Beginner’s guide to using SketchUp for kitchen remodeling. Part 3 — Offset, Drag and Group

From the beginning, SketchUp amazed me with its simplicity.

The interface is intuitive, the icons accurately represent the functions hidden underneath, and everything is pleasing to the eye. The tools are not overly complex and yet offer unlimited design possibilities.

I like to refer to SketchUp as the WYSIWYG creation interface.

Thick as a brick

The walls are not made of paper. It’s time to make them thicker.

• Make sure the outline of your kitchen is closed and a surface is formed
• Set the outline view of your kitchen to the plan view (optional)
• Press F (offset tool) and move the cursor over the outline fill
• Click and move the cursor outside the kitchen outline.
• Enter the estimated thickness of the walls and press Enter

Things are looking better and better now.

Let the walls go up

The moment when a plan drawing becomes a 3D volume is very satisfying.

• Select the “perspective” view — the top cube in the “Scenes” panel.
• Press the P key (push/pull tool) and move the cursor over the wall fill
• Click and move the mouse cursor so that the walls rise upwards
• Enter the height of the room and press Enter

It’s that easy!

Create a component from primal mass

Everything you have drawn so far is a so-called loose geometry.

Every line and every plane are connected, they stick to each other. This is convenient when modeling, but to organize the creation and facilitate further actions, you need to create order out of this chaos.

• Press the spacebar (select tool).
• Click 3 times on any part of the created geometry.
• Everything should be highlighted in blue
• Press G (make component), type a name and press Enter

Congratulations! You have just created your first component.

In the next lesson, you will learn what you can do with it.

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