Google SketchUp workshop : modeling, visualizing, and illustrating / edited by Laurent Brixius.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brixius, Laurent.

Standardized Title:

Créer avec SketchUp. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SketchUp.

Three-dimensional imaging.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

SketchUp workshop

Google Sketch Up workshop

Sketch Up workshop

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Mass. : Elsevier, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Discover the secrets of the Google SketchUp with the 16 real-world professional-level projects including parks, structures, concept art, and illustration. Google SketchUp Workshop includes all the wide variety of projects that SketchUp can be used for-architectural visualization, landscape design, video game and film conception, and more. SketchUp masters in every field will get you up to speed in this agile and intuitive software and then show you the real uses with through projects in architecture, engineering, and design.

Contents:

Cover; Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating; Copyright; Contents; Overview; OVERVIEW 1 Working on Complex Models in SketchUp; OVERVIEW 2 When SketchUp Misbehaves...; OVERVIEW 3 More Tips and Tricks; OVERVIEW 4 Pushing the Envelope - Advanced SketchUp Use; PART 1 Architecture; CHAPTER 1 Creating Virtual Concept Models in SketchUp; Project Context; Technical Aspects; New Approaches; An Aerial View; Stage 1: Define a Composition; Stage 2: Updating the Model; Stage 3: Refining the Render Further; Principal Section

Stage 1: Choose an Approach and Understand the ConstraintsStage 2: Adapting the Model; Stage 3: Fine-Tuning the Render; An Interior Perspective; Stage 1: Dressing the Envelope; Stage 2: Dressing the Space; Stage 3: Creating an Image; Stage 4: Finishing Touches; Conclusion; CHAPTER 2 Te Wero Bridge Competition in Auckland, New Zealand; Project Context; Technical Aspects; New Approaches; Step 1: Picking Up the Right Competition; Step 2: Working as a Team; Step 3: Dividing the Main Project Model into Submodels; Step 4: Editing Component Definitions in Submodels

Step 5: Reloading Submodels into the Main ModelStep 6: Editing Submodels as a Whole 1/Proportional Modifications; Step 7: Editing Submodels as a Whole 2 (Nesting Technique)/Positional Modifications; Step 8: Evaluating Design Options in Scenes; Step 9: Evaluating Design Options in Still Images/Batch Image Export; Step 10: Applying DOF Directly to SketchUp Output; Conclusion; CHAPTER 3 Restorative Urban Design for Lescar Lane Park, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Context; Aims and Technique; Why SketchUp?; Techniques Used; Useful Model Building Help; Stage 1: Initial Ideas and Concepts

Stage 2: Desktop StudyStage 3: Pre-SketchUp Model Preparation; Stage 4: Importing CAD Files; Stage 5: Building Initial Model; Stage 6: Building Details; Stage 7: Building Grouping; Stage 8: Implementing Gradient; Stage 9: Mapping Boundary Design Lines; Stage 10: Landscaped Mounding; Stage 11: Canopy Creation; Stage 12: Fine Detailing; Stage 13: Model Completion - Rendering; Stage 14: 3D Visualization Video; Conclusion; CHAPTER 4 Redevelopment of Place Van Zeeland, Belgium; Project Context; Why We Chose SketchUp?; Technical Aspects; New Approaches; Stage 1: Gathering the Data

Stage 2: Preparation and Import of Plan FilesStage 3: Modeling the Project; Stage 3.1: Surface Modeling; Stage 3.2: Modeling the Curbs; Stage 3.3: Modeling the Buildings and Other Built Elements; Stage 3.4: Adding the Entourage; Stage 3.5: Assigning Model Elements to Layers; Stage 4: Rendering Scenes in Kerkythea; PART 2 Engineering; CHAPTER 5 A Window Installation; Project Context; Technical Aspects; New Approaches; Step 1: Planning; Step 2: Storyboarding; Step 3: Classifying Objects; Step 4: Modeling Objects at a 1:1 Scale; Step 5: Creating Groups and Components

Step 6: Creating Materials and Making a Library

Notes:

Authorized translation from the French language edition, entitled Creer avec SketchUp - 16 Projets, de l'Architecture au Theatre, collective work directed by Laurent Brixius, published by Pearson Education France, copyright é2009 Pearson Education France.

Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2016).

ISBN:

9786612955389

9781136127410

1136127410

9781136127427

1136127429

9781282955387

1282955381

9780240816289

0240816285

OCLC:

701704675