Hey everybody, Matt from MasterSketchup.com and today I have a tutorial for you
on how to draw a vase
This is gonna feature the arc tool, the follow me tool and the offset tool.
So, if you're a beginner and are looking for some tips on how to use
those tools this is kind of a good,easy tutorial for you.
um... and this is what we're gonna end up with, with this
vase right here
you can see it's hollow so we'll be building the wall and using the
follow me tool to 0:00:38.900,0:00:42.540 turn it into a vase. So the first thing your gonna wanna do and
i like to do this with a lot of different things
in sketchup,
is to create something to reference off of
So, for instance, if we start with the rectangle and we try to draw like an
upright
rectangle
sketchup is inferencing the wall behind
this table that I'm on.
I'm just trying to create
you know a rectangle that comes up like this and goes across but it goes a little crazy
like that.
So what i'll do is I'll just create a box here
and then use the push pull tool
to drag up
and this will give me a nice surface to reference
to when I'm drawing the outline of my
my vase.
So once you create your reference box,you just select everything by triple
clicking it. Right-click
and make sure it's in a group.
Because we don't want the profile to be sticking to this box we're going to be
deleting this box
later on.
So now that you have this nice reference face
to work on,
what we're going to do is create
the profile of the vase.
Now we don't need to make
the entire profile. We actually going to like split this in half
and just do half of the profile
and then the idea is we take that profile and spin it around in a circle.
So to do that, i'm just going to do it free hand. You can be more precise if you want.
You can use the tape measure tool
to create guides,
you know I specify dimensions
but we're just going to use the line tool and start drawing. So I'll just going to click
here
and drag over
to make the bottom
and I'll zoom in a little bit better
and make a little angle there
and then now we want to switch the arc tool so
since Sketchup thinks we're continuing to do a line you can either
press escape,
or you can just
click on your keyboard "a"
to bring up the arc tool or you can just select the
the arc tool. So,
another good idea is to have
a picture of whatever it is you're trying to model. This is a picture I just grabbed off
of
an image search.
This is kind of what I based the
shape of my vase
off of so it's nice to have something like this where you can
judge the proportions
so will come back in here
and we have the arc tool selected,
so we'll just start here
and will kinda come up to a spot here.
You click again,
to the specified second end point
of the arc,
and then the third click is gonna define the bulge.
Now it'll snap to different
types of arcs but we're just gonna come out to a
you know, slight bulge here, click a third time.
And there's the arc.
And we're gonna do another arc here,
coming out and you can see
that it has the tangent
kind of predefined there.
It will come out here,and
zoom in a little bit more to
give us,
give ourselves some more control
and then,
will do another arc
coming up here.
And then we'll switch back to the line tool.
See, you can see this profile kinda starting to
take shape
what we wanna to do is just
finish this off. We'll reference this point down here,
come up, click
and then come down
and click.
And you can see
the vase.
And now that we have that face we can go ahead
and delete the
box behind it.
So, I selected that, and hit delete
and you can see what it left with this
profile.
So now what we want to do is create the thickness,
so will go and grab the offset tool
and you can see that whenever you hover over
a face,
you'll see a little dot
and that's where
the
offset will start from.
So go ahead and click the start
and then as we move the mouse,
you'll notice how
it creates an offset profile
of the outline of that face.
Now we want to be careful 'cause see how
if you go too far
the line start overlapping so
we just wanna do a slight
like almost quarter-inch
line
and this is kind of the tricky part up here you don't want these lines to
overlap so,
so that's great! so now we have a nice
uh... wall thickness here
and then we'll go back to the line tool
and
we'll just create little cut-off points here
and then
we'll erase
all of these points
that we don't need any more.
So now that we have our profile
all we need to do is
create a path
for the follow me tool to follow. So we wanna go on a circular path
so we grabbed the circle tool
and you can see how right now
its showing a blue circle and when I come on this face
it shows a green circle.
So, you wanna make sure that it's locked into the blue
circle reference so whenever it pops up in blue you just hold down the shift key
and that'll keep it in that
reference point.
So holding down the shift key once you're in the blue circle you come to
this end point, you click once to start
and then you're gonna drag it out to this point
and click again to finish.
And then the final step
is
to do a follow me tool action.
Before you use the follow me tool, you wanna select the path
that the tool is going to follow.
So using the select tool,
you select the circle,
then you click the follow me tool,
and then click on the vase.
And there you go...
Now if your vase comes inside out like this and it's kinda gray,
sometimes that'll happen with different things you model in sketchup you just
select everything by triple clicking it, right-click
and click reverse faces
and you're all set!
And if you'd like to learn some more tricks and tips on how to use sketch up,
you can visit my website @ mastersketchup.com