Google Sketchup

The Missing Manual

By: Chris Grover

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Paperback | 5 June 2009

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If you want to learn to create 3-D models using Google SketchUp, this "Missing Manual" is the ideal place to start. Filled with step-by-step tutorials, this entertaining, reader-friendly guide will have you creating detailed 3-D objects, including building plans, furniture, landscaping plans - even characters for computer games - in no time. "Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual" offers a hands-on tour of the program, with crystal-clear instructions for using every feature and lots of real-world examples to help you pick up the practical skills you need. It helps you learn to use the basic tools, build and animate models, and place your objects in Google Earth.With this book, you will: learn your way around the SketchUp workspace, and explore the differences between working in 2-D and 3-D; build simple 3-D shapes, save them as reusable components, and use SketchUp's Outliner to show or hide them as you work; tackle a complicated model building with lots of detail, and discover timesaving tools for using many components; animate the model by creating an interior walkthrough of your building; and, dress up your model with realistic material shading and shadows, and place it in Google Earth. It's easy to get started. Just download the program from Google.com, and follow the instructions in this book. You'll become a SketchUp master in a jiffy.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications 3D Graphics & Modelling O'Reilly Booktopia Publisher Services John Wiley & Sons Publishers UK

The Missing Credits
Introduction
Basic SketchUp Skills
Building a Bench: Your First SketchUp Model
Starting Off in Two Dimensions
Drawing in Three Dimensions
Building a House
Drawing a Basic House
Working Smarter with Groups and Components
Changing Styles and Applying Materials
Organizing with Outliner and Layers
Advanced Construction Techniques
Drawing a Hipped Roof and Using Follow Me
Advanced Techniques for Groups and Components
Matching Your Photos in SketchUp
Adding Realism and Movement
Adding Shadows and Placing Your Model in Google Earth
Saving Views and Animating with Scenes
Saving, Printing, and Sharing Projects
Importing, Exporting, and Printing
Finding, Creating, and Sharing Components
Designing Edge Styles in Style Builder (SketchUp Pro)
Presenting Your Model with LayOut (SketchUp Pro)
Appendixes
Installing SketchUp and Getting Help
SketchUp Menu by Menu
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