Sketchup Tutorial: Creating and Intersecting Walls and Roofs for a Clean Model

Let's do the same thing over on this side so we can Push pull this wall up intersect These two faces to hold down CTRL to multiple select intersect fit intersect face with model as you can see I didn't pull this wall all the way up so I'm gonna undo and I want to pull this wall up higher It's gonna stop me from going right here, I can't go any further than that So what I need to do to go further is if I hit the CTRL key and go plus I'll be able to make a duplicate of this wall We'll have these lines that we can erase later This will allow us to go higher than where it's where it's wanting me to stop at I'll go to just Can be anywhere just above higher than this than this roof And then I can actually erase this line and this line this line and Then on the inside all the all of the lines and now I can Select this face in this face right click intersect faces with model And now we have that roof line that we had if I go to view Component edit hide rest the model you can see that this we got when I intersect is Intersecting these roof planes that we created Makes it easier to work with To go back and forth between hide rest of model and do that Personally I use The hide rest of model very frequently and so I choose to make a shortcut for this tool You can modify that shortcut by going into preferences Shortcuts we have right here and you can search for that key Which is I usually type in hide and it's this code this button right here view component high address the model So what you can do is you can actually create a shortcut for what that a thing is There are already a lot of pre-assigned shortcuts Let's say I want to use the keyboard H Type in H and plus So H is currently used by camera and pan. If I was to go back to Camera type in camera and do camera pan. You can see that H is the key for that If I click cancel So If you use your mouse You can type O for orbit or you can use your center wheel on your mouse You can also type H to go to hand or You can hold down shift If you if you hold down shift and use the orbit key at the same time It also pans so orbit with your center scroll wheel and hold down shift and orbit You can use the hand really handy tool.

So I'm constantly having my left finger My left hand finger on the shift key to pan around and my mouse on the orbit So I rarely use the key the key H For that. However, I do like to use the keyboard H for hide rest of model So I go to window preferences and I and I type in hide Hide rest of model and I add a shortcut for H and do plus I want to reassign H to now be view component hide rest of model. I'll click.

Yes, and Then I'll do okay. Now whenever I'm pushing H I can go back and forth and see What is being hidden and what's not? This is only what's inside this group and this is everything else has be on that group Very very helpful tool to go back and forth rather than going up to your menu Component edit and hide rest of model. You can see now this says H next to it.

So back to our roof. Let's Push-pull to erase these solid openings and then let's continue to draw our lines over here to fill in this portion here in here and Let's erase This in this and now we can push pull this Wall this wall and This wall and then go into our eraser tool. We can click and delete all of these extra Planes and then going into our line tool.

We can auto heal These openings and then eraser tool again to erase all the additional lines that we do not need do not want we want to create a very clean model with as minimal lines as possible a Clean model is very Necessary for SketchUp making sure that everything is modeled on the direct axes and all the lines are erased. We know that These walls are walls And now that we have adjusted all of our walls I will click out of this group and now I will I can delete these These roof planes because we're gonna model an actual Roof based off of these slopes that we determined So let's go to our guides and let's create some thickness along these roof angles so using our tape measure tool hover over this edge and then let's find where it has the Magenta Perpendicular line and let's type in six for a six inch Deep Roof and then from here six inches And we'll do the same thing over here six enter I'm here finding on the magenta six enter all right, so now let's draw a roof from this point to this point and then Want this to be perpendicular? to this online Let's double check to make sure that's perpendicular because it was snapping to the magenta. If I hover over magenta is Snapping right there.

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So that so online is also perpendicular and then draw a line from here to here From and then we'll hit escape and start from here to here Online and then here and now we have this portion We can and then let's do the same thing over here Here to here to here online To the to the top intersection and then hit escape to start from here Online Okay, then we will connect to the top All right. Now I do now I do no longer need the guide So I'll go to edit delete guides and then I'll triple click triple click this roof Shape and make group and triple click this shape make group now I will double click into this group and remember I have my shortcut key for For H to go hide rest the models and I can be able to see the other portions I can push pull This wall all the way To the end point. Okay.

I want to make some and Now let's make some rafter extents For each of these roofs. So let's extend this roof out 12 inches Let's extend this portion out 36 inches Extend this portion 12 inches in This portion 36 inches for our roof overhangs, I will see you in the next video