Selecting a Work Template
Until now, we’ve been using the first template that SketchUp had to offer—the Simple Template measured in feet and inches, with a human figure in the middle of it, along with blue sky and green earth.However, you probably don’t want someone standing there in a field under a blue sky when drawing your own models. The most common template to use has no background at all, no sky, no ground—just a set of three axes to show you the three dimensions.
In this task, we see how to select a good working template that has no features other than the three axes. Here’s how to set this up:
1. From the Welcome to SketchUp page, click the Choose Template button. The template selection dialog box appears.
2. Click the Engineering–Feet template to select it (as shown in Figure 2.13).
FIGURE 2.13 Selecting the Engineering–Feet template.
3. Click the Start Using SketchUp button. This opens SketchUp with the Engineering–Feet template.
4. Select the human figure in the template by clicking it. You can see the human figure selected in Figure 2.14.
FIGURE 2.14 Selecting the human figure.
5. Delete the human figure by pressing the Del key. The figure disappears. You now have a clean slate for creating your own models without any distracting backgrounds.
The Engineering–Feet or Engineering–Meters templates are useful because they don’t give you a background, so you’re free to design your own. We’ll use these templates frequently in this book.
Thanks :
Steven Holzner,
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