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Modeling the second floor volume

Modeling the second floor volume

From the course: SketchUp: Modeling Exteriors from Photos

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Modeling the second floor volume

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- [Instructor] At this point, we have barge boards representing the roof slopes, but we have no building volume yet to meet that, so let's rectify the situation by coming in here and double-clicking on the first floor object, press P for the Push/Pull Tool, and pull this surface up. Press the Option key or the Control key in Windows to leave a copy of the original edges behind. Then go into photo one, and let's pull this up to this height so that this top edge is parallel to the end of the white trim right there. So that represents the volume of the second floor. If you look closely, you may observe that this portion of the wall is actually popped forward. We need to represent that in the model. And what I'd like to do is subdivide this surface into two separate surfaces, and I can't see the whole surface right now because it's being partially obscured by this roof. Let's hide that roof by going View, Component Edit, Hide Rest of Model. This will hide everything that isn't part of…

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