamon Rd, Winston Salem, NC 27104, (336)4139907.
Training Course 3. Materials and textures, the key for interior design
Learn to apply materials, textures, and use pictures and components. Create new materials from any picture or swatch that you might have. You will learn to create your own libraries of materials and textures, and to modify colors and scales. Real word textures will be used for finishing, carpets, upholstery and curtains.
Table of Contents Training Course 3. Materials and textures, the key for interior design
6. How to apply materials and textures
6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10
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Painting Faces with colors Editing a color... Painting Faces with textures and apply Fill options..... Sampling a material. . Changing a face material from the Entity Information window... Using images .... Using images to create textures..... Creating a new material. Save a texture for future use in other models.... Texture position. 6.10.1 Repositioning 6.10.2 Manipulating a material using Fixed Pin mode 6.10.3 Manipulating a material using Free Pin mode 6.10.4 Positioning a texture on a curved face Changing a texture on your graphic editor Changing a texture of only one face..... How to get more material collections... Translucent materials.... Double-sided faces.... Painting groups and components... Using images for Face-Camera components..... Using images with a transparent background for Face-Camera components... Match Photo...
Practice Chapter 6. 43 1. Applying a tile at an angle and changing the size 2. Curtain texture position with free pins 3. Project a texture on the curved surfaces of an ottoman 43 45 46
Practice Chapter 2
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3.9.7 Centering the point of view 3.9.8 Changing field of view 3.9.9 Changing focal length with the Zoom Tool 3.9.10 Zoom Window Tool 3.9.11 Zoom Extents Tool ( ) Selecting an edge, a face and many objects at the same time 3.10.1 Selecting connected entities using the Select context-menu item 3.10.2 Adding and subtracting from a selection set 3.10.3 Changing selection status for an entity (Shift) 3.10.4 Subtracting from the selection set Follow me 3.11.1 Follow Me on a face 3.11.2 Manually extruding a face along a path 3.11.3 Follow Me by pre-selecting edges Offset 3.12.1 Offsetting a face Offsetting lines Repeating an offset with the same distance 1. Draw a bookcase 2. Draw an ottoman 3. Draw a rectangular table with rounded base
Practice Chapter 3
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4.7.1 Dividing a line or arc into equal segments 4.7.2 Splitting a line Intersect with Model 1. Create a room with an open door, window and opening 2. Create a wainscoting and a crown molding 3. Create a lamp with a spherical base 4. Create a chair layout for a conference room 5. Create a Queen Ann leg
Practice Chapter 4
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Practice Chapter 5
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Practice Chapter 7 to 13
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Training Course 3 - Materials and textures, the key for interior design
During this training course you will need exercises developed in previous courses as well some other resources. Send an email to sketchup-interior-design@nextcad.net to obtain an access key to download the files.
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Training Course 3 - Materials and textures, the key for interior design
Send an email to sketchup-interior-design@nextcad.net requesting the resources files. You will need them for developing several exercises. Your complete name, email address, and your book ISBN are required. 6.1 Painting faces with colors The colors and faces that are in SketchUp are referred to as materials. There is only one window Material dialog box - and one tool Paint Bucket - where you need to look. However, this chapter is of extreme importance for the interior design field. It will allow you to customize your projects, visualize the result of your own ideas on a virtual model and share them with others. The Paint Bucket tool assigns materials and colors to entities in your model. You can use it to paint individual entities, fill a tool number of connected faces, or replace a material with another throughout your model. Activate the Paint Bucket from the Principal Toolbar (Microsoft Windows), the Tool Palette (Mac OS X), or by choosing Paint Bucket from the Tools menu. The Paint Bucket tool is separate from the Apple Color Picker used to select colors and materials on Mac OS X. Keyboard Shortcut: B Open file Pr_4.2, Create a wainscoting and crown molding or type in your Components window Pr_4.2 by agra. Click on the thumbnail and place it in your model. Explode it. 1. Select Shaded with Textures option from View / Face Style.
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tool. This will open the Materials Dialog Box that will allow you to navigate Choose the Paint Bucket among materials in your Materials Collections.
Windows: The Material Thumbnail displays the currently selected material. The Material Name field displays the name of the currently selected material. 11
Training Course 3 - Materials and textures, the key for interior design The Display Secondary Selection Pane button displays a second select panel below the primary select panel. This feature allows you to display both your materials collections and the In Model materials at the same time. This feature is useful when you want to drag materials between a collection and the In Model materials. Use the Create Material button to create a copy of the currently active material in the In Model materials. to set the material to the default front and back face colors.
Use the Sample Paint button, appearing as an eye dropper, to sample and repaint materials appearing in your model. Click on the Select tab to display the select panel. Use the select tab to navigate between material collections. The Edit tab contains a panel of options for editing materials. Use the Back arrow Use the Forward arrow to navigate to the previous location in the hierarchy of collections. to navigate to the next location in the hierarchy of collections.
to navigate to the In Model materials. The In Model materials contain all of the materials Use the In Model button currently included with your model file.
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Much has been written for using Google SketchUp in the building shell and its relationship to the environment or the site. Less help has been provided to interior designers who work every day with materials, textures, lights and colors. Students need to know the available tools and how they can apply them in specific cases to this particular discipline. Fundamental concepts, ideas on how to create objects and interior spaces, tips and practical exercises are what this book offers. Rather than endless lines of explanatory text this hands-on book is a compendium of practical exercises that lead students to learn SketchUp from the perspective of the interior designer. This book focuses on the fundamentals for the interior design field and promotes independent study. A series of four books offer separate courses progressing in complexity. At the end of every course you will find practical exercises that will broaden your experience in the acquired knowledge. These resources enable students to think about how the knowledge can be applied to any situation. At the end of the four courses you will be able to express your ideas to others in a more efficient and attractive way. Training Course 3. Materials and textures, the key for interior design teach you how to apply materials, textures, and use pictures and components. Create new materials from any picture or swatch that you might have. You will learn to create your own libraries of materials and textures, and to modify colors and scales. Real word textures will be used for finishing, carpets, upholstery and curtains.
Adriana Granados
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