friday post

for the past two weeks we have been using sketch up.sketch up is a 3D architectural  program that allows you to make a realistic houses, pools, rooms, ect. this allows you to make your own house or room and see what you want to change it to. for example if you want to change the color of your room you can recreate it in sketch up and see for yourself what color you want. or if you want to change your furniture around.

tips and tricks about the tools

1.push and pull tool. 

this allows you to raise objects or lower objects. to use this click your mouse once and raise or lower  

the object and when done click the mouse again

this is me raising the a pool

2.zoom tool

the zoom tool allows you to zoom in and out of objects. to make life easier you dont need to click on the button instead you can use the scroll wheel.

this is me zooming in and out of the ball

3. rotation and moving tool 

these tools allow you to move around the screen . to use the rotation tool you can click in the scroll wheel to use the moving tool click in the scroll wheel again and this time also press shift

me rotating around the wall

this is me moving across the pool

tips and tricks

1. select a 3d object with the select tool, then use the move tool and click on the lower corner to move it. this allows the object to move around and not fall into the ground.
2.you can use the 3d warehouse to download materials like furniture or toys in to your scene instead of building everything
3. while moving an object press  CTRL to copy the object and place the original object back to its place