You're reading from Taking SketchUp Pro to the Next Level Go beyond the basics and develop custom 3D modeling workflows to become a SketchUp ninja

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803242699

Length 444 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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SketchUp

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Aaron Dietzen aka 'The SketchUp Guy'

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting More Out of Native Tools

2. Chapter 1: Reviewing the Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Organizing Your 3D Model

4. Chapter 3: Modifying Native Commands

5. Chapter 4: Taking Inferencing to the Next Level

6. Chapter 5: Creating Beautiful Custom Materials

7. Part 2: Customizing SketchUp and Making It Your Own

8. Chapter 6: Knowing What You Need Out of SketchUp

9. Chapter 7: Creating Custom Shortcuts

10. Chapter 8: Customizing Your User Interface

11. Chapter 9: Taking Advantage of Templates

12. Chapter 10: Hardware to Make You a More Efficient Modeler

13. Part 3: Extending SketchUp’s Capabilities for Modeling

14. Chapter 11: What Are Extensions?

15. Chapter 12: Using 3D Warehouse and Extension Warehouse

16. Chapter 13: Must-Have Extensions for Any Workflow

17. Chapter 14: Introduction to LayOut

18. Chapter 15: Leveraging the SketchUp Ecosystem

19. Index

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Setting up trays and dialogs

Let’s start by quickly defining some terms. Trays are the stacking windows that snap to the side of your display and present information such as entity information, or shadows if you are running SketchUp on Windows. Dialogs are the floating, stackable windows that serve the same function in SketchUp for macOS.

Regardless of the operating system, there are 11 items that can be displayed:

Entity Info
Components
Styles
Tags
Outliner
Scenes
Shadow Settings
Fog Settings
Match Photo
Soften/Smooth Edges
Instructor

If you are running SketchUp on Windows, you will also have a Materials panel available while SketchUp for macOS will have a separate, non-stackable, floating Colors window.

Since the terminology and function of these tools are so different on different operating systems, we will dive into each one separately, starting with trays in SketchUp for Windows.