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Checking edge alignment

Checking edge alignment - SketchUp Tutorial

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Checking edge alignment

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- [Instructor] Sometimes it can be difficult to know if your edges are aligned with the axis when it's appropriate for them to be so. So creating an axis alignment check for yourself can be really helpful, and this is done through the Styles window. If I go to Window, Styles, or if you're using a PC Windows machine, that'll be found in your default tray. Now that I'm in my Styles window, I can go to Edit, click on my edges icon here. So the Edit tab, your edges icon, and then down here to Color. I'm going to change the color from All same to By axis, and now the edges match the color that each edge is aligned with. You can see here, if I zoom in a bit, these red edges here are aligned with the red axis, blue with blue, orbit a little bit, and we've got some green edges here. Some of our edges are still black, and that is appropriate for these because they are angled. So they're not aligned with any of the…

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