
If you're modeling a building or other structure that you plan to build on land, you can find your desired location on an online map and import the terrain right into your model - well, a digital representation of the terrain. With the Match Photo feature, you can import a picture and trace what you see with SketchUp’s modeling tools. If you want to use a photo as a basis for modeling something that exists in the real world, you can do that in SketchUp, too. That’s what we talk about in the first part of this chapter. Building windows is a lot easier when they’re painted right on the wall. You can apply photos to faces and then use the information in the pictures to help with modeling. If you have a model you want to paint with photographs, you can do that. Starting out with a 2D CAD file in SketchUp Proīuilding a model from scratch is all fine and well, but to help you along, SketchUp can import a whole lot of information - in the form of digital photos, 3D terrain data, and even existing 2D CAD. Using photo-matching to match your model to a photograph SketchUp For Dummies (2017) Part 2 Modeling in SketchUp Chapter 8 Modeling with Photos and Other Resourcesīuilding a model from scratch with SketchUp’s photo-matching tools
