Now it would be quite easy, if I double-click on this surface and then realize it's still nested in another component, double-click again, and then we're down to the actual individual geometry. This has probably been created in something like 3D Studio Max, which gives us this. We've also got the mesh that can be seen. But the reason I like this model is we've got various colors that we can use. Doesn't matter where we position it, it's going to be readjusted when we take it into a Revit family. It's not a massive file, it's about half a meg, and then I'll just position it at that point there. I'm just going to click on Download, and load it directly into the Sketchup model.
Feel free to like it, you have to be logged in to do that. We can click on the image first, this will take us to the information, and that's the web page that we showed at the beginning. Now it's sitting here on my screen, but it might be somewhere else on yours, but it's the Eames Desk with Right-Hand by SmartFurniture. And then if we scroll down, several rows down, we should see it. Now obviously you won't be seeing this desk straight away because you'll be seeing the Home screen, and so just start typing smartfurniture and you'll come to. There are so many models inside of the 3D Warehouse, but this one seems perfect. 3D Warehouse is great, it gives you other models that you might be interested in. To create this in Revit wouldn't be massively tricky, but it's going to be much, much easier because the geometry's all been developed in Sketchup by, okay, so bit of information about SmartFurniture. I've already been there, and this is the desk I've decided to use, it's perfect to explain quite a few little things that we can do in Sketchup to prepare it for Revit, and also it allows us to practice using different types of materials and other basic modeling techniques. So if you haven't got that loaded, just right-click on one of the toolbars, make sure you've got Warehouse selected, and this will load the Warehouse toolbar and then we can click on the 3D Warehouse. You do this through the Warehouse toolbar.
More and more suppliers are uploading their quality content to the 3D Warehouse for use in the Sketchup environment, but it also serves to use in Revit. The 3D Warehouse is a fantastic repository full of great models, and all available to be used. Now in Chapter Four we'll be looking at models that we can download from the 3D Warehouse, how we can use them in Sketchup to prepare them for Revit, and then how we can render them inside of Revit.
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