EX 1- LAYOUTEX 2- CUSTOM TEMPLATEEX 3- MATCHED PHOTOEX 4- MT. EVERESTEX 5- SANDBOXEX 6- RUBY SCRIPTSEX 7- TEXTURESEX 8- CUSTOM DESIGNEX 9- MIRRORSEX 10- PODIUMEX 11- SPOT LIGHTSEX 12- OMNI LIGHTSEX 13- LEMS & HIDDEN LEMSEX 14- ADVANCED STYLESEX 15- BACKGROUND IMAGESFINAL PROJECT
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0"
Advanced SketchUp Fall 2014 (CAD 216-701)Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, Colorado
September 2, 2014Custom CoversheetCreate your own custom cover
sheet
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" September 9, 2014Custom Template
Create your own custom template
This template is made from a blankLayout document and created 100% from scratch.
Table of Contents can be formattedto meet your custom needs.
Layout custom titleblocks may bemade in various sizes, shapes, andlineweights to match your companies standards or branding.
Your Logo can be placedanywhere on the template.This logo can be placed to
show up on everypage in the same spot as well.
Multiple font types are availableto match the style of the template.
Layout offers multiple coloroptions for fonts, linetypes,
and shapes.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" September 11, 2014Match Photo
Use Match Photo to create a realistic
3D model from a photograph
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SketchUp allows you to create a 3D model to match a photo or to match an existing 3Dmodel to a photo's context.
This technique is best utilized witha perpective photo (as shownwith this white barn.)
Match Photo allows you to scale the photo to enhance a morerealistic touch to the 3D model.
While creating the Match Photo, you are creating a SketchUp modelwith a photo image on it.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" September 16, 2014Mt. Everest
Create contour lines in SketchUp
using Google Earth.
Grab an image from
Google Earth using
SketchUp.This is an
image of Mt. Everest.
Rectangles copied on the blue axes.
Contour lines
are created onto
the 3D model inSketchUp
While using SketchUp, you can search Google Earth and grab a location anywhere around the world. Once you grab the location and import it into SketchUp, you can toggle the "Terrain Layer." Once the terrain layer is on, rectangles are drawn and copied up multiple times on the blue axes. The rectangles are selected, intersected with model, then deleted. The imade now has contour lines that denote the elevation of the terrain.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" September 23, 2014Scrapbooks
Use Scrapbook items inside of layout
and create a custom scrapbook
Premade symbols andshapes that can be dragged and dropped right into layout.
You can save yourown scrapbookitems and load theminto layout as well.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" September 25, 2014Ruby Scripts
Use ruby scripts within SketchUp
and how to install them onto your
computer
For a P/C- Copy the files in this directoryC:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchU\Plugins
For a MAC- Copy the Files in this Directory/Library/Applications
The plugin Randor.rb is to to highlight many objects, click on the randor plugin, and randomly make them different sizes. This plugin was particularly helpful for using one tree, and make a forest.
When all the floating objects are highlighted above the terrain, the plugin Drop.rb can be used to quickly have the objects intersect on the face of the rolling hills instead of moving them one by one.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" September 30, 2014TexturesLearn how to use
Massmaterialimporter.rb and
permanetely save the collection to
your SketchUp file.
MassMaterialImporter.rb is another Ruby Script to import a folder of various JPEGs into the Materials Dialog box.
Once you use the Massmaterialimporter.rb, the materials are converted to .skms and your folder will show up here. From here you can save the material collection to be permenately saved to
to your SketchUp software on that computer.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" October 14, 2014Custom Sign
Create a custom sign to place in
the final project
Second rendition
of the custom
sign
First rendition of the custom
sign
Final version of the custom
signThis is a custom sign to use in the final project. There are many ways to create a custom sign. I created this sign from importing their logo image through SketchUp and creating a model from it. The airplane is also from a small symbol on their logo. Each sign has morphed into a new version of the final sign chosen.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" October 14, 2014Mirrors
Create a custom mirror in
SketchUp & render it in podium
These are custom mirrors created from scratch in SketchUp. To make an object in SketchUp look like a mirror and have the properties of a mirror, the user will need to make the "mirror material" metal. Using Podium, the reflectivity of the metal material's property needs to be set to 100%. Once you render it, the mirror will look realistic.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0"Mirrors
Create a custom mirror in
SketchUp & render it in podium
October 14, 2014
These are custom mirrors created from scratch in SketchUp. To make an object in SketchUp look like a mirror and have the properties of a mirror, the user will need to make the "mirror material" metal. Using Podium, the reflectivity of the metal material's property needs to be set to 100%. Once you render it, the mirror will look realistic.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0"Podium
This is an intro to using the
materials properties in Podium to
make the model look more realistic
October 14, 2014
Adjusting the materials properties to show reflectivity make this wooden floor look more realistic.The material settings show a polished look to this new installation.
The reflectivity and reflection settings in podium on this glass window mimics the properties of an actual window.
The brick in this exterior view of the house is made more realistic than sketchy by giving the materials property bump depth.
Water in Podium is a little more tricky to give the illusion of motion.One way to make the water look more realistic
is to give it's material properties more transparency.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0"Spots
Understand how to use Podium's
spot light option and settings to
create a realistic render.
October 14, 2014
This spot light on Mona Lisa's picture involves adjusting the right inner cone, outter cone, and power settings.
The spot light illuminance comes from this fixture. The spot light starts here, and with the right angle, settings,and techniques, your render will look like the spot light is actually working.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0"OMNI Lights
Understand how to adjust the
Omni settings and SketchUp's
Materials to turn the lights on in a
lamp.
October 21, 2014
The use of Omni lights in Podiumgives the illusion the lamp's lightsare turned on.
Three Omni lights are used inthis lamp to give an even glow.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0"LEMS & Hidden
LEMSApply Podium's material properties to
all objects, insert spot lights, and
acheive brightness to the room through
creating LEMS.
October 23, 2014
Hidden LEMs are created to complete the rendered look. This setting will light up the room in the rendered SketchUp model. If LEMS are not applied, typically a room will look very dark, and not very realistic. The acheived look should give a room an even illuminance throughout. Many techniques are used, including using multiple (smaller) hidden LEMS in the room. This room was lit up using one long LEM.
Hidden LEMSare hidden
rectangles that are not visble
once the drawing is rendered.
These hidden LEMS require a
LEM power setting in Podium's material
properties.
With the rightPodium material properties, waterwill not look sosketchy, insteadit will look more
realistic.
LEMS can beapplied to
wallshidden in
view around the corner to
give the illusion a light is on in the next room. This LEM is shaded blue.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0"Advanced Styles
Create, modify, & find styles to
enhance my 3DModel
October 28, 2014
This image showcases my custom sign with the default SketchUp background.
Styles may be downloaded from the internet, built in Style Builder, and/or modified to enhance the model in SketchUp. This one was downloaded, then modified in SketchUp.
Styles do not change the actual model, just the appearance of the lines, faces, and background.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" December 2, 2014Background Images
Use a image in the background of the
model and show it as a realistic
background in the SketchUp renderings.
Importinf an image inside of SketchUp is the
first step to creating a
perfect background to
your model.
This airport has a background
image of a Boeing Airplane to give a more realistic look.
This is a set up of three different
senarios that could be used.
The cloud photo needs
to be imported as an image in
order to render.
The result is seamless.
Placing two photos behind and in front of eachother is a
perfect approach to acheive the goal look.
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" December 2, 2014Final Project
Incorporate the exercises we
learned in class into a real life
application SketchUp model.
Front View Conference Rooms with Cove Lighting
Randor MirrorSpot Light
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Arapahoe Community College Scale 1'-0"=1'-0" December 4, 2014Final Project
Incorporate the exercises we
learned in class into a real life
application SketchUp model.
Lounge View Right View
Overall View One Close Up View