From the course: Learning SketchUp Free (2023)
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Solution: Drawing with guides - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: Learning SketchUp Free (2023)
Solution: Drawing with guides
(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Okay, and now I'm back and hopefully you've managed to make your hip roof, but let me show you how I would do it. Now, this one is a little tricky, I must admit, but let's go ahead and I'm going to just redraw the entire house, that'll make it much easier. So I'm going to start off with a rectangle. Let's just do the base of the house. So that's 16 by 40 feet. So drag that out, type 16 feet, 40 feet, and there we go. And it's nine feet high. Pull that up, nine feet. Now the first little issue is this overhang or a soffit. And so that's eight inches high around the edge, and then a one foot overhang. And so that's pretty straightforward to do, so all I'm going to do is select this face. Again, P for push pull, and then touch control, because we're going to add geometry. And then I'm going to bring that up eight inches. And so now I've got that, I'm going to select this face. And again…
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Using the Tape Measure tool2m 58s
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Using the Protractor tool3m 30s
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Creating labels with the Text tool2m 19s
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Dimensioning1m 57s
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Creating cutaways using section planes2m 26s
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Challenge: Drawing with guides31s
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Solution: Drawing with guides6m 51s
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