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Move the axis to rotate your top view - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp Weekly
Move the axis to rotate your top view
- [Instructor] SketchUp has preset camera views. If I go to Camera, Standard Views, one of them is Top, which we are viewing right now. The Top view orients how we are viewing our model by the axis. So if I'd like to view this floor plan from the top but flip it, I don't really want to use the Orbit tool 'cause I want to treat this as though I were rotating a piece of paper to view it differently. So first, I'd like to set a scene so that I can return to this original view quickly. So in my Scenes window, I'll click the plus sign, and choose Create Scene. Now, because it's orienting my view according to the axis, I just need to move the axis. I'll right-click on it and choose Place. Now I have the opportunity to move the axis and align it differently. I'll click on an endpoint, click and release, and I'd like it to be the opposite of what it is now. So as I move my cursor, I can see the alignment of the red axis.…
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- Sofa.skp.zip
- Template.skp.zip
- MissingFaces.skp.zip
- KitchenSlow.skp.zip
- Kitchen.skp.zip
- FloorPlan.png.zip
- Scale.skp.zip
- KitchenSink.skp.zip
- LivingRoom.skp.zip
- KitchenCabinet.zip
- Color.png.zip
- AngledAxis.zip
- Divide.zip
- PasteinPlace.zip
- Fireplace.zip
- FireplaceMaterial.zip
- Kitchen.zip
- Artwork.zip
- Shell.zip
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Applying materials from the 3D Warehouse4m 8s
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Best practices for applying materials3m 40s
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Replace materials with and without an extension2m 38s
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Sampling a material from outside of SketchUp1m 22s
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Sampling an edited material to apply to another surface1m 59s
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Applying a material to multiple surfaces at once2m 22s
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Changing the color of texture2m 25s
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Add more segments to circle or arc1m 36s
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Nesting a group using the Outliner1m 13s
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Turn off animation for faster modeling59s
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Check axis alignment2m 16s
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Healing two edges1m 40s
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Mixing styles for a custom look1m 22s
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Move the axis to rotate your top view1m 48s
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Isolate section plane to one group2m 24s
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Creating copies more efficiently4m 37s
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Using multiple section planes1m 51s
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Hiding edges in adjacent groups1m 39s
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