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1. The document provides instructions for modeling a building in SketchUp, including adding half-circle arcs to the roof, copying and moving wall sections, making windows into reusable components, and customizing some window components to include shades. 2. It describes how to create window components that can be copied and pasted repeatedly using the Move tool or Component window, and how changing one component changes all instances of it. 3. The document also explains how to make some window components "unique" to allow customizing select windows differently, such as adding shades to windows on the sloped wall section.

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122 views9 pages

Ex 3 Actual

1. The document provides instructions for modeling a building in SketchUp, including adding half-circle arcs to the roof, copying and moving wall sections, making windows into reusable components, and customizing some window components to include shades. 2. It describes how to create window components that can be copied and pasted repeatedly using the Move tool or Component window, and how changing one component changes all instances of it. 3. The document also explains how to make some window components "unique" to allow customizing select windows differently, such as adding shades to windows on the sloped wall section.

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Start with a tall building, and use Arc to make a half-circle on top like this (make sure the arc is drawn in
the blue direction).

2. Pull the arc shape to the other side of the roof.


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3. Then use Move on this edge, to make two sections of the tall wall. The lower half is vertical, the upper half
is slightly sloped.

4. Paint the faces, and draw two concentric circles in this corner, to make the first window. (Remember to click
the Paint Bucket tool to get the available colors and materials. Glass material is found in the folder called
Translucent.)

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This window needs to be made into a component since well use it repeatedly. As a component, the window
will be much easier to select - it acts as one object. (Components also have the advantage of being unsticky
- its much easier to move and rotate components without affecting objects they touch.)
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5. Select both faces of this window, and right-click on either of the faces. Choose Make Component.

6. Give the component any name you want. Since its a window, you want it to Cut opening, and also check
Replace selection with component.

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7. To add more windows, use the Move tool and press Ctrl / Option. After you place the first copy, type 3x
to make three copies. You can keep entering different numbers to get more or fewer windows. If you enter
a value without the x you can change the spacing, which is also useful!

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Google SketchUp Design Exercise 2

8. To make more rows in this wall, do the same thing: Select all of the windows in the first row, and make two
or more copies of them, straight up.

9. Copy some or all of the windows up to the sloped face. Even though the original windows make cutouts on
the vertical wall, the new windows also cut the sloped wall.

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10. Another way to bring in a component is from the Components window (Window / Components). Click
the house icon to see whats in your model so far. Click the thumbnail of the window, which is then attached
to your cursor.

11. Place the window on this wall - it also cuts this face.

12. Heres another way to make copies. Copy that window you just added to the top, and place the copy at the
bottom, near the front.

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13. Enter 6/ (with a slash symbol), and you get seven copies including the first and last windows.

14. Heres the great feature of components: you change one, and you change them all. But you need to open
a component before you can make any changes to it. The easiest way to edit a component is to activate Select
and double-click it. Do this for any window - theyre all the same. Youll see the one youre editing outlined
in a dashed box, and everything else is faded.

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Google SketchUp Design Exercise 2

15. Use Push/Pull to make the outer circle into a window frame, and add some more colors.

16. When youre done, close the component by activating Select and clicking outside the component.
17. What if you want some of the windows to be different? For instance, I want all the windows on the sloped
face to have a shade cover. Select the components you want to make different (all the ones on the sloped
face), and right-click on one of them. Choose Make Unique.

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18. Now edit one of the unique windows. For my cover, I added two lines to the front face, and colored the
top part the same as I painted the roof.

19. To make the cover, use Push/Pull but press the Ctrl / Option key. This way youll be adding a new part,
instead of pulling out an existing face.
When youre done, you should have something like this:

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