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  • Hey everybody Matt from MasterSketchup.com and recently a friend of mine asked me

  • to draw an addition for him. It's a very small addition

  • since I

  • used to do carpentry, I said sure why not?

  • But I thought It would be cool to

  • record my screen as I was modeling in Sketchup so you can see exactly

  • each step that I take along the way to setup Sketchup

  • and really the whole process.

  • So, what I did is I recorded the whole screen and I'm gonna play it fast forward

  • for you and just kind of talk you through each step of the way of what I did.

  • To hopefully help you out in your thought process on how you approach

  • a similar project.

  • So the first thing I did was I actually went to his house

  • and we took some measurements and I just put it on paper.

  • So I basically took some rough measurements like this

  • and

  • you just want to make sure you get

  • your main widths

  • and lengths of the house, get a good foot print

  • but then you also want to get

  • some heights

  • and uh...

  • dimensions for

  • the rafters uh... the soffit details

  • things like that. So

  • the more dimensions that you can capture early on,

  • the easier it's gonna be

  • once you bring it into Sketchup.

  • Alright, so you can see we got a

  • blank sketchup file opened

  • and I usually start with a rectangle on the ground

  • just to give myself a reference point for whatever I'm drawing. So

  • I'll make the rectangle turn it into a group real quick.

  • The

  • calculator you see there I'm just adding up some of the dimensions that I

  • had written down on the paper.

  • Just some of the widths of the house I did get some full dimensions so.

  • And so I start out with a

  • rectangle

  • and with the

  • dimensions of the

  • the full size of the house

  • and then using the tape measure tool

  • I'll make these guides

  • to

  • to finish off the shape and then

  • you could see I'd jump right in with

  • the

  • sill plates and

  • the floor joists

  • and

  • sometimes

  • when you look at those floor joists

  • you would think that I would use components

  • for those since they're all the same size

  • but sometimes I'd find that I catch myself

  • trying to make a change to one joist

  • and

  • unintentionally

  • it changes all the other ones. I know that you can go to select the

  • unique

  • component

  • just for that one but sometimes it's

  • pretty easy to forget so

  • sometimes, I do different things

  • all the time. Sometimes i'll just use groups

  • for simple things like studs and why not?

  • Now this thing i'm building right now is actually like a story pole, so I'm just,

  • I know what my ceiling height needs to be,

  • and then I'm adding

  • my

  • sheet rock and

  • furring

  • and my

  • ceiling joist height.

  • So i'm just, I just made that object that way i can reference it now with my

  • my studs.

  • And

  • this was one situation where I

  • used

  • groups for all the studs and then I realized, you know what? I wanna make a

  • component for

  • for the main stud and I'll label it

  • the main stud

  • height.

  • The way I can use that

  • throughout the project.

  • And then once you get this, once you get one wall built,

  • you make a group out of that,

  • and then just copy that group over 'cause all your walls are gonna be

  • different so you don't really want to use a component for that.

  • So, now I'm adding in my

  • top plates and

  • this is why I decided to use a component for the main studs as now I can

  • make the changes to one of the studs and all the other ones will

  • make that change as well.

  • So here

  • I have

  • a template just for the rafters.

  • So you notice I kind of use

  • these temporary

  • objects

  • just to help reference. For the inferencing

  • system within sketchup it's nice to have other objects that you can

  • reference off of.

  • so I'm creating one

  • rafter

  • and making components

  • from that

  • getting the space and everything

  • and then I'll group all of them together

  • and

  • take that group and make a copy of it turn it inside out for the other side.

  • And then this is the ridge

  • and I'll just make the change to the

  • one of the rafters and all the other ones will change as well.

  • so I can delete that temporary story pole

  • and

  • We have our basic

  • shape for the,

  • for the addition.

  • It's taking shape already.

  • Actually I lied, this isn't the the actual addition part of the

  • house. This is an existing part of the house that I wanted to

  • detail

  • out. See you can see exactly how the addition

  • attaches to it.

  • so I just adding all the ceiling joists

  • and now I'm adding some

  • dimensions on the inside

  • of the

  • of the house.

  • So in about one hours time

  • this is what I came up with.

  • And

  • you could see that I'd basically just, I created the outline

  • of it. I created the outline of the addition

  • and

  • some of the main house

  • and

  • I'd wanted you to notice how

  • I structured some of the groups here.

  • So a lot of the main

  • components

  • are grouped together.

  • So what's nice about that,is you can select it

  • and hide

  • the different parts

  • and you can see I can

  • go a little further and probably group all these blocks in there as well but,

  • and then what I did is I

  • just used

  • a regular

  • rectangle and push pulled it up

  • and

  • sat down and went over okay where do you want these walls? stuff like that so

  • it's a great way to visualize layout of walls

  • and

  • ....

  • then once we get the final

  • planned figured out,

  • I'll go ahead and finish

  • creating the studs for these walls

  • and I'll fully detail the electrical, windows, doors, all that stuff

  • and create a completed

  • set of construction drawings.

  • So I hope you've enjoyed this

  • quick look on

  • kind of a quick and dirty

  • way that I've used sketchup.

  • I know I've made mistakes and what-not along the way but

  • I wanted to just hit record and see what happened

  • and just share with you my thought process as I went along so

  • if you like to learn more about sketchup, don't forget you can always visit my

  • website at MasterSketchup.com

Hey everybody Matt from MasterSketchup.com and recently a friend of mine asked me

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