We won't need all of them for this project, but we will cover the important tools. The buttons for SketchUp are located in the toolbar on the left side of the screen. Those are all the navigation skills you need for SketchUp! Step 4 Get to Know the Program The scroll wheel on your mouse zooms in and out, and the scroll wheel button allows you to pivot your point of view when you hold it down. It is possible to use SketchUp without an external mouse, but the mouse makes switching between angles and distances at least 10 times faster. Click the "Start Using Sketchup" button on the bottom right of the screen to begin. When you first open the program, you will be greeted by a window with a green header as shown below. Follow the instructions on the download page to install SketchUp on your operating system. While it is only available for Windows and Mac, the popular Wine Windows emulator will run the program perfectly in Linux. Google SketchUp is available free of charge here. Now we design the body and bring corporeal form to our flights of fancy. In the first part of this series, we learned how to design a circuit board to give functionality to our creations. Using only a few tool bar buttons and a scroll wheel computer mouse, you can model literally any object you want! For beginners, the free Google SketchUp application is the best choice of software. But to help services realize your design in extruded plastic, you have to make a 3D computer model for the printing machine. If you don't have one handy, there are a few companies that offer printing services online. Creating any object you want is as simple as point and click if you have a 3D printer at home.
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