Materials are used to paint faces that already exist in a model, and we don’t have any faces yet. Then SketchUp will ask how you want it inserted: as a material or an image. From the icons at the top left corner, click the Folder icon, then choose Insert.īecause the image is stored on your computer, click the computer icon.īrowse to where you have your image and choose that file to insert. This is the view you should see now: looking straight down onto the red – green plane. On the right side of the window, click the Views icon.Ĭlick the icon that looks like the top of a house. Since the puzzle is supposed to lie flat, on the “ground,” we need to switch to a bird’s eye view – looking down on the ground from above. There’s no need to have Josh standing on our puzzle, so click the Eraser icon or press the E shortcut. The red and green axes are on the ground, blue is for the vertical direction. Here’s the image I’m using, found during a search for “candy” in Google Images:įor whatever image you want to use (or create), make sure it’s saved somewhere on your computer.Īfter you go to the SketchUp page and launch your modeling session, here’s what you should see: a man (Josh) standing on the ground with axis lines around him. In this project, we’ll create a jigsaw puzzle from an image. But the project steps will be listed for the web version.
#DIGITAL JIGSAW PUZZLE SOFTWARE INSTALL#
There are versions you can download and install to your computer as well. This is the web-based version of SketchUp. If you haven’t completed the previous SketchUp projects in this magazine, here’s where you need to go for the modeling application: Slice digital photos into pieces and have fun pasting them back together.