use the select tool to click on the circles. eraase the bottom line of the rectangle.ĥ.use the circvle tool to create windows on the side of the shapes. use the push/pull tool to push in the door a little. use the push or pull to make the rectangle 3D.Ĥ.Create another rectangle on one of the faces of the shape, preferably the long side rectangle. This can reduce the quality of the models.ģ. Because tubes and squares are the simplest forms to create, it is possible that the users will create models mainly out of these forms. More proceedings will be needed to create an extrude with a complicated base drawing.ĭouble bend surfaces are difficult to create in this program. Therefore there is no certainty about the quality of the model.Ĭomplicated drawings are difficult to create and extrude. When trying to find free 3D models high and low quality models are mixed. Unfortunately the puppets are 2d drawings and no real 3d models. Possibility of using persons in the drawing is very worth full. Therefore, you are not able to make animations of your model. Besides, there are none options of using assemblies and mates in this program.
Some basic models, like a sphere need more attention to discover how to make this model. The easy accessible and intuitive usage for non experts reduces the usage of this program for more complicated tasks. The biggest disadvantage of Google SketchUp is related to its biggest advantage. The tutorials are also clarifying and fast to use.
At all time help is provided, by manuals reader as well as online video tutorials. There are lot of help tools are available for users with less experience with modelling programs or to find out some of the handy tips. This can easily fasten the development process.Īnother advantages is the intuitive usage of the program is really intuitive. You do not need any expensive licences and/or 3D CAD programs to visualise your ideas and/or models to other people. One of the great advantages, of this easy accessible freeware, is the fact that everyone is able to use it and download the program.
SketchUp debuted in August 2000 as a general-purpose 3D content creation tool, and was envisioned as a software program “that would allow design professionals to draw the way they want by emulating the feel and freedom of working with pen and paper in a simple and elegant interface, that would be fun to use and easy to learn, and that would be used by designers to play with their designs in a way that is not possible with traditional design software. SketchUp was developed by startup company Software of Boulder, Colorado, co-founded in 1999 by Brad Schell and Joe Esch.