How can I make bigger or smaller ?

erzane

pls I have a question
I would like to know how to make a form (buidling for example) bigger or smaller ?
changing the size of an object for be more clear

thanks

Rich O Brien

Use this Scale tool

mitcorb

Do the Chopra tutorials exist in any other languages? If so, I would definitely recommend them for these fundamental needs. There probably are some other sources, in appropriate languages for picking up these concepts.

mac1

erzane
Like so many things in life things are not as simple as they appear. Rich is dead on for say a wire frame model. For a entity , say a building with thick walls, the scale tool scales every thing so if you are scaling in a direction that is perpendicular to say the end walls they will be scaled in thickness also. Like wise if you sale a picture frame in width( rail direction) the stiles will scale in width. There are pulgins , Freedo Scale for instance and other techniques, like using the move tool in combination with a cutting plane to work around these type of issues.
Hope I am not confusing you

erzane

thanks guys

-mac1
yes lol, you confused me a little bit^^
this is to much for me for the moment
but thanks for your advises

-rich
I didnt found this tool on my menus yet
but I found that ''S'' shortcut do it to
is your tool make a different thing or same ?

-mitcorb
what is ''chopra'' tuto ?

Rich O Brien

If you've just installed SketchUp then you've got the 'Getting Started' toolbar. If you go to.....

View > Toolbars >

You'll see lots of other toolbars to enable. Have fun

erzane

thanks ; )

mitcorb

@erzane:
Do a websearch for Aidan Chopra. You will probably come upon some youtube videos showing Sketchup modeling procedures.

The S on the keyboard will activate the scaling tool just like the icon previously shown you.

Hope this helps.

erzane

thanks , I will do