SketchUp – Part 2



The Online Presentation


Introduction

Once a 3D house design is completed, it is presented to the client. This can be accomplished by providing paper copies, but an online presentation offers many more features.

The Task

You will export four 2D graphical views of your house and one video tour. Two of the 2D graphical views should be from a “bird's eye” view while the remaining two will be of your choice. The video tour will show a rotating view at “bird's eye” level, then move down through the front door, and tour at least 3 rooms, one of which will be the kitchen. The 5 resulting files will be uploaded to our server.

You will also complete a document that provides detailed information about the house.



The Process

Learning How to Make Walkthrough


  • Start by launching SketchUp by double-clicking on the SketchUp icon on your desktop.
  • If the "Welcome to SketchUp" window opens, close it by clicking on "start Using SketchUp"
  • Once it opens, click on the "Help" menu
  • Click on Online Help Center or Help Center. Your browser should show you the Google Help page for SketchUp
  • Under Learn More click on Online Tutorials and Training
  • Under Help Guides, click on User's Guide
  • On the User's Guide page, go through the tutorials under Camera View and Walkthrough tools

To Export your finished video

    Click on File, Export, Animation
Video Specifications (Select the option button in the Animation Save box)
Your video resolution should be set to 320 x 240.
For frame rate use 15.
Uncheck “Loop to starting scene”
Other settings can stay at default.
Name your video:
video


2D graphical views

Export 4 views of your house.

Click on File, Export, 2D graphic.

Set the Export Type to JPEG image

Select the Options button and set the image width to 300 pixels

Name your images as follows:

image1.jpg

image2.jpg

image3.jpg

image4.jpg

House Description

Complete the online form with information about your house. You can access the form here.

Sending Files to the Server
Copy your 5 files to the server as demonstrated in class.



The Evaluation

You will be evaluated on providing the proper files as indicated in the steps above.

The Conclusion

As a result of participating in this assignment you will have the skill set required to make an online presentation of your house design




Go to the main Drafting Assignment page