Hey, what is up, nation?
In this session I'm gonna be teaching you how to make windows in Sketchup.
All right, so the first thing I'm going to do here is actually make a wall.
So that we can make a hole. We're going to make this wall, here I'm just gonna make
it a group. So that I don't mess anything up. So you could assume that you have a
whole building around this, but this is just one of your walls. And then I'm
gonna draw a rectangle for my window. Now I'm gonna copy this. I'm gonna make
ctrl+C to copy this, make this a group. And then go into this group -> edit, paste
in place. And then just extrude that through. So, hopefully, there's a hole.
So, in this group, there is a hole, and then there's this other thing that I made
which will be my window. Make that a component, call this "Window". Now if I
move this to the side, you can see there's a hole there. But as I start to
make the window itself, it will make it super easy. So you can see there. I could
snap to the midpoint of that line, and I'm just gonna offset this. So I'm just
gonna take that and move this. Will say each is two, so I'm gonna move this back.
I'm hitting...actually we're gonna hide the rest of this so it makes a little
simpler for us to see. I move this back two inches, and then hickey and erase
these guys. Now push-pull this two inches. And this two inches. So now you can see
there's a little offset. So when you raise the window, there's a place for it
to go. Now what I want to do here, is use the offset tool...where I can find it...there
it is! We're going to do this too as well. So we have this guy. And then you can
just double-click here. You can also...when I push-pull you could also double-click
to push-pull. We're gonna push this in to there. Okay, so now we have these guys.
Now these should be identical. So you could technically, let's actually just do
that because it'll make it make our lives easier. Just delete all this. I'm
gonna do a little bit easier. I'm just using the eraser tool here. Ain't group
may component. The stash...okay, take this. I'm just gonna double-check and make
sure it's right. Now what I want to do in the middle is make a separate plane.
This is gonna service the glass. I'm just gonna do a single pane of glass here.
That is one. I'll make sure that in this group I'm going to do this. Paste in
place. Now in my default tray...if you don't have this open, you just want to go
to window -> default tray, and instead of "heide rate" it will say "show tray". And
make sure you have the material selected as well. In here, under...there should be a
thing called "Glass". "Glass and mirrors", so these are set up for you already. You can
always make your own custom material. We're just gonna use, let's say, this
translucent blue gray. The thing if you're making your own, I'm just gonna go
to edit here...is to make sure opacity is set to what you want. And if this is too
dark, too opaque or not opaque enough, you can always change this. We got a little
bit of blue here. So we have this window and now let's put in some months, which
is those little dividers that go inside. So, go back into this, let's just
it's just eyeball it here. Looks good. So what I'm gonna do is put this here.
Make that a component ...okay. Look at this.
Looks good. So what I need is there, and then I'm gonna hide this for a second.
I want to take this side and bring it all the way to here, to the end. And then use
the forward slash and divide. That looks a little too Chucky. Let's go with
four. So that way these are equally spaced. And then you can delete these two
guys at the start. In the beginning go back to hidden geometry and unhide this.
We've got that guy. And then I'm going to take this and I'm pressing M here to
remove it, hitting ctrl to make a copy.
Rotate this, 90 degrees, find the midpoint.
Going in the green direction, I'm gonna hold shift here, and then click this face.
Because this is a uniform shape it's pretty easy to get that. And then if I'm
like too lazy to deal with this, what I might do is just bump it out. So we're
gonna choose...I have a come out let's say...a quarter of an inch. So you could do
something like that. That way you get rid of those little lines...maybe that's too
much,maybe I'll try an 8/7 of an inch. Just a little subtle bump out. You know,
you can always bump it out on this side as well.
And then you have this window that you can put anywhere. Just make sure your
extra stuff is gone. And then within the the window itself something that helps
your windows to look more realistic, is always in architecture. It's nice to have
the shadow lines of the windows, so you might want to set this back a little bit.
And then maybe there's some trim like on the inside, or maybe there's some kind of
surround on the outside, so if I come into here, and I offset...just choose this
guy. I'm gonna close this and then I'm gonna offset it. Just a little. Go...so we
have like a trim on the outside, and if you want it to be like a certain kind of
profile, you can always do that as well. So what you might want to do - make this a
separate group. But, you know, let's say I'm just gonna make this out. Tees a mark.
Maybe you want something that is like that. So you would select your shape, that
you're extruding around this rectangle. So what that guy. And then choose "follow
me". For some reason it didn't work. But you can always drag along this line, so
I'm just holding left-click here as I go through. You can see I have hidden
geometry on, so I see those lines. But that's another way to do it as well. And
you can get as fancy as you want with that. Selecting the lines work, she just
might have to move that shape a little bit, to get which one. And then, as an
architect, one thing that I always do - that's important to consider when you're
doing this, is that the front edge here should be...this whole thing should be
sloped. So that if any water comes down, it can't go off. So it's pretty subtle. But
could make a big difference. So I'm just gonna move this down the slightest bit,
but you can see there's a little slope there now. And my window is here. Turn
this on. So I didn't move that. But I just want to bring this back up. So that
there's not such a huge gap. There you go! I know if you wanted to do the the tram
or whatever on the inside you can do that as well. So hopefully this helped, if
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