Hey everybody this is Matt from MasterSketchup.com, and in this video i'm
gonna show you how to make casings around a door or window.
um... and actually
this is part one of a series and i'm going to just show you how to use the
Follow Me tool for this method
in this video
To start with any type of casing you're gonna wanna make a profile. that's
what you're going to use to start
um...
extruding the casing around the door
so
you can see here i've already got a profile drawn there's a couple here this
is just a square
one that's
uh...
like a more architectural
molding there
this is this a standard colonial casing
and you can actually import if you have sketchup pro you can import cad files
right in
to sketch up which will allow you to
uh... directly
manipulate it to get your profile
if you can't do that you can also if you want to try
importing it as an image
you can do the same thing by tracing it
um...
but if you're don't want to do that either you can start from scratch so
you just start out
with the rectangle use the rectangle tool
to draw a rectangle
and then
you're gonna wanna make some guides
uh... because most most the time you have some curves so you're gonna want to
make some guides that way you can use the arc tools so
just grab the tape measure tool
and start making a few guides
so for instance right here I'm at like three-eighths of an inch
so i'll just make one
one and three eighths and then you want to get like this point where the arc
the arc starts and stops
so
let's say
here like a quarter-inch
will be the starting point
and then we'll do the same thing here
figure out what this distance is eighth inch
and so we'll go eighth inch
so now we can grab the arc tool
and start there
start they're pulling out tangent
so you get this nice curve right away
and then
we'll make another guy to get to this point so from here
to their
is about a half an inch
and
grabbed the line tool
and make that little
return right there
and so you can do it you just do the same thing um...
throughout
to get all the curves that you want
and then use the eraser tool to erase the lines
that you don't need any more
okay so once you have your profile made you wanna make sure that it's in a
group so to do that you just selecting the entire thing by double clicking on it and
you right click and hit make group
uh... this one's already made into a group so
that options not there
so then
once your profile's
completed in in a group
will go ahead and drag it down to
the door
so we're gonna started down at this left corner here
But we're not quite sure where to put it we don't want to read at this corner
and we don't want it at the mid-point or anything so
we're going to have to just rest at there for now
and we're gonna grab the tape measure tool again
and create guides
uh...
all the way around the door
so you can go away ever setback you want I like to go a quarter-inch
so you do that here and then you're gonna want to do that
at the top of the door
and the
side of the door as well
OK so we have our guides in place
and now we're going to grab the select tool go back down to your
uh...
your profile
and actually
we're gonna use the move tool
to move it to
right where we want it so grab that corner
go right to our guide
and now it's all lined up
so now the next step to use the follow me tool is you need to create a
path for the follow me tool to follow
so let's open up this group
you have to make sure that the path
and the profile are on the same
group
so that's why we open this up
so
take the line tool and we're going to start at this corner
and you just gonna
go and find
all the intersections
that your guides made
and then this is going to be your last
spot down here
sometimes it's kind of hard to see the guides
ok
and we don't want to draw any more lines we're just gonna hit escape
and that ends the
the uh...
execution of another line
then
you're going to select
each line
that you just
uh... made
and to do that you you click once
to select one then you have to hold on the control key
to select the other ones
so once those a selected you zoom back down to your profile
click the follow me tool
and when you hover over it you can see that it becomes shaded so you just click that once
and
you
are all set
um... now you notice how it's like this greyish blue
uh... sometimes that happens in Sketchup and it's a really easy thing to fix in
and basically what this means is
it got
it was drawn inside out
i don't know why it happens that sometimes they happen sometimes it
doesn't so
to fix that you just
uh... doubleclick everything
and right-click and go reverse faces
and that will fix it for you
and so they're there we go
and we might wanna delete our guides and so we go to edit
and delete guides
and now we have the nice
nice casing
now let's say that you wanted to resize
this casing that you just made
maybe you're gonna change the size of your door or something like that
you might think to use the scale tool
let's see what happens when we do that
and I'm gonna just grab that
side
and come over here
you can see how it stretches the side casings doesn't keep the same
uh... dimensions it actually like like the tools says it scales it
so i'm gonna hit undo
and i'll show you how the right way to
uh... resize this you gonna want to actually open
the component err, the group rather
and then if you wanted to change the height
of this
you actually
uh... create selection box so you just hold down the mouse
and
select
all the lines at the top
and then you grab the move tool
and
that allows you to move
and you're gonna want to lock into whatever axis
uh... you need to to get that
so let me click there
and you can see that everything
stayed
uh... the correct dimension
and you can do the same thing with
uh... going
left or right
you can just open that up
create your selection
grab the move tool
and there you go
now the disadvantage of using the following me tool
is that you
you can't separate the corners
the... this is kind of like an example of
the kind of corner you get with the follow me tool
it's not
it's not a separate... these are
both of these legs are one piece
you can't remove them from each other
like this right here
see this
casing moves independently
from
the other casing but you can join together if you want
now that's fine
I mean you don't have to have them separate like that
and to be honest i use the following me tool
method all the time uh... when i do casings
But if you did want to learn how to do that you can watch the part two of
this series
where we use the scale tool and
uh... rotate
tool
to actually rotate the face of this
uh... casing
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