Dream House

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Level 1

Use Sketch Up 3D design software to make a house that includes at least: 

• 4 Windows 

• 1 door

• A gable (not flat) roof

• Color or texture on all the walls and roof

Level 1: Start Building

• 1a - Make the footprint of your house. ▶️

• 1b - Make your house as tall as you want. ▶️

• 1c - Make a gable roof on your house.

  • Making a roof if your house has 4 sides. ▶️

  • Making a roof if your house has more than 4 sides. ▶️

• 1d - Draw doors and windows on the walls of your house. ▶️

• 1e - Paint and texture the outside of your house.  ▶️

Level 2

Make your ideal inside layout by adding rooms and walls. Your house must include: 

• a bathroom

• bedroom

• kitchen

• living room

• Walls that are at least 6 inches thick

• doors between all the rooms

• windows that look into the rooms

Level 2: Continue Building

• Open your Dream Home in Sketchup.

• 2a - Select your roof and hide it. ▶️

• 2b - Make a foundation. ▶️

• 2c - Use the offset and line tools to create your floor plan. ▶️

• 2d - Erase all the lines where your walls join. ▶️

• 2e - Use the push pull tool to raise your walls up. ▶️

• 2f - Make doors and windows and push them through your walls. ▶️

• 2g - Use the paint bucket tool to color and texture your walls and floors. ▶️

• 2h - Unhide your roof. (Edit > Unhide > All) ▶️

Level 3

Use pre-designed models of windows, doors, furniture, and decorations to make your house look its very best. 

• Your house must include at least 20 new items.

Level 3: Finish Building and Turn In

• 3a - Open your Dream Home in Sketchup.

• 3b - Hide your roof.

• 3c - Go to 3D Warehouse and download models for your house.

• 3d - Position and scale your new objects.  ▶️

• 3e - Make an animated walkthrough of your house using the "scenes" panel.  ▶️

  1. • Create 3 scenes total

     • Scene 1 "default"

     • Scene 2 "walk"

     • Scene 3 "look around"

• 3f - Press play button to play all the scenes while taking a screencast video of your walkthrough and upload it to Google Classroom.

  1. • To screencast on a Dell laptop ➡️ Windows+Alt+R  ▶️