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Creating the fire pit

Creating the fire pit

- [Instructor] Chapter seven 03, we're going to cut a little opening in this and put our fire pit in. And then we're going to close off a section with a glass screen so it should be nice and protected. And I've also created the grill, so it'll save us doing that, and a little fire that we can put in there as well. So by now, using the 3D Warehouse to get access to these things, or creating them yourself, shouldn't really be so much of an issue. If you got this far unscathed, then I've got absolutely every confidence in you that you can make any shape you pretty much want in SketchUp. And as you hopefully realize as well, lots of things are rectangular when you're dealing with building objects. So double-click. First of all, we need to modify this ever so slightly. So click on the bottom edge, and with the Move tool we'll just copy it up. So tap the control key or the alt + option key on a Mac, a distance of 300 mil, that's about one foot. So my conversions are approximate but they're…

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