This tutorial covers how to use Google Sketchup to create objects that can be manipulated in Adobe Illustrator and cut out on a Craft-ROBO. Google Sketchup Pro is required to export a rendering that is readable in Adobe Illustrator.
Google Sketchup: Step 1
Open Google Sketchup.
Google Sketchup: Step 2
Remove the man from the modeling area.
1. Go to Tools.
2. Click on Select.
3. Click on the man in the modeling area. Press the delete key.
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Click on the Orbit tool at the top to change your view of a model, use the Zoom tool, to move closer to or farther from the model, the Pan tool
1. Open SketchUp and click the Orbit tool to move within the program, so that the blue axis (solid line) is up and the green and red are ground level.
2. Click on the Circle tool, then click on the green or red axis, and drag the mouse to draw a circle.
3. Click the Select tool and double click on the center of the circle to highlight the circle in blue.
4. Scroll Edit ? Make Component to make your circle a component part. (We highly recommend making everything a component in SketchUp, which helps with duplication and revision in the long run.) Name it “dome” or a similar appropriate name. Then click Create.
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Push/Pull with Modifier Keys
When you press certain modifier keys while using Push/Pull, you can control how adjacent faces act. To demonstrate this, we’ll work on the back face of the trapezoidal model.
1. Orbit to the back and pull out the face shown. This leaves the neighboring faces in place, and adds new vertical faces between existing faces and the pulled-out face.
2. Undo this operation (Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z), and pull it again, this time pressing and holding the Alt/Cmd key. The pulled face remains the same size, but the neighboring faces move with it.
3. Undo and try again, this time press the Ctrl/Option key (you don’t have to keep it pressed). The difference this time is that dividing lines are created along faces that would otherwise be healed, such as the top face.
4. For another demonstration of modifier keys, Undo again, and pull out the side of the trapezoid (with no modifier keys).
5. Then pull out the face shown.
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This document describes the process for installing the Google SketchUp Pro 6 GIS Plugin. Google SketchUp Pro 6 GIS Plugin will install various DLL files into both SketchUp Pro 6 and ESRI Arc9.2.
Preparation
There are a few tasks you should accomplish before installing the Google SketchUp Pro 6 GIS Plugin. These are as follows:
• Disable all “spy-ware” and antivirus software. DLL registration can be interpreted as virus-like activity.
• Uninstall previous versions of the SketchUp ArcGIS Plugin.
• Install your GIS software (if not already installed)
• Install SketchUp Pro 6
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Design specifications & constraints
When designing for DVD, you must keep a few key specs in mind.
• Square vs. Non-Square Pixel Aspect Ratio: DVDs use non-square pixels. If you are building in Photoshop CS, this is no problem. If you are using an earlier version of Photoshop, you will have to resize your graphics.
• The Screen is Smaller than You Think: A certain portion of the menu design will be lost by consumer TV sets. To counterbalance this, we reserve a bleed area. Title safe is 80% of the screen; action safe is 90% (but the background goes edge-to-edge however).
• Final File Ends Up 720 X 480 Pixels: Whether its widescreen or standard, you still only have an area that’s 720 pixels across and 480 pixels tall to design for. Extra ppi (often called dpi) are as useless as an elephant at a backyard barbeque.
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How to Create Adobe PDF Files for Print and Press guides you through the basic steps of producing PDF files from applications for high-quality output. It focuses mainly on the composite PDF workflow, but also provides some basic information about the pros and cons of a preseparated PostScript workflow. This document also explains the importance of producing good PostScript files for distilling, and describes the processes for getting there.
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Getting Around in Photoshop Color Management Color management standards let you move image files between computers and applications, or from camera, to monitor, to printer, with relative color consistency. The system works by embedding a “color profile” into to an image file that specifies what color space is in use. When the file is opened in Photoshop, if the working space for Photoshop is set for a different colorspace than specified in a file’s color profile, Photoshop may be set to give an alert, or to “preserve” the embedded profile to maintain the appearance of the colors in the image.
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Adobe Photoshop is the graphic arts industry standard software for raster image manipulation. Cartographers can also use Photoshop to create effective colored shaded relief for maps. One important advantage in using Photoshop to create shaded relief is that of familiarity. Most cartographers and graphic artists have Photoshop on their desktop and are skilled in using it for working with images. It is an extremely powerful image-editing tool and a skilled cartographer can make many enhancements to a shaded relief map image once it is rendered.
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