From the course: SketchUp 2021 Essential Training
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Offset tool - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2021 Essential Training
Offset tool
- [Instructor] The offset tool is helpful when you would like to replicate a shape within itself or outside of itself. In this example, we're going to give each door some trim. Activate the offset tool by clicking on the offset icon here, or your keyboard shortcut, letter F. Click and release on a face that you'd like to offset, and move your cursor a bit. I can offset it inside of itself. Or if I move my cursor out, I can set it outside of itself. In this case, I'd like it to be in. So as soon as my cursor is inside of it, I can type one, enter, for a one-inch offset. Now the tool will remember that one-inch offset, and I can reuse it by simply double-clicking on the next shape. Double-click. The offset tool can be a bit finicky so you have to be sure it's a nice, slow double-click, straight up and down with your mouse. Cause sometimes it will set it down right where your cursor was at the time when you double-click…
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