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Add more segments to circle or arc

Add more segments to circle or arc - SketchUp Tutorial

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Add more segments to circle or arc

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- [Instructor] When drawing a circle in SketchUp, the circle isn't actually made of round lines, it's made of multiple straight edges. And by default, a circle will use 24 edges. The more edges a circle has, the smoother it will look. So one method to increase the number of segments a circle has, is to use the entity info window. This will be available in the default tray on a Windows machine, or if you're on a Mac, you can find it under window entity info. With a window open, also blacked the edge of the circle, and we can see that it does in fact have 24 segments. We can override this number so I will go ahead and highlight it and type 45 Enter. And you can see that the circle does in fact look smoother. I can bump that up even higher, 55 Enter and it looks smoother yet. Once this circle is extruded with the push pull tool, we lose the ability to adjust the number of sides a circle has. But we do have the ability to…

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