From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
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Line tool - Sketchup Pro Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
Line tool
- [Instructor] The line tool is a great way to create geometry in SketchUp. To activate the line tool, you can click on the pencil icon here or you can use the keyboard shortcut, letter L. To create a line, click and release to choose a starting point and then click and release to choose an ending point. Let's practice creating rectangles using the line tool. We're going to turn along each axis, clicking and releasing, and clicking and releasing, until I've closed the shape. As I'm drawing, SketchUp will create inference points for me to reference. To create an inference point, you can hover over an endpoint for a moment and then move away from it. You can see that as I cross over that plane it's creating sort of a snap-to point for me to reference. I'll click and release and now this edge is on the same plane as the edge to the left. When using drawing tools like the line tool, it's very important to develop the…
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