User manual GOOGLE SKETCHUP FOR MAC

[. . . ] Contents Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Welcome to SketchUp (Mac OS X). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 SketchUp for Mac OS X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Custom Location: Click on the Custom location button to display the Custom Location dialog box. This dialog box allows you to manually enter Country, Location, Latitude, Longitude, and Timezone for any geographic location that is not already in the Country or Location drop-down list boxes. Solar Orientation The Solar Orientation portion of the Location panel allow you to set the path of the Sun in relation to the axes. North Angle: Enter a North Angle to establish the path of the Sun. East, West, and South (0. 0 by default for a model whose faces are directly aligned to the axes). Or, to determine a less precise North angle using the Select button: 1. Place the center of the cross at the origin of the North angle (usually the axes origin) Click the left mouse button. Drag the cursor away from the origin in the north direction Click again to establish the new north angle. Show in Model: Click the Show in Model checkbox to highlight the North angle in orange. Statistics The Statistics panel allows you to troubleshoot performance issues in SketchUp. This panel displays information about the type and number of drawing elements in your model and allows you to perform verifications on your model. Entire Model and Components The Entire Model and Components options in the drop-down list box allow you to toggle between displaying statistics for your entire model and displaying statistics related only to components. The Components option is useful for generating a tally of the number of certain components used in your model (such as the number of a particular part in an assembly). Show Nested Components Click the Show nested components checkbox to include individual elements within placed components in the statistics totals. Purge Unused Click the Purge Unused button to remove any unused components, materials, image objects, layers, and other extraneous information from your file. Fix Problems Click the Fix Problems button to find minor issues with your SketchUp model due to the infinite flexibility that SketchUp provides when designing in 3D. Click the Fix Problems button to scan your model, and report and fix any problems. This option checks for several cases, including: · · · · · faces bounded by properly connected edges. Note - Problem checking is also performed automatically (if turned on within the General panel of the Application Preferences dialog box) when a file is loaded, manually saved, or automatically saved (using the SketchUp auto-save feature). Refer to the Save menu item in the File menu or the autosave feature in the General panel of the Application Preferences dialog box for further information. Text The Text panel allows you to change the appearance and behavior of Text entities in your model. Screen Text Screen text is text that is not attached, using a leader line and arrow, to a specific piece of geometry. The Screen Text portion of the Text panel allows you to select the font used by screen text in the drawing area. Fonts: Click on the Fonts button to define the font to be used for all scren text in SketchUp. The Font dialog box, containing the font, font style, and size for your dimensions font, is invoked. Text Color Swatch: Click on the text color swatch to select the default display color for any unpainted screen text (those painted with the default material). Select all screen text: Click the Select all screen text to select all screen text in the drawing area. Leader Text Leader text is text that is attached, using a leader line and arrow, to a specific piece of geometry. The Leader Text portion of the Text panel allows you to select the font used by leader text in the drawing area. Fonts: Click on the Fonts button to define the font to be used for all leader text in SketchUp. [. . . ] All lines drawn in the blue axes are exactly perpendicular to the ground plane and all of the lines drawn in the red and green axes are exactly perpendicular to the blue axes when viewing a 2 or 3 dimensional drawing viewed in one point perspective. Organic Shape - Geometry or models that have a hand-made or custom appearance. P Scene - Similar to a slide in presentation software, a scene consists of your model and a series of scene-specific settings, such as a specific point of view, shadow, display setting, and section cut. Perspective - A distortion of the Camera Angle such that it represents the model as though you were standing at a fixed position and looking at it without moving (certain items appear closer while other items appear to be far away; entities are not to scale). Polygon Mesh - A surface comprised of polygons, each derived from irregularly spaced points. [. . . ]