(There’s more info on linking SketchUp to component libraries on my SketchUp Basics Cheat Sheet, another free offering when you sign up on my site.) Click the arrow next to the House icon, choose Architecture, and open the “Windows” collection. You can also find the same components in the 3D Warehouse, which you can access from your Components window. Among these SketchUp models are some windows and doors that would work well in this tutorial. On my website, you can sign up for free access to video tutorials and around 3,000 SketchUp components. The window opening is now part of the wall group, and you can make changes to it (for example, Push/Pull to widen or shorten) by opening the wall group for editing. In this case, you’d click this reference point all three times.) (Another way to do this is to have a reference point in the model where you want the hole to start. After that last click, you get your hole.

The next two clicks set the horizontal and vertical distances from where you first clicked. You want to click the wall that’s getting the hole, but you must click on the point from which the hole will be measured, such as the lower left corner of the wall itself. But enter something shallower, for a window opening.Ĭlick Create Opening. As an example, for a door opening you’d use something like 3’x8’. Like with the other 1001bit tools, you get a menu of parameters here you can set the opening width and height. The walls are part of a group, but you don’t need to have the group open for editing to make holes in it.

We’ll continue with the model from Part 1 the walls are 6” thick x 11’ high. Parts 1-5 were in Part 1, which is why I’m starting here with Step 6. The tools I’ll show here are for openings, panels, and louvers. In this post, I’ll show a few more of these tools, to punch holes in the wall and detail out grills. In Part 1 of this tutorial, I gave a quick overview of how to quickly model a residential house (walls, roof, framing), using the 1001bit Tools extension.

How to use 1001bit tools in sketchup