As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task.Google SketchUp Cookbookwill help you:
- Use SketchUp more efficiently by taking advantage of components and groups
- Learn new techniques for using Follow Me, Intersect, and constraints
- Go beyond simple textures with tools such as texture positioning and Photo Match
- Create animations and walkthroughs, and explore design scenarios by using layers and scenes
- Learn how to use styles to customize your presentations
- Combine SketchUp with the 3D Warehouse and Google Earth
Google SketchUp Cookbookis ideal for architects, engineers, interior designers, product designers, woodworkers, and other professionals and hobbyists who want to work more efficiently and achieve true mastery of this amazing tool.
Preface;Who This Book Is For;Who This Book Is Not For;How This Book Is Organized;How to Get the Models Used in This Book;Conventions Used in This Book;How to Use This Book;O'Reilly Cookbooks;How to Contact Us;Safari? Books Online;Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Making Multiple Copies;1.1 Copying in Linear Arrays;1.2 Creating Linear Internal Arrays;1.3 Building a Nonorthogonal Linear Array;1.4 Copying in Circular Arrays;1.5 Creating Circular Internal Arrays;Chapter 2: Following Paths with Follow Me;2.1 Extruding a Follow Me Face to Cut Volume Along a Path;2.2 Using Follow Me to Add Volume Along a Path;2.3 Keeping Original Objects Intact During Follow Me;2.4 Using Follow Me When Faces and Paths Are Not Adjacent;2.5 Creating Objects in the Round;2.6 Creating Spheres;2.7 Using a Follow Me Path in 3D;ChlăC