The rotate tool in Google SketchUp allows you to rotate the object along one of the 3 axes. It is as easy as copying and pasting.Īdd another one at 45 degrees at the corner. The 3D Warehouse also has a large inventory of IKEA furniture, like this 40cm Billy bookcase.Īdd another 3 to line the wall. Here I just downloaded a door and pasted it where it belongs. Using the 3D Warehouse, you can download all sorts of 3D models to help you with the rest of the project. The set is ready for some details, but I will rotate the scene a bit before continuing.
I decided to remove some walls that I am not going to use. All you have to do is select the surface area using the select tool, then use the Delete key to remove it.
In order for me to work on the “room”, I decided to remove the “ceiling”. Next, I used the extrude tool to make the flat area into a 3-dimensional object. I rotated along the Z axis to get a better angle. This starts to look like the floor of the study room. This is very similar to Flash if you used it before. Then by selecting and using the Delete key, the excess areas are removed from the big rectangle. Then I drew the areas that need to be “cut” from the room area. When you draw a rectangle, the Measurements textbox at lower right corner of the window shows you the measurements (I am not using it, sorry) so while you drag to draw the rectangle, you know what the dimension is. With the measurements my sister provided, I first drew a rectangle that covers the maximum dimensions of the room. My first task is to create a boundary of the study room. It supports Mac OSX 10.5+, as well as Windows Vista, XP and 7. If you are wondering if Google SketchUp would work for you, look no further than here. Here I have an example of how I used Google SketchUp to help my sister design her study room. With the free version of Google SketchUp, you can use simple shapes to create a quick 3D space. It is very easy to understand concepts like draw a shape and extrude it to become a three-dimensional object. Google SketchUp 8 is probably one of the easiest to learn 3D design software.
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