Build a City

SOL: C/T 6-8.3, C/T 6-8.4, C/T 6-8.5, C/T 6-8.9
Objective: Use Google Sketchup and the 3D warehouse to create a city with some of the tallest buildings in the world.
Before Review the following:
  1. What does CAD mean?
  2. Who would use a CAD program?
  3. How do you move an object?
  4. How do you rotate an object?
  5. How do you resize an object?
  6. How do you explode an object?
  7. How do you make a group?
  8. Name 2 ways to add an object from the 3D warehouse.
During Build a city:

  • Download the following buildings

    1. Burj Khalifa
    2. Makkah Royal Clock Tower
    3. Taipei 101
    4. Shanghai World Financial Center
    5. International Commerce Center
    6. Petronas Towers
    7. Nanjig Greenland Financial
    8. Willis Tower
    9. Kingkey 100
    10. Guangzhou International Finance Center
  • Add 5 other city buildings
  • Build city roads using Sketchup
city
After Ask these questions:
  1. How does your city compare with mine?
  2. Are the buildings positioned correctly in relation to the roads?
  3. What problems did you have?