Seeing that my project is going to be largely based on SketchUp, and knowing that not everyone knows the program, I thought it would be a good idea to show some very basic models step-by-step. Hopefully this will help you understand better.
SketchUp is actually very easy to use! I'm sure that everyone can get a hold of it once they play around with it for a while.
The program opens to this screen.
This shows a very basic over view of some of the tools SketchUp has to offer. (The lady in the middle opens with the program. I named her Loyla).
Now that you know some of the tools I will be using here is a very simple model step-by-step.
1. Open a new document and create a square using the shape tool.
2. Now you can extrude it up. This will make the 2D shape you made extrude up into a 3D shape.
3. The model I am making is a house. Every house needs a roof. I will first make a triangle on one of the edges.
4. Now I can actually extrude that out to the other side to complete the roof.
Here we have a very simple model just to show how the program works. This took me about 10 seconds. I am very familiar with the program, but making something as detailed as the High School will take some time. Once I start a model like the one above, get it all detailed, at the end it will look something like these.
These are the two houses I am most proud of. The High School model I am making will include details like this. These houses took me anywhere from three weeks to 2 months. It will be difficult to finish my project but if I stay focused and work I can get it done!
Vinny, I really like how you broke this down. You made it understandable to those who don't normally use this program and I found that to be very helpful.
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