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Training Course 4
How to communicate your ideas in a convincing way Adrian a Gran ados
Training Course 4 How to communicate your ideas in a convincing way 2nd Edition
Adriana Granados
2011
Acknowledgement
Thank you to Michael Dugas and Jo Dawson for helping me prepare this manual. Michael drew on his experience in renovation and his studies in the Interior Design program at Salem College to help me with accuracy and accessibility in both the text and the illustrations. Jo, a longtime newspaper copy editor aware that English is not my mother language, helped me present my ideas and instructions clearly and succinctly.
Preface
Google SketchUp brings together several important features for people who want to venture into the use of design software. It offers a short learning curve, gratifying results right away, low cost of investment in training and in software, and an open platform that provides libraries of all types. Much has been written for using Google SketchUp in the building shell and its relationship to the environment or the site. Less help has been provided to interior designers who work every day with materials, textures, lights and colors. Students need to know the available tools and how they can apply them in specific cases to a particular discipline. Fundamental concepts, ideas on how to create objects and interior spaces, tips and practical exercises are what this book offers. Rather than endless lines of explanatory text this hands-on book is a compendium of practical exercises that lead students to learn SketchUp from the perspective of the interior designer. This book focuses on the fundamentals for the interior design field and promotes independent study. It offers four separate courses progressing in complexity. They can be read as one source or be consulted separately for those who already have experience with Google SketchUp. At the end of every course you will find practical exercises that will broaden your experience in the acquired knowledge. These resources enable students to think about how the knowledge can be applied to any situation. On-line videos reinforce the concepts. At the end of the four courses you will be able to express your ideas to others in a more efficient and attractive way. Illustrating the feel and look of a space will allow others to understand what you have in mind and will help you in your career success.
Copyright 2011,2010 by Adriana Granados. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any forms or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Adriana Granados, 3033 Kinnamon Rd, Winston Salem, NC 27104, (336)4139907.
Training Course 3. Materials and textures, the key for interior design
Learn to apply materials, textures, and use pictures and components. Create new materials from any picture or swatch that you might have. You will learn to create your own libraries of materials and textures, and to modify colors and scales. Real word textures will be used for finishing, carpets, upholstery and curtains.
Table of Contents Training Course 4. Communicating and sharing your ideas in a convincing way
7. How to work in interior spaces and present your work in different styles .. 11
7.1 7.2 7.3 Styles Browser Select tab. Pre-defined Styles Edit tab 7.3.1 Edge Settings 7.3.2 Face Settings 7.3.3 Background settings 7.3.4 Watermark settings Camera at eye level Look Around Positioning the Camera Using Specific Target Points Walk tool 11 11 11 12 13 15 15 17 18 18 19
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5. Create an animation
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2.6.3 Changing selection status for an entity (Shift) 2.6.4 Subtracting from the selection set 2.6.5 Selecting multiple entities Drawing with the Rectangle Tool Changing axes to draw elements not parallel to green and red direction. Drawing a square Drawing a circle and a polygon Drawing an arc Freehand tool 1. Draw a sofa in top view 2. Draw a rectangular table in top view 3. Draw a hexagonal table in top view
Practice Chapter 2
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Practice Chapter 3
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Practice Chapter 4
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5.1.6 Use groups for cutting other surfaces Creating components 5.2.1 To create a component and making multiple copies 5.2.2 Editing a component 5.2.3 Making a component unique 5.2.4 Exploring the Components Dialog Box. Your Model Library. 5.2.5 Making your own doors and windows and inserting them into a thick wall 5.2.6 Hiding a component 5.2.7 Placing the component on a two-faces wall 5.2.8 Saving your component 5.2.9 Creating your own collection for future use 5.2.10 Creating symmetric components 5.2.11 Exploring the Components Dialog box. Get Models from the 3D Warehouse 5.2.12 Scaling components 5.2.13 Dynamic components The Outliner. Keeping your groups and components organized 5.3.1 Finding and selecting objects 5.3.2 Using the Outliner to control visibility 5.3.3 Changing the nesting order 5.3.4 Naming groups and components within the outliner Layers 5.4.1 Creating additional layers 5.4.2 Moving geometry between layers 5.4.3 Controlling the visibility of layers 5.4.4 Keeping track of layers with color Solids 1. Draw a coffee table 2. Create a wall niche 3. Create an art gallery 4. Using Follow Me inside a group
Practice Chapter 5
Training Course 3. Materials and textures, the key for interior design
6. How to apply materials and textures
6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 Painting Faces with colors Editing a color Painting Faces with textures and apply Fill options Sampling a material Changing a face material from the Entity Information window Using images Using images to create textures Creating a new material Save a texture for future use in other models Texture position 6.10.1 Repositioning 6.10.2 Manipulating a material using Fixed Pin mode 6.10.3 Manipulating a material using Free Pin mode 6.10.4 Positioning a texture on a curved face Changing a texture on your graphic editor Changing a texture of only one face How to get more material collections 8
Translucent materials Double-sided faces Painting groups and components Using images for Face-Camera components Using images with a transparent background for Face-Camera components Match Photo 1. Applying a tile at an angle and changing the size 2. Curtain texture position with free pins 3. Project a texture on the curved surfaces of an ottoman
Practice Chapter 6
During this training course you will need exercises developed in previous courses as well some other resources. Send an email to [email protected] to obtain an access key to download the files.
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Chapter 7. How to work in interior spaces and present your work in different styles.
Objectives When you have completed this chapter you will be able to: Apply different styles to your 3D model. Use the following commands: Styles, Pre-defined Styles, Edit Styles, Style Settings.
7.1 Styles Browser When you open a new file in SketchUp your can choose a template by clicking on the Choose Template button. However, once you are inside the program you can select a different style. The Styles Browser contains options used to alter the ways your model and the drawing area are rendered (edge types, face settings, background settings, watermarks, and modeling settings). The Styles Browser is activated from the Window menu/Styles. 7.2 Select tab. Pre-defined Styles 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Open Tut_6.15 file or open your Components window, type Tut_6.15 by agra, download it into your file and explode it. Click on Window menu / Styles. Select Default Styles in the drop-down menu. Select any thumbnail on the Select tab. Click on different options to see several results. Change the Default Styles folder to Assorted Styles. Select other thumbnails.
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button. The shown collections will be those that you chose in previous steps. To clear
and Purge Unused. out the folder click on the Details button Select again the Default Styles collection / Engineering style.
7.3 Edit tab 1. 2. Continue with the same file and style. Click on the Edit tab. The Edit tab contains five separate panels: Edge Settings Face Settings Background Settings Watermark Settings 11
Much has been written for using Google SketchUp in the building shell and its relationship to the environment or the site. Less help has been provided to interior designers who work every day with materials, textures, lights and colors. Students need to know the available tools and how they can apply them in specific cases to this particular discipline. Fundamental concepts, ideas on how to create objects and interior spaces, tips and practical exercises are what this book offers. Rather than endless lines of explanatory text this hands-on book is a compendium of practical exercises that lead students to learn SketchUp from the perspective of the interior designer. This book focuses on the fundamentals for the interior design field and promotes independent study. A series of four books offer separate courses progressing in complexity. At the end of every course you will find practical exercises that will broaden your experience in the acquired knowledge. These resources enable students to think about how the knowledge can be applied to any situation. At the end of the four courses you will be able to express your ideas to others in a more efficient and attractive way. Training Course 4. How to communicate your ideas in a convincing way. Working with SketchUp interior models is completely different from creating models that can be seen only from the outside. You will learn how to show interior spaces by using various styles and sections, and by bringing in shadows and lighting. You will learn how to use scenes and, animations, export images, print perspectives and drawings in scale, export files to other programs, and import Autocad files.
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