All language subtitles for 613241-42 - Dimension tools - The definitive SKETCHUP course. From beginner to expert.en-US

Hey guys and welcome to

this new class in where
we are going to see

the dimension tool will
find this tool here.

And the description says,

draw dimension lines
between any two points.

It is very easy and intuitive.

So we hit the tool
one click e.g.

here, another click on this
end point, click and release.

And then when I move the mouse,

we can see our dimension,

12.37 m. Third click for
fixing that dimension.

Here it is.

We could repeat the
same action on this,

another facade of this building,

or better said,
this plant floor.

Furthermore, we have
the possibility to go

over the model info window.

We already know that we
can open this window if we

go over this little person,

or we can find it too.

If we go over window model info.

In the previous class,

we saw here this text category,

and this time we'll go over
these dimensions category.

It works in a very similar way.

We have here text,
leader lines dimension.

What we're gonna do
from here is to edit

our dimensions drawn
in our Canvas.

The current font is called tau.

This is the size of the
font and this is the color.

We can change it easily.

Let's pick up Verdana font.

It static, 14 Points size.

We can change the
color, red color.

And if we want to update these
changes in our dimensions,

we have to click on
Select all dimensions

first and then update
selected dimensions.

Here we are. If we are talking
about the leader lines,

we can expand this window and we

can choose between
all these options.

Now we are working
with closed arrow.

Let's select dot.

Again, select all dimensions,

update selected
dimensions, very easy.

The last option is
called dimensional,

and we have two
possibilities aligned to

screen and aligned
two-dimensional line aligned to

a screen means that when we are

with the text of our dimensions

is always facing
the camera so we

can read it easily
from any position.

On the other hand, if we select

aligned two-dimensional
line, again,

select all dimensions and
updates selected dimensions.

Then when we orbit,

we won't be able to
read those dimensions

because that text is now
aligned to the dimension line.

Furthermore, we can
align that text

outside of that line centered.

You can see it here or
what is called above.

As you can see, we
don't have here

a lot of possibilities,
just a few.

But to be honest,

if you want to prepare layout of

your plants or of your drawings

and use dimensions
on that layout.

Maybe SketchUp is not
the correct software,

but another software
called precisely layout.

This software is a kind of
brother or sister of SketchUp.

When we download SketchUp,

actually it comes with it
and it is thought exactly

for doing presentations
of our projects.

Anyways, in this window,

we can find here our last option

called experts
dementia and settings.

I'll go just through
the first one, room,

withdraw a cycle, and we use
the dimension tool on it.

We can read a prefix
before our measure.

The prefix of diameter,

thanks to this option,

will be able to
hide that prefix,

which is not, let's
say, attractive.

Besides this edit options,

if we want to change
just one dimension, e.g.

these 12.37, I can
select it right button.

And here again, we can edit
text and change this measure

and pay attention
here because these

12.37 is the true measure.

But here, if it is
convenient for us,

maybe we can say that
this measure is 12.3.

Enter.

We are lying, but
sometimes it can

be handy for our goals again,

right button and we can go
over the x position as well.

We can change the position of
that text now is centered.

We can say outside start and it

moves here to the beginning
of the dimension.

Or we can say outside
n and it goes,

as you can see, to
the opposite side.

Let's place it again, centered.

And then the last option
here is go over Entity Info.

Thanks to this tray, again,

we'll be able to
make changes easily.

We could change the color,

we could change the font and

the font style exactly
as we did before,

but just for this
specific dimension.

So this is all about
the dimension tool.

In the next class,

we will see how to change

the position of our
general axis in

order to draw in

a more faster and simple way
when our model demands it.