From the course: SketchUp: Modeling Exteriors from Photos
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Creating the dining room roof
From the course: SketchUp: Modeling Exteriors from Photos
Creating the dining room roof
- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and create this roof here. So what I'll do is click on the Photo Point tool in the Match Photo Dialogue box. And then click at the top of this roof ridge. Go back to photo four, click the Photo Point tool a second time, and then click up here a second time. Now if I orbit, you'll see that we have an intersection point of the guidelines. And I can go ahead and draw a line in there. And it's always a good idea to orbit around and see that that line is as close as you can make it to the intersection of those guidelines. It looks like I could make that a little closer if I drew another line here. That looks better. All right, now I'm going to delete the guidelines, go back to photo four, and have a look at that there. It looks a little low here, and in photo five it looks right on. And I'm going to trust photo four a little more than I trust photo five because the model seems to fit the photo better here. In photo five, we have a little bit of a mismatch in…
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