SketchUp Stud Wall: Components, Groups, and Multiplying

so in this video I'm going to show you how to make a 2 by 4 stud which is a type of wood and then how to make a framed out wall of a house using that as well as introducing the concepts of a group and the component and the divide function and the multiply function rather so to do that you're gonna go to your model once you're in Sketchup for schools fix a simple template and first thing we're to do is get rid of Mike and now we're going to make our first we're going to make a wall so all walls have a bottom plate which is basically 1 2 by 4 that is on the ground so we'll make a rectangle make it out there and we're going to make this 3 inches wide by 16 feet long so a 2 by 4 even though it's sounds like it's 2 inches by 4 inches actually has the actual dimensions of three and a half inches by one and a half inches so if we do three point five comma 16 feet enter there's the bottom part we'll soon then roll the mouse then use the push/pull tool to get the top surface and we're gonna pull it up 1.5 inches okay so there's our two-by-four laying on the ground make sure this stays in the right dimensions use a select tool click three times one two three so it selects all the lines and faces then right-click we're gonna make that a group and we'll talk about the difference between a group and a component in a second on top of it I'm where the ends will click off the the group will take another trial and we're going this is going to be the end print of another two-by-four so I'll grab the corner click and walk through three point 5 comma 1.5 enter so this is going to be the end of our a bunch of other the vertical 2x4 us that make the frame of the wall so go to this again and we'll do a triple click on this part one two three and now it's just selecting that rectangle because the other stuff is a group and so it's not considering it as part of this now we're going to right click this and say make component we're gonna call this component whenever you make me gonna ask for a name you don't have to put in one it will just give it number one or you can just call it your own name okay now here's the beauty of components they work together and if you change one you change all of them so what we're going to do is along this wall we want to spread out a whole bunch of these rectangles and then you will pull them up so let's go to the move tool we're gonna grab this component now and we move it I'm on a Mac so I'm gonna hit option which makes a copy and I'm going to move it up along the piece of wood on the ground there just to a small distance and I'm going to type in 16 inches enter okay sixteen inches because in a house the vertical studs replaced every 16 inches to give the wall plenty of support now without touching the mouse again we already moved one down 16 inches if I were to type X 10 that means multiply what I just did times 10 enter and so now you have a bunch of these all the way down to face now if we go over here and some hold shift and hit the wheel it didn't make it all the way to the end okay so what happens if we do X 11 enter well it's almost there how about X 12 yes but you can see right there it's hanging off the end a little bit so we're going to zoom in zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom okay and I'm gonna move this guy on the end just a little bit down nope not that one so let's get out of this and I'm just gonna pick this one and move it down to the end you could zoom while you're doing this stuff too there now here's the beauty of components is if so shift-click we all have a new zoom out all that if you take one of these and you do a push-pull on it all the components work the same so if to open a component though so we're gonna triple click on this or actually then that's what it looks like when you open the component that means you can edit it so now if I take the push-pull and I say I'm gonna make that one go oh now they all go I say 8 feet tall so now what you have if you were to zoom out and click off the component that closes this is you now have a wall a 16 foot long wall that has 12 exact copies of that 8-foot long stud I can also now take this group down at the bottom make another copy of it so I select that it selects as a whole option and they move it that option I'm gonna move it straight up 8 feet and it lands directly on the top and now we have a perfect stud wall that was made using groups and components hope this helped thanks for watching

Channel: John Baglio

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Length: 6min 49sec (409 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 17 2017