Spencer House Sketchup

Hey! Not sure if this is A+ material, but I played around with it and here's what I came up with. For now, it does not like quite so realistic because although I was able to grab the photo texture for the roof, I could not do it for the pale building walls because there was a tree in front of it! Nonetheless, here it is:

I am still going to work a few kinks out before I add it as a location for google maps. 

For example, the side here is triangular, and I don't know why!

First Creation with Sketch-up

Here is my first creation with sketch-up. It's my junior high school that I went to. I would have done my CAP site but street view was done when the old Empire Theatres was here so it looks very different. Maybe someday I'll take my own photos of the building and try to sketch it that way. It took me a couple hours to get used to the tools and make this. It wasn't too bad since it was only a couple rectangles and minor push and pull. This is addicting though - I'll think I'll definitely be doing more in the future (hopefully much better looking when I get practice!).

Sketchin`it up!

So the idea is to show you what I do when I am bored. I have no CAD training and had never used SketchUp until a few months ago. At first, my buildings looked pretty plain and simple, but over time I have slowly started the understand the tools and the relationships between them.



Used the push/pull tool to shape the eaves....


Wabo's - note that this looks plainer because I did not shape the eaves with push/pull



The entire front of this restaurant is done with draw square tool & push/pull. After you have a basic shape, pull up the streetview image of the front of the building. (use the add photo texture tool). Use this as a template for all your lines and dimensions.



Starting to get a bit more complex. Total time for this model, six hours.



Another church takes shape. You can see that i have used "draw triangle" to make the basic house/pitched roof shape.



Next, using the technique of pulling squares right out of the streetview image as a template - you can start building more detail



Churches are great autodidactic projects because they are a little more complicated than the average house. Don't worry about the images! At this point they are ONLY a template.



Using the shadows in the GE imagery helps you judge HEIGHT.



"ARC tool" is very complicated. Grr.



Use very narrow, tall, sections of Streetview imagery for arc surfaces.



Refining the steeple



More Google Art, pardon the pun.



here, the square on the right is just a placeholder for the image, so that I have something to build by on the left. When the one on the left is done, I'll delete the one on the right.



Some detail of the belfrys


Don't do twice what you've already done. Use the "component" tool to easily clone and position large structures.

Again, using "component tool" to easily place entire sections.


Expanding the back...


Finished model in Google Earth




Oooooooh small repetitive parts! use Component Tool to easily clone and position these rather than spending hours creating each individually, and placing them individually. Component tool saves time!



This looked like it would be easy despite it's size.



Was I ever wrong. Streetview has no good, unobstructed images. The imagery doesn't fit, it's fuzzy at best, and the terrain is not level (cuts off the bottom of all the buildings. This makes positioning the imagery very difficult.



This Foodland had pretty clear images on Google Earth & Streetview. Took 20 minutes to build.


Service station, take two. This time I got it pretty good. Stole the pumps from the previous model, as an entire component.






So this model was rejected to 3D Wharehouse because I made the shrubs in the back in 3D. Shrubs are ephemeral and should not be included in Google 3D models.

Check It Out

So, one day a few weeks ago when our site was not particularly busy, I decided to play with Sketchup some more. This time the focus of my efforts were on the building in which our C@P site resides. I didn't try to make it look fancy or anything, just used a general shape for the building and applied photo textures.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f62ef5920309b6a0e141c0701f10d930&ct=3dbl&hl=en

Here's a link to it in the 3D warehouse, if you want a closer look, or if you want to view it in Google Earth. Or if you want to just go to its location in Google Earth/Maps, turn on the 3D buildings layer and go to:

44°58'20.87"N

62°15'24.12"W

Challenge #2 Entry - Keegan Moser

This was interesting. I did quite a bit of tinkering trying to make the bottle curved before I got it to work out. I had to create a rectangular plane at an angle to the top face of the cylinder I began with, and use the Follow Me tool to extend the face around 360 degrees. I did this several times with different angles until I had the curved effect I was looking for.

I made labels for the bottle with Microsoft Paint, and used Adobe Photoshop to save them as a .png file that would give me an image without the white box surrounding it that a .jpg would inevitably have produced. Then I imported them into SketchUp as textures.

For the plate, I started with the basic shape, and used the offset tool many times to create a series of congruent shapes around it, then pushed them up to increasing heights.

The fries are just simple rectangular prisms. Some of them I sliced triangular segments away from the ends of , and used the move tool on single edges to make them look slightly more fry-like.

Huzzah for Ketchup.

I just used the upload image button to add the image to my post, if it won't enlarge, I'll upload it to Picasa or Panoramio, and add a link.

Ketchup Sketch-up or just a ketchup mess?..

Hey, so the sketch-up was interesting... It was fun but frustrating, I some how kept deleting what I had done or changing an object completing. I am still trying to learn more about the program, but as far as the ketchup sketch-up, here it is!

Sketch up and what happened this week

That is my Sketch up. just in case you can't see it that is pizza, fish and chips, two hamburgers a drink of sprite (or 7up) and a jar of straws. I would like to put it on record that i don't like ketchup. the sketch up program is very interesting program, took a long time to figure out how to work it maybe i should of read the instructions but i never liked to read instructions. I still have things to learn about it. I downloaded it online but it seems my trial has expired I do not know if anyone else's has. this week the bad weather seems to have chased most of our costumers away not that i blame them who wants to leave home in such bad weather, although i did take the time to go dancing in the rain. it was pretty much a regular week.
I'm looking forward to Whale Watching tomorrow. hope the weather will be good.

BBQ of the century

So my table went see through but at one point it looked like wood I swear! Also there are cut up tomatoes, a hamburger, pop cans, and a hotdog on the table if you can't tell.....

It's a tomato plant, I swear.

Or something like one, at least. With any luck, I'll never have to use SketchUp again — much to the pleasure of botanists everywhere, I'm sure.

Challenge # 2: Sketchup Ketchup

So, maybe it's the heat, but I thought about it today and found it pretty funny how "Sketchup" sounds like Ketchup.
Therefore, why not Sketchup Ketchup?



This week's Challenge, Due for posting by JULY 16TH, (more like JULY 14TH, because CAP Day is the Thursday and Orientation is the Friday) is to Use Google Sketchup to create something Ketchup-y and cool. Sketch up a Ketchup bottle, what you like to eat with Ketchup, tomatoes...anything Ketchup-y. It's all in good fun, and for a good reason.

This Summer's NSCAP Contest (with PRIZES) involves Google Sketchup, so you all need to get practicing! That's about all I can say about the Contest right now, but it's good enough reason to fiddle around with a drawing program, get better at it, and have some fun!

Turnout for the last challenge, although very well-done (Thanks Keegan!) was DISMAL. I think we can get a lot more participants this time! The submissions should be pretty interesting to look at! The winner will be the most creative and detailed exploration of the Challenge Concept.

So, ketchup it up and post your pictures with an explanation when you are done!