try creating a wall with a big tall wide doorway so the leftover wall becomes the post??

I will give that a try, I have contacted Houzz hoping that they might be able to add some posts to sketchup but so far no luck. I hope I can get the posts to scale cheers

I have found some timber flooring in a better colour, I can resize down but it doesn't go down enough and yet sometimes if I go back into sketch it will, go figure?

Hi

When you are saying make the posts are you talking about the texture only?

If you go to sketchuptexture.com and sketchuptextureclub.com you can choose from several hundred timber textures that download straight into sketchup (you will have to register).

Regarding the scaling or rotating of a texture, if you right click on the texture itself you will get 4 pins that allow you to rotate, resize (scale), shear etc the texture to how you want.

Hope that helps....

Cheers

thank you for the above I will give it a go and let you know how I go that sounds like it might help cheers

Well it looks like I'am finally going to learn Sketchup, as Houzz sketch is good but limited, thank you cheers

Hi,

these tutorials are pretty good to start with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7TrGnZ17w

Cheers

I wish I could help and repay the favour. I'm still learning myself. Good luck!

If you remember Niks ensuite with the timber ceiling, I did that using sketchup in about 20 mins flat then rendered it using iRendernxt. Using sketchup you would draw the posts in plan then push / pull them to the desired height and join them using the same tools but horizontally. Once you are happy you use the paint tool. If you experiment with it all you will quickly become proficient. In IRendernxt you can then add the photograph as a background which you can scale and manipulate. It will take a bit of practice, but you will soon get there. By rendering them using pre-sets you will get a very good result in no time which when saved as jpgs are ready to be published in houzz.

Your sketchup was great. I was only using Houzz Sketch. I have been looking into using Sketchup for sometime and will finally have to give it a go. My problem is that I prefer a teacher with notes designed for each session and haven't been able to find one. At the moment any courses on offer take several years. I will keep looking as learning online is a bit of a challenge, I have a clever son who learns everything he wants online. cheers

Hi

Sketchup doesn't need a course.....

Those tutorials will have you drawing within 30mins....

Cheers

How amazing are you to take the time to do this, I think that we will all thank you.

I do have Sketchup make and 4 tutorial videos, but everything is in 3D and I thought that it would be easier to start with 2D.?

I have friends who are Architects and Designers but none live close by, they use both 2 & 3 D

. I have nearly given up several times but must admit that each time I try I learn a bit more, especially since I now have a small TV screen linked so I can follow the video and work on that screen.

I did find the "Birds eye View" via the camera which allowed drawing a simple floor plan with measurements , no windows etc. And I have also managed to import plans.

My motto is "Never give up", there have been times over the years that have really tested that .

Many thanks co-design I live to fight another day.

Two's company, thanks for your boost in my confidence, I find it does my head in, just wish there was a short course that I could enroll in. I have done others I have certificates in computer studies and did a course in Dreamweaver which I really enjoyed. I will continue with Sketchup make even if it kills me.

Thanks again for the support it means a lot

after many years of years of trial and error i've managed to learn only parts of my vintage CAD program ..congratulations for making the effort to earn something so new and challenging

Are you covering it, and if so with what ?

what do you mean Doug?

are you using a covering i.e. plastic sheeting , colour bond or soft fabric

what size timber posts do you think you will use

sorry just about forgot the pergola as we were into Sketch and Sketchup and I've been working on that

Not sure what size posts/style yet, we have considered old hardwood from a second and timber yard, two smaller posts joined with bolts and then quiet slim posts.

It's an 80's house, lots of brick the pergola side of the house faces onto a canal with a lovely outlook so didn't want to block that. We have also considered Vergola, but it's quite expensive. A pergola would ground the building as it's not the best looking side of the house, the street is great. cheer

If you can find pics of the wood that you want, they can be saved to your sketch ideabook & imported to the sketch.

Don't forget that you can edit the standard sketchup library hatches. For example take yesterdays cube and paint it using the last wood swatch. Its a red brown timber with circular grain. Once you have painted click edit then click on a section of the colour wheel nearer to the white centre or move towards the yellow. See how the colour changes. You can also lighten or darken your timber by using the slide control. The problem is you still have a timber with roundish grain which is not what you are looking for. So click the chain link and change only one of the 305 measurements to say 2000. You now have a piece of material that looks like real timber with the grain stretched in one direction only. If you want the grain to run the other way swap the measurements over and it will stretch the grain to run in the other direction. You can do the same for all the hatches, however most are pre-set about right and only need colour adjustment only. That's 2 ways to manipulate the standard library that are easy. Just practice.

wow that's very good, I will see what I can do but it will take this novice a whole lot longer