3D drawing with the “Circle” tool

It is the same as drawing a 3D square, turn the workspace by using the “Rotate” tool until the blue vertical axis is positioned on the green or the red axis.

Alternatively, use the “ISO”, “Left”, “Right” or “Back” buttons in the “Views” toolbar.

To move the circles, use the “Move / Copy” tool, possibly with the arrow keys on your keyboard, to move horizontally, vertically, or in depth. Select the circle first, select the “Move / Copy” tool in the tool bar, hold one of the arrow keys on your keyboard pressed while you move the circle.

With the up arrow to move the circle vertically.

With the left arrow, you can move the circle horizontally.

And with the right arrow you can move it vertically, horizontally and in depth.

To make it more clear to everyone, i think i will need another example.

1. With the “Arc” tool draw an arc in the circle.
2. The “Eraser” removes the outer edge of the circle.
Result, you have a moon (3).

 

From circle to globe

To draw a sphere of a circle, with a circle as shown below, select one of the two circles with the Select tool (1).
By now, you know how to do this.
You select the “Follow Me” tool in the tool bar and click the tool on the Circle selected that is not selected (2).
That’s it (3).

I will tell you more about the “Follow Me” tool,  in one of the following lessons.

 

3D drawing with the “Arc” and “Freestyle” tools

Again the same principle as the previous drawing tools.

First you turn in the workspace by using the “Rotate” tool, until the blue vertical axis is positioned on the green or the red axis. Or you use the buttons in the “Views” toolbar.

 

Drawing a 2D figure on a 3D figure

When we have a 3D figure, and wish to draw a circle on it, SketchUp will automatically position the drawing figure to adjust to the axis-position of the plane of the 3D-object (image 1,2 and 3) like a  magnet.
Sometimes this is what you would want, sometimes not.

If this is not the case, and you want to draw the 2D figure parallel to another axis, move your mouse pointer over to the plane that is on the correct axis.
Hold the Shift key on your keyboard.
Move the mouse pointer to the position of the plane where you want to draw, and click and drag until you’ve reached the desired size of the 2D figure.
Once you begin to draw you may, but need not, release the Shift key.
When you figure reaches the size you want, let go the mouse button, and you’re done (4).

 

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