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