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Using Some New Tools Here, we’ll learn to use the Rotate, Scale, and Follow-Me tools. The Rotate tool does just what it sounds like - ...

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Rotating Objects The Rotate tool lets you rotate whole objects, or just part of an object. The Rotate tool first establishes a plane of ...

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Rotating Parts of Objects The Rotate tool lets you rotate part of an object as well, which is great when you want to “fold” part of an obj...

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Locking the Rotate Tool’s Orientation It’s sometimes hard to get the Rotate tool’s rotation base to use the orientation you want, because ...

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Scaling 2D Objects You can use the Scale tool to enlarge or reduce objects in SketchUp. Here’s how the Scale tool works for 2D objects : ...

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Scaling 3D Objects As you’d expect because SketchUp is a 3D program, you can also scale objects in 3D. To see this in action, we’ll draw a...

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Tapering Objects in 3D Drawing regular 3D items is nice, but what if you want to taper an object instead? What if you have a cylinder as s...

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Scaling from the Center of Objects So far, we’ve tapered an object by pulling one edge. But to taper an object more regularly, you should ...

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Setting Exact Scale What if you had an object and you wanted to expand it by exactly a factor of two? You can set the exact amount you res...

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Using the Follow-Me Tool The Follow-Me tool lets you drag shapes down a path you specify. Take a look at the object in Figure 8.17. F...