Now move your cursor over the middle of the front line of the top of your box. Activate your line tool by using the “L” key on your keyboard (or by clicking on the little pencil icon above).

Now no self-respecting dog would live in a house with a flat roof, right? Let’s go ahead and create our sloped roof using the line tools and the push pull tool.

Move your mouse to the height you’d like your doghouse to be, then click your mouse again. Move your mouse around and you’ll notice that SketchUp takes the face you’ve selected and turns it into a 3D box. Once you’ve activated the tool by clicking on it (or by using the keyboard shortcut “p”), click once on the face of your rectangle. What we’re going to do with this tool is use it to create the walls for our doghouse. This is a very powerful, easy to use tool in SketchUp, and you’ll find yourself using it a lot to create 3D drawings from your 2D shapes. This is the push/pull tool.īasically, what the push/pull tool does is it takes a face and gives it a 3rd dimension by creating volume. Look up in your toolbar and click on the icon that looks like a little square with an arrow coming out of the top of it. Now that you’ve drawn your floor, we’re going to use a new tool to create the walls of your doghouse. Start off by selecting the rectangle tool, either by clicking on it or by pressing the “r” key on your keyboard. Now you’re left with an empty drawing area. Go ahead and click on the Sophie model to select her, then press delete on your keyboard.

Go ahead and create a new SketchUp model. They outvoted me, so the model that we’re going to do for this tutorial will be a doghouse. Bonnie, Quincy and I had a staff meeting to discuss what would be a good model for the 3D modeling tutorial. Now that we’ve gone through how to use the 2D drawing tools in SketchUp, let’s go ahead and use them to create a 3D model. Going 3D – A SketchUp Tutorial for Drawing a Doghouse in SketchUp

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