Here I have some images from the SketchUp model of my childhood house.
In this model, I encountered some challenges in creating the stairs on the front of the house. However, after several youtube tutorials, I succeeded in producing a relatively accurate representation of the stairs. This is actually a crucial part of the building in real life, especially to alleviate the impacts of frequent floods in Indonesia. Drawing non-rectangular shapes like windows and doors sometimes was sometimes also difficult, but I managed to finish them by tweaking the original shapes and made some compromises on the window panes and door knobs.
Finally, I found drawing the roof to be the most challenging part. My house’s roof is quite complicated and a trapezoid prism was pretty hard to draw on SketchUp. Luckily, I found out how to use Scale.
Tip: To create some sort of prism shape, first draw a cube. Then, use scale tool to change the shape of the top surface. In my case, I made the top surface smaller to obtain the desired trapezoid roof.
Another tip: Use the tape measure. Guide lines (represented by black dashed lines) will appear, and it will make it easier to draw some patterns that require high accuracy.
As a result, I managed to finish the roof, and here is the top view of my house:
Overall, SketchUp is an easy-to-use software, and I am glad to be able to complete this project and produced a pretty accurate model of my childhood house.
Your detail work is fantastic! Based on the person in the shot, it seems to be fairly accurately scaled as well. Did you also use the tape measure tool for size and dimension measurement for the size of the house as a whole?
Thank you! At first, I mostly eyeballed the dimension measurement for the size of the house; I mostly also drew rectangles with different sizes using the rectangle tool at the beginning. Tape measures came more handy for me when I created the roofs and some more details like distances between windows.
Agreed! Some really nice details and textures here, Alief! You also described your challenges and solutions in a clear and helpful way.