Hey, design nation!
In this session you're going to learn how to make a sphere or dome in Sketchup.
So I've heard a lot of people talk about how Sketchup can't do
curves very well, and that's simply not true and I'm going to show you how you
can make a sphere, or dome, or any curved shape really easily in Sketchup.
So I'm going to start with a dome and then I'm going to turn it into a sphere, so I click
the circle tool and you hit C as a shortcut I'm just going to
use the little button up here. I'm gonna type in 3 for my radius, I want to make
this a nice even dome, so I'm going to make another circle, get on the green, the
green axis, hold shift to lock, I'm going to make another 3-foot radius circle.
I'm going to draw a line across this, and delete this bottom portion, and I only
want half of this, so I'm going to delete that I don't need these enters here so
I'm going to delete those, I'd also don't need this line, and what I'm going to do
is I'm going to offset this 2 inches, just extend this over this line over
hold shift to lock to my point. Okay, delete this line, so I'm going to go to
tools, follow me, I'm going to rotate around to the white side, just click once
or hold it and then select my where I want to extrude it to, so you see this
lights up, I'm just going to drag it all the way around to when it closes.
And there we go! I have my dome. If you want a one-sided dome, you just come in here
manually and delete these other extra lines that you don't need. I'm not going
to worry about that right now, but I'm going to then turn this
into a group, I'm going to call it DOME, yes, I'm going to copy this off to the side.
So I did there as I hit M and hit move,
and then actually I think I already, I might have to get rid of this, actually
looks like it made a separate version for me anyway.
Copy that off to the side, and go into it. I like to have the faces the white
version showing as the exterior, and then what I'm going to do is I'm just going
to copy this, so I hit M and then while I was moving, so M moving it control and
it'll make a copy, I'm going to hit flip along blue axis, and that's just going to
make me another copy, I'm going to roughly place it, and then bring it in,
and tighten it up.
There we go. Now taking things up, it looks like this has an extra line here
so I'm going to just kind of get rid of that, and now I have my sphere.
If you want, you know, you can make this extrude this one and you have sort of,
I don't know, what shape that is, but. And if you want to get rid of this middle line,
then you just explode, then come and select it, right-click, soften and you can
soften the the angles and I'll get rid of that line, and you have this really
smooth shape that you can stretch and pull, you'll notice that there are some
extra lines, as you see them, just delete them, and I have this sort of a oblong shape.
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