From the course: SketchUp: Modeling Exteriors from Photos

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Second floor windows and trim

Second floor windows and trim

From the course: SketchUp: Modeling Exteriors from Photos

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Second floor windows and trim

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- [Instructor] In this video, let's work on the second floor on the front of the building. Let's go into photo one. Double-click on the group to open it and then select these two surfaces and click the "Project textures from photo" button and choose "No" when prompted. Now orbit over and you'll see that we have an issue. And that is, it looks good from this one angle but as soon as we come over here, the illusion is blown because we see the roof over here. So, the solution to this is to actually model the windows geometrically. So let's just come in here and work on this one first. And then we'll do this one over here second. I'm going to orbit around so I can see this corner up here and press L for the line tool. And I want to draw a line from the inner edge of this piece of trim, about here, and I'm going to, I want to draw that over in the green direction all the way over to this opposite edge, thereby subdividing the surface into two different pieces. I'll press R for rectangle…

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