After familiaringmyself with the many components I began preparing for the actual project. I went to my office and started taking measurements of every single plane and wall which I will be creating in Sketchup. I took measurements of teh tables and the table legs, the chairs and windows, doors... and the list just goes on. I knew all this information was going to come in handy when I was crating them as it would alolow me to create it as close to its original size as possible. Once all that was done I created a floor plan, I marked out where all the walls and doors intersect each other. This helped me immensly as from this I had some idea if any of the objects were in need of being resized or if they maybe should be re-settled somewhere else - for aesthetic reasons of course.
My floor plan sketch, you may not understand it but it's all there
Birds eye view of the floor plan
Above you can see a screen shot of what I have created so far. It is a screen shot of the floor plan all measured correctly with the walls intersecting each other perfectly. It took a lot of time for me to perfect this bit for reasons which I have already stated above, so I hope it pays off.
My next step is to select all the walls and extrude them horizontally, this will allo wmel to create all the walls simultanously rather than one by one.
This is all for now.
Note: Youtube has some great video tutorials on how to use Sketchup, so much easier than following text tutorials since you actually get to see what the instructor is talking about.
Links
Youtube users who have Sketchup tutorials:
http://www.youtube.com/user/architectionary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Le8FChLz8
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