When you push or pull something you can move the cursor off the object as long as you are still pressing the left mouse button. There is another very important feature of the push/pull tool that isn't at all obvious. That prevents your editing from affecting any other parts. If you need to work on it some more then right click and "Edit group". This will prevent it from accidentally interacting with other parts and being distorted or otherwise disturbed. When you make a small part or assembly such as the gear above then right click and make it a group. Here is another important couple of hints to using SketchUp. It's a good tool for showing peiople who can't concieve of a finished part from a 2D drawing. I've been using it at work to make some 3D exploded drawings of some simple box structures, and pulley arangements, etc. Including my learning curve for the renderer total time was about an hour. I haven't actually used it before so it took some playing around to find a good looking setting(s).
#Involute gear plugin sketchup make free
This took me quite a while because I used a new free plugin for SketchUp called Shader Light. I then added some colours and textures from the material pallette. I stood it up with the rotate tool and drew a line across the bottom to separate a piece to pull out for the base. Then drew a rectangle and pulled it for a mounting plate. I drew a circle centred in each one and pulled it to make a shaft. Then I pulled it into a three dimensional object with the push/pull tool and copied it in plan view to mesh them together. I used a free involute gear plugin to make the gear. These images show the steps along the way in sequence: The total time to arrive at the finished model ready for rendering was less than 10 minutes. Tutorials are very valuable in getting you over the hump. I will pointedly ask how many of the numerous online tutorials have you watched?ģD CAD has a steep learning curve mainly because the many little tricks that make it easy to use are not at all obvious.
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