Now that we have the basic outside shell of the dorm room, we are going to add a space for a bathroom, doors and windows. Here is where your Pencil Tool comes in. To make a space for the door, take the Pencil Tool and make two lines about the width of a door on the top of the wall, evenly spaced. See figure 5.
Use the Push/Pull Tool to push down that section of the wall into the floor. The result should look like figure 6. To make the bathroom, take the same Pencil Tool and draw a line on the floor from the edge of the door about 1/3 of the way through the room and stop. From that point, draw another line turning 90 degrees and end it on the opposing wall. See figure 7 and 7a. Make another set of lines next to the first set and we will finish our bathroom wall. Now using the Push/Pull Tool, lift up the new walls until they match in size with the height of the room.
We want to create a door to the bathroom or the students that are going to live here are not going to be too happy. Using the same technique we used for the outside wall, use the pencil tool to cut out the outline for the door and using the push/pull tool, bring it down. Your room probably won't look exactly like this but looking at figure 8 should give you a general idea of where we should be right now.
So far, we have made the outside walls of our dorm room, a space for a bathroom and gaps where we are going to place doors. In the next article we are going to show you how to add doors, furniture and textures to your room. I hope that this article has helped you understand just how you how simple it is to use Sketchup.
To continue to the next article, click here. If you are interested in just how far this program can take you, I wrote a full review on this program HERE.
