

SKETCHUP MAKE SOLID HOW TO
While learning how to use Sketchup it is essential to know how to group objects together. You can now move around the planes in this specified illustration.

You can further edit a group by again right clicking, and going to the “edit group” option. To ungroup these two structures, right click on it and press the “explode” option. Let’s just work on the first three structures for now so delete the newly copied ones. Now when you copy it, the complete group that is both of the buildings will be copied. Keep pressing shift and click on both of the drawings, right click on them and make them both into a single group. To group two of them together, choose them by means of the “select” tool. More than one of these buildings can be grouped together. When you move or copy it now, the complete illustration moves or gets copied. First, select all of them and then either go to the “edit” menu and drop down to the “make group” option or simply right click on the object you selected and choose the same “make group” option from there.Īs you will see, a blue box now appears around the complete 3d drawing. To make sure that the whole illustration moves together, group the different planes into one. Keep pressing “ctrl” on the keyboard and drag it. To copy any object, select the “move” tool shortcut for which is “m”. If you use the “select” tool then you have to make sure that you select every part of it otherwise when you move or copy it with the “move” tool only the certain selected portion will shift. Suppose you have a building structure like the one shown here. Step 1: Move a portion of the illustration Working by making groups in Google SketchUp makes the process of moving around and copying detailed structures easier. The first step to use the Solid tools in SketchUp Pro, is to position the parts. That process is described in this post, with tenons becoming mortises. In the free version of SketchUp, this can be done by copying geometry from one component to the other. This tutorial will explain how to use Sketchup so as to group different objects you made inside this software. I want to make sockets in the front for the tails in the side.

Google SketchUp is an extremely useful software which allows one to easily work with various structures and images and especially 3d drawing.
