WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.420 Welcome back. So in this video, we will begin to model our picnic table. So if you 00:06.420 --> 00:12.000 have not done so, please go to File, New from Template, and the architectural 00:12.000 --> 00:17.160 inches to create a new file. Before we begin modeling, we never want to be 00:17.160 --> 00:25.400 working in an unsaved document. So let's go to File, Save As, find our C drive, 00:25.900 --> 00:32.280 and our SKP 101 file downloads folder double-click, and we're going to save this as 00:32.280 --> 00:47.560 picnic-table.skp, and we'll click Save. To begin, let's select the Eraser tool, 00:47.560 --> 00:54.440 and erase our man. And to start, the first tool we will use will be to use the 00:54.440 --> 01:02.960 rotated rectangle tool right here. The rotated rectangle is different than from 01:02.960 --> 01:07.400 the traditional rectangle in that it will first ask for a rotation angle, and then 01:07.400 --> 01:13.400 we can draw a rectangle. So please, click anywhere on the screen and drag along the 01:13.400 --> 01:22.960 green axes, and type in two inches. So now we will see that the sketchup is 01:22.960 --> 01:26.640 previewing a rectangle, and allowing us to draw it on any angle in the 01:26.640 --> 01:30.960 measurements box. You can see in the measurements box in the bottom right corner, 01:30.960 --> 01:41.480 it says width, comma, angle. So let's type in 42 inches for our length, comma, 01:41.480 --> 01:49.360 60. Let's do a zoom extents, and scroll our wheel back to zoom out. I will 01:49.360 --> 01:53.560 click spacebar to go back to our cursor. Let's go to the push pull command, and 01:53.560 --> 02:02.200 select our rectangle, and pull to the right. Let's move it six inches. Type in 02:02.200 --> 02:10.680 six inches, and then click Enter. The push pull tool creates 3D geometry, but it 02:10.680 --> 02:18.320 can also remove 3D geometry. Let's go to our line command, and click from this 02:18.320 --> 02:25.200 point, and then along the red axes, let's draw across, and let's do the same 02:25.200 --> 02:33.160 thing at the top. I will click Escape to stop by line, and then click here, move 02:33.160 --> 02:39.960 across the red, and click, and then click Escape to end that line. Next, if you 02:39.960 --> 02:44.200 go back to the push pull tool, and click in this triangle that I have hovering 02:44.200 --> 02:51.960 over, we can drag out as a bump, or bring it in to delete it. So we click, and 02:51.960 --> 02:57.160 then either click on a point, or click on the edge, and it will automatically 02:57.160 --> 03:02.480 erase that geometry. Let me do the same thing at the bottom where we can either 03:02.480 --> 03:07.160 pull it away, or bring it back to delete. We can go all the way down here, and then 03:07.160 --> 03:17.520 click to delete. I'm going to zoom out. I'm an orbit to the top. Let's grab our 03:17.520 --> 03:24.480 line tool, and draw this line five feet. So I will type in as this, as I'm 03:24.480 --> 03:28.160 hovering over this line, and it's currently selected, in the length I will type 03:28.160 --> 03:39.280 five feet, and then click Enter. We have made our first table leg. I will delete 03:39.280 --> 03:45.680 this line up here. I will go to erase, delete that, click that. We will now make 03:45.680 --> 03:51.040 our second table leg in the opposite direction. So let's go back to a rotated 03:51.040 --> 03:59.200 rectangle tool, and select the endpoint, and then along this, access, we will 03:59.200 --> 04:06.440 type in two inches. Again, we will see now that the prompt is for width, comma, 04:06.440 --> 04:13.160 angle. Now this time going this direction, not this direction, towards the other 04:13.160 --> 04:24.280 leg, I will type in 42 inches, comma, 60. Again, let's go back to the push 04:24.280 --> 04:33.160 pool tool. Click this, and then click and move our mouse, and type in six, enter. 04:33.160 --> 04:38.760 So in the measurements box, it'll automatically read as inches. So we don't have to 04:38.760 --> 04:43.080 type in six inches. We can just type in six, and it'll automatically be inches. 04:43.080 --> 04:49.120 For feet, however, we can't type in six, as it'll assume it's doing inches. So we 04:49.120 --> 04:55.960 have type in six feet in order to do feet. Again, let's draw a line at the top to 04:55.960 --> 05:03.760 connect here along the red axes. I will go back to my push pool, click Escape 05:03.760 --> 05:09.120 to end that line, back to the push pool tool, click this, hover over these triangles, 05:09.120 --> 05:15.600 and I will delete this element, and then click here, and I can snap to this corner right 05:15.600 --> 05:20.800 here. If I can't really see what's happening, I can click to this corner and it'll snap 05:20.800 --> 05:28.920 and delete that. Let's go back to the erase tool, and erase this line, and erase this 05:29.920 --> 05:36.920 line. Next, I will save my file. I will hold Ctrl S to save my file, or you can go 05:36.920 --> 05:44.240 to File, Save. Next, I would like to take a moment to talk about sticky geometry and 05:44.240 --> 05:50.800 SketchUp. This is one very common problem that a lot of new users will face in SketchUp 05:50.800 --> 05:57.520 and 3D modeling. It's called sticky geometry. So if objects are not grouped or a part 05:57.520 --> 06:02.760 of a component, they will stick to each other and be kind of connected and create some 06:02.760 --> 06:11.240 really tough working environments. If I drew a box rectangle, I'll draw a box right 06:11.240 --> 06:18.880 here connected to this leg, and then I push pull and make this a 3D box. If I was to 06:18.880 --> 06:26.680 select only this box and then move it around, you can see that it's connected to the 06:26.680 --> 06:34.000 leg and it's all stuck together and it's very challenging. I want to undo this. I'll 06:34.000 --> 06:43.720 click Escape, Undo, Undo. If I was to first group this element, this leg, so I would either 06:43.720 --> 06:50.640 click and drag to select all those objects, or I'll triple-click and then right-click 06:50.720 --> 06:58.680 Make Group. You can see that a bounding box appears around my leg. Now if I make again 06:58.680 --> 07:07.200 that same box next to the leg, right-angle tool, push pull, then the same thing I want 07:07.200 --> 07:15.600 to select it, and I'm going to test it again and move this around, you can see that the 07:15.600 --> 07:22.800 leg is stationary. When moving this box is not affecting the leg. So we always want 07:22.800 --> 07:28.440 a group object once we are done with them before something else is touching it. It's very 07:28.440 --> 07:35.240 good modeling practices and good techniques and sketch up. We will use groups and components 07:35.240 --> 07:42.720 throughout this course. So I will delete this. I can right-click erase or click the delete 07:42.720 --> 07:49.240 key. I'm going to triple-click on this leg to make this one a group as well. So now these 07:49.240 --> 07:57.400 are both groups. I will hit Control S to save my file. Alright, this is a good stopping point 07:57.400 --> 08:00.960 for now. So in our next video, we will continue with our table.