In order to draw a cone as well as sphere, one has to familiar with various sketchup tools and attributes. For drawing a sphere, one should be well versed with the tools like the Circle tool, the Select tool, the Follow-Me tool, the Eraser tool, Inference and their applications.

One should abide by the following sketchup tips which are considered as the most convenient ways to draw a sphere efficiently:-

• Start with a circle. At first draw a circle (according to the size of desired sphere) on the ground plane in one axis on the basis. Use the circle as the path for sketching the sphere.
• Shift the cursor to the origin and until it is snapped to the origin.
• Now shift the cursor up toward the blue axis (on top of the circle on the ground plane). The cursor will be converted to green or red.
• In order to lock the circle tool toward the green or red inference path. just simultaneously push & hold the shift key.

• Sketch a lesser circle, as compared to the first one, at a 90 degree angle with the circle on the ground plane (it characterizes the profile of the sphere).
• Choose the perimeter of the circle on the ground plane. It should be the path.
• Opt for the Follow-Me tool.
• Click on the profile of the sphere and the sphere will be produced smoothly.
• Now take away the circle on the ground plane.

Watch the following live sketchup video to streamline the process.