How to Set Up for Photo-Matching in Google SketchUp 8

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Release the mouse button. If you have any questions regarding photo matching in sketchup, feel free to reach out in the comments below! If the photo looks down on a building, try a corner where the roof and walls instead.

Then manipulate your model to line up to the image. Learn how to perfect your modeling with new post-processing skills, techniques and easy to follow step by step instructions provided by highly talented professional contributors. Anyways, open the image in it's original direction and use the software to rotate it 90 or 180 degrees and then save it as a new image. By the end of this course, you'll have completed your first model using photo matching, and in addition to that, you'll have learned everything you need to model from photos, and work with design options.

Using Match Photo in SketchUp

It helps when clients can preview their project in 3-D. I still occasionally build a mock-up, but I can accomplish the same thing in SketchUp using the Match Photo feature, which combines a SketchUp model of the proposed construction with a photograph of the existing condition. When photographing the existing space, carefully choose the vantage point. Inside and outside corners, window edges, and other clear lines work best, and longer lines are better. How much detail you include in the surrounding space is up to you, but the dimensions should be as close as possible to the actual dimensions of the space. In fact, the more dimensions you include in the model, the better. In this example, each element—the mantel, firebox, fireplace surround, even the TV and the woodstove—exist as separate elements. Now the fun begins. When using the Match Photo feature, the sequence is important. If you bring the photo into the model and scale it, you can make a mess of things. Capture the 3-D Object Save the finished project model, then select all of the elements from it that you want to display in the photo, GROUP them, and use CTRL-C COMMAND-C on a Mac to copy the group into memory. Then navigate to the folder where you saved the photo of the room and OPEN it. To orient the image within the SketchUp model, first place the point of origin the intersection of the blue, green, and red axes. This corresponds to the left boundary of the model I plan to import later. Notice that I zoomed way in to more accurately locate the corner. However, if you attempt to pan or rotate the model at this point, you will cause the photo to disappear. To get it back, click the blue tab above the dialogue box in the upper left corner of your screen. This is where the vantage point of the photo comes in handy. Grab one of the red lines and align it with a sharp left-to-right line in the photo. Repeat with the other red line, keeping in mind that the farther away you locate the second red line from the first, the more accurate the orientation of the photo in the model will be. Do the same with the green lines along photo elements that run from front to back. Save your work at this point. You may have noticed that when you manipulate the green and red lines, all of the other lines move around, too, including the blue vertical axis line. In my case, the fireplace model I want to overlay onto the photo is a strong vertical element, so I tweaked the upper green line until the blue axis followed the drywall corner perfectly. This ensured that any distortion from the camera lens would show up elsewhere in the image and not affect my overlay. Click DONE to close the import function. Scale the Photo At this point the photo is properly oriented in the new SketchUp model, but the dimensions are arbitrary. To ensure that my 3-D object fits into the photo as it should, I need to scale the photo using a known dimension. In my case, I built the mantel model so that the top of the mantel was 60 inches off the floor. Next, I used the LINE tool to draw a line along the blue axis between the point of origin and the reference line I just created. Now for the moment of truth. Using the TAPE MEASURE tool, click one end of the vertical line you just drew, then the other, and type the dimension 60 into the value control box at the bottom right corner of the screen. Import the 3-D Object With the photo oriented and scaled, paste in the 3-D object that you saved into memory earlier CTRL-V on a PC, COMMAND-V on a Mac. Simply use ROTATE or other tools to manipulate the pasted-in 3D object until it is correctly oriented. Moving the model will make the photo disappear, but this often makes it easier to see the reference lines in the model. How much would you invoice a client for this, if you weren't going to be selling a turn-key installed project? Too many of our clients see TV shows that lead them to believe that Design Time is free and that it takes 10 minutes to create a 3D model of some concept that they can't visualize on their own. The process used to take me MUCH longer before I developed the workflow outlined in the article though... This may seem callous of me but I try early on to steer clear of the 'get 3 bids and pick the low one' crowd... One of the biggest benefits of this whole process is how helpful it is for 'iterating' as a design progresses. Once the groundwork is done, by using SketchUp's Layers feature I can show 5 different mantle designs in different materials with different corbels at different heights and, and, and... And since clients are paying hourly they are quite focused on maximizing benefit from the effort. If you're interested here's a link to a video version of this material: Thanks for posting an insightful question! Here's a link from the SketchUp Community Forum that addresses the problem you're having posts at the end seem most to the point for your question : Basically what the article says is that SketchUp retains image orientation information that's part of the photos themselves that gets attached when the photo is taken from the specific device it's taken with and in the original orientation. I had to research this because in many years of PhotoMatching I've only used photos taken in landscape mode with a DSLR camera. I was puzzled by your question but learned immediately that photos taken with my phone behave obstinately like yours do. I opened them in Windows 10 and rotated them so they are oriented properly but they still imported in their original direction. The solution, lame though it may seem, is to open the image you want to PhotoMatch in a photo editing program I use GIMP but Photoshop would do the same thing. Anyways, open the image in it's original direction and use the software to rotate it 90 or 180 degrees and then save it as a new image. I use my original photo name and add the word 'rotated' as a designation for the new version. Import the 'rotated' version into PhotoMatch and, wahlah, all is right with the world. If not feel free to post a comment on the PhotoMatch video on my The Digital Jobsite Channel on YouTube and I'll try to help further... I've yet to find a problem that someone there can't answer... Although the embarrassment is always self-generated because Sages in the Forum are incredibly humble if your query isn't offensive. The 4-by-7-foot cultured stone wall, angled at 45 degrees on the northeast corner of the deck, gives the chef and his guests their desired privacy.

So you're not just scaling the figure but you're scaling the space and the figures in that space, so they're going to get bigger or smaller. You can move it around and match new photo sketchup like this person is walking on the floor, although the person looks a little small for the room and we'll deal with that later. Move the cursor to the ending point of a position on the photo representing a sol parallel to the red axis. Each tutorial is complete in itself in as much as you can stop at the end of any of them having acquired a new technique that is complete in itself, without being obliged to finish the series. We'll begin by importing an prime into the modeling environment. By the end of this course, you'll have completed your first model using the Photo Matching method.