• This 3D modeling software tutorial was created based on the 2015 version of the software (Windows version). All of the operations described can also be performed on the Mac version of the software. Furthermore, you do not need Sketchup Pro, the professional and paid version of SketchUp software to create models for 3D printing.
• I know this subject has been discussed but my architectural firm is currently in the process of trying 3d software (moving away from AutoCAD) We love the flexibility of Sketchup but LayOut seems so far behind the technology out there (in terms of speed) I have implemented the tips to speed up the workflow in LayOut, and yes, it does speed it up slightly but doesn’t compare to other CAD.

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3D Tools

For placement and editing of components and other objects into your 3D model.

For more details, see RpTools and Component Wizards

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• - Place Material - Place materials on surfaces.
• - Material Styles - save and reload all material settings.
• - Select and Place Component - Select SketchUp components from an Explorer like list.
• - Move Wizard - move a component (or any selected entities) along an axis.
• - Copy Wizard - copy a component (or any selected entities) along an axis.
• - Mirror Wizard - mirror a component (or any selected entities) along an axis.
• - Rotate Wizard - rotate a component (or any selected entities) around an axis.
• - Stretch Wizard - stretch a component (or any selected entities) along an axis.
• - Aim component - align a component's axis to point at something else in the model.
• - Alpha Channel - Adds an image with transparent areas.
• - Proxy Components - Create low poly components to speed up your SketchUp model.
• - Shapes - Wizards to create standard 3D objects.

For more details, see RpTools.

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on items placed in your 3D model.

for more details, see Attributes and Reports.

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Include Attributes in your Components and Groups for reporting.

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• Total extended cost and other fields.

For more details, see Attributes and Custom Reports.

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Export 3D geometry, with colors and textures, into an Interactive 3D frame in the Adobe PDF file. Add titles, notes and comments to the PDF document easily using the 3D PDF Wizard.

• Post to web site or email to clients
• Clients can view your model, but cannot borrow or change it.
• Simple wizard to combine text and background images with your model

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Non-Photorealistic Rendering

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For more details, see Non-PhotoRealistic Tools

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In SketchUp, making a scene doesn’t disturb anybody. In fact, scenes help you save different model views and properties and then present those views to other people.

When you create a scene, a tab appears at the top of the drawing area, so you can simply click the tab to display the saved view. In the following figure, you can see how several views of the Victorian-style house are saved as scenes, with tabs along the top of the drawing area.

Here are a few ways you might use scenes:

• As you’re creating a 3D model, create scenes so that you can quickly move among different views of your model. You might save views from different angles, like the front, back, and side of your model. Or you might create scenes so you can quickly move among different rendering styles, such as wireframe, monochrome, or textured.
• Save scenes to go along with a presentation of your model. Instead of pausing your presentation to orbit, pan, and zoom while your audience watches and waits, you can make all these moves before your presentation by saving a scene of every view that you want to show. During your presentation, you just need to click the scene tabs.
• Save scenes with a model that you share via the 3D Warehouse.
• Animate a sequence of scenes to show off a model. Learn how to animate scenes in Animating Sections and Scenes.

In the sections that follow, you find out how to add a scene and control what properties you save with that scene. If you want to save changes that you make to a scene, you can do so by updating the scene. SketchUp also has commands for sequencing scenes and deleting scenes that you no longer need.

Adding a scene

Before you create a scene, set the view and apply any styles, fog, shadows, or section cuts that you want to the scene to display. Also, hide any geometry or deselect any layers that you don’t want the view to display. All these properties are saved with your scene, although you can update or manage these properties later, as explained in the next two sections of this article.

To add a scene, follow these steps:

1. Select Window > Scenes to open the Scenes dialog.Open the Scenes dialog in the Default Tray.
2. Click the Add Scene icon (). The scene appears in the Scenes dialog with the default name of Scene 1.
3. (Optional) Click the Show Details icon () in the upper right of the Scenes dialog. Use the options provided to rename the scene (as shown in the following figure), add a description, and select which properties are saved with the scene. The next section, Managing properties saved with a scene, explains how the properties options work.

If you’re creating a new model of a building and you have a photo of that building, you can create a scene and start a Match Photo operation at the same time. In the Scenes dialog, click the Details arrow () and select Add Scene with Matched Photo. You’re prompted to select the photo file you want to use, and then SketchUp switches to Match Photo mode. See Matching a Photo to a Model (or a Model to a Photo) for details about working with the Match Photo feature.

Managing properties saved with a scene

By default, when you add a scene, SketchUp saves several properties that affect the view of your model. In the Scenes dialog, the following checkboxes enable you to control which of these properties are saved. Here’s brief introduction to the checkboxes and the properties they control:

• Camera Location: Remember that SketchUp uses a camera as a metaphor for the way you view your model. The camera properties saved with a scene include the the point of view, including the zoom distance and field of view.
• Hidden Geometry: If your scene has hidden geometry, this geometry remains hidden every time you load that particular scene.
• Visible Layers: This property applies if you use layers to control visibility.
• Active Section Planes: Your model can contain several section planes, which slice your model at a certain point to display a view of the inside, usually from the top or the side.
  Tip: You can use different section cuts in successive scenes to create exciting animations of your model.
• Style and Fog: This checkbox determines whether the scene saves style settings, such as edge rendering and fog.
• Shadows Settings: This checkbox tells SketchUp whether to store all shadow-related information, including type, time, date, and so on, with the scene.
• Axes Location: This setting affects whether the axes display and the axes' position in the scene.

By default, all these checkboxes are selected, so all the properties are saved with your scene. If you don’t want to save one of these properties, select the scene in the Scenes dialog, click the Show Details icon () to display the checkboxes, and deselect the checkbox for each set of properties that you don’t want to save.

Note that you can’t save updates to a property with a scene if that property isn’t saved with the scene. See the next section for details about making sure you include all the properties you want to save in an update.

Updating a scene

Updating a scene saves any changes that you make to a scene after you create it. To update a scene, follow these steps:

1. Select Window > Scenes to open the Scenes dialog.Open the Scenes dialog in the Default Tray.
2. In the Scenes dialog, select the scene you want to update.
3. Click the Show Details icon () and make sure all the properties you want to save with the scene are selected.
4. Click the Update Scene icon () in the upper left of the Scenes dialog.
5. In the Scene Update dialog box that appears, you can deselect any properties you don’t want to save with the update. Remember that if an item wasn’t selected in Step 3, that property doesn’t save, even if you select it in the Scene Update dialog box. After you’re done selecting or deselecting properties, click Update.

Sequencing scene tabs

SketchUp adds scene tabs and lists of scenes in the Scenes dialog based on the order in which you create the scenes. However, this order may not be what works best. For example, in the following figure, say you want to move the interior scene later in the sequence, after all the exterior scenes.

To change the sequence of your scenes, you use either the scene tab’s context menu or the Scenes dialog:

• Scene tab context menu: Context-click the tab you want to move and select Move Left or Move Right. Repeat the command if you want to move the scene more than one position in the tab order.
• Scenes dialog: Select the scene from the list and click the Move Scene Down icon () or the Move Scene Up icon () in the upper right. The tab order updates to reflect the order in the Scenes dialog.

Deleting a scene

If you no longer need a scene, you can delete the scene in the following ways:

• Select the scene in the Scenes dialog and click the Remove Scene icon () in the upper left.
• Select the scene in the Scenes dialog, click the Details arrow (), and select Delete Scene from the menu that appears.
• Context-click the scene tab and select Delete from the menu that appears.

Customizing thumbnails the Scenes dialog

In the Scenes dialog, you can customize how the scene thumbnails and the list of scenes appear.

The following options enable you to control how the scene thumbnails appear:

• If you don’t want to see the thumbnail images, click the Details arrow() and deselect Use Scene Thumbnails.
• If you update a scene and want the thumbnail to reflect the update, click the Details arrow and select Update Scene Thumbnail.

Click the View Options () menu in the upper right of the Scenes dialog, and you can select from the following options, which control how your lists of scenes appears:

• Small Thumbnails: You see only thumbnails, not the scene names, and more than ten thumbnails are visible in the list at once, before you need to scroll in order to see more scenes. However, as the option name indicates, the thumbnail images are quite small.
• Large Thumbnails: See only large thumbnail images of a scene, not the scene name. With this option selected, you can see about six thumbnail images at a time.
• Details: This is the default option, which shows medium-sized thumbnails, the scene name, the photo if your scene has one, and the scene description. You see more information but fewer scenes in this view.
• List: See only the scene names in a list. The text is a bit larger in this view than in the Details view.

Viewing scenes in models imported from the 3D Warehouse

If you download a model from the 3D Warehouse into SketchUp, your download is inserted into your model as a component. However, components don’t have scenes.

To open a 3D Warehouse download as a model, click No when a message asks, “Load this directly into your SketchUp model?” You then see another message that asks, “Do you want to open or save this file?” Click Open and you can see and use any scenes saved with the model.

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For details about saving, sharing, or downloading models via the 3D Warehouse, see the 3D Warehouse section of the Help Center.