Google SketchUp Cookbook: Practical Recipes and Essential Techniques

by Bonnie Roskes

Overview

As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task. Google SketchUp Cookbook will help you:

• Use SketchUp more efficiently by taking advantage of components and groups
• Learn new techniques for using Follow Me, Intersect, and constraints
• Go beyond simple textures with tools such as texture positioning and Photo Match
• Create animations and walkthroughs, and explore design scenarios by using layers and scenes
• Learn how to use styles to customize your presentations
• Combine SketchUp with the 3D Warehouse and Google Earth

Google SketchUp Cookbook is ideal for architects, engineers, interior designers, product designers, woodworkers, and other professionals and hobbyists who want to work more efficiently and achieve true mastery of this amazing tool.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780596555528
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/10/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	37 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Bonnie Roskes is the founder of 3DVinci, a company that provides 3D design training for all ages and stages. Her books for design pros on SketchUp, Piranesi, and OneCNC have attracted a loyal following, and her SketchUp project books for kids K-12 are making 3D modeling and geometry accessible and fun for teachers, parents, and kids. Bonnie's practical, hands-on focus is based in her education in structural engineering and years of experience in bridge design.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Making Multiple Copies
• Chapter 2: Following Paths with Follow Me
• Chapter 3: Intersection Edges: Cutting and Trimming
• Chapter 4: Advanced Intersect and Follow Me Techniques
• Chapter 5: Roofs: Constraints and Inferences
• Chapter 6: Groups: Protect and Defend
• Chapter 7: Components: Efficiency in Repetition
• Chapter 8: Painting, Materials, and Textures
• Chapter 9: Modeling with Digital Photos
• Chapter 10: Modeling with Exact Dimensions
• Chapter 11: Presentation: Showing off Your Model
• Chapter 12: Displaying Your Model
• Chapter 13: 3D Warehouse and Google Earth
• Chapter 14: Dynamic Components
• Colophon