PART 19 covers making more complex hip roofs and the follow me tool.
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PART 18 shows you how to make hip roofs (creating a hip out of a gable). PART 17 covers constructing gabled roofs. PART 16 shows you how to create eaves for buildings with pitched roofs. PART 15 covers building flat roofs with parapets. PARTS 12, 13 & 14 show you 3 ways to model stairs - the Subdivided Rectangles method, Copied Profile method, and Treads are Components method respectively. PART 11 explains faces and edges and how to work with thick and thin lines. PART 9 shows you how to use the comoponents to add details to your model. PART 8 covers additional uses of pushing and pulling to extrude. PART 7 shows you how to extrude your walls into 3 dimensions. PART 6 explains how to get a good view - after you finish drafting in the 2D overhead view you want to switch to 3D and find a good angle. PART 5 shows you how to put in the interior walls using guides.
PART 4 shows you how to offset an exterior wall thickness around the floorplan from part 3. PART 3 shows you how to draw the interior outline of your floorplan. PART 2 familiarizes you with the tools available in SketchUp to help you create your floorplan. It's a good idea to have accurate measurements of everything you want to build before starting this project. PART 1 explains how to switch to a 2D view to get you ready to build the floor plan.
This video series takes you through every step of building a building in SketchUp and is taken from chapter 4 of "Google SketchUp for Dummies" in case you want to follow along.