SketchUp Tools
SketchUp Best Practices
Dimensioning
Orthographic Projections
100
This tool turns 2-dimensional drawing into 3-dimensional drawing.
What is Push/Pull?
100
Views, Large Tool Set, Camera, Measurement
What are toolbars?
100
In this type of drawing, dimensions are only ever shown in inches.
What are shop drawings?
100
A very detailed orthographic projection used for furniture and similar detail work.
What is a shop drawing?
200
When this tool is used, a triple click on the mouse will cause an entire object to turn blue.
What is the select tool?
200
A part of SketchUp where you can store, share, or use other people's drawings.
What is the 3-D Warehouse
200
Dimensions rest 1/16" above this line.
What is a dimension line?
200
The 3 views that appear in a standard orthographic drawing.
What are the top, front, and side?
300
This tool creates four separate lines bounding a plane.
What is the rectangle tool?
300
Here you can search drawings that others have created, and use them in your work.
What is the materials window?
300
This appears 1" from the drawing.
What is the first row of dimensions?
300
Notes may be placed in this quadrant of an orthographic drawing.
What is the top right quadrant?
400
A tool that can set guide points or guide lines.
What is the tape measure tool?
400
The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
What is inferencing?
400
The character that appears when dimension and extension lines cross.
What is a forward slash?
400
Two ways of referencing notes to parts of the drawing.
What are coded notes and arrows.
500
Clicking on only corners of objects will allow this tool to mate edges.
What is the move tool?
500
These can be instanced.
What are components?
500
Appears in the same direction as the dimension line.
What is the orientation of a dimension?
500
The first thing you should think about when you start a drawing.
What is layout?