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Setting a camera view and Look Around

Setting a camera view and Look Around - SketchUp Tutorial

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Setting a camera view and Look Around

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- [Instructor] Sometimes it can be difficult to set your camera in your model to view it as you would at human scale standing in the space. The Position Camera tool will allow you to set your camera within the model and specify an eye height. We can find this tool in the Large Tool Set under View, Tool Palettes, Large Tool Set. The icon is in the lower left hand side. It's a figure with the red lines coming out of its feet. Or you can activate the tool by going to Camera, Position Camera. There are two ways to use the Position Camera tool. If I click and release on a face within the model, the camera will be set directly over that click point, plus five foot six higher than the face you clicked on. If I click on the patio, which is on the ground plane, it will set down my camera with an eye height of five foot six. Another method will give us more control over which direction the camera is looking. So let's try this method to see what the person is seeing if they look toward the…

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