Hey design nation!
In part 1 of this series you learned how to get started
modeling and Sketchup from an image using photo match. In this part 2 we're,
going to learn how to build our TARDIS in 3D. If you haven't gone through part
one yet, pause this video and go check out that before continuing.
Now that your photo match is set up and your origin is here at the corner and your axes are
lined up. We're going to start modeling. So let's you know sort of what my plan
of action is, is to rough out the basic shape of the TARDIS to make sure that's
right and then to take one of these sides and make a component and then copy
it around. That way we'll meet we manipulate one side it'll affect all the others.
Whenever you start modeling with match photo and Sketchup, you should
always start with the origin point. It's from there that the sketch is going to
know what you're doing and where you're trying to model from, so just always
start with the origin point, and then when you have everything sort of set up
from there, then you can start picking points in your model. Now that I have my
origin Point click I'm going to start roughing in the basic shape of this.
What I like to do, is make sure that my lengths actually sort of makes sense
that they're nice and neat, so I'm going to zoom in a little bit come in and
looks like this could be about 4'8, so I'm going to type that in,
and they're just continue modeling from there, so this is probably
also 4'8, and then bring this back, make sure I'm on the green I'm
holding shift to lock, all right so now I have my base. I'm going to bring that up
looks like maybe 4 inches, maybe a little bit more, go up a half inch, it's
good, you can set this is actually set within, so I'm going to hit this, I'm
going to choose the offset. I'm going to come in I'm just going to sort of guess
where this is, maybe an inch. I'm gonna select that and then I'm going to extrude this inner
portion up, so it looks like it maybe is a little bit more than that, so choose
offset again.
Maybe 2 inches and P fpr push pool, you can see this is off a tiny bit but I'm
not going to worry too much about being completely accurate.
Okay, so now I have that, I'm going to rotate a little bit,
do the same thing, click once, choose 4 this time, just rough this in, double
click the TARDIS.
Maybe it's a little bit bigger than that, so
let's come out an inch, inch, just redraw this, 3,
see how that looks, again close, so I'm just going to use that, and then select
this top,
move it down, I'm going to assume that this is probably 4
And go back to the TARDIS, see how that looks, it's about right, so take this, down,
Bring this back in, there let's say one inch, just like it was that much, and that up
Give it a little bit more. Do.
Let's go 2 inches, try another 4, just in case. Try to eliminate as many
steps that looks pretty good. Now what I'm going to do is, draw an X on
here, and then select my middle point, and pull it up. so I'm just going to pull it
up really tall right now and then all. Smoosh it down.
For this I'm not going to worry about having something nice, I'm just gonna
make sure it looks right, and now what I'm going to do is group all of this, and
I want to do this circle separate, so
you can see it's hard to lock to this because it's all angled, so you want to
make sure you're on the blue, hold shift to lock it, and then I can draw my circle.
So first I'm going to try, let's say, it's a radius, so I'm going to try 1.5
See how that looks, too tiny, it's about twice, edit and redo.
I'm just going to take this, and scale it.
The scale tool is here.
I'm going to scale it by two.
Little bit funky, I have my screamers little messed up, so I just click that to,
get back.
This little tin can,
click the TARDIS,
and that looks pretty good. Now I have everything roughed in, kind of makes sense,
I don't know I'm going to add detail, but first I'm going to actually
break these sides, so when I add detail I'm not doing it four times that I can
just do it once, and don't have to worry about doing it again so, I'm just going
to break this side out from everything else, so you can see I accidentally drew
those lines, while I wasn't in the group so what I'm going to do is select them,
hit cntr+X for cut, go into the group, edit paste in place and now I have those
lines back and I want to redraw them. I'm going to delete everything else.
So I have that, I'm going to make this group of component and then I'm going to
edit the name of it to 'TARDIS side', okay. And now I'm going to copy this, copy this
to the four sides.
Rotate, choose 90
So we're. Q for rotate, 90
I'm currently problem-solving, these aren't worn set up right, so what I'm
going to do is make them right by the locking, so you can see that I drew
another line and then to a point from the midpoint to make sure that
all of these things line up. I can delete it, and i'm good to go. So while you're modeling it's
going to be pretty important that you can toggle your components on and off,
so go to preferences, under a window, and then under shortcuts, and filter type
hide. So you can see this is view hide similar, I'm going to set that to K
I'm going to set that to J and hide rest of model I'm going to set 2
to H, for pan I use my middle mouse so it's not a big deal, so I set that and now
when I'm in here I can toggle this on and off, this just makes it easy for me
to see what I'm actually modeling. So J shows me other similar components and H
will just isolate that, this group by my component. But since I have this now I'm
going to speed this up, and I'm going to start modeling in detail.
One thing there like a point on that I'm doing is right now is that all of these are going to be extremely
so the first one I extruded to one and then from there if you just
double click, it will extrude to same distance and another thing is like
if I have this at five and I could only go this, and I could only go this way but
I, you know, for whatever reason I can only stretch it this way, you can type in
negative five and I'll go the opposite way that your you're stretching so if
I'm going this way and negative five, and I'll go back, same thing, like it's
difficult for me to go in five that way. This much easier to go this way, so you can just type -5
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