Hey, what is up nation!
In this session we're going to be going over how to
recreate this dimension to isometric drawing in Sketchup.
The first thing I want to do is make sure that my units are set up correctly
so if I look at this, it kind of looks like it might be in centimeters, so I'm
gonna go to window, model info, come down to units, if you're doing any sort of the
metric, unit you need to make sure you're in decimal and you can see here's
centimeters already selected, and then I'm going to hit X, so your plan of
action is important when you're doing something like this, because most of the
time they're not going to give you more dimensions than you need, they're gonna
give you the minimum amount of dimensions, helps with clutter, and so
you sort of have to have an attack plan for what you want to do, so what I want
to do is make a rectangular prism and then sort of start to cut away from that,
so you can see our max dimension here is a 26, and then this is 7 plus 39 plus 7,
which is 53 and then there is a 21 plus 5, which is 26, so what I'm gonna do is
hit R for rectangle and then come over here and make a rectangle that is 53
comma and gets you down there in the bottom right where I'm typing this 53 by
26, and then I'm gonna go up another 26, so now we have our rectangular prism so
possibly the most defining thing in this model is this cut that goes through, so
what we want to do is we want to start off with that cut, so you can see here
that this five comes across from the top and then it goes straight down, so don't
have an angle or anything, but we know that this top is five and it goes all
the way to the bottom, so if I do this, then I'll have the slant here, but we
want to make sure that we don't get rid of the seven here, so what I'm gonna do
is kind of draw this here, it's come up sixteen point seven,
you can see that I should have a new point somewhere along here, that's
right there. Okay, so I'm gonna come across,
I come across seven, right
so I have this guy right here. Right, and then we'll fix this a little bit later.
I just actually I'm gonna go all the way across, so
we have this top piece and now we need to continue this, so I'm gonna make this
come across, and hit M therefore move and then copy this with control, that's seven
come down here
with that balloon won't actually get that blue line to show up, all right, so
and then we're gonna continue this line from here to here, it's like I
overextended this line a little bit.
So this is symmetrical, so what I'm going to do is take this line, copying those
over, and then we're going to flip it, flip along red direction,
it's back.
Just have to close this, now I should be able to eat that, yep, because they're the
same plane, you can see that we're starting to get the basic shape of
what this is. Now I'm gonna bring this over to 11.
And if I try to do this it's not gonna be very nice, because you can see I have
this little cut, that's fine, we're just gonna get rid of that afterwards, it's
over, just extend that beyond that, delete your lines, these are on the same plane,
so we're fine with that. Same thing on this side.
11, oops, 11.5
The last thing that we want to do is we're going to make this cut out here so
if I come down to this line and I go up until it is purple,
if that ever happens, there we go, and then I'm gonna hit 7. You can see
it doesn't, it didn't do anything and I'm not sure why this happens, but if I take
this again and then just go up when you can see down on the bottom right when I
get to seven it sort of snaps, so I can place that right there and then come up
again, I'm gonna type in 17, and that works, and then we're 11 on this side, so
what I'm gonna do is move this, this one shouldn't be a problem, so 11 and then
I'm just gonna extend this up, just continue that and then this is 17 across,
take this, lines 17, okay so now we have our cut out. Now what I'm actually gonna
do is make this into a rectangle. The reason we're going to do this is because
if I was to push this, you can say watch, goes in that direction and this is
actually a flat cut, so what I want to do is to make a rectangle, that guy right
there, I'm gonna make this a group, and then go into this group, I'm gonna push
it through the object. See I'm basically creating a geometry that I want to cut.
This other shape from, so if I select this, and then I'm gonna do intersect
faces with selection, and see that if I delete that.
I have these two shapes, so it is coming out angled and then all I have to do is
connect these inner lines, alternatively I could have used the
rectangle tool, and there you go. And then you know at the end you might
want to just check some of your dimensions, so we'll just check here,
16.7, 7 that was this 11
No. So this is 5, 11, 21
yep, so everything looks good. So hopefully this helped, if you like this
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