From the course: SketchUp Pro: Kitchen Design
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Save a custom template - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp Pro: Kitchen Design
Save a custom template
- [Instructor] Whenever you create a new file in SketchUp, it is created with a template. So when I launch SketchUp, the new file that we see here was created with the default template. And evidently, that template contains a human figure and it's style has a ground plane that shows the transition between the sky and the ground. Now, when we're designing the kitchen we don't really need to see this transition between sky and earth, and we don't really need a human figure in there to begin with. So I'd like to eliminate these elements and I'd also like to change the units that we're using to design the kitchen. So, to start off with, let's use the Eraser tool and click on the human figure. And then go to the Window menu and choose Styles. On the Select tab, you'll see that this particular template contains but a single style and we need to edit that. Also here you can change the way that objects are represented. I recommend leaving Edges on, and Profiles set to two. Then go here to the…
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