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Drawing Arcs Drawing arcs is a three-step process in SketchUp—you click at one anchor point, click at another, and then pull the arc (Sket...

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Drawing Measured Arcs Perhaps you want to create an arc a bit more precisely than you can freehand. You can specify the radius of any arc;...

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Drawing Arcs Tangent to Corners Consider the shape in Figure 4.2. Suppose that you want to round the acute angle in that figure—how would ...

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Drawing Multiple Tangent Arcs What if you wanted to draw a series of multiple arcs, such as those that appear in Figure 4.5? FIGURE 4...

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Setting the Number of Arc Segments By default, arcs have twelve sides, but you can change that to any number of sides you want. Here’s how...

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Drawing Freehand Drawing freehand couldn’t be easier in one sense—you just drag the mouse; but it also couldn’t be harder in another—if yo...

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Drawing Surfaces Freehand In addition to freehand figures of the kind you see in Figure 4.7, you can also draw complete surfaces in Sketch...

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Drawing Text You can also draw text in SketchUp, and sometimes that’s crucial, as when you might want to label the parts of an architectur...

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Annotating Objects with Text Sometimes, you might want to annotate objects you’re drawing with text, as shown in Figure 4.11, where we’ve ...

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Setting Text Properties What if you wanted to display your annotation text in a large, italic font, as shown in Figure 4.13? Just follow ...

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Drawing 3D Text SketchUp also lets you draw 3D text with the 3D text tool. For example, take a look at the 3D text that appears in Figure ...