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Model the floor and walls to match

Model the floor and walls to match - SketchUp Tutorial

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Model the floor and walls to match

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- [Instructor] Now that we have successfully matched SketchUp's coordinate system to the coordinate system implied in the photo, we can begin to build geometry and project textures from the photo onto that geometry. To begin this process choose the rectangle tool and click the origin point to start drawing your rectangle. And then position the cursor up here at about this location and click to create your first surface. Then, let's sketch in this wall over here by clicking its first endpoint down here at the origin point. And as you move the cursor over here, at some point SketchUp will switch to the red direction. I'm going to pan over and instead of clicking a point here and trying to just estimate the height, what I would like to do is intentionally make that wall a little short because then I can go back and select this upper edge and then use the move tool and move that from the endpoint and snap that to the endpoint on the adjacent wall. And this way I can ensure that both walls…

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