SketchUp for RC Aircraft Design Tutorial #3

by JasonEricAnderson | October 7, 2013 | (23) Posted in How To

In tutorial #3 you'll learn the basics of:

  • Transformations
  • Moving
  • Rotating
  • Scaling
  • Grouping objects
  • Components 


I use SketchUp version 8 in these tutorials, you can download it for free from the link below. 

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COMMENTS

Jghanson25 on October 7, 2013
These are awesome videos man! Keep up the good work! It will be fun to learn more and eventually design a good swappable.
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LordVader on October 7, 2013
Outstanding. I believe I may be able to actually use Sketchup with some ability instead of fumbling thru it. Thanks so much, you area tremendous help!
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Krivak957 on October 7, 2013
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. These are the best tutorials ever. Exactly what I've been hoping for.
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Reiematza on October 8, 2013
Thank You!!! this is a very helpful video please keep on doing the series
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oneiwily on October 8, 2013
this was really useful , I enjoyed it, I"m really expecting the next one.
btw. is there an "FT library" that components can be downloaded/uploaded to ?
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JasonEricAnderson on October 8, 2013
The Google 3D warehouse could be put to this use. We'd just need to make sure that we have 'Flite test' mentioned in the description when uploaded.
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Michael9865 on October 9, 2013
Awesome!
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Cyberdactyl on October 12, 2013
Yes indeed, Sketchup is great for designing flying craft.

I designed a high speed quad, I call a 'Quad Racer'. Then rendered it with Indigo.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/Cyberdactyl/QRD.jpg

rendered:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/Cyberdactyl/JungleShot.jpg


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SketchUp for RC Aircraft Design Tutorial #3