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Checking edge alignment

Checking edge alignment - Sketchup Pro Tutorial

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Checking edge alignment

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- [Instructor] It can be difficult sometimes to know if your edges are aligned with the axis when it's appropriate for them to be so. So, creating an axis alignment check for yourself can by really helpful. And that is done in the Styles window. On a Mac, this is under Window, Styles. And on a Windows machine, this is going to be in your default tray on the right. With your Styles window open, you can select the Edit tab, and then the Edges icon, which is the first icon in the list. Now, down at the bottom, we're going to look at color of our edges. We're going to move it from all same to color by axis. And now all of our edges will be colored according to the axis that they are aligned with. Red are going to be aligned with the red global axis, and green and blue will be aligned with the green and blue global axis. We can see that some of our edges are black. And that indicates that they are not aligned with any…

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