Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Architectural Design with SketchUp
2. You can now start the Trim tool. It will ask you to click two solids—first the box (that
you want to cut against) and then the beam (the part you want to cut).
3. This creates the trimmed end of the beam in one step. Just delete the box, and your
corner is done.
Example 3.2: Assembly Animation in SketchUp
A SketchUp feature that can be used to great effect with a component-based model is tabbed
animation. Whenever you want to save a view in your model, you can add a tabbed “scene”
(using the View k Animation menu). If you add more of these, you can even get SketchUp
to animate through them. It is also possible to export this animation to a video file.
Of great benefit to us here is what is saved with each of these tabs. Not only is the camera
location saved, but a tab also remembers which geometry or layers are hidden, where
section planes were, which visual style the view had, and what the shadow settings were.
For example, you can use these tabs effectively to illustrate shadow movements during a day.
In this example, we will add some scene tabs to the construction frame model from earlier
in this chapter to create a small assembly animation.
1. Set up your model with all of the necessary objects. Make sure you group objects
and use layers if you need to. See Figure 3.1 for the model used here.
2. Set up your basic view. This example keeps the view stationary, although you can
just as well add different viewpoints in each scene tab. This would create more of
a fly-around animation, of course.
3. Now click on the View k Animation k Add Scene menu item. This adds the first
tab.
4. We will create our assembly animation backward (as a disassembly). Therefore, hide
the first object(s) in your model (the wall studs, in my case). Then add another scene
(you can do this now by right-clicking on the scene tab).
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