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Rectangle tool

Rectangle tool - SketchUp Tutorial

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Rectangle tool

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- [Instructor] To use the rectangle tool, select the rectangle icon from the toolbar above or the keyboard shortcut letter R. The rectangle tool works a lot like the line tool. To create a rectangle, click and release to choose the starting point and click and release to choose an ending point. To create a measured rectangle, again, we're going to click and release to choose the starting point and now we'll type our dimensions. Again, a reminder, we do not need to click in the measurements box below. We can simply start typing. So if I want a 10-foot by five-foot rectangle, I'm going to type 10 feet comma, which is the by, five feet enter. If you create a rectangle and you release that one of the measurements is wrong. In this case, I'm going to type five comma 10 feet. Perhaps I wanted to type five feet by 10 feet. There's no need to type the entire measurement over, only the number that you got incorrect. So in this case, I got five feet incorrect so I'm going to type five feet and…

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