Overview
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Learn how to create a texture-mapped 3D model of a building exterior using SketchUp.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Configuring keyboard shortcuts
- About the photos
- Matching perspective of photo one
- Modeling the garage volume
- Pulling out the porch
- Adding a window and the front door
- Modeling the porch frame
- Building columns on piers
- Matching perspective of photo two
- Creating sloped bargeboards
- Modeling decorative beam ends
- Extruding roofs and filling a gable
- Creating steeper bargeboards: Upper roof
- Modeling the second floor volume
- Intersecting objects within context
- Adding upper-roof surfaces
- Adding a dormer roof
- Modeling dormer walls
- Designing and placing roof brackets
- Matching perspective of photo three
- Modeling bargeboards on the left side
- Cleaning up the roof slopes
- Matching perspective of photo four
- Adjusting the building to fit the photo
- Matching perspective of photo five
- Creating the dining room roof
- Cleaning up roof intersections
- Modeling dining room walls
- Hiding unwanted edges
- Projecting photos onto a component
- Using fixed and movable pins on textures
- Accessing the SketchUp material libraries
- Positioning a texture with fixed pins
- Colorizing and adjusting new material
- Adding additional materials
- Coloring brackets and texturing pediments
- Second floor windows and trim
- First floor door and window
- Completing texture mapping
- Next steps
