


I do not even know if anything like I am planning, actually have started to build, exists. I do not have an image of the desired platform. To unsubscribe from these emails, visit your user preferences. I am likely making this harder than it really is but anyone out there with a clue to my problem? Well I took the suggestion in A Newbie Question and learned to draw a cube, rectangular box, a triangular pyramid, a 3 axial concentric circle, but I still don't get the way this program thinks. To respond, reply to this email or visit in your browser. Have you had a look at our “ Getting Started” video tutorials yet? I feel sure that I am creating some of my own blocks to catching on. I just don’t get the insights of the program.

I can’t even get a preliminary perspective view sketched.

I have completed top, side and front views of a Queen Anne platform with storage drawers in about 2 1/2 hours. My frustration stems from my ability to draft with paper &pencil relatively quickly. So please, pay attention and start practicing.Yes, I went through all 4 of the videos. Textures can be of help of course, but if not treated correctly they can become terrible and waste all of your work. In this YouTube video the author shows every step you need to know, to deal with them for the first time. What About Textures? Another thing that SketchUp offers you is the possibility to add textures to the objects inside your model. How to Make Quick 3D Models From AutoCAD to SketchUpĦ.10 SketchUp Hacks That Will Turn You Into a SketchUp Ninja.Reproducing your site in the most accurate way will help you save time while drawing your project in SketchUp. Don’t forget that landscape architecture works with land and territory and that you need to understand your site perfectly if you want to design correctly. It can be very useful for those who don’t know how to deal with contours in SketchUp. This is another tutorial about creating your own topography lines from AutoCad for SketchUp models by using contour lines.
