In today’s video we’re going to model piping and fittings! This exercise will teach you to work with circles in SketchUp! Things covered include how to extrude smooth pipes, how to split up faces and work with hidden geometry, how to create copies with arrays, and more!
DAY 20 VIDEO
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Introduction
0:20 – How to create smooth curved pipes
1:54 – Adding flanges details to pipes
3:02 – Fixing curves with unhidden edges
5:00 – How to split the pipe for additional detail
7:06 – Adding bolts to our pipe fittings
8:00 – Using rotational arrays to place bolts
10:24 – Removing pipe/adding smaller pipe sections
12:33 – Adding a valve
14:30 – Modeling the shutoff wheel
17:34 – Creating a modular piping system
18:07 – Next video in series
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