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Model the fireplace

Model the fireplace - SketchUp Tutorial

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Model the fireplace

- [Instructor] In this video we're going to model the fireplace. At this point the fireplace is simply a texture on the flat wall surface. We can make this model much more realistic by actually modeling it. And we'll do that by starting in the Image1 scene. So click Image1 up here at the top of the screen. And then go to the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle that encompasses the entire fireplace. I'll start about here and draw a rectangle on the floor that is about as big as the fireplace. And then use the push-pull tool and pull this up, and I'm gonna zoom in by rolling the mouse wheel. I don't want it to encompass the top board. I'm gonna go just below that. Now I can use the push-pull tool to adjust the size of this new volume box that I've made. What I need to do is take a look at this edge here and then move this back so that the depth of the posts is about right. And on the other side over here it looks like I need to pull that back a little bit. So I'm gonna orbit, grab this…

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