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Sketchup 17 how to shade pices of a model manual#
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These will allow you to quickly check the model while working and keeping it all under control. If you followed my advice in the Shortcuts section above, you have created five on/off toggles I call Color by Axis, Monochrome, X-Ray, Hide Rest & Hide Similar. When you find that you have too many of them just clear them all out with one shortcut combination.

I use them to layout grids, check measurements, to assist with snapping and a lot more. Add parallel ones using the Tape Measure tool and angular ones using the Protractor tool. Guides are a blessing, use them all the time.

view / component edit / hide similar components.

view / component edit / hide rest of model.

You can export / import shortcuts through the preferences dialog when moving from one computer to the next and you can re-map them all as you see fit even assign more then one shortcut per command (for example a left and right keyboard combination) I recommend mapping these commands It would have been really nice if Google could add support for saving the toolbars area scheme, or even just fix the jumping syndrome they tend to have when moving them around. With everything mapped to shortcuts you can free up some screen real-estate for the actual model and some other plug-in toolbars. On my SketchUP workspace you will find just the Layers, Shadows and Face style standard toolbars most of the time. I hardly ever use the standard toolbars and menus, just those related to plugins that cant be mapped to a shortcut conveniently. Learning to use shortcuts is essential for fast modeling.

This is a pure text post, so please bear with me. The information Ill elaborate here will, hopefully, help you model fast and efficient with a great amount of control over the 3d modeling process.

Sketchup 17 how to shade pices of a model manual#

Before I get specific about a few things, I should mention that it is good practice to have the manual comfortably nearby while modeling and I also highly recommend watching the SketchUP video guides. So while I work on the continuation of the Making of ‘MS House’ – Part 1, Let me elaborate further and share some more of my SketchUP work-flow.

Sketchup 17 how to shade pices of a model full#

It is as powerful as it is simple, and yet Ive seen too many pick up bad habits who find it hard to utilize SketchUP to its full potential. I picked up SketchUP my first year of architecture school back in 2002 and never stopped using it since.