Want to create fun, easy, and colorful 3D objects on your computer? Then you'll LOVE Google SketchUp! In no time at all, this first book of the ModelMetricks Basics series will show you how to model a bunch of different houses, complete with windows, chimneys, and roofs. In the last chapter, you'll get to "paint" your house using cool colors and textures. No experience necessary!
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 118 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-00-5
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-01-2
ModelMetricks Basics Series Book 2:
Strange Buildings
This second book of the ModelMetricks Basics series will show you how to make a colorful factory, a house with curvy parts, and a tall tower with different types of multi-colored, see-through windows and skylights. Fun to make, and you'll learn a lot about SketchUp's modeling tools in the process!
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 106 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-02-9
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-03-6
ModelMetricks Basics Series Book 3:
Kids as Architects
This third book of the ModelMetricks Basics series will show you how to make a house shaped like a rainbow, a round tower with spiral steps, a set of matching buildings shaped like stars, and even a building shaped like a hand!
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 112 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-04-3
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-05-0
ModelMetricks Basics Series Book 4:
Go to Your Room!
This fourth book of the ModelMetricks Basics series will show you how to make a bedroom with walls and windows, that contains a dresser, bookcase, clock, loft bed, and computer. You'll learn how (and why) to use two of SketchUp's most important tools: groups and components. Plus you'll get an introduction to Google's 3D Warehouse.
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 150 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-06-7
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-07-4
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ModelMetricks Intermediate Series Book 1:
Write Now!
This first book of the ModelMetricks Intermediate series will show you how to use the 3D Text tool. You'll make flat letters, 3D letters, words with stripes, colorful wall signs, engravings, even letters along round objects. After reading this book, you'll be able to write anything anywhere in Google SketchUp, using any colors and styles you like!
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 146 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-14-2
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-15-9
ModelMetricks Intermediate Series Book 2:
Painting with Pictures
In this second book of the ModelMetricks Intermediate series, you will build a simple room, and use digital pictures to paint the walls, rugs, posters, even a trash can. You'll learn how to position pictures to fit your objects, and how to change objects to fit your pictures. You'll also see how to use a picture to make a 2D component that acts like it's 3D. All the pictures you'll need can be downloaded from our website, plus you'll also get instructions on how to find your own pictures.
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 170 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-16-6
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-17-3
ModelMetricks Intermediate Series Book 3:
Puzzles
In this third book of the ModelMetricks Intermediate series, you will make puzzles that you can give your friends to solve. There are shape puzzles, picture puzzles with different types of pieces, word puzzles where your friends can unscramble a message, and even a spinning message puzzle. You can make your puzzles easy to solve, or you can drive your friends crazy with tough ones!
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 142 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-18-0
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-19-7
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ModelMetricks Advanced Series Book 1:
Using Pictures in 3D!
In this first book of the ModelMetricks Advanced series, you'll learn how to use a single, flat digital picture to paint a 3D model. You'll learn how to position a picture to fit a model, and how to build a model to fit a picture. You'll also learn how to use SketchUp's awesome Photo Match tool. Plus you'll get to use pictures with transparent backgrounds!
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 148 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-30-2
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-31-9
ModelMetricks Advanced Series Book 2:
Art Gallery
In this second book of the ModelMetricks Advanced series, you'll use digital pictures to make several paintings, each with its own fancy frame. You'll also make some elaborate and colorful bowls that will sit on display stands. To house all these objects, you'll build an art gallery with a complicated-looking (but easy to make) window and roof. SketchUp's very fun Follow Me tool is the star of this book.
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 148 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-32-6
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-33-3
ModelMetricks Advanced Series Book 3:
Crazy Shapes
In this third book of the ModelMetricks Advanced series, the main focus is combining components with the Follow Me and Intersect with Model tools. You'll make stacking rings, a striped bowl, patterns on boxes, patterns on spheres, and interlocking building blocks. Once you can make these models, you'll be able to model just about anything that has repeating objects!
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 130 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-34-0
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-35-7
ModelMetricks Advanced Series Book 4:
Optical Illusions
In this fourth book of the ModelMetricks Advanced series, you'll make a whole bunch of optical illusions. (Maybe youÌve seen some of these before on paper, but they look so much cooler on your screen.) You'll make straight lines that look curvy, colors that seem to change, and models that look like they're moving. Caution: this book might make you dizzy!
Printed in full color, 5.5" x 8.5" 166 pages
Windows ISBN: 978-1-935135-36-4
Mac ISBN: 978-1-935135-37-1
