Thursday 11-1: first (official) day in SketchUp part 3 MOVE AND COPY

Greetings one and all,
Today, you will be learning how to use two buttons in SketchUp that are very close to each other on the top toolbar, and both extremely useful. They are the MOVE/COPY button and the OFFSET button. They look like this on your toolbar:


You can see that the MOVE/COPY button looks four arrows pointing in four directions, while the OFFSET button looks like two curved lines. That's because the MOVE/COPY button can move or copy any object in any direction, while the OFFSET button creates curved lines that are exact copies of other curved lines.

Before we begin, lets start by creating a new SketchUp file named after yourself plus the word "MANY"

Ready? OK, let's get 'er done!

A) draw a square
B) click on the MOVE/COPY button
C) Click in the middle of the square, then hold down the OPTION key, and drag to create a copy
D) Repeat this process until you get at least five of them

Cool, huh? But wait, there's more!

A)Click on the SELECT tool at the far left side of the toolbar (it looks like a pencil)
B)Click one of your squares,
C) hold down the CTRL key, and click all your other squares. That will SELECT all of them!
D)Then, click the MOVE/COPY button, click on one of your squares and then hold the OPTION key again to copy all of them at once :-)

OK, so now let's try out the OFFSET button.

A) First, you have to create some kind of a curved surface.... a simple circle will do
B) Next, click on the OFFSET button, then use it to select one of the edges of your circle
C) Drag it in or out, and it creates a perfect ring
D) You can create multiple copies of this ring by using the MOVE/COPY button. Just be sure to select the ring with it, and not the inner circle

WHAT TO DO: You will need to demonstrate that you can use both of these commands by creating at least thirty one perfect copies each of at least seven different two dimensional objects. Then, SAVE your file and upload it to your shared blue folder at BOX.COM

cheers,
Mr. L