You are to develop two 32' cubes each with the same design criteria. One cube will be developed using an additive approach, and the other cube will be developed using a subtractive approach. Each cube will be developed in a separate Sketch-Up file. Note on Tips: refer to the Sketch-Up Help menu searching words in quotes (e.g. "groups").
DUE: Sunday, April 8th, posted by midnight.
Design Criteria
- Provide for one clearly identifiable horizontally oriented space (void) through the cube..
- Provide for one clearly identifiable vertically oriented space (void) through the cube.
- Provide a minimum of 6 horizontal and 6 vertical objects.
- All objects are to be solid (completely enclosed).
- All objects should be on a 4' module.
- The composition should look significantly different in different views.
- The composition should contain space (void) that is as significant as the objects.
- The plane on which elements were built should not be obvious in the final composition.
Export the required views as a jpg image, and post them to your blog. Provide a few sentences on each different approach. Provide a separate blog post for each model, named "Additive Approach" and "Subtractive Approach" correspondingly. Provide the following required views:
- One Overall Isometric View
- Two Unique Elevations
- TIP: Use control (PC) or command (Mac) and 1-6 to toggle between different elevations.
- Two Immersive Views
- Tip: Zoom into your model, change the "focal length" (try 24mm) using the zoom tool.
Define the boundaries of the 32' cube by creating a 32' cube and subtracting the face only, leaving the lines.
Start with an 8' cube, altering it with the push-pull tool. Continue to develop design criteria adding additional objects.
TIP: use "groups" to maintain the identity of each separate object.
Process - Subtractive Approach
Create a 32' cube. Draw an 8' grid over each face. Using the push-pull tool, alter the cube to provide for the design criteria. TIP: You will have to draw the grid in 8' segments, you can make "multiple copies" to make this process quicker. TIP: If a face gets deleted, you can always bring it back by drawing over the lines with the pencil tool.
11 comments:
Where would you like us to post our projects. Our section links don't appear to be working and I don't know where else you would want them...
Correction, Section 1 appears to be the only one with a faulty link.
Sections 1 & 5: Your links from the main page have been fixed. Thanks for your patience.
I cannot post the assignment images on my blog. All I get is this animated yellow triangle with an exclamation mark in the center. Am I doing something wrong?
if you are using a mac, then you need to use firefox. safari doesn't seem to want to load the images.
In the design criteria, it says
"All objects should be on a 4' module."
Does this mean 4' cubes should be used in addition to the 8' ones described in each process?
Kei -
This just means that you can push-pull at 4' increments. For example, to imply the cube, you may decide to push certain faces in 4' and others 8'.
my computer sucks. :\
that's all.
how do you change the focal length?
where do you go to do this in scetchup?
Andy -
In Sketch-Up, go to the Help menu at the right, and search for "focal length."
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