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Now that you’ve begun to orient yourself to the SketchUp workspace, it’s time to get your head space ready. No computer tips here.

Imagine a cube. How would you draw it with a pencil? Even if you have very little experience drawing, we bet that you can visualize a way to draw it. Now imagine a sphere: How might you draw that? Drawing the sphere is harder to imagine, right?

Representing a sphere in SketchUp will be much quicker than drawing it by hand, but you still need to know how to think with SketchUp — and how its tools work — to imagine the sphere coming into being. Can you imagine a circle spinning its way into a sphere, as shown in Figure 1-5? Do you feel yourself exercising those new brain muscles?

FIGURE 1-5: One of a few ways to imagine a sphere in SketchUp: a circle rotating in place.

In Chapters 2 and 3, you’re going to leap with wild abandon into this new mind space. Our last piece of setup advice is to take it easy on yourself. Remember, you’re not just using the Line tool, but also using your imagination in a new way. With this book, you are going to earn that superpower.