

I can get highly detailed, accurate models in a half hour. I’ve made a handful of them myself and they’ve greatly reduced the amount of time I spend modeling. With dynamic components you can really increase your efficiency if you build or find the right ones. However you can use any of the ones you find! You can identify dynamic components by the symbol.
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You can only create them with sketchup pro (and they take a little bit of programming knowledge to put together). Have you ever used dynamic blocks in CAD or families in Revit? Sketchup has something similar with dynamic components. For this we wanted 45 total so we typed in ‘ /44 ‘ because the original isn’t included in that count.

In that case you can copy your object to it’s last desired location. It’s very possible that you’ll run into a situation where you won’t know the distance you need to copy something to get it spaced evenly over an object.You can try different values without having to go back and reset your original copy distance. If you’d like to change the quantity you’d like to copy something, just reenter your multiple ( for instance *20). You can see below that our dashed line was copied 50 times with a 6′ offset. You can’t actually click on this area, but what you type will show up there. You can see what you’re typing in the bottom right of the screen next to the length display. We ended up deciding we wanted to copy the dashes 50 times so what we entered was ‘ *49 ‘ because the original dash isn’t included in that count. Now, type the asterisk symbol ( * ) and the amount if times you’d like to copy your object the previous distance (in our case it was 6′) .For this we’re copying our dashed line 6′ along the green axes Copy your first element at the desired distance.Lets say I wanted to create a bunch of dashed lines at the same distance to separate the two lanes on a road.

You can manually copy and paste or… you can use math functions in sketchup! There are times you’ll need to copy an element a bunch of times. I admittedly didn’t know about some of these tips until I’d been modeling for years. If you happen to have a little more experience under your belt, the below sketchup tips are certainly for you. So if you’re just getting started with sketchup, head on over to our tutorial page where we’ll help you learn sketchup. When you can’t create a cube, you’re certainly not worried about how quickly you can design a house. Sketchup tips are the last thing you’re thinking about when you’re first learning the software. More by Tony 5 Unconventional Sketchup Tips You May Not Be Aware Of
