From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
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Resize an object - Sketchup Pro Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
Resize an object
- [Instructor] Often we'll need to resize pieces within our model to fit a certain measurement. To do this, we can use the Scale tool. The icon can be found here or you can use your keyboard shortcut, the letter S. With the Scale tool activated, click and release on geometry that you'd like to rescale. In this case, I'll resize the sofa. Once I've clicked and released on the sofa, I'll notice a yellow bounding box with green grips. If I hover over these green grips, it's going to show me the direction in which I'm about to rescale if I click on that grip. Corner grips will rescale the piece in all directions. To let go of that, I can hit Escape. Middle grips will resize in two directions. Again, I'll hit Escape. And then the middle of the face grips will resize in one direction. Escape again. I'd like to resize the width of the sofa. So I'm going to click on this left face grip here. Click and release, and begin to move…
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