INTRODUCTION TO

GOOGLE SKETCHUP
DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING GOOGLE SKETCHUP
1. If you don’t have SketchUp, go to www.sketchup.com and click the “Download SketchUp” button

2. “SketchUp Make” is the free version, for personal or educational use. enter email address and
agree to the terms, click the “Download SketchUp Make” button

3. Follow the installation instructions, and once finished,

you’ll see the SketchUp icon on your desktop.
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Double-click this icon to open SketchUp
4. In the Welcome to SketchUp window, click Choose Template , and choose one of the templates from the list. Then
click Start Using SketchUp

Using a three-button wheel mouse has two advantages:

1. The scroll wheel can be used to zoom in and out(making the objects appear larger or smaller).

2.The middle mouse button can be used for orbiting (spinning the model around). If you have a scroll-wheel in
the middle, the scroll wheel IS the middle mouse button - you can both scroll it and click it.

The right mouse makes it easy to move around in your model - it’s a good deal harder to maneuver around with a
“lesser” mouse!
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BASIC FUNCTIONS:

Y AXES

X AXES

MAN(OBJECT) SHOWS SCALE

Z AXES

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 After opening
Sketch Up
click View

Select Toolbars

Large Tool Set should appear.

TOOLBARS

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 Toolbars, menus, icons

This is the menu and the main toolbar.it can be viewed once
main toolbar wen you open SketchUp.

menu
There are many more toolbars available, which can find by
choosing View / Toolbars
From the menu that appears, click any toolbars you want to
see.
Once displayed, you can move toolbars to different locations,
by clicking and dragging their title bars around the screen.

Short cut keys:

To use a shortcut, just press the letter or key on the keyboard.

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 Zooming, Panning, and Orbiting

There are icons for zooming, panning, and orbiting tools.

Orbit
Orbiting is holding an object and turning it around.

if you have a three-button mouse, just press and

hold the middle mouse button while moving the
mouse. If your middle mouse button is a scroll
wheel, just click the wheel and hold it down.

Pan

Panning means sliding your view up or down,

To pan the view, activate Pan and hold and drag the mouse.
If you have a three-button mouse, you can pan by pressing Shift
while orbiting.
This means holding the middle mouse button, pressing Shift,
and dragging the mouse around.
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Zoom

Click and drag the mouse up to zoom in, down to zoom out.
If the object is zoom so far in or out that you can’t see your
model anymore, click Zoom Extents.

That will fit everything back on your screen.

SketchUp’s Basic Tools

Menu: Tools / Select, shortcut: Spacebar
select objects (edges and/or faces) before the objects
can be moved, copied, scaled, erased etc

Line

Menu: Draw / Lines / Line, shortcut: L

If you draw lines that form a closed shape, like a

triangle or rectangle, SketchUp will automatically
create a face inside the lines.

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 Rectangle
Menu: Draw / Shapes / Rectangle, shortcut: R

To draw a rectangle, click one corner, and then click the

opposite corner

Click and drag to make a square the desired size.

Menu: Draw / Shapes / Circle, shortcut: C

To draw a circle, first click the centre point, then click an

outside point.

you can also draw the circle with precise dimensions.

Menu: push /pull, shortcut :P

Select the Push/Pull tool.

Click the mouse button & drag up to the desired shape.

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 Adding Text

• Click Place button.

Select the 3-D Text tool.

Arc Tools
Menu: Draw / Arcs

There are three ways to draw an arc.

The simplest is 2 Point Arc which creates in arc in three clicks.

The first click sets the start point, then the end point, then a
point in the middle (the “bulge” point).

The second arc tool , first sets the centre point, then the two
points at either end.
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2 POINT ARC

3 POINT ARC

Eraser
Menu: Tools / Eraser, shortcut: E

This tool erases edges (lines). To erase more than one

edge, click on each edge separately,
This tool doesn’t work on faces! To erase a face, you can
right-click on it or press ctrl select the edge and press
delete.
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 Polygon
Menu: Draw / Shapes Polygon
When you first activate Polygon,. To select different number
of sides, type the number and press Enter. Or
Ctrl+ ctrl - for adding or removing number of sides.

Move
Menu: Tools / Move, shortcut: M

This tool is used for both moving and copying.

First, Select what you want to move. Then click a start
point and end point for the move.

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Rotate
Menu: Tools / Rotate, shortcut: Q

This tool is used for both rotating and copying. First, Select
Object.
- Place protractor at the centre of rotation.
Then click a start point and end point for the rotation. The
angle is shown in the Angle
box below the SketchUp.

Paint Bucket

Menu: Tools / Paint Bucket, shortcut: B

This is the tool you use to paint faces.
When you click it, the Materials window
appears.

To paint a face, click the specific colour square ,

then click the face.

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THANK YOU

harshita.d@reva.edu.com