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Adding the wall coping

Adding the wall coping - SketchUp Tutorial

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Adding the wall coping

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- [Instructor] 06_04, we're going to add the wall coping. Now I'll do this one here and then you can have a go at that one. It's very simple process, but there are quite a few little steps and we have to think a little bit about this. So, I'm going to use this wall as my drawing plane. And what I basically need to do is draw sort of a little triangular shape which is elevated off this deck. It's going to be about 20 mil and around about 7/8ths of an inch. So first of all, I'll use the Rectangle tool. I'll click on this corner. I'll track over to this corner and click. And I'm going to come up on this red axis. I'm just going to keep an eye on the value at the bottom. And when it comes to about 20, 22 mils, it will be fine. It's not an exact science. If you want to be precise then you can use the Tape Measure tool. But again, it's for effect, we want this and then I'm going to extend it out both sides. By about 10 mil, that's proximately 3/8ths of an inch. 10 mil outside then I'm going…

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