Thursday 11-7: Shave without a haircut

Greetings, O sketchy ones,

Today, you will be learning two different techniques that both do the same thing: create curved surfaces on straight edges. Here is the first way to do it:

A) In a new file named after yourself plus the phrase "no edge", create a simple cube
(this should be easy for you by now).

B) Click on the Eraser button at the top of the screen (If you don't see the eraser, goto View then Toolbars then "Large Tool Set"... it'll be in there somewhere

C) Hold down the OPTION key and then touch all the edges of your cube to soften them

D) repeat this process with at least eleven other solid objects... for example, try it with a cylinder


And here is the SECOND WAY to do this:


A) create another cube -- make sure this one is a pretty good size, you'll need some room!

B) Click on the ARC button, it looks like a curved line at the top left of the screen

C) draw an arc on one side of your cube, near the top. Make sure the top part of the arc just touches the top edge of the cube

D) click on the PUSH/PULL button (the one with box and red arrow pointing up from that box)

E) push through along one top side of the cube to "shave off" one edge

F) repeat for the other side

G) Practice this effect on at least seventeen other solid models



When you are done, save your work and upload it to your blue shared folder on Box.com

Cheers,
Mr. L

PS If you haven't "EXPORTED" those twelve picture files of one of your Sketchups yet, please do so today. Come see me for help if you need it