Hey, what is up, nation?
In this session we're gonna be answering a question from
Merewest, who asks :"Hi, I'm working on a desk from my office that has a series of
faceted faces, any tutorials on how to do this that would create a desk that can
be easily imported later down the road into Revit, it will be made into an
actual constructed item similar to the picture I attached. Thanks."
to that into Sketchup, I'm not doing a photo match here
because there's not really much to match, but there are
few different things that I want to tackle that are a part of this question
and the first is that Sketchup can't handle things that are going to be
actually constructed that it's more of a conceptual based program, and I would say
that that's not true. On their ton of people doing all of their drawings just
using Sketchup, so don't dismiss Sketchup just as simply a concept program that
you can actually use it for all of your drawings, especially if you have SketchUp
Pro and are exporting to layout. So there's that and then the second thing
is that importing to Revit you can certainly do it's been a long time since
I've used Revit, but from what I remember you import from Sketchup as a mass and
then you can edit that mass a little bit, you can like turn into a curtain wall
that's going back many many years. But and it could have changed since then but
basically my suggestion is try to minimize the amount of software that
you're going between, so in this case you want to go from Sketchup you want to do
something in Sketchup and then put it in Revit and I would say this is completely
possible to do entirely in Revit and entirely in Sketchup, so I would say pick
one. Because you're not really gaining anything by using Sketchup as a crutch
in this instance because it would be easier to model in Sketchup, so actually
in this model Sketchup is so incredibly suited
to this desk, that is pretty crazy, so the way the SketchUp works is that it makes
faces and this is just all a bunch of faces, the only way that you can make a
face in Sketchup is by using triangles, so basically anything we draw is gonna
be able to turn into this desk. So I'm just gonna sort of rough some things out
first, just make like this front what I think the front might look like, so
there's like a triangle thing there, let's say this goes straight back, and
then bring this up, and this is gonna be like completely out of scale so let's
say we I got something like that. Let's make this and then we're gonna hit the
move tool locked to the green axis and hold the left arrow, so that we can move
that, and then, let's say, there's a triangle here what does the top look
like, let's say. Something like, I'm just totally guessing here, so that let's say
that's our top, and then, let's say, we want this to be flat, right. I'm just
using the move L for line, M for move and moving all these points to get something
that I think is similar to what this is. I'm gonna make a vertical line here and
then attach it so we have like that thing, looks like this comes all the way
across, so let's choose this intersection, connect that, right. Do that and then
connect from this to this and it should make those. Now you can see that there's
actually two separate colors here and maybe it's a little bit hard to tell
when you've been working in Sketchup but a lot you can tell when they're
different colors, especially if you're using a different style they actually
show up purple. But these are gray, or I've heard some people say blue and then
there are white faces. You want them to be all the same color,
especially if you're rendering, because it can mess with the software, or if you
start applying materials. So I'm just gonna right-click all of those and do
reverse phases, that's what we have there, and this actually looks super bizarre.
Super bizarre. Let's do that. It looks okay. Then I actually don't need this
line. Will connect this, and there we go. So it's not exactly obviously you could
mess with this a whole lot more and study what it actually looks like, but
this is like a the general feel of maybe what it looks like, and you get some, you
don't need this line, we shouldn't. So I guess there's some geometry that isn't
flat, so if you want the whole top to be flat, you would just select your points
here, make sure they're all in the same plane, and then you should eventually be
able to erase that line like that, so yeah. Hopefully this helped, it's kind of
a weird looking thing, you can obviously massage it, selecting the move tool and
then the arrow keys to lock in direction, you know, let's say you know I don't
really I'm not really a big fan for this line, let's make it here. That'll make two
different triangles, maybe I don't want that, just push this side.
And you can just mess around in that way, maybe this sticks out, cuz nobody's
worried about your hips. Um, but this gives you a general idea of what you can
do with Sketchup and you could save this and import it into Revit, but again I
would just recommend: don't do that if you don't have to. So hopefully this
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