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Chapter 4: Building Buildings


Videos

Switching to a 2D view

Dusting off SketchUp's drafting tools

Drawing an interior outline

Offsetting an exterior wall

Putting in the interior walls

Getting a good view

Pushing/Pulling your way to happiness

More fun with Push/Pull

Adding floors to your building (coming soon)

Using SketchUp's handy-dandy components

Making your own openings

Working through thick and thin

Making Stairs: The Subdivided Rectangles method

Making Stairs: The Copied Profile method

Building flat roofs with parapets

Creating eaves for buildings with pitched roofs

Constructing gabled roofs

Making hip roofs

Complex hip roofs and the Follow Me tool

Using Intersect with Model to make roofs

  • Model that demonstrates Intersect with Model (beginner)
  • Model that demonstrates Intersect with Model (intermediate)
  • Model that demonstrates Intersect with Model (advanced)

When all else fails, use the Line tool




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