Jun8
There are various types of roofs built in the real world, and various methods of creating roofs in SketchUp. We show you a variety of techniques in our SketchUp training courses. For example, to create a skillion type roof as illustrated here, we first go to the Camera drop-down menu and choose the Top view, then the Parallel mode. This... Read more...
Jun8
The Array tools are well-known in Autocad’s 2d interface, but the same tools are available in the 3d workspace. Polar Array is one of the many 3d operations we look at in our Autocad 3d training courses. An example of 3d polar array would be in the creation of a flange in mechanical engineering, as shown here. First of all,... Read more...
Jun8
In the Autocad 2d interface blocks are used for any repeated elements like doors, windows, fasteners; basically any part of a drawing that you may want to repeat or import into future drawings. We explore the creation and modifying of blocks in our Autocad 2d training courses. Blocks are an automated part of the drawing process. Often drawings contain elements... Read more...
May31
There are many methods for importing and adjusting images in an Indesign document, one of which is the Ellipse Frame tool. We show you a full range in our Adobe Indesign training courses. It’s possible just to go to File > Place (or Control +D; Mac Command +D) and browse to where your image is saved. However, for more control,... Read more...
May31
The CS6 version of Photoshop introduced several new features, one of which was modifications to the Crop tool. This is one of the many functions we look at in our Adobe Photoshop training courses. CS6 also introduced the capacity to control the look of the User Interface. You can make it darker or lighter, etc, via the Edit > Preferences... Read more...
May31
Creating a landscape in Adobe Illustrator involves the use of several basic tools and techniques, which we explore in our Illustrator courses. For the landscape pictured here we first create a new file via the File drop-down menu: width 210 x height 130 mm > Colour Mode: RGB, for example. We will create the scene mainly using the Pen, Ellipse,... Read more...
May24
Wall sections like clerestorys, are easy to create in SketchUp. We take you through the steps in our SketchUp training courses. A clerestory, literally a “clear storey”, is a high section of wall containing windows above the eye level, the purpose of which is to add extra light and air flow for passive cooling design. This wall section is often... Read more...
May24
Sweeping a shape around a path is one of the many ways we can create solid objects in Autocad 3D. We demonstrate how to do it in our Autocad 3D training courses. First we need a 2D closed shape (which is the profile) and send it along a drawn path which can be open (like a line or helix) or... Read more...
May24
There are many ways of drawing furniture in Autocad, depending on which tools you use. We show you several methods of drawing and modifying objects in our Autocad 2D training courses. For example, to create the plan view of the serving counter shown here, you could use the Line tool (L) with Ortho (F8) selected, and simply draw the lines... Read more...
May17
Working with images in High Dynamic Range is a simple process in Adobe Photoshop. We demonstrate how in our Photoshop training courses. In HDR image processing you have multiple F-stop bracketed exposures of the same image. Select these in Mini-bridge, then right-click and choose Photoshop, Merge to HDR Pro, and choose OK. It then takes the images into an HDR... Read more...
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