Creating Meshes with Sandbox Tools - Square One

Sandbox tools are a suite unto themselves, but today we look at creating Meshes with Sandbox tools!
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[@keggyification]

Thanks Aaron, Looking forward to the next videos in this series.

[@The123abdulrahman]

Thank you Aaron .. always find what am lookin for with you!

[@MSPhysicsForFun]

Thank you Aaron, this is a kind of simple tools but really useful.

[@RobSHoglund]

Is this tool good for anything other than drawing landscapes? I tried to use it to draw a small concave/convex surface for an object I was drawing.

[@davidthilk6762]

My Achilles heel is upholstered products (sofas, chairs, etc.). I have searched RUclips for a useful tutorial with no luck. It seems I could use sandbox tools to create "puffy" items. I would love to see you do a video drawing a realistic sofa using native tools.

[@oh_heff_that]

Great Video! I was hoping to see a third example that would have creates a concave area in the block that the sphere would sit in. I'm a newb, so not even sure if that is possible!

[@Lordaniel11569]

I am trying to model a site that is an irregular polygon and i have RL's for each corner - basically, i want to put an inclined plane over the whole site using the corner RL's as fixed reference points - then i can extrude the house plan upwards through the site to its specific RL. Is that something that Sandbox can do? Ultimately, i need to see the effect of shadows on surrounding houses and land.

[@Happenings19046]

Where or how do we source the contours to practice on?

[@Skans-Gustav]

Thanks. What I one day also hope to see is how to handle imported dwg files with coordinates Det far from origin. No-one seems to ever mention this obvious problem in SketchUp.

[@joopterwijn]

Is there a way to create a ditch along the ordered mash? (I’m just playing with right now). I have ditch that’s sloped, one side 2feet deep the other side 6feet deep. I thought I must be able to Puch let say a cilinder shape into the mash, or a upside down (pulled out) trapezoid shape… to create a ditch with sloped sides…

[@SketchUp]

There is! Keep an eye out for the rest of this series as we will be covering just that topic in a future video!

[@sambabassesoumare798]

Cool.

[@saifch8597]

v helpfull thank you sir

[@user-ei7tk1ym2q]

I would like to see real examples of construction using the tool being studied. Thank you.

[@steverugg389]

Can not get from scratch to do a grid?

[@babsgraphics]

great

[@snuj5611]

Hi there,
Where is the part two? I can not find it!

[@brevelord]

I think you can just hit the next button to the right of the pause/play button

[@madprism]

Great video. How do we do this on iPad.

[@SketchUp]

Sandbox Tools is an extension, and only available in SketchUp Pro.

[@vincentidio9237]

Show process not only explaination

[@SketchUp]

Thsi was a video to show how to create a mesh using the Sandbox Tools. It is intended to serve as an overview of how the tool works. Was a portion of the process that you thought was unclear?