Bowl- To create the bowl select the circle tool and draw a circle on the ground plane. Move the cursor up until the circle turns red or green. Press and hold the shift key to lock the inference direction. Make a circle. Select the offset tool and make a smaller circle inside. Draw a line across the bigger circle to determine how tall you want the bowl to be. Draw a second line on top of the first, but only across the smaller circle. Selcet the eraser tool and erase the top section of both circles. Then erase the middle of the second circle. You should be left with a "U" shape. Select the circle on the ground. Then go to "Tools", "Follow Me" and click the "U" shape. You should have a bowl.

Cone- The first step to creating a cone is draw a circle on the ground plane. Select the Push/Pull tool and drag the circle up. Select the move tool. Place the cursor at the edge of the top of the cylinder. Move the cursor around the edge until you find one of the cardinal points (a point that is aligned with the red or green axis). The edge of the circle will not highlight when the cursor is on a cardinal point. Cardinal points act as resize handles. Click the mouse button when the cursor is over a cardinal point on the edge of the top of the cylinder.Move the cursor toward the center of the cylinder. A cone begins to take shape.

Ellipse- To make an ellipse first Draw a circle with the circle tool. Select the Scale tool. The cursor will change to a box within another box. Click on the circle. Scaling grips will appear around the circle. Click and hold one of the grips in the middle of one of the bounding box edges (not one of the corner grips). Move the cursor away from the center of the circle. The circle will form an ellipse.

Engraved Text- When creating engraved text you must first draw a large rectangular surface. Select Tools > 3D Text. The Place 3D Text dialog box appears. Enter the desired text in the text field. Check the 'Extruded' check box. Type a negative value in the 'Extruded' field. Click the Place button. A cursor appears with the text. Click on the rectangular surface. The text is placed on the surface as a group. Select the 3D text. Context-click on the 3D text. The context menu for the group is displayed. Select the Explode menu item. The 3D text explodes into its individual geometry. Select the face of each letter and press the Delete key on your keyboard. The face is removed and the letter appears to be engraved.

Inner Tube- First draw a circle on the ground plane at the origin. This circle will be used as a path used to draw the sphere. The size of this circle does not matter Use the Select tool to select the face of the circle and press the Delete key. The face is deleted. Select the Circle tool. Move the cursor to the origin. The cursor should snap to the origin. Move the cursor up the blue axis (above the circle on the ground plane). The cursor should turn green or red. Hold the Shift key to lock the Circle tool to lock the inference direction. While holding the Shift key, draw a circle, whose diameter will be the diameter of your inner tube, perpendicular to the first circle. This circle is the profile of the inner tube. Select the edge of the circle on the ground plane. This is your path. Select the Follow-Me tool. Click on the profile of the inner tube. An inner tube is created.

Pyramid- Use the Rectangle tool to draw a square. SketchUp's inference engine displays a dashed diagonal line and the word 'square' when your rectangle is a square. This square will be the base of your pyramid. Use the Line tool to draw two diagonal lines across the square (from corner to the opposite corner). Select the Move tool. Hover the cursor over the mid point of the diagonal line. The tooltip should say 'endpoint.' Click the mouse button. Move the cursor up in the blue direction to the desired height.

Sphere- Use the Circle tool to draw a circle on the ground plane. The first time you do this, you'll find it easiest if you start your circle at the origin point (the point where the red, green, and blue axes intersect). With the Circle tool still selected, hover way out along the top edge of the drawing until the circle cursor turns red or green, and then press and hold the Shift key to lock that inference direction (both of these inference directions are perpendicular to the ground plane). With the inference direction locked, draw a second circle inside the first, but make it a little smaller than the first. Then use the Select tool to select the face of the first, larger circle Select the Follow Me tool (on the "Tools" menu, click "Follow Me"), and then click the face of the second, smaller circle. A sphere should result. Use the Erase tool to erase a point on the edge of the first, larger, circle. That circle should be entirely erased, leaving the full sphere.