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Drawing Shapes: Lines, Rectangles, Polygons, and Circles In this lesson, you’ll see how to create shapes—rectangles, circles, arcs, and so...

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Drawing Lines You use the Line tool in SketchUp to draw—edges. Perhaps you thought I was going to say lines, but in fact, the Line tool re...

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Drawing Rectangles It takes only two clicks to draw a rectangle in SketchUp. Of course, rectangles are surfaces, so when you’re done drawi...

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Drawing Circles The Circle tool does just as you’d expect; it draws circles. That is, it almost does—in fact, what it does is draw 24-side...

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Drawing Polygons You can also draw polygons with SketchUp. Presumably because you can draw polygons with the circle tool (see the task aft...

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Orienting Shapes By default, when you draw a shape over another shape, the new shape takes the same orientation as the old. So, for exampl...

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Getting Information About Shapes You can get information about shapes in SketchUp, such as the shape’s area and number of sides. Just foll...

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Saving Your Work Now that you’ve been creating shapes, it’s time to see how to save your work: 1. Select the  File  menu’s  Save As  men...