Build a Doghouse or a Small House for Sang

For your first assignment, make a small house, make a peaked roof. Add doors and windows. You can also add colors, shingles, textures, and transparent windows.

Here are two links to show you how:

http://www.3dvinci.net/teacherguide/design_1-5.pdf

This one is a video. Showing how to make a small house for Sang, the Google SketchUp man. It shows you a different way to make the roof. You can also add a bench or other items from the Google SketchUp Warehouse. Finally, you can add shadows to your model.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfH_cyXa1o&feature=channel

How to use the mouse videos:

How to use the mouse videos:

Good basic video on orbit, pan, and zoom. Draw a shape and push and pull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqcL-xPC-Ys&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NREaJLMpaI&NR=1


Good Video on zooming and orbiting with best practices:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc4TeDuEbfU

Using the Pan Tool

Using the Pan Tool

Use the Pan Tool to move the camera (your view) vertically and horizontally. Activate the Pan Tool from either the Camera Toolbar or the Camera menu. To pan using the Pan Tool:

1. Click on the Pan Tool (). The cursor changes to a hand ().
2. Click anywhere in the drawing area.
3. Move the cursor in any direction to pan.

Using the Pan Tool (3-Button Mouse)

A 3-button mouse allows you to pan your view without exiting the current drawing tool, speeding up your drawing. To orbit with a 3-button mouse:

1. Click on the Pencil Tool () in the toolbar. The cursor changes to a pencil ().
2. Press and hold the Shift key.
3. Press and hold the middle-mouse button. The cursor changes to the Pan Tool cursor ().
4. (optionally) Press and hold the left mouse button while pressing and holding the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) to activate the Pan Tool.

Moving Around in SketchUp

Learn how to move and change your point of view. You can see your object from different sides. These directions are also at:

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=95112

1. Open SketchUp in the simple template or Architectural Design template.
2. Click on the Orbit Tool ( ) in the toolbar. The cursor changes to two interconnected perpendicular ovals (( ).
3. Click anywhere in the drawing area.
4. Move your cursor in any direction to rotate around the center of the drawing area.

A 3-button mouse allows you to orbit a model without exiting the current drawing tool, speeding up your drawing. To orbit with a 3-button mouse:

1. Click on the Pencil Tool () in the toolbar. The cursor changes to a pencil ().
2. Click and hold the middle-mouse button. The cursor changes to the Orbit Tool cursor ( ).
3. Move your cursor in any direction to rotate around the center of the drawing area (continue to keep your finger pressed on the middle mouse button).
4. Release the middle-mouse button to return to the Pencil Tool (). The cursor changes back to a pencil ().

Opening SketchUp

First develop skills at using the different tools in SketchUp.

Open SketchUp. Select a template.

To work 2-D: If you want to make mosaic designs or other flat designs, select Plan View. There are two plan views. One that uses feet and inches to measure and one that uses metric measurements.

To work in 3-D: If you want to design a house, car, chair, or robot, select Simple Template, or Architectural Design, or Product Design. Again each of these comes with a metric or a feet and inches option.

Video: Opening in different templates video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbu-RdS0C58&feature=related

To Change Templates:

Along the top, Go To Windows,

Preferences,

Click on Templates in the left hand box.

Click on the desired template.

Teaching SketchUp - Summer Institute Class

Use Google SketchUp software to design houses, skyscrapers, and other fun 3-D stuff. We will get our creative juices flowing by designing a house and adding color and windows. We will learn a few basic tools to push and pull flat shapes into 3-D forms. You will know how to zoom, rotate, and pan. You will meet Sang, the Google Man. Google SketchUp software is used by architects and designers, as well as kids and adults worldwide. At home, you can download the software for free and continue to create.

Daniel Pink in a "Whole New Mind" talks about how the skills of the 21st century will revolve around creativity and design. SketchUp is the way to put creativity and design into practice.

This is the description for a course I hope to teach through Summer Institute in June and July of 2010.