![]() To make sure the lights fit in the pendants I added 1mm of wiggle room and 1mm for each side of the wall so the pendant needed a 15mm diameter. Each light is about 12mm wide by 10mm tall. I cut the clip-on earring attachments off the backs, arranged them where I thought they would work and measured the perimeter = 2.5″ x 1.25″. The above two full-scale hanging lights inspired me to make a modern hanging pendant light with my LED lights, I like the structural supports on the bottom and the tall pendants. I found these LED battery operated earrings that I thought I could make into a cool light. I find something I like, work out the dimensions in 1:12 scale and then start designing. My designs are inspired by modern décor I want in full scale and by small pieces I find online or at random stores. The tool icons look a little different but they work the same as in this tutorial. It has been updated and the new free version is SketchUp Make 2015. I’m writing this tutorial to share some tips and tricks for beginners to get started making 3D models in SketchUp. I’d have an idea of what I wanted to make and would search for videos and tutorials until I figured out how to do it. I found Shapeways and tried out a few of the free 3D modeling programs they recommended and had the most success with SketchUp 8.īy no means am I an expert modeler, I taught myself by trial and error. The next problem was I knew nothing about 3D modeling. Since I couldn’t find some of the decor and furniture I’d see in designer stores and magazines, I figured I should try to make them in miniature. I started a blog, Modern Mini Houses, to feature the artists and designers I found making modern miniatures. The only problem was there are very few artists out there making them. I searched online and found a few blogs that showcased modern miniatures and I was hooked. I had been carting around the dollhouse my mom made for me as a kid and thought it would be a fun project to redo the Country Victorian interior into something more contemporary. 8 years ago I became addicted to modern miniatures. If you need to be sure that the print is at actual size, measure the printed output and compare the number with the SketchUp model dimensions.I’ve been fascinated with miniatures for as long as I can remember. When you print from SketchUp, or from a PDF generated from SketchUp make sure that the physical printer is set to print at 100%, not scaled to fit the page or an arbitrary print area. They may not be the prettiest things you’ve ever seen, but the are perfectly usable. Click Patterns From SKP to download a PDF file showing the results, directly from SketchUp. To make everything fit for the bottom of the side, I had to sacrifice the outer edges of the pattern and put it on a legal size sheet in Portrait orientation. I could also have selected legal size paper and wouldn’t need to get so close. To make this fit, I held a piece of paper up to my screen to resize the window proportions and I zoomed in to fill the screen. Because I don’t want to run out of blue ink in my printer, I’ll go to the Styles window in SketchUp and turn off the display of the sky, or select a different style that is just lines. The blue color is the “sky” background in SketchUp. ![]() Here is the preview that I’m looking for - almost. That’s 19 sheets more than I want, so I need to play around with the window size and my view to get it down to a single sheet. I took this screen shot before zooming way, way in and SketchUp is ready to print all of the model (along with a great deal of the background) on twenty sheets of paper. If you print on your own machine, PAY ATTENTION TO THE TILED SHEET PRINT RANGE in the lower left corner or the dialogue box. ![]() You can then take (or e-mail) the PDF to someone with a great big printer (I use my local Staples store). Set up the page size for a large sheet, 24 x 36 or 36 x 48 are standard sizes. If you want a real big print on a single sheet, you can find software online that will let you create PDF files as a virtual printer. I can also select my inkjet printer and put these on letter or legal size paper. I have my machine set to “print” an Adobe PDF file so I can show you the results. The numbers and units should match, as seen here where an inch in the printout equals an inch in SketchUp.Īt the top of the box you can select your printer. That lets you change the numbers below Scale. To print to full size (or any specific scale) uncheck the box that says “Fit to page”. When you click “OK” you will see what will go to your printer. If you’re in “Print Preview” it’s safe to play around with the different settings to see what happens. Checking or unchecking some of the boxes changes the options that are available. Here is what the dialogue box looks like.
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