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Foundation

Foundation - SketchUp Tutorial

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Foundation

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- [Instructor] Now let's go ahead and start actually conceptualizing our structure in detail. Now we have the basic massing study and this is a good starting point. Now we're gonna start off with the foundation and basically just build the structure from the bottom up. So, the foundation actually can be pulled from the massing study. It's basically this footprint here. Now if I double click on this, you'll see that we have a face and that face can be the foundation of the building. We already have the shape in place. Now, as you can see, I've added some dimensions so that we know basically what the size of this building is, so this main wing here is 50 by 20 feet, and the bedroom wing is 16 by 48. So let's go ahead and make the foundation. Now, before we do that, I want to start organizing my scenes. Now, as you can see, I already have some layers in place. I have a layer for the massing study, so I can turn that on or off, and I'm gonna make another layer for the foundation. So, all…

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