• These tools will are standard when working with your model, you can open models, create new ones, save, copy-paste, undo and more. We will start by adding the view toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the Standard box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this:

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• New model, this tool will create a new model workspace, it will save your current file and start from the beginning. To use, save your current model and select the new model icon:

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• Open file, this tool allows you to open models from your files. To use, save your current model and select the open file's icon. This will bring up your files and you can select the one you wish to open. Icon:

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• Save, this simply saves your model. To use simply select the save icon or hold "Ctrl + s" if on pc and "command + s" on mac to save your model. Save icon:

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• Cut tool, this tool allows you to cut whatever you have selected and kept in your clipboard to be brought out at another time. To use select the entities you wish to cut and select the scisors icon:

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• Copy tool, this tool allows you to copy whatever entities you have selected and store it in your clipboard. To use select the objects you wish to copy and select the copy icon:

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• Paste clipboard, this tool allows you to paste what you have in your clipboard. To use, select the paste clipboard icon and move your mouse to place the entities. Paste clipboard icon:

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• Delete entities, this tool allows you to remove entities from your selection. To use select the entities you wish to remove and select the remove entities icon:

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• Undo tool, this tool lets you undo the last command you entered. If you removed an object by accident you can use this tool to bring it back. To use select the undo icon or hold "Ctrl + z" on pc and "command + z" on mac. Undo icon:

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• Redo tool, this tool allows you to redo the last undo you made. To use, select the redo tool from the toolbar and this will redo your last undo. Redo icon:

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• Print, this allows you to print views from your model. To use select the print icon and this will bring up this tab:

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• You have many options to choose from, such as views, scenes, page numbers, size and more. Print icon:

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• Model info, this tool allows you to modify info related to your model. To use select the model info tool from the toolbar and this will bring up a tab:

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• You have many options to choose from to customize your modeling experience, you also have tabs on the side such as animation, classifications, components, credits and more. Model info icon:

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• These tools will help you with bringing in objects such as interior decor to help with visual representation, uploading your own models and components, and adding extensions to SketchUp to optimise your time and workflow. We will start by adding the view toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the Warehouse box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this:

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• Open Warehouse, this will bring up another tab called the warehouse, you can find models that other people have uploaded by using the keyword search at the top. To import models, select the model you want and select the red download button at the bottom. Open warehouse icon:

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• Upload to the warehouse, this allows you to upload your model to the warehouse for public use. To use select your groups/components and select the upload icon:

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•  This will bring up the 3D warehouse tab and will ask you to sign in before uploading:

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• Once logged in you have the title to fill out and description of the 3D model:

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• You can also have the option of making it a private model which makes it so only you can view it. Once finished filling it out select upload. 
• Upload component, this will allow you to upload your components to the warehouse, in a  similar fashion to upload warehouse. This is specifically components and for personal use more than publicly sharing it. To use select your component and select the upload icon:

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•  This will bring up the 3D warehouse tab and will ask you to sign in before uploading:

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• Once logged in you have the title to fill out and description of the 3D model:

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• You can also have the option of making it a private model which makes it so only you can view it. Once finished filling it out select upload. 
• Extension warehouse, this allows you to download extensions other people have made for SketchUp, such as exporting to certain file types that SketchUp doesn't normally do. This speeds up the process of doing menial tasks as well as creating something that isn't even in SketchUp naturally. To use, select the extension warehouse tool from the toolbar and it will bring up the extension warehouse tab:

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• Search the extension you wish to add. Then press the download button to upload it to SketchUp. Extension warehouse icon:

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• These tools are ones that you will be using probably most often while drawing, you can make simple and easy edits throughout your designing experience. We will start by adding the view toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the Edit box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this:

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• Move tool, this tool allows you to move objects in any axes of your workspace. To use select the move icon, or press "m" on your keyboard for a shortcut, and select your object, then move your mouse to where you wish to place it. Icon:

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• Push-Pull tool, this tool let you make 3D objects from 2D faces, for instance, you can pull up a rectangle and make it into a 3D one. To use, select the push-pull tool from your toolbar, or press "p" on your keyboard for a shortcut, and select the face you wish to extrude. Then drag your mouse and click again to finish. Push-pull icon:

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• Rotate Tool, this tool allows you to rotate objects quickly and easily. To use select the rotate tool from your toolbar and select the objects you wish to rotate. If you want to rotate 90d you can start the rotation and then type in "90" and hit enter. Rotate Icon:

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• Follow-me tool, this tool will allow you to create a 3D object from a 2D face and a path. To use, (note: you must already have a 2D pattern already set as well as a path) select the path you wish the 2D face to follow and then click the follow-me tool from the toolbar, next select your 2D face and it will follow the pattern you lay out. Follow-me icon:

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• Scale tool, this tool allows you to scale objects to make them larger or smaller. To use select the objects you wish to enlarge or decrease and select the scale tool from the toolbar. Select one of the yellow boxes that will appear around your model and move your mouse out or in to scale your model. Scale icon:

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• Offset tool, this tool allows you to offset 2D faces, for instance, if you want to create a square inside of another square you can do this very easily. To use select the offset tool from your toolbar, next select your 2D face and move your mouse in or out to offset the border, or type the angle you want. Offset icon:

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• These tools are essential to learning how to use SketchUp and are tools you will be using all the time throughout SketchUp. We will start by adding the view toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the Principal box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this:

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• Selection tool, this tool is used to select objects, lines, and faces. To use select the icon and left click the object you want to select. Or hit your spacebar on your keyboard for a keyboard shortcut. Icon:

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• Make Component from selected entities, this tool will create a component from your selected objects, lines and, and faces and turn them into a component. This will create ease of use throughout your modeling experience. To use select your objects and left click this icon from the toolbar:

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• Paint bucket, this tool allows you to texture objects in your model. This will give you perspective and speed up the designing aspect of your model. To use, select the paint bucket icon from the toolbar and it should open up a tab on the left side of your workspace titled "Materials":

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•  You can select preset materials from the dropdown or upload your own. To upload your own select the icon: 

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• This will bring up another tab entitled "Create material..." you can edit textures here too. To upload your own textures select the folder icon: 
  

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• Next, select your filetype. Once uploaded, you have several options. You can set the size of the image texture as well as the Opacity, color, and basic patterns. Select OK when finished. Another option you have is to pick color tool, this will allow you to select pre-existing texture colors in your model. To use, select the dropper icon and select a face. Dropper Icon location:

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•  To paint your objects select the texture you wish to use and right click the faces you want to texture. Bucket Icon: 

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• Note: When uploading your own textures the system will create the size of you pre-defined when creating the material texture. And multiply that image side by side covering your face.

• Eraser tool, this allows you to erase lines, components, and groups with ease. To use select the eraser icon from your toolbar and hold left click over the lines you wish to remove. Icon:

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• These tools will provide you with some quick ways of opening up your model without changing the geometry of it. There is one tool and two options we will go into. We will start by adding the view toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the Section box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this:

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• Section Cut, this tool allows you to create section cuts of your model. Let's say you are designing a 3D house and you want to see it cut in half so you can see the interior. This is the tool for the job! To use, select the following icon and select a face to place it on:

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• Show section cut placement, this option can only be used once you place a section cut on one of your faces. This option allows you to view the section cut outline. To use, select the section cut that you placed and select the following icon to toggle:

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• Show section cut, this option allows you to toggle on and off your section cut. This allows you to quickly move about your model and see through walls without disrupting your geometry. To use, select the section cut that you placed and select the following icon to toggle:

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• These tools will provide you with some quick ways of getting around your model by making objects transparent, x-ray, and more. We will start by adding the view toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the Styles box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this:

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• Transparency style, this option allows you to make your entire model transparent. It can be used to see hidden objects and to clean up your model with ease and speed. To toggle, simply select the icon that looks like this:

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• Display with dashed back lines style, this style gives you essentially the same effect as the transparency, however, it adds dotted lines for everything that is behind the front of the model. This is really helpful when you have very detailed components and you can't tell what line goes where. To toggle, simply select the icon that looks like this:

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• Wireframe style, this style makes your model only show lines. This tool is really good for cutting out lines that have no use in the model. However, it doesn't show you any face planes which can cause problems. To toggle, simply select the icon that looks like this:

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• Non-Shaded style, this tool allows you to view your model without any textures or shaded faces. This is good if you don't want to see the textures but simply the model itself. To toggle, simply select the icon that looks like this:

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• Single color style, this tool allows you to view your model with straight color textures. This does not remove or replace the textures, it simply takes the dominant color of the texture and set all the faces textured with that color. This is good if you don't want super advanced textures messing with modeling. To toggle, simply select the icon that looks like this:

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• Default style, this is the standard style that you will see when modeling. This style allows you to see things as they are with no looking through face planes. This is really good for getting a perspective on your model. To toggle, simply select the icon that looks like this:

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• Front and back style, this style allows you to see your model only viewing the front and back of each face. Default is white = front, gray = back. This tool is really good if you are making groups and components and helps with organization. To toggle, simply select the icon that looks like this:

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• These tools will provide you with some quick and easy ways draw up your model with accuracy and speed. We will start by adding the view toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the Construction box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this icon:

• Measuring tape, this tool allows you to create dotted construction lines along your model to then use as a pattern to draw lines. To use, select the tool from the toolbar and left click once on a line segment to start the construction line, then select another point/line segment to finish it. Icon:

• Dimension tool, this tool allows you to find the distance between two lines or objects, can be used for documentation or notes to yourself. To use, select tool from toolbar and left click a point in your model to find the starting point of your dimension, then left click again at another point to finish it. Icon:

• Angle measurement tool, this tool is very similar to the measuring tape, this tool will allow you to find the angle of an object or line. To use left click once at a point to start and left click again to finish it. In the lower right hand corner of your screen it should show you the angle of the object you measured. Icon:

• Text string, this tool allows you to add notes to your model that has a line segment from what you attach it to with a note box at the end. To use, select the tool from the tool bar and hold right click from a point you want to add a note to. To change the text box double tap left click and this will let you change the note. Icon:

• Reorientation tool, this tool allows you to move the orient axes. To use, select tool from toolbar and left click on a point to place, left click again to set the direction of the red/green axes and once more to set the direction of the blue axes. Icon:

• 3D text, this tool allows you to create 3D text in your model. To use select tool from toolbar, this will bring up a window where you can enter the text as well as changing the font, size and angle of the 3D text. Icon:

Toolbars are tabs you can add and remove to your workspace to create a easy and fast way of grabbing the tools you need.

To add and remove toolbars go under Views->Toolbars and select/deselect the desired toolbars. 

Once you enabled the toolbars you want you can drag the outline of the toolbar and snap it to the top, bottom, right or left sides of the screen. 

You can also create your own toolbars and add whatever tools you want to it. To create a new toolbar go under Views->Toolbars->New and it will bring up a tab for you to name the title of your toolbar.

Once you named it and hit "OK" it will bring up an empty toolbar. To add tools to it simply drag tools from your existing toolbars until you are satisfied with what it has. It will also bring up a box under toolbars named to what you set it as. You can create as many toolbars as you like or simply use the ones already created.

• SketchUp has many different ways of drawing up your model. These are the basic drawing tools that you will need. We will start by adding the drawing toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the drawing box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this icon:

• Please note: These tools are only 2D tools.

• Tip: To get a precise length type in how long you want it and in your bottom right corner there will be a box called Measurements/Length/Dimensions and it will show you the dimensions of what you just crated. If you want to make a line one foot ten inches type in 1'10" and hit enter and it should look like this:

• Tip #2: For rectangles and circles it looks slightly different, to make a 3" by 3" rectangle make any size rectangle then type in: 3",3" and hit enter. The dimension box bottom right should look like this:

• Pencil tool, this tool allows you to create line segments from point a to point b. To use select the tool and hold left click and drag until you get the length you want. Or left click once to start the line and left click again to finish it, then click escape if you are not going to continue the line segment.  Icon:

• Freehand, this tool allows you to draw freehand, it is very hard to work with and I would not suggest it if you are trying to be accurate. To use select the tool and hold left click and drag. Icon:

• Rectangle tool, this tool allows you to create rectangles/squares. To use select the tool and left click once where you want to start the corner of the rectangle and left click in another location to finish the rectangle. Icon:

• Rectangle face, this tool allows you to make a rectangle from three points rather than two and can be more accurate. To use select tool and left click to start then left click again up or down from your starting point to make the length/width and finally finish the rectangle by going the opposite direction from the second point. Icon:

• Circle, this tool allows you to create a 2D circle. To use select tool and left click to create the mid-point for the circle, then select another point to finish the circle. Icon:

• Polygon, this tool allows you to create any sort of polygon you want. To use select tool and type in the number of faces you want for your polygon and click enter. Next left click to create the mid-point for the polygon and select another point to finish the polygon. Icon:

• Three point arc, this tool allows you to create arcs from the midpoint then creating a parcial or full circle. To use select tool and left click to place the midpoint of the arc, then pull out to create the radious of the circle. Now simply pull mouse and left click when you have the satasfactory arc. Icon:

• Raised arc, this tool allows you to create a arc from two points and then lifting up the arc. To use select tool and left click two points in your model then lift up to the desired hight. Icon:

• 3 Point circumfrance, this tool allows you to create a circle from two points then will bulge out the arc. To use select two points in your model and drag out until you get the desired arc. Icon:

• Closed arc from center, this tool allows you to create a closed arc from the midpoint. To use select tool and left click once to create the midpoint, then select another point to create the radius, next select another point to determine the how much of the circle you are going to use. Icon:

• This is the second part to viewing your model. This is essential to get precision details to faces of your model. We will start by adding the view toolbar, View->Toolbars, then select the views box. This will bring up a tab that looks like this icon:

• Isometric view, this tool will bring your view to the nearest isometric position. To use simply select the icon and it will preposition your view. Icon:

• Top view, this tool will bring your perspective to a above view of your model on the blue axes. To use simply select the icon and it will preposition your view. Icon:

• Front view, this tool will bring your perspective to a front view of the model on the red axes. To use simply select the icon and it will preposition your view. Icon:

• Right view, this tool will bring your perspective to a right view of the model on the green axes. To use simply select icon and it will preposition your view. Icon:

• Back view, this tool will bring your perspective to a back view of the model on the red axes. To use simply select icon and it will preposition your view. Icon:

• Left view, this tool will bring your perspective to a left view of the model on the green axes. To use simply select icon and it will preposition your view. Icon: