First of all, we create an Autocad file with the floor plan we want to import in Sketchup and save it. In some occasions, we might need to save the Autocad file in an older version of Autocad, in order to be compatible with the version of Sketchup that we are using. At this point, I should tell you, that ...

During the last years, by looking into projects of many architectural offices, I noticed something that they had in common. Mostly in classic architectural drawings, the area that is being «cut» in a section drawing, was filled with a color. Especially in black and white drawings, it is very common to fill the section are with black color, in order ...

One of the functions that is missing from the SketchUp tools, is the «Fillet». The «Fillet» function, in every other 3D design software, can turn the corners of a surface, into curves or arcs. In SketchUp, this can be done, with the simple way that we are about to see. After all, like we’ve said before, SketchUp is a software ...

The «Move» tool in SketchUp, is a very useful tool, with which we can perform even more functions. Inside the «Move» tool, are also hidden the «Copy», «Array» and «Multiple Divider» functions. All these three, have one basic target, to Copy an object, but each one of them, in their own specific way. As we have mentioned before, SketchUp has ...

When I started using Sketchup, one of the first things that made me wonder, was why there were two surfaces of different colour, since there was no difference when I design something. I must admit, that only the last few years i began to wonder what was the real reason that this was happening, when I had evolved my designs ...