Adding Thickness to Modeled Plates and Bolts in SketchUp

Now that we have all of our plates modeled and grouped Let's add some thicknesses to each of these We'll go into each one of these these plates and What I want to do is I want to add some thickness to This right here. I want this to be one quarter inch thick metal plate So I could push pull this up One quarter inch.

However, you can see that our bolts now are Below but if we went underneath Then our origin is not going to be on the bottom corner. I want to go up So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up and I'm typing 0.25 inches and then I'll close out of this and And then let's hover out down to the bottom of our plate and let's select our bolt component Since these are components if we double click into the component you can modify them all so let's move This up so we'll double click We'll select H to isolate this and we'll move this Up to 0.25 inches as well and then Let's modify our component axes We do not have Any sort of guides yet? So let's just make sure that we just quickly draw a guide so we know where to or we want to Center this at and align And let's change this axis to right there in the middle along these same red and green Now that our axis is on the top And yes, I want to change the axis so now this has moved all of these bolts to the top So then what I can do is I can double click on each of these bolts and I can add some thickness to the bolt heads When these bolt has to be 0.5 inches Then escape You can see now that I have these bolt heads. I'm realizing aesthetically I think these bolt heads are a little bit too thick so I want these to be a little bit smaller I'll make them.

Let me check to see if Mmm, you know what I? Actually prefer them to be larger. So I will go to edit Undo edit undo back to the 0.5. Now I'll go to edit delete guides. I Want to get rid of my x-ray views now.

I don't want I don't want to see the x-rays anymore I will go to view face dial uncheck x-ray and now Let's go do that same thickness to each of these so double click this this group and push pull this 2.25 inches and Then to here. We'll do push pull this one 2.25 Escape to close out of that and then we'll go to this plate push pull up 0.25 0.25 0.25 enter All right. Now we have all of our plates in the appropriate thicknesses that we like Now the next step is to place these on our model so I want to just for kicks, let's import our Structural truss drawing so we can see this upper Truss as a reference to know where each of these go We see that a goes here and the inverse of a goes on the other side and then likewise B C D E F So let's go start with a and we're going to want to click this bottom point right here of our plate And we're going to select the corner right here We know that Facing off of this dimension here And it's one inch spacing from here and one inch spacing from here and there's a lot of depth on the bottom side We'll move this point to this corner and we'll move this one inch and then just to double check we'll move this back up to here and then We'll do a guide from here offset one inch So that we have that to match and then we'll move this one final time to here Okay, and again, I'm going to add another guideline to this truss One inch knowing that is I want these to all kind of align based off of this and I can go ahead and do that to each one of these beams just so that way we can make sure that Whenever we place those they're placed appropriately, so I'm just doing one inch guides off of each of these major lines You can see that I do it once it automatically snaps to that dimension.

It's kind of sketch up smart feature and Then here I actually want to make a center line on this point So know that these are six inch members so I can do three All right, so I'll continue with Now let's go do see where B go so B's down on the bottom so this time I'm going to select this Point right here and move use the move tool and now I want to position that right on one of these intersections of guys that I drew perfect, and then I will go back to my Template and let's go do C C is our bottom plate right here. We go to C and we'll go do the center point midpoint in group and we will position this Kind of right here and then we will move this along the green axis to snap to that guide Let's do use D and D as we note is this plate right here in this plate so we'll go to D and we'll click this point right here and we know that Somewhere along the line right here We don't have an exact dimension on how far spacing is But we can we do know that this should be at least one inch off of this face. So I'll move this corner To go right there Okay, and now let's do our final two pieces.

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We'll click this component Or this group and then we'll move from that corner holding down shift to pan all the way to this intersection of these guides and click and then finally we will do This piece right here and we'll use our move tool and move this And move that to this point and we don't have an actual dimension on the side of these so I will move this Along the guide to let this hits the center just like that I will zoom out and now I see that I have all of our plates and I want to basically Mirror these to this side so what I can do is I can do a selection window and select all of these elements and I'll right-click make group and then I'll do a move and hitting my CTRL key to make a copy I'll move it down to Anywhere along the red and then right-click flip along Red and then we'll move this to snap directly to there we will double click this this group of these these plates delete this one and this one and Now I can group these two pieces together then double click into this group and then Explode all of these individuals. Now we have all of those plates that are all grouped together. We have our truss I'm gonna go to edit Delete guides we can delete now we can delete this JPEG image and this JPEG image Let's select our entire truss and let's move this truss So that way this point right here is on our origin When we place this component into our model, we know where our origin is going to be right on that corner Let's add this finally.

Let's add some materials to each of our plates We'll double click double click into our plates and we'll go to materials go to select and let's go into metal and Let's choose we have a metal aluminum anodized and we have aluminum. We have metal seamed steel texture metal silver Brushed stainless Metal rough. Let's click metal rough and let's do a CTRL A to select all and then paint We can go in there.

We can adjust this color. We can actually Rename it to call this We'll call this truss plate metal and then we'll go to edit and we can actually change the color we can Turn down the saturation. So there's no like, you know color of the metal to this basically zero And we can darken this To more of like a black type color You can adjust the the size of this this pattern texture to maybe make it a little bit smaller.

We'll make it four inches actually, let's make it a little bit bigger to get 10 inches and then if we would like we can actually Modify these components and we can actually change the texture of these components so we'll CTRL A to select all of that material go back into our Metal rough We'll paint these and then we can call this Bolt metal and you can modify the color of these maybe just slightly darker. Maybe there's a kind of a two-tone Two-tone color to this we can kind of figure out what color we like for that We can escape To close out and we can see that we have our truss. We got these nice black braces on The front side however What I what last thing I would like to do is I like to rotate this so that way it's actually vertical now instead of On the ground.

So I'll do a CTRL H to select all and then using my rotate tool I will click I will select this point here. So I want to rotate around the origin Until we get the red gizmo. We have to may have to pan down lower so we can see that horizon and then rotate this 90 enter then one final thing.

Let's add these base plates back to the backside so we can click this point here and along the green select this point and then we can flip along green axes and I can see that that was the wrong move So I'm going to undo that And let me double double click into this group and I can see that I actually want to flip along the blue and not the Green as that's where that's currently been modeled it. So I'll right-click flip along blue and then let's double check make sure that this is flush on this face and it is And now I have my origin right here on the corner and that's a good spot And now this is going to be our our new Final truss so our clubhouse truss plates. We don't need a resave over that anymore We actually want to resave over our truss file.

So let's go to file Save as and let's let's save this as this double Let's click our club clubhouse structural truss and let's do truss dash Complete dot skp. We know we have our complete truss that has all of our Our plates and everything on it and then the right orientation One click save Excellent. No one now.

We've completed our truss in the next video We will place this truss into our model and we'll continue to model some interior elements of our clubhouse I will see you in the next video