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Getting Started 1. X-ray Surfaces When you x-ray surfaces, you can see what’s behind them. That’s great when your model gets more involve...

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X-Raying Objects You can “see through” objects in SketchUp, which is very powerful in a number of situations; for example, when you have t...

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Offsetting Edges with the Offset Tool The Offset tool lets you create copies of edges and move them away from the original edge. That’s go...

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Creating Exact Offsets Because this is SketchUp, you might assume you can create measured offsets of exactly a precise length offset from ...

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Selecting Edges to Offset In the previous task, we offset surfaces with the Offset tool. But sometimes, you don’t want to offset a whole s...

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Repeating Offsets on Other Surfaces You can repeat offsets on different surfaces with the click of the mouse. Here’s how it works; in this...

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Measuring Distances with the Tape Measure The Tape Measure tool lets you measure distances handily in your model. When you’re drawing plan...

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Creating Guides with the Tape Measure Tool Guides are dotted lines that you can use to align objects. They’re very handy when you are crea...

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Drawing Guides at Specific Offsets In the previous task, we added a guide to a drawing with three cubes to align those cubes in a row. But...

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Deleting Guides In the previous two tasks, you created a number of guides that you used to align three cubes. Now that the guides have ser...