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 example, we’ll repeat offsets on various faces of a cube:1. Click the Start Using SketchUp button.
2. Select the Rectangle tool and draw a horizontal rectangle.
3. Select the Push/Pull tool in the toolbar and pull the rectangle up into a cube.
4. From the Large Tool Set select the Offset tool (open the Large Tool Set from the View menu if necessary).
5. Draw an offset edge on one surface of the cube. You can see an example in Figure 9.11.
FIGURE 9.11 An offset edge.
6. Double-click the mouse on another surface of the cube. Doubleclicking the mouse draws another offset at the same distance you drew the previous one, as you see in Figure 9.12.
FIGURE 9.12 A new offset edge.
NOTE: Offsets Within Offsets
Note that you can create offsets within offsets using the same distance as well—for example, see Figure 9.13, where we’ve clicked inside the first offset rectangle.
Creating offsets that are all the same size is extremely useful when you have, say, multiple panels you want to create in a drawing.
Thanks :
Steven Holzner,
SamsTeachYourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes
