„This book adds valuable information about features not evenmentioned in the “Missing Manual„. This book allows you to createsettings for your creations. SketchUp provides a “sandbox„, aninterface with tools that create organic geometry. In other words, you can push and pull “terrain" around to create hills and valleys. Then using other tools create streets, sidewalks, and planters. Place the buildings you've created on the terrain, and addvegetation around them - suddenly you have a world! This is a solidbook, with good start-to-finish instructions in creating 3Dobjects, whether a bench or a cathedral.„ (eJournal of theTucson Computer Society, December 2009)
“This book illustrates a holistic approach to SketchUp, how itworks and more importantly, what to do with it." (San FranciscoBook Review, November 2009)
Google SketchUp for Site Design
A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture
von Daniel TalGoogle SketchUp for Site Design illustrates a holisticapproach to SketchUp: how it works and more importantly, what to dowith it.
Filled with tutorials from front to back, the book focuses onthe start and completion of projects that include rich detail andexpression. Each part and chapter of the book builds on theprevious chapters and tutorial.
You will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildingsand site elements: from modeling each of these exterior environmentelements to piecing them together to generate a singular andexpressive model.
The book culminates with tutorials demonstrating effective andsimple ways to include grades and terrain using the Sandbox toolsand how best to integrate the entire approach with AutoCAD andSketchUp.
Also included are links to supplemental on-line resources suchas YouTube tutorials and free tutorial and example models from 3DWarehouse.
The book is useful for all SketchUp proficiency levels includingbeginners, hobbyists, and professionals.
Filled with tutorials from front to back, the book focuses onthe start and completion of projects that include rich detail andexpression. Each part and chapter of the book builds on theprevious chapters and tutorial.
You will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildingsand site elements: from modeling each of these exterior environmentelements to piecing them together to generate a singular andexpressive model.
The book culminates with tutorials demonstrating effective andsimple ways to include grades and terrain using the Sandbox toolsand how best to integrate the entire approach with AutoCAD andSketchUp.
Also included are links to supplemental on-line resources suchas YouTube tutorials and free tutorial and example models from 3DWarehouse.
The book is useful for all SketchUp proficiency levels includingbeginners, hobbyists, and professionals.
