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Setting a camera view and the Look Around tool

Setting a camera view and the Look Around tool - Sketchup Pro Tutorial

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Setting a camera view and the Look Around tool

- [Instructor] Sometimes it can be difficult to set your camera in your model to a view that would represent human scale standing in a space. The Position Camera tool allows you to set the camera within your model and specify an eye height. We can find this tool in the Large Tool set, which you can find under View, Tool Palettes, Large Tool Set. It's this icon here, a little figure with red lines coming out of its feet. Or you can find it under 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 the click point at five foot six higher than the face you clicked on. So, as you can see in the lower right hand side, my eye height is five foot six. I can adjust that by typing over that. So I'm just going to type six feet, Enter. There's no need to click in the lower right hand corner before you type, it's already…

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