notes from sketchup week 2

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Lauren Manley 4/2/2013 Establishing Professional Practice To copy an object select the group then use the move tool (M), then press ctrl to make a copy. You can use the ‘Follow Me’ tool in a similar way to the ‘Push/Pull’ tool, only this tool with follow a drawn path, first select your path, then the tool and then click on the chosen face.

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Page 1: notes from sketchup week 2

Lauren Manley 4/2/2013

Establishing Professional Practice

To copy an object select the group then use the move tool (M), then press ctrl to make a copy.

You can use the ‘Follow Me’ tool in a similar way to the ‘Push/Pull’ tool, only this tool with follow a drawn path, first select your path, then the tool and then click on the chosen face.

Page 2: notes from sketchup week 2

Lauren Manley 4/2/2013

This helps to get more complex, interesting shapes.

You can also use a circle as a path for the ‘Follow Me’ tool. Draw a circle on the red axis, then draw out a face for the desired shape using a rectangle on the blue axis. When you’ve finished drawing out the shape select the circle as a path and then use the ‘Follow Me’ tool

on the face of the shape. This creates more complex cylindrical forms.

Page 3: notes from sketchup week 2

Lauren Manley 4/2/2013

Using these tools you can create many things. To make this fence I made one object and copied it many times. To do this I turned the object into a component, once this is done

when the component is copied you can enter a value for the number of copies you want.