Google SketchUp

3d modeling tool free to use by all Utah state schools. It has a free version and a commercial product, SketchUp Pro. The biggest difference between the two versions is the ability to import and export modeling information from other software programs. In addition, the SketchUp Pro version allows us to present the software in high resolution presentations.

Tools and Tips ...

(Taken from Google SketchUp basic drawing tutorials)

• Push and Pull
• Navigation
• Entering values for drawn lines and surfaces
• Cutaway a surface
• Combining lines for other complex shapes
• Display settings
• Paint Bucket Tool
• Grouping a drawn object
• Copying groups / Pasting groups
• Moving / Rotating Groups
• Placing a textures

STS Training Exercise (January 22, 2007)

SketchUp will allow us to design buildings and landscapes, but today, we are going to start by designing some simpler objects, and applying the drawing, modification, and display settings to allow us to design more complicated buildings and objects.

Object #1 -- Table

Object #2 -- Chair

Object #3 -- Adding components from component Library

Object #4 -- Adding components from Google 3d Warehouse