Learn SketchUp in 30 Days DAY 7 - Chess Board and Pieces!

In this video, learn to use components to model a chess board, and how to create shapes by lathing (or extruding along arcs)! This can be very valuable for create shapes that are rounded and symmetrical!

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:19 - Creating your chess board
3:19 - Subscriber battle update
3:39 - Creating your first chess piece/reference image
5:53 - Creating your profile
7:30 - Using follow me to create your piece
10:53 - Creating your second piece
12:25 - Removing material at the rook with rotational arrays
14:27 - Next video in series

[Randor]

That was nice and concise. I downloaded the finished model, with is fine, but it may have been nice to include the flat images that you extruded in order to let us have practice with them. I know they can be found around the web, but I like to work on the same pieces you do. Thanks!

[danielsmith]

Hello, I’m having problems push pulling the castle peace top edges says because it’s not flat I don’t understand do you know what I need to do thank you.

[vuurtorengroep]

man you really are amazing, learning so much from you! thx a bunch

[nikhatsirguroh]

i can't seem to import images, when I try to import m only showing ketchup files, even if I try to search from the location where I saved the image

[sandraforbes]

I made both black and white components but After I copied and pasted the squares for the board, I lost the ability to adjust each separately as a component. I couldn't adjust the height of just the whites. I could only adjust each one by one. What did I do wrong? Everything else went great! Thank you.

[chhnov]

Hi Justin. Thanks for all this great stuff. I'm having a problem with the scaling tool. I create a circle and PP it up a bit and then click on scale but then when I drag a handle the clylinder is pulled over, in does not get smaller symmetrically. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[stump]

This is awesome. Now if the grid goes down, I can 3D print my own chess board. 😀

[tamarakepreyeomgbuayakimi.]

Pls, did you do all this without plugins?.

[santaclaus]

When I used the follow-me tool it left a vertical line on the outside of the piece. Did I do something wrong? I am using Sketchup Pro.

[aliullahshaikh]

Display tray is missing in sketchup pro version

[INFINITI]

hi justin,
you doing perfect job,
in this case you a little mistake,
in chess board, first left, down segment must be black, than second white & etc.
wiith big respect, SU & chess lover from georgia :)

[KingBigBabyJesus]

How can it be solid but not solid? Tried a different chess piece and the skirt with the notches had an arch instead of vertical walls and well lessons were learned alright. Can't push/pull a curved surface and can't use the solid tools because my chess piece was just a surface. Couldn't figure out how to make it solid so remodeled a simple one like in the video and work just fine. Slightly disappointing but moving forward

[loiclp]

Hi where can I find the jepgs for the chess components ?

[anthonyalzhoury]

how to unhide the photo on the pro version ?

[driesrengle.]

Why is there no pen tool in sketchup? Very unnatural to draw this with arcs.. not very smooth either

[brandonjones]

The basic follow me tool has always been glitchy. Its great when it works, but a total pain when it doesnt.