Hey, what is up, design nation!
In this session I'm going to teach you how to
make accurate and quick typography in Sketchup.
I've imported this map of San Diego into my Sketchup file, and if you need to know
how to do that you can check the link below, and there is a video where I teach
you how to import a map from Google Earth, but you want to make sure for this
that you have your geolocation show terrain on, so you have your topography.
And the next thing you want to do is make a rectangle, I'm going to hit R
which is the shortcut for that, I'm just going to draw a large rectangle.
Just make sure that it covers the whole map, select it and move it to the lowest point.
The lowest corner, so it looks like the one that I picked is right and then next
thing that I want to do is select this, I'm going to group it, and I want my
increment to be every five feet, so I'm going to hit what I just did there is I
hit control, to copy and you can see it has the blue axis if you're having
trouble snapping you can always hit the up arrow to lock to the blue axis and
I'm going to hit five feet because I want to have a five foot increment of
topography, I'm going to hit enter, you can see it did a five foot there and now
what I'm going to do is we're going to type the asterisk symbol, times(x), I'm going to
type let's say 30.
And look like it was quite enough so I'm going to do x35, x40 you can
see it's slowly building up here, x45 I don't need too much x48, x50
looks good, so now what I need to do is I just need to select everything
that's inside of this.
I'm going to move this off to the side really quick, let's say
it actually can be I need to unlock this, so I'm going to
right click and hit unlock, and then I'm also going to explode it because I
and actually going to cut this, then I'm going to select all of these, I'm going
to group them.
Again group two groups, make sure you don't have your map selected.
Move it over
Select everything
right click and I'm going to hit intersect faces with selection.
This is going to take a little bit but basically what it's doing is it is
cutting, you see this way, I'm going to right click,
hide this, you can see now I have my typography generated.
So if you want to just have the lines here, you just right-click on one of
the faces and go to select all the same material because it was made from the
same photo and just delete it, and you have your topography.
So I'm drawing a rectangle here, so that it's on one plane
and I'm going to stretch this plane so that it is the size of the terrain
that I just selected,
and then what I'm gonna do is move this down
explode it, and then we're going to do is select
this line, select all this line work, go to tools sandbox drape and select this face.
It's going to take a little bit you can see it's loading, now I have a
two-dimensional topo if that's what you want.
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