Projecting an Image Onto a Sphere in SketchUp

Painting geometry in SketchUp is a snap (thank you, Paint Bucket), but projecting an image onto geometry can be tricky. In this video, Aaron shows how to get an image file perfectly projected onto a sphere!
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[@keggyification]

Thanks Aaron, very helpful. Happy New Year to you and the Sketchup team.

[@chrisb3927]

Thank Aaron. Great tutorial, as always!!!

[@OveToranger]

2 very interesting solutions. Excellent start on good tips in 2024 !

[@allanjgray1]

thanks for this one !

[@danimordecai7611]

Very cool. Great for interior design ☺️

[@NiceTower]

It was useful, Thanks you 🙌🏻

[@Back2TheBike]

Very useful.

[@ClarkeLSmith]

Awesome!

[@64littlejoe]

Thanks. The painted-on technique yields a "shine" to the ball, without resorting to rendering. I realize the reflection will rotate with the sphere, in this example, but it's a good "cheat". I'm curious which method yields a lighter model, in general.

[@stevefirst9521]

Thanks for this one. A topic I would like explored would be intersect with model. I have used this quite a bit but it seems like some items didn't quite intersect correctly and sometimes it worked better to scale the objects, do the intersection, and then scale back to original size. Any topics regarding those items would be great. Thanks

[@johnjlopez]

There is still an open bug of SKP not bending textures properly across edges that showed itself in the 23 version of SKP but worked in older versions. Colin on the forums has created a bug report and said its been resolved internally but not made its way to the public version.

[@trapatron]

Thank you for this. I have a question: Is there a way to put timestamps with year-hour-min on Layout outputs? It should be very helpful when updating drawings for customers.

[@DanCarman]

Watching this video... can you guys make a graphic tee using this process? Similar to the one Aaron is wearing? And move that graphic around the shirt?

[@johnjlopez]

"Nailed it"

[@user-eh2nj2td8d]

Really liked this tutorial. I was hoping to hear some Tears For Spheres playing in the background.

[@akarumey2046]

Thanks for the video! How did you open pencil toolbar? Or it's just Mac option?

[@MrNoWool]

A terrestrial globe! 🌏 would be awesome…. Have put this request in comments before, do the native tools not do this easily?.. cheers, great videos!

[@Abs-jq5km]

Why is sketchUp no longer available for android?

[@1369legend]

why sketchup is not making dedicated tools for spheres and cubes and... ???

[@lisaliberatore3393]

I followed all your steps but my image won't project or wrap around the entire sphere. It leaves a blank space.