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‫You guys, welcome back to yet another video now in this video, I'm going to show you how to use the

‫tape measure tool to measure stuff.

‫The aid guides and also skill and sketch up.

‫So to activate the tape measure tool, you can best be on your keyboard and that would activate the

‫tape measure icon.

‫Or you can click on the tape measure tool in your drawing board while.

‫So now I'm going to create some guidelines or guidelines in SketchUp, so to create a guidelines, you

‫simply need to click on the edge and then drag out guideline.

‫So this is a guideline.

‫And if you want to create a guide point, you need to click on the edge of your group.

‫And that would create or guide bargain clean.

‫The main differences the guidelines are infinite lines because you have infinite lanes are not to.

‫That is the guide points are simply just or Dashlane to maybe refer for something out.

‫So the great point lines come from the edge points or end points in a group, whereas the guidelines

‫come from the.

‫Edges themselves so I can create multiple guidelines if you want to create a guideline at a particular

‫distance.

‫What you need to do is click on the edge of the group and then you can scroll on top.

‫You can maybe press the top arrow key to snap it to the blue axis and then given your value, which

‫is going to be three feet.

‫So I've given a guideline which is three feet, and now I can create referring these guide points and

‫create something else as well.

‫I'm going to press control now before I show you how to scale stuff and a chop.

‫These guidelines, if there are a lot of them, it would be annoying to continue modeling and sketch

‫out all of these on.

‫So to switch this off, you can simply go to view and switch this off.

‫So if you click on guides, it turns off all the guides.

‫If you go to view and click on guides again, it knows them back on.

‫Delete them from your sketch window.

‫Simply go to edit and click on Delete guides that would delete all the guides in your sketch up window

‫so you can do that towards the end once you've done all the modelling.

‫And I'm going to show you how to scale and sketch up using the tape measure to see if a presti on my

‫keyboard, you can see that it comes along with a plus dash symbol.

‫So if I press control on my keyboard, you can see that disappears and it toggles.

‫So if I make it disappear, simply the tape measure tool.

‫Now with this tool, without the plus button, I can scale stuff in the sketchbook.

‫So how do you scale stuff?

‫Now it's super important that you need to know what you want to scale.

‫If you want to scale entire model, you can simply use a reference point.

‫Now, let's say, for example, this is a wall which is at seven feet, eight inches, but maybe in

‫real life that's actually 15 feet.

‫And the entire model will scale to this reference measurement, which you're going to take.

‫So I'm going to click once and then I'm going to click the second time at this point, which is nine

‫feet, eight inches.

‫And now I'm going to type in my value without pressing escape or any other key.

‫So I'm going to type in 15 feet or 15 feet and press enter.

‫Now we do ask you if you wanted to size the model.

‫Note that all the components would get recessed as well.

‫So click on, yes, and now you can see that everything is resized.

‫So if I want to measure and sketch up, I can click once and now without clicking anywhere.

‫I'm just going to hover on the second button.

‫So now you can see that it's scaled to 15 feet.

‫So I'm going to undo that.

‫Now, let's say you want to scale or lead this group and not the rest of the groups.

‫So if you want to scale or lead this group, you need to simply enter the group.

‫And now we are inside this group.

‫As you can see, the bounding box.

‫Now I'm going to select the whole thing and I'm going to be again.

‫But you can notice that it's got that plus symbol there.

‫So I'm going to press control again to deactivate the plus symbol and then simply click once over to

‫the top to see the measurements photographed.

‫Maybe I need a smaller room or a smaller box or do it, so I'm going to click the second time and then

‫I'm going to type in my value, which is going to be two feet.

‫And then press enter after you're done pressing and to make sure to click.

‫Yes, so that's the active group, which is going to get precise to two feet.

‫So let's check that out.

‫I'm going to go back to the select tool, click outside group to exit the group and then measure the

‫size so we can see that it's two feet.

‫So that is a quick introduction to the tape measure tool once again to reiterate.

‫You can measure stuff by clicking ones and simply just hovering on the second point to find out the

‫measurement you don't need to really click.

‫As soon as you hover and the second point, you can notice the measurement.

‫The second is simply creating guidelines and guidelines, and finally, the daughters scaling stuff

‫in SketchUp.

‫So I hope that helped you out.

‫And we will be using the tape measure tool a lot in our modeling process to check stuff.

‫Give reference lines and more and see you guys in the next video.

‫Just.