Option A: Make your dream house on a budget
Congratulations! A relative you never knew left you a 80 ft X 80 ft piece of property in Albany. Now you want to build a house on it. You have $150,000 to build and furnish your own house. Each square foot of area costs $100.
Using a spreadsheet, you can enter the lengths and widths of rooms, and amount of furniture into the yellow boxes to calculate costs. You can save the spreadsheet to your Google Drive account by opening it as a Google Spreadsheet.
Option B: Make a scale model of a Memorial classroom
With the teacher's permission, create a 3-D model of a Memorial classroom complete with furniture, windows, and doors of the correct size and in the right places.
Measurements will need to be gathered using measuring tape, a meter stick, and/or counting and measuring floor tiles. Use this worksheet to help organize all the data you need.
Either option can be divided into four big steps:
Create a floor plan.
Furnish your floor plan and make final changes.
Make the inside 3-D.
Make the outside.
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Specifications and Work Flow
Step 1: Create a floor plan.
Inside walls should be 4.5 inches thick.
Outside walls and walls with plumbing should be 6 inches thick.
Windows and doors should be marked in some way.
Typical inside door are 24", 28" and 30" wide.
Typical outside doors have 32" or 36" widths.
All rooms with an outside wall should have a window except bathrooms, closets, and the garage.
Use the Text tool to label all your rooms and spaces.
Create a Tag called "1 Room Names" in SketchUp.
Dimension the overall width and length.
Option A: Dream House on a Budget
Option B: Memorial Classroom
Step 2: Furnish your floor plan.
Place your furnishings.
May come from 3D Warehouse or build your own.
Each piece of furniture should be a separate Component.
Create a Tag called "2 Furniture" in SketchUp to put furnishings.
Draw in the tops of your cabinets and counter-tops.
Modify your floor plan as needed to make everything work.
Include your Chair for Sophie, Watering Can and Scale Model as furniture.
Option A: Dream House on a Budget
Show Mr. Bright your Spreadsheet and floorplan with furniture.
Option B: Memorial Classroom
Show Mr. Bright your measurement worksheet and floorplan with furniture.
Floor Plan Checkoff
Show your work from steps 1 and 2 to Mr. Bright.
Submit a top-down view of your floor-plan with furniture into Canvas.
Step 3: Make the inside 3-D
Backup your floor-plan by using the Save a Copy as... command in the File menu.
Pull-up the walls to make your project 3-D. An 8-foot ceiling height is typical.
Correctly size windows and doors. Typical doors are 80" or 84" tall.
Pull-up counters. Typical counter heights are 34" or 36".
Texture the interior floor and walls.
Add additional furniture requiring walls, such as cabinets.
3-D House Checkoff
Show Mr. Bright the 3-D version of your house complete with doors, windows, cabinets, counters and necessary items.
Submit a PNG image that shows most of these features to Canvas.
Step 4: Make the outside.
Texture and add details to the outside walls.
Create walkways and porches around outside doors.
Option A: Dream House on a Budget
Make the Roof
Create a Tag called "3 Roof".
Create a roof to your house.
Make the Landscape
Create a Tag called "4 Yard."
Create a 90' x 90' square to represent the ground of the property.
Put in a yard and garden.
Draw in and texture driveways, sidewalks, flowerbeds, etc.
Place yard furniture and tag to the 4 Yard tag.
Be sure to account for any yard materials on the spreadsheet to make sure you are under budget.
Option B: Memorial Classroom
Make a Classroom Map
Create a Tag called "3 Labels".
Create a Scene showing the top view in Parallel Projection with all the furniture in black and white (styles).
Use 3-D Text to label the teacher's name and room number.
Label important features such as windows that cannot be seen from a top view.
Put all labels in a separate Tag.
Final Checkoff
Before having your work checked, make sure you have the following:
Dream House on a Budget
Once checked, e-mail two 2-D images of your favorite views to Mr. Bright. The whole SketchUp file will be emailed in the next assignment.
Memorial Classroom
Once checked, e-mail a 2-D black and white of the classroom map and another 2-D color image of your favorite view. The whole SketchUp file will be emailed in the next assignment.
Optional Instructions
House Style Guide to the American Home - thoughtco.com - The easiest styles for this assignment are the American Bungalow, Minimal Traditional and Ranch styles. *
Floor Plans
What Is a Floor Plan? Answers the Question: Where Are the rooms? - thoughtco.com *
Architectural Symbols & Signs Used in Drawing - civiconcepts.com
SketchUp Interior Design Tutorial — How to Create a Floor Plan (in 7 EASY Steps) - youtube.com
SketchUp Skill Builder: Preparing for Architectural Modeling (video 7:52) - Using a floor-plan image to make a floor-plan in SketchUp. *
SketchUp Interior Design for Layout 1 - Walls from a Floor Plan Image - youtube.com (video 21:57)
Furnish your Floor Plan
Tags Window - Square One - youtube.com - Using Tags are really important for large projects or when working on a slow computer. They allow you to easily group similar things and hide them when they are not needed. *
Making it 3-D
SketchUp Skill Builder series: 2. Drawing Exterior Walls, 3. Drawing Interior Walls, 4. Rough Openings, 5. Window Components, 6. 2D and 3D Door Components *
SketchUp Interior Design for Layout 1 - Walls from a Floor Plan Image - youtube.com (video 21:57)
8 Ways to CREATE WALLS in SketchUp - youtube.com (video 18:00)
Make the Outside
Section Planes
Section Planes - Square One - youtube.com (video 11:36) - A necessary tool to use if making a multistory house.
Slicing a Model to Peer Inside - help.sketchup.com - Written directions to use Section Planes.
SketchUp Skill Builder: Section Planes - youtube.com (video 7:22) - Basic to advanced skills using a house as an example.
Making complex stuff on slow computers
Objects and components with similar functions should be put in named Tags in SketchUp. The visibility of Tags can be easily turned off and on. There are many advantages to using Tags besides keeping organized:
Important parts or features of a model can be shown separately.
When used with groups and components, different versions or options of a model can be in the same drawing and quickly compared.
(Most importantly for some...) Slow computers can still work on very complex models by hiding unneeded Tags.
With SketchUp, the computer only needs to draw what it is showing on the screen. If much of the detail of a model is in Tags that are turned off or hidden, the computer will take less time and memory to redraw the screen. Using Tags, even large complex models are possible on small, slow, memory limited netbook or Chromebook type of computers.
Week 17 - Tour for Sophie
Task
Sophie is a teacher in the market for a house. She is willing to pay over twice what you spent for your house, but she has to see it first. She also needs to choose a classroom to be in at Memorial. Your task is to show off your house or classroom by creating an animated tour in SketchUp.
Tour specifications:
Must begin outside the house or classroom. The tour should begin with a floor plan or a class map view.
Must end outside the house or classroom.
Shows at least three different outside views.
Shows at least six different inside room views.
The tour must not go through walls to go from room to room.
The tour may go through objects that could be opened such as doors and windows.
The tour should show your chair, watering can and scale model.
The tour must not get anybody lost!
Checkoff
After your work has been checked, you will need to export a video of your Tour for Sophie. Keep in mind that the computer may take 20 minutes or more to create the video depending on the number of scenes and settings you have chosen.
Upload two files into Google Drive and share them with Mr. Bright:
Complete SketchUp file including the Tour for Sophie.
Video of the Tour for Sophie.
Required Instructions
SketchUp Animation Tutorial (Video 4:18) - Skills: Scene Tool, arranging scenes
Creating Scenes - Skills: Using Scene Manager to add, organize and update scenes.
Animating Scenes and Exporting Animations - Skills: Using the Scene Tool
The Animation Export Options dialog box (Microsoft Windows) - Skill: Settings for creating video.