Google® SketchUp® for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture
by Daniel TalFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2010-05-01
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
Google SketchUp for Site Design illustrates a holistic approach to SketchUp: how it works and more importantly, what to do with it.Filled with tutorials from front to back, the book focuses on the start and completion of projects that include rich detail and expression. Each part and chapter of the book builds on the previous chapters and tutorial.You will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildings and site elements: from modeling each of these exterior environment elements to piecing them together to generate a singular and expressive model.The book culminates with tutorials demonstrating effective and simple ways to include grades and terrain using the Sandbox tools and how best to integrate the entire approach with AutoCAD and SketchUp.Also included are links to supplemental on-line resources such as YouTube tutorials and free tutorial and example models from 3D Warehouse.The book is useful for all SketchUp proficiency levels including beginners, hobbyists, and professionals.
Table of Contents
| Introduction to SketchUp | |
| How to Use this Book | |
| Who Can Use This Book | |
| What the Book Covers | |
| Learning Tutorials | |
| Free Downloadable Tutorial Models | |
| Download Pre-Made Components | |
| The Four Parts | |
| SketchUp Basics | |
| Geometry | |
| Basic SketchUp tools | |
| Components and groups | |
| Component Instance | |
| Components within Components | |
| Components and Layers | |
| Pre-made Components | |
| Additional Information | |
| Problem Solving | |
| Problem Solving SketchUp | |
| Ruby Scripts | |
| Downloading Ruby Scripts | |
| SketchUp Process Modeling | |
| Introduction to SketchUp Process Modeling | |
| The Built Environment 2D = 3D | |
| Drafting the Flatwork Base | |
| Applying Material and Color | |
| Model Organization | |
| Adding Volumes | |
| Adding objects to the Flatwork Base | |
| Review the Completed Model | |
| Modeling from Imagination | |
| Detailed Site Plan Modeling | |
| Download Tutorial Model | |
| What are Site Plans? | |
| Tutorial | |
| Preparing the drafting "Trace" | |
| Trouble Shooting the Subdividing of Face | |
| Review the Completed Base | |
| Preparing to Add Color | |
| Adding Detail to Volumes | |
| The Completed Flatwork Base | |
| Custom Components - Site Furnishings | |
| Modeling Process | |
| How Components (and Groups) Work | |
| Follow Me | |
| Model Organization | |
| Exercises | |
| Custom Components - Architecture | |
| Sculpting the Building | |
| Building Mass | |
| Making Window and Door Components | |
| Tutorials | |
| Setting the work space | |
| The Completed Model: Arrangement and Presentation | |
| Arrangement Methods | |
| Order and Adjustments | |
| Creating and Exporting Scenes | |
| Architectural Tutorial | |
| Case Study: Jefferson County Courthouse Building | |
| SketchUp Process Modeling | |
| Working with Arcs and Circles | |
| Hidden Geometry | |
| Components and Faceted Surfaces | |
| Components and Adjusting Massing | |
| Courthouse Tutorial | |
| Sandbox Tools | |
| Introduction to the Sandbox Tools | |
| Playing in the Sandbox | |
| Ruby Scripts and Sandbox tools | |
| Additional tools and concepts | |
| Summation | |
| Conceptual 3D Grading | |
| Conceptual Grading | |
| SketchUp Process Modeling and Conceptual Grading | |
| Tutorials | |
| Complex Canopies 2D Plan to 3D Form | |
| Simple Canopy Tutorial | |
| Complex Canopy Tutorial | |
| Sandbox Architecture | |
| Drape Tool | |
| Sandbox Building Tutorial | |
| AutoCAD to SketchUp | |
| Overview of AutoCAD to SketchUp | |
| General Overview | |
| Organizing AutoCAD | |
| AutoCAD tutorial file | |
| The Nature of AutoCAD Re-organization | |
| Importing the Flatwork File | |
| Modeling the AutoCAD Flatwork Base | |
| The Problem with AutoCAD Lines | |
| Methods for Healing the AutoCAD Flatwork Base | |
| Method #1 - Healing with the Line Tool | |
| Method #2 - AutoCAD Clean Up Ruby Scripts | |
| Next Steps | |
| Arranging the Model | |
| Replace the Components | |
| Final Touches | |
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