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Tape Measure tool

Tape Measure tool - SketchUp Tutorial

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Tape Measure tool

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- [Instructor] The tape measure tool is a multifunctional tool that will allow you to measure, set guidelines and resize models. To measure anything in your model, activate the tape measure tool by clicking on the icon here or the letter T. You can measure things a few different ways. Hover over an edge indicated by a red square and you'll see a yellow box pop up with information about the edge length. The same is true for faces showing square footage. If you'd like to know the distance between two points, click and release on your starting point and then hover over the ending point and you'll see again a yellow box pop up with information about that dimension or you can look in the measurements box in the lower right-hand corner. Oftentimes it can be helpful to create guidelines. In SketchUp, there are guidelines and there are guide points. We're going to create a guideline to help us draw a door on the face of this shape. So, I'm going to hover over the edge and I'm going to click…

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