From the course: SketchUp: Modeling Interiors from Photos

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Select a template

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Select a template

- [Instructor] In this project, we're going to be matching SketchUp's coordinate system to the coordinate system implied in various photographs. Before we dive into that process directly, it would be helpful to select a particular template containing a human figure, and a colorized ground plane. These will act as visual aids when we're matching photos. To access templates, you need to open the Preferences dialog box. And that's in the Application menu on the Mac operating system, right here. And it's accessible from the Window menu in the Windows operating system. Either way, you'll open up this dialog box, and you'll need to select the template page. Look at the different templates and select one that has a human figure and a green ground plane. The colorized ground plane makes it easy to spot what's outside of the interior model that you will be building. And the human figure will make it easier to scale the space appropriately with respect to the photos. I'll choose this first…

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