![]() It is easy to accidentally draw a line “off the grid” and miss how it isn’t following one of the X,Y,Z axes. If you have a line that doesn’t exactly snap to a vertex, the entire geometry of your model can be misattached. Some programs allow for some user error, but SketchUp is pure geometry. One of the “quirks” of SketchUp is that it keeps you honest. ![]() Some of the constructions that people have done in the past illustrate just how cool this tool is once you’ve learned how to use it. Some of the tools work in multiple ways, either adding or subtracting from a construction. The interface itself takes some getting used to, particularly with learning how to move the camera/point of view around. It is user friendly in the sense that it is easy to construct and edit lines and polygons. Using Google SketchUp is an interesting experience. Nevertheless, I wanted to try my hand at the building, constructing it from online pictures and my memory. To my disappointment, someone has already created a model of it and it can be found in Google Earth. It is a striking building, a nearly windowless monolith rising 166 ft into the air the tallest building in the county. I spent so much time in that building, that it’s almost like home to me in some respects. I spent three years in that building as an undergrad doing anything from struggling to calculate adiabatic lapse rates to trying to understand quasigeostrophy. The building I chose to build was Bradfield Hall, home to the Atmospheric Science side of the Earth and Atmospheric Science department at Cornell University. ![]() I hope I can use this program again in the future for another project. Thanks to this, I can imagine many different uses for the program, including adding some realism to 3D mapping. SketchUp is as powerful as the user’s creativity and skill. Instinctively, I think to construct buildings, as I was a big fan of Legos growing up. For this lab, we used Google SketchUp a free program that allows users to create 3D models of virtually anything. ![]()
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