Adjust Material Size to look realistic

In order to look the material look realistic within Sketchup, they need to be sized to a real word size. For example, in Sketchup , there is a default model and if we measure it, it has a height about six feet which is a normal height of a human being Basically it means , this gives you a size of your model. Sometimes when you add material into your model, it seems the detail of material is too big or small. In this case, you can adjust them within your edit tab under material.

Re-Use the same material with “Make Unique Texture”

You can use the same material and you set up different sizes by using make unique texture. For instance, copy the existing texture. Sometimes you wish to change the size of the copied texture to make it look different. For that just right click on the copied texture and click on make unique texture. That will going to copy your texture in other layer. Now you can change the colour of the texture or resize it.

Download and Import higher resolution texture

Sketchup has a bunch of different materials. Like brick material, sand material etc. Whole bunch materials can be found out in the drop down. Sometimes you need more high resolutions material files but you get low resolution files. This low resolution texture will not help you in doing rendering. What you can do , you can go to a website like www.sketchuptexture.com and you can actually download other materials. Once you have download the file, you can unzip it and it will contain an image. Double click it and the image will pop up.

In order to add this material in Sketchup, open Sketchup and go to Sketchup model. Click on File and click on import. Navigate the image to into the folder where it is located. Name your image and Import it.

Place material location using position texture

Clicking on position texture will help you to resize your texture. The main function of position is to custom scale it and make it more realistic. You can transform the texture according to your criteria.

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Tip one

Model With Components

One of the great benefits of model using components is every version of components you change is a copy of another. So that if you change one version of component , all the other changes as well. Model repeating object is component to be uprooted quickly and easily changes to your model in future. A little planning up can save a lot of time in future when doing this.

Tip two

Organize Groups and Components With Outliner

Use the Outliner as soon as you start modeling to keep the model organised. Group things like walls ,doors, windows and everything else to be able to hide and show and be able to find different objects in model. This organization will make a lot easier once the model starts getting complicated to find the work which you need.

Tip three

Use The 3D Warehouse

One of the best thing in Sketchup is access to 3D Warehouse. Hundreds of thousands of models are available for free to download. You can use the Warehouse to find from furniture to cars to people. To save time , try to get as many things for your model from Warehouse.

Tip four

Purge Unused Items

When you add objects for your model , especially from 3D Warehouse, sometimes they leaves extra stuff in your model, that does not do anything but slowing down your model. Things like unused groups or left over material etc. Use the Purge unused option to remove all other stuffs to speed up your model.

Tip five

Import Custom Texture From 3D Warehouse

In addition to be able to download 3D models from 3D Warehouse, Sketchup 2017 introduces the ability to download texture directly from 3D Warehouse. Simply navigate the model you want , go over to the material section, click on material download it into your model.

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