From the course: SketchUp 2019 Essential Training
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Rotating an object - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2019 Essential Training
Rotating an object
- [Narrator] There are a few different ways to rotate an object. The first way is to use our move tool. Activate it by clicking the letter M or the move icon up here. When I hover over an entity, I'll notice that there are red plus signs that pop up on each side of the face of the bounding box. Click and release on one of those plus signs to rotate the object. You can see the angle in the measurements box below. If you're having trouble rotating this and it's spinning around a little bit too quickly, try swinging wide with your cursor for more fluid movement. You can either click and release to drop it or you can manually type in the angle that you would like. 90 degrees, enter. I'm going to go ahead and hit undo. Command C. Another way to rotate objects is to use the rotate tool. Here, this icon or the letter Q. As I move my cursor throughout the model, you can see the rotate tool align with the face that it is currently on. If you'd like lock in your move tool to a certain axis, you…
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