Lynda – SketchUp: Modeling Exteriors from Photos

This course takes you step-by-step through how to use SketchUp to create a texture-mapped 3D model of building exteriors using photos. Learn how to leverage photo-matching features to enhance and evolve a model from several vantage points. Scott Onstott demonstrates how to rough in building volumes and roof slopes, handle complex roof scenarios, adjust the model to match perspectives, work with textures, use a library of materials and more.

Topics include:

• Roughing in building volumes
  
• Using multiple photos for mapping
  
• Matching the perspective in the photos
  
• Roughing in a roof slope
  
• Modeling and extruding roofs
  
• Intersecting objects
  
• Constructing complex roofs
  
• Hiding edges
  
• Working with materials and textures
  
• Using fixed and movable pins
  
• Accessing the SketchUp material library
  
• Completing texture mapping