Sketchup Tutorial

[HitmanFluffy]

After posting my new sketchup template, I wondered if anybody didn't know how to use sketchup. So I made this tutorial for those who don't know.

First of all, we have to know the basics....
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9597/tut1pu0.png

How to move a double box into a corner....
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/4158/tut4qe5.png
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2876/tut5fd7.png
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/4738/tut6pj0.png

Then you can click anywhere on the floor of foundry and there you go.

How to rotate an object:

When you place your mouse over the face of a component, you should be able to see red crosses.
This is what it should look like:
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6052/tut7qy8.png

To rotate an object, just click on one of the crosses.If you want to make a double box ramp, move it 2 notches down.It should look like this:
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2774/tut8ui6.png

Then you click on the endpoint which you want to move to the ground.Press the down key and then click anywhere on the floor.It should look like this:
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2059/tut9ad0.png

How to do this:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8557/tut10cr1.png

First turn a wall corner like this:
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6921/tut11dz6.png

Next...
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4207/tut12mq4.png
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8330/tut13wc0.png

You should have something like this:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4711/tut14rv2.png

Then just click on the endpoint that you want to move to the ground. Press on the down arrow keyand then click on the floor.http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/1594/tut15vo0.png

There you go.

Here's a list of shortcuts:
O = Orbit
O+hold shift = Pan around
Scroll = Zoom in/out
M = Move
M+ctrl = copy object( exact same position as the one it was copied from.)
E = eraser
Space = select

If your stuck insde a wall or something, do this shortcut:
Ctrl+Shift+E

[HitmanFluffy]

Reserved

[Flibaboua]

This is a great thread; thanks for posting it. Granted, sketchup is mostly trial and error, but still, it's nice to know a bit more going in.

[Ladnil]

Google's move tutorial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e095bSztLs) is really good, just skip the first 90 seconds to get to where they start moving whole components around(the refrigerator) and they demonstrate really well how to move things.

[BLOODSHEAD]

very nice, cant wait to start plannin my maps on sketchup

[L0rd4b0ve]

Google movie tutorial is good, but there is a lot of crap you don't need for this application of it. This tutorial is great because it only concerns the forger with what he needs to know. I made a tutorial a while ago that got buried. I think the link is in my sig if you want to take some of my ideas.

[Ladnil]

Yea, I know there's a lot of stuff in that video that you don't need to sketchup for forging, that's why I made sure to mention skipping the first minute and a half. That video is the way the lightbulb went on over my head and I figured sketchup out.