Teacher needs suggestions

hunth2ofowl

OK,

I am not sure if this can be done or not, but here is my suggestion...

I am a history teacher. I have an idea for a lesson regarding a historic cemetery in the area. I would like to create a virtual cemetery. Judging from what I have played with, it seems like i shoulg be able to add images of the tombstones to a model, buy not sure how. I would like to be able to click on the tombstone with a link to the text from the tombstone.

I might be asking more than sketchup can do, but i

xrok1

you could set up the text as a different scene then click on the scene tab, or have the text on the tombstone and when you click the scene tab have the scene zoomed in tight to the text.

Gaieus

Hi Joe and welcome (I'm a history teacher, too, BTW - at least "by original trade" - among others). What I'd suspect, you could do it with Dynamic Components but only if you had the Pro version of SU.

There is a plugin however with which you can assign an URL (i.e. a webpage - obviously even with a much richer content than simple text) to any entity (say a group that you mske your individual tombstone into) but it works from the right click menu so not by simply clicking. Find url_link.rb in the Ruby Library Depot.

What Remus says can be a good solution, too.

Ecuadorian

This video could help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D3RymsC864&feature=channel_page

You will find tons of SketchUp tricks in SketchUp's official Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SketchUpVideo

Gaieus

Ah yes. I simply "skipped" the texturing part; thanks, Miguel!

hunth2ofowl

Wow, I didn't think that I would get so many responses so quickly.

Thanks for the texture tip. That might be a better method than trying to photo match each tombstone. Although having the image on the virtual tombstones will give the students the ability to get a feel for the cemetery, some of the stones are difficult to read at best. They made them out of limestone, which basically dissolves with water.

I will explore the options you suggested regarding adding text and will report back.

BTW: After seeing the locations of many of you, I am embarrased that I called our cemetery "historic."

Gaieus

@hunth2ofowl said:

BTW: After seeing the locations of many of you, I am embarrased that I called our cemetery "historic."

The last cemetery I "worked in" is from the 4th century A.D. although the earliest (Roman) tombstones there are from the 1st century