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Modify a model in SketchUp

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I already said in a earlier post that it is a good practice for drawing a model to complete it before starting drawing the joints. The reason is that we can easily make small changes to improve the final design and avoiding losing too much time on every single piece to make it fit with the other components.
Anyway, it may happen sometimes that these changes are needed after the model has passed the first approval and all the joints are drawn. Read on “Modify a model in SketchUp” »

Explode your model in SketchUp

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A frequent question readers ask about drawing in SketchUp is how to get an exploded view of their model. I confess that when I started using SketchUp a few years ago I also looked in the Menu Bar, searching for a tool that could make that exploded view for me automatically. But it wasn’t there. Read on “Explode your model in SketchUp” »

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Is copying a good practice? It depends, you might say. It wasn’t at school, ok, we know that, but it comes handy when we want to dramatically increase our productivity when drawing with SketchUp.

In a previous post I emphasized the importance of using components when creating a model and I described how useful are components, because their copies, or instances, get modified at one time just acting on one of them.
But how is it possible to make a copy of a component or, generally speaking, of any geometry in our model?
The answer is called “Move Tool” and “Rotate tool”. Read on “Need a copy? SketchUp Move and Rotate tools can help you. Part 1” »