![]() ![]() Your keyboard clicks are all handed to your browser. When you use your browser (even a simple page down) focus is switched from SketchUp to your browser. This will tell you what to do next time you don't get your chosen tool. If you did get a Rectangle cursor, you were lucky. If you didn't get a Rectangle cursor this will tell you why. Voila! Your cursor is suddenly showing the rectangle tool ( (I used to leave the keyboard in the center. Hands a bit more than shoulder-width apart. This is your tutor in position for sketching up. Assign one hand to the mouse, the other hand to the keyboard. No more clicking an icon on the toolbar when there's a better way. Sang's played his part in your education. It makes great sense to assign the tool you'll use most often to the thing that's easiest to type. Since it is used most often, it has a special keyboard shortcut: the spacebar. On the Getting Started toolbar, it's got the first row all to itself. ![]() You will use the Select tool more often than any other. We'll go back to the Orbit tool after you've built a 3D house.įor now, Orbit until your axes are similar to the ones to the left. If you orbit from low to high, you can turn Sang upside down. If you orbit from left to right you will see the axes move. Grab the Orbit tool (keyboard O) and try it out. Zoom and Hand are simple, straightforward tools. On the Camera menu, you'll see Ctrl+Shift+E as the keyboard shortcut. I never really learned to like Zoom Extents, but Shift+Z is one of my best friends. Zoom in until you have a screenful of foot. (As they are keyboard neighbors, the combination is easy to type with one hand.) Got it? Double-click Sang's running shoes into the center of the screen. Zoom Sang into the far distance, then press Shift+Z. Use the Zoom tool if you don't have a working middle wheel. Best practice: use the mouse middle wheel to zoom. You'll zoom in and out hundreds of times as you learn SketchUp thousands of times as you use SketchUp. Whenever there is a particular detail that you want to examine more closely, double-click it with the Zoom tool before you zoom in. Use the Hand tool to drag Sang to the side. Z is the keyboard shortcut for the Zoom tool. Or you'll have one like mine that doesn't work in SketchUp. The bad news is that you will not always have a scroll wheel mouse. It feels like you are pushing Sang away or pulling him toward you. Pull the wheel toward you and you zoom in. Push the wheel away from you and you zoom out. If you have a scroll wheel mouse, this couldn't be easier. If you stumble across the official name, do your best to forget it. But it's a hand in the toolbars its mouse cursor is a hand its keyboard shortcut is "H"-not the first letter of its official name. It's not really called the Hand tool, by the way. When she started using the tools, she started learning SketchUp. She found out that it was really a waste of time. I once watched someone read this tutorial without actually using the tools. "Draw" is on SketchUp's menubar.) Now let's get to work. Warning: if you are reading this, you are looking at your browser's window. (Check your answer: click the word Draw on SketchUp's menubar. What do you suppose the shortcut for the Arc tool will be. It's going to be tough, but I think you can handle it. "L" for Line "C" for Circle and "R" for Rectangle. The shortcuts for the Rectangle and Circle tools: "R" and "C". ![]() The keyboard shortcut for the Line tool is "L". Master keyboard shortcuts? Is there a lot of memorizing? Well, here's a sample. We'll use the key viewing tools, some fundamental modeling tools and we'll master their keyboard shortcuts. Here we'll get SketchUp's foundational ideas: edges and faces. This is the only chapter that's not built around modeling our carriage house. SketchUp is your friend, not your master.) (They're not like other products that use Ctrl+? for this and Ctrl+Shift+? for that. If you are picking commands off the toolbar (break that bad habit fast!) pay close attention to the keyboard shortcuts. If you've viewed Google's excellent videos on basic SketchUp principles you can skip rapidly through this chapter, skimming, not reading. As many Craftsman bungalows were designed and built by their owners, atypical details are so common they are almost part of the style.Įdges to Rubies The Complete SketchUp Tutorial The bay window just left of the porch is not typical. Where more light was wanted, they were used in groups of two, three or more. Windows were typically one over one, double-hung. The example on the right is a classic Craftsman bungalow in the village of Florida, NY. ![]()
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