Sketchup For Beginners - Create Your First 3D House from Scratch With Sketchup (Part 3)

1. introduction to Part 3: Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the third part of the course called Sketchup for Beginners, or How to Create a Complete 3D House from Scratch, Even if you have never done it before. I'm very happy to see you here because it's telling me that you like the first and the second part of this course, and that you want to learn how to Create the other elements of your 3D House. In the second part of this course, you have created the paving and the basement of the house in 3D. Besides that, you have discovered some new tools like the push-pull tool and how to move objects with the Move tool. In this third part of the course, you will discover how to change the measurements units from meters to centimeters. How to Create the external Walls of the house. How to make the Holes in these Walls to for Doors and Windows. And how to create simple doors and windows. For all of these elements, we will be using the drawings with exact measurements which you can download below this video. So if you ready to discover how to create all these new elements in Sketchup, click the blue enroll button below this video, and I'll see you inside 2. Creating External Walls: Hello and welcome to the first video. In this video, we will create the exterior walls of our house in 3D. As you can see on the screen, the floor plan of our house is 1,500 by 900 cm big, and the Walls so 20 cm thick. Until now, we use meters as measurement units. From now on, we will use centimeters. So that would be the first thing that we will change in our model. In order to do that, open your model that you save less time, and then go to Window, select model info. And from this drop-down menu, change meters to centimeters and close the window. Now because we are creating the new elements of our 3D House, we will create a new layer. As always, you can do that by clicking the plus sign on the right side of your screen within the layers section and rename the layer one to Walls, and then select the left button on the left to make it active. Now everything is ready for the 3D Walls creation. So the first thing that we're gonna do is to create the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle that will be 1,500 by 900 cm big by entering its precise dimensions in the bottom-right corner. Now we will zoom in a little bit, and now we will use a new tool that is called the offset tool. We will use this tool to Create the thickness of our walls that is 20 cm. So click on it to make it active. Hover over the face of the rectangle. And when you see these red dots on the sides of the rectangle, click once and then move your mouse to the center of the rectangle. Click somewhere in the bottom-right corner, enter 20 to make the Walls 20 cm thick. As you can see, we have two phases. The external one that are our walls and the internal one that is the shape we don't need anymore. So we will select it and press Delete on the keyboard to delete it. We just have created the shape of our floor plan and the thickness of our walls of 20 cm. The last thing we need to do is to use the push pull tool to make these Walls 3D. Hover over the face of the Walls. Click on them. Move your mouse up. And because we want our walls to be 300 cm high, enter 300 in the bottom-right corner. Zoom out a little bit. So as you can see, we have just created the external Walls offer house. And in the next video, we will start creating the Holes for the doors and windows of our house. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you there. 3. Creating Holes for Doors and Windows: Hello and welcome to the next lesson. In the last video, we have created the 3D Walls of our house. And now the time has come to make the Holes for future windows and doors. In order to do that, we will use this drawing with exact measurements of the front Side and Back Elevation. We will start from the front elevation. And we will use some helpful guidelines that will help us Create the Holes at the exact places. We will start by creating the horizontal guidelines. And the first one will be 90 cm from the ground. The second one will be 240 cm from the ground. So we will open our 3D model, select the tape measure tool. And starting from this bottom side of the wall, we will enter 90 in the bottom-right corner. And then starting from the same line. And taking care of that, we are parallel to the z-axis, 240 cm in the bottom-right corner to position them correctly. Now we will again open this drawing and the first Window is 180 cm from this left side, and it is 150 cm wide. So we will zoom out drawings a little bit. And starting from this left side and going parallel to the right axis, enter 118, the bottom-right corner to exactly positioned this guideline at that distance. The next one is the wave of the first Window and it is 150 cm. By opening the Drawing, again, you can see that the second window is 210 cm from the first one, and it is also 150 cm wide. So we will enter 200 then in the bottom-right corner. And then 150 to make the width of this second window. The third window is 50 cm from the second one, and it is also 150 cm. Why? We will enter 50. And then the width of the window that is 150 cm. We will zoom out a little bit, open the growing. And now we see that the entrance door are 50 cm from the third Window and they are 100 is 20 cm wide. We will open the model and create the guideline at 50 cm from the third Window. And 112, 34. The doors with the last Window is 160 cm from the Doors, and it is 150 cm wide. So we will enter 160. And then one cabinet. We have positioned all the Holes, offer Windows, and in order to make the Holes, we will use the rectangle tool, draw old Windows at their positions. The Doors, and the fourth Window. And now we will make the Holes by using the push pull tool. I'll zoom a little bit to show you exactly what you need to do now, as you can see, if we hover over the square of our Window, click on it and move until you see the message on the face, and then click again. And that is how you make the Holes in the world. Again. The second Window, click on it, move it to the center of the house. And when a see the message, click again. Another great thing about Sketchup is that it makes sometimes life easier. So the next one, you only lead to, double-click on it. And on the door to. And the same way, Double-click on the last Window. As you can see, we have created the Holes for our windows and door in the front window. Now you can delete the guidelines. And we will now move on to the second wall, where we only have one small window that is 180 cm from the ground and it is 60 cm high. The horizontal position of the window is 420 cm for the left side. So we will open our model, select the tape measure tool, start with the vertical guideline at 420 cm from the left. The next one is the width of the window that is 60 cm. Then we will make the horizontal guideline from the bottom at 180. And the last one is 60 cm. For the Windows height. We will use the Rectangle Tool to draw the position of the fall. And by using the Post poll tool, move from one to the center of the house. And when you see the message on phase, click again. As you can see, we have created the whole for our Window. Now you can delete the guidelines. And by using the same principle, you will make the Holes of the windows and doors by yourself, by using the exact measurements that you can see on these drawings, which you can download below this video to make it your own. That will be all for this video. I'm waiting for the next one and I'm looking forward to see how you make the Holes in the Back Elevation Window. Bye for now 4. Creating a 3D Window: Hello and welcome to this video. In the last lesson, I have shown you how to Create the Holes for Doors and Windows inside the 3D Walls. And if you have followed all the instructions from that video, you're 3D Walls with Holes should look something like this. In this video, I will show you how to create a window and how to put it inside the whole. Before I do that, I will triple-click on one of the walls of our house to select them all, and then right-click on it and then select the main group option from the drop-down menu in order to group all the walls inside one group. The first Window that I will create is this one that is 150 by 150 cm big. In order to do that, I will first create a rectangle that is 150 by 150 cm big. When I zoom in. The next thing I want to Create a is its frame that will be 4 cm thick. To do that, we'll use the offset tool. Click on the face and then click again. And in the bottom-right corner, Panther for to make its thickness of 4 cm. We now have two faces because we don't need this one inside. We will delete it. Now, I want to Create my frame to be 3D. So I will use the push-pull tool, hover over the face of the frame. And when selective, I will move up my mouse. And in the bottom-right corner, I will enter 24, the height of the frame of 20 cm. Before adding the other elements of the window, I will triple-click on it and then right-click on it, and then select the main group option to make this frame a group. This Window we have to sachets. So our staff creating the first one by selecting the rectangle tool, by picking the first corner to the left and then moving through the middle point of this line. While Sketchup shows me that I'm in the mint point in the group. When the new rectangle is created, I will then create another frame. So I will again use the offset tool, click on it again, and then enter for in the bottom right corner. Again, we will not use this interface, so I will delete to make the frame of the search 3D. I will use the push pull tool. Click on it, move my mouse up, click again, and enter aids in the bottom-right corner. Instead of copying this sash, I will use the existing one and make a copy of it. But before I do that, I will make a group of this session elements by triple clicking on it, right-clicking and selecting main group from the drop-down menu. The copy tool doesn't have its icon on the large tool set on the left. In order to copy elements in Sketchup, we will use the Move tool in the combination with the Control key on your keyboard. So click the corner on the sash, start moving parallel to the right axis. And while dragging, press the Control key on your keyboard and then click again. Now we want to Create the glass for a Window. So we will use the rectangle tool again. Click this corner, and then click the opposite corner to make our glass. To make it transparent. We will use another great option inside Sketchup by going to Window and by selecting materials. The materials window will open on the right side of your screen. And instead of colors, select the translucent category from the drop-down menu. Inside the translucent category is select the translucent glass blow, left-click on it, and then left-click on the face of the rectangle to make it transparent. After that, double-click the glass, right-click on it and make it a group. Before you move the cropping tool. That is the combination of the Move tool and the control key on your keyboard. And then click this corner while dragging, click the Control key, and then click again to make perfect. The first glass is selected. Now, use the Selection tool with a combination of the shift key to select the second glass and now select the Move tool to move them both down. Taking care of that you are parallel to the z-axis and when you are on the blue axis, anther for in the bottom-right corner. By using the selection tool from right to left, select the glasses and the frame store the Sasha's. And now again, in order to perfectly positioned the Sasha's, the outer frame, all the Window click again to move. And then taking care off to be parallel to the zed axis, move them together 16 cm down by entering 16 in the bottom-right corner. Our Window is now in the horizontal position. And Before moving it to the corresponding hole inside the wall. We want to rotate our Window. And we will do that by using the rotate tool. In order to do that, select the whole Window, zoom in a little. Then from the large tool sets, select the Rotate tool. Hover over your Window until you see this rotation marker in red color. Select the bottom corner of the Window and then the opposite corner. And start moving your mouse up and enter 90 in the bottom-right corner to make the angle to be exactly 90 degrees. When you do that, you are now ready to move the window from here to its Hall inside the 3D Walls. So we will use the Move tool, click our Window in the bottom-right corner. And then positioning in the fall by clicking it's bottom-right corner. Because the whole Window is now selected. You can now copy it in other Holes. So we will use the copy tool by clicking the bottom-right corner. And then while dragging, press the Control on your keyboard and selecting the bottom-right corner of the second floor. The same thing we will do with the second window to move it to the third hole and the fourth hole. So that's it. In the next video, I'll show you how to create a simple 3D doors for our house. Thanks for watching 5. Creating a 3D Door: In the previous video, I hear shown you how to Create the 3D windows. And in this one, I'll show you how to Create a 3D external door. Before I do that, I will show you what to do in the situation when you forgot to Create a new layer before creating a new element for your 3D model. As an example, I'll will use the windows that I have created in the previous lesson, and this is how to do it. First, we need to Create a new layer, renaming layer one, Windows. Press Enter, and then make these new layer active by using the selection tool from left to right instead of right to left. Because that way we will also select the Walls, which is not what we want. So the left from right. And by using the orbit tool to rotate the view a little bit. Select other tree windows by pressing the Shift key on the keyboard and the selection tool from left to right. When the windows are selected. You can see that in the layer box within the entity E4, there is no layer selected, open the drop-down menu and select the Windows layer. That way the problem is solved. And if you want to check, you can select the layer zero to be active. And by checking and unchecking the windows layer, you can see that everything is now. Okay. We will now start creating the 3D external Door. First thing first, press the plus sign and the layer section rename Layer one to Door. Press Enter and make this new layer active. The measurements of the external Door is 120 by two other and 40 cm. Select the Rectangle tool from the large tool set, draw a rectangle, and in the bottom-right corner, enter 120, 240. The first element of the Door will be the frame. And to create it, we will use the offset tool. Click on the face of the rectangle, and then again, in the bottom-right corner, enter five to make its thickness of 5 cm. The frame of the Door will be different from the frame of the windows because it will only have three sides. But if we erase these two lines, we will also erase the face of the door. So we will undo this. And instead, we will add some additional lines with the pencil tool here. Here. Taking care of that are parallel to the green axis. And by using the erase tool, we will be raised these parts of the line and these two lines. That way, we have created the three-sided shape of their door frame. And now to make it 3D, we will use the push-pull tool, hover over its face. Click on it. Before clicking the second point. Enter 20 in the bottom-right corner. This is another way to Create a 3D element within Sketchup. And when this new element is created, select the Selection Tool, triple-click on it, right-click, and select the main group option from the drop-down menu to make it the group. Now we want to Create a panel of the door. So we will use the rectangle tool again. Click in the bottom-left corner, use the orbit tool to view the opposite corner and then click again. The thickness of the door panel is 5 cm. So we will use the push-pull tool. Click on it, and before clicking the second point of the height, enter five in the bottom-right corner. Again, Selection Tool, triple-click on it, right, we can make a group. The next element of the Door will be a doorknob that we can create very easily. And in order to position it on the right place within the door panel, we will use the tape measure tool. Click on the upper line of the panel. And Before clicking again, enter 110 in the bottom-right corner. Then we will create another guideline that is 5 cm from the side of the panel, and another one that is 8 cm. To make the width of the darkness of the height will be 8 cm and centimeters. Now, way the rectangle tool, I'll create another rectangle and give it the height of 1 cm by entering one in the bottom-right corner. I will not believe these unnecessary guidelines and create new ones. For centimeters from this side and 8 cm from besides. To make a center, we will make some additional guidelines of 1 cm in all four sides. To make the new element by using the rectangle tool and make it height of 8 cm. Now, I'll use the guideline to put it to centimeters. From this side, draw a line with the pencil tool. And by using the push-pull tool, I'll make the final element of the dark knob by entering in the bottom-right corner for the length of this dark. Zoom out a little bit, triple-click on it, and make it to group. By selecting the option from the drop-down menu. Click the zoom extense tool to see the whole model, village, the guidelines. And now the doors are positioned horizontally. What we want to do is to rotate them to become vertical. So we will use the selection tool, select the door from right-to-left, because we want to select all the elements on the door. And now like we rotated the windows in the previous lesson, we will use the Rotate tool. And when the red rotation marker shows up, click this corner and then the second corner. And by moving your mouse, rotate it and enter 90 in the bottom-right corner for the angle of 90 degrees. Now, we want to move the Doors from here to here. So we will use the Move tool and more power Door to its right position inside the 3D Walls. That's it for this video. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. You can do it by selecting the community tab below this video. And please be so kind to recommend this class to other students, your friends or family members by pressing the Yes button above this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next part.