CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 In this multi-part tutorial | will show you the basics of SketchUp to get you started on your own designs. Whether it's professional, educational or just for your own fun, we will walk you through the basic tools that you need to create your first model. In this tutorial we will work through the basic tools in SketchUp while creating your first small building We will begin with the basic “Large Tool Set” toolbar that you must open from view menu. To Open “Large tool Set” go to View at the top of the screen, then go to Toolbars and click onLarge Tool Set. If you still have the "Getting Started" toolbar still open, deselect it from the Toolbars list. Now lock the “Large tool Set" to a side of the screen, whatever works best for you. Drag it to a side and it will auto lock to that position on the screen. This is the Large Tool Set, it includes all tools from the “Getting Started” tool set plus many features that you will use as you become more advanced in your modeling abilities. The most common tools you will use will include all of the Draw commands as well as the Measurement tool and Orbit. Practice with these tools to gain fluency in bia 4 baal their use as well as learn how they operate. There is no better teacher than praotice, so.... Practice.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Here is a plan of a . building that we will create in this tutorial. Try to come up with a plan to tackle this design. In SketchUp, the best advice | can give is to start from the bottom up. Creating your foundation, floor plan, door and window openings, then finish with the roof. (Similar to how an actual building is constructed.) DINING 2-0" © uvING ROOM Ph tA ttt AY Pew ret opiCMCET 340-01: Building information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Choose the Rectangle Too! Ex, cick on your starting point (in this case it's the center of the axis point) notice in the lower right hand corner that there is a dimensions box, type in the measurements as 20',40’ (this is the syntax for dimensions in SketchUp) Dimensions 20'40 A Your workspace should look similar to the picture below 4a For the sake of this tutorial, all walls are 6” deep including the exterior and interior walls. Note that this is not true in most real life situations. Select the Offset Tool © bring the cursor to an edge of the rectangle and click once, Now move the cursor towards the center of rectangle, this will tell the tool which direction to offset. Notice at the bottom right of the screen that it now says “Distance” Distance 6° At this point you can either enter the offset directly or you can move the cursor to the desired offset, (Notice as you move the cursor the distance changes)CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Your model should be similar to the above image Using the Measurement Tape tool , we will now locate the interior walls. According to the plan the first interior wall from the front of the building is 11'-0" from the inside face of wali. So using the measurement tool, Hit CTRL, this will add a pius sign to the cursor, click and drag the front interior line towards the center of the rectangle. Pay attention to the lower right corner where you can directly type in 11’ or drag to 11’. When you release the mouse, the tool will create a construction line. This is extremely handy when laying out your spaces. You will find that you will use the tool quite often for all your designs.CMCET 340-01: Building information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Your modeling space should look similar to the above image. Use this tool to complete the outline of this first wall. It should look similar to below. Using the Rectangle Tool a click on one corer of the walll you outlined then drag to the opposite corner. Essentially outlining you wall. It should look similar to below.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Select the Eraser Too! and erase the line where the interior wall intersects the exterior wall. The intersection should look similar to this. Now finish laying out the rest of the interior walls, it should look like the image below.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 To remove the Construction lines either erase them individually or go to Edit then Delete Guides Next we will extrude the walls to the proper height. Select the Push/Pull tool + Bring the cursor over the walls that you want to extrude. Notice that they become highlighted to show you what you will be extruding.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Click once to activate the tool. In the lower right hand side of your screen, a Distance Seaver Serre ntannieT box appears Distance 8... Play with the direction of the extrusion by moving the mouse. Move the mouse up to extrude vertically to the proper distance or type in your required distance. In this case it is 8". Your model should now look like the image below.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Next we will cut Window and Door openings. Using the Measurement Tool ©, layout the overall dimensions of the first window on the left and outline with the Rectangle toot EE (note the large window is actually 2 identical windows for a total of 4 windows on the front facade)CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 a} Use the PushiPull “* too! to cut the window opening. Select the interior surface between the outlines and push toward the center of the building 6”. This will cut the opening for the window.CMCET 240-01: Building information Modeling- ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Now we will create a window component. Components are an integral part to designing in SketchUp but don't confuse them with Groups. Groups are simply a way of grouping pieces together to create a whole piece. For instance, when you are ready to create the roof area, you will want to group the pieces together so if you are still tweaking a design you can remove it, hide it, or move it in one piece. Now a Component is a group that when copied and repeated, if you edit one component all of the same component will change as well. So for this building, since all the window are the same, we will make ‘one window component and copy and paste as needed. To begin, Use the Rectangle tool Bi and draw a rectangle on the outside outline of the window opening. Click on the surface inside of the outlined window and Right- Click and choose Select,choose bounding edges which will select the window outline.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Now right-Click on the selected objects and choose Make Component or hit the shortcut letter G. At this point you can name the component and select various options For the sake of simplicity hit create at the bottom. Once the component is created right click on it and select Edit Component. 2 Now layout the window within this space however you like and copy and paste the windows where needed. Repeat these last few step for the doors as well, exterior and interior.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling ‘Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 To finish this model, we first need to build the roof and then “Paint” the surfaces of the model, To set up the roof, lets first draw the elevation of the roof on top of our model, to reduce any problems with attached lines, first group the existing drawn model. Use CTRL + Measuring tool 2 10 create a construction line 13° above the base of model. If you look back at the original building plans in SketchUp Basics Tutorial Part 1, you will notice that the right side of the building is 13° tall and the left side is 8 tall. This will give you the proper angle for the roof plane. Use the Line tool “| to create the lower triangle that does not include the eaveCMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 Use the Measurement Too! © to create construction lines and the Line Tool! 4 to outline the eave. | | LL e + Using the CTRL + Push/Pull Tool “pull the surfaces to the back of the building, using this process without hitting CTRL when using the Push/Pull tool, you'll be able to extend beyond the model planes to create your eave overhangs.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 As you can see we have completed the basic structure of the building, Now it's time to clean it up and make it look "Pretty" First let us hide the line separating the roof and the main structure. Right click on the line and go to “Entity info” and seiect hidden. This will hide the line without deleting it. You will also have to do this within the main structure group. Using the Paint Bucket Tool & paint the surfaces of your structure as you like.CMCET 340-01: Building Information Modeling Sketch-Up Tutorial 02 ‘Also, notice that you only have to paint one of the windows for them all to paint in the same fashion. This is what is useful with using Components for repeated objects. Now you have created your first building within SketchUp, It may be an Ugly building but using the techniques described in this tutorial you will be able to model any design that comes your way.