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Hello everyone.

In this exercise we are going to

practice their navigation tools.

I'm doing one exercise that I have

checked with my different students that is kind of,

let's say, useful for you.

So first of all,

we have to hit the rectangle tool.

If we use a shortcut,

it is the letter R.

Then one click on the origin.

And the key here is to zoom out a lot

because I want that rectangle to be very,

very large, e.g. like that.

Then I have to zoom in a lot using the will of my mouse.

Here. For instance, I will draw

another rectangle before Post poll,

one-click and release.

I move my mouse when I am

happy with the high. Another click.

Here, we have this cube.

Here.

It starts actually the exercise because now I have

to zoom out if I want to go to the opposite corner.

And that is the key of this exercise.

We have to move from one corner to the opposite corner.

And maybe you are thinking that this

is super easy, a piece of cake.

But actually, I am 90% sure that

you will find some problems if it is your first time.

Why?

Because normally if you want to go to that corner,

you will move the mouse in that direction.

And then you will scroll

out and then look what is going on.

Actually, we are not getting closer to that corner.

But further, why is happening this?

Well, the thing is that I will check in,

I will scrolling again.

The thing is that here,

if we want to go to that corner,

what we have to do is to put,

place our mouse in the opposite direction.

So here, then I scroll out and what is going on is that,

that part of the screen is opening.

And then at some point I can visualize my desire corner.

Once I can see it,

then it's very easy because I have to put again

the mouse wherever I want to go and then scrolling.

And here we are.

Once I'm here, I can use this pan tool,

which is very useful as well for good navigation.

So I click and hold down

Shift plus the will of the mouse,

and then the hand appears and I can

pan easily or the time holding Shift and the wheel.

Once I'm here, I will draw a cycle.

The dimensions now are not important at all.

Here we are.

Again, imagine that we want to

go to the previous corner again.

What we have to do, there are many ways, of course,

we could use the zoom extent tool.

Click and then again,

scrolling, pointing our desire place.

But if we want to do it,

let's say more manually then what we have to do,

and I will come again to this corner.

Then what do we have to do is,

instead of putting the mouse

towards the direction that we have to go,

we will place it on the opposite direction, e.g.

here, but always touching the canvas,

not the Default tray of course.

Then I zoom out and

the opposite corner of the screen is opening.

Once I am able to look at my desire point,

I change the position of the mouse and I scroll in.

This is very important because many times maybe you

have a target and you are trying to go closer,

but you can't because the position

of your mouse is not correct.

On the other hand, sometimes in my experience,

not always because e.g.

now is working perfectly,

but sometimes when you try to scroll in or throughout,

the mouse is placed just on the space, is not working.

So if that happens,

what you have to do is

just place the mouse on any surface and

then 100% sure that the

scrolling on the scroll out are going to work smoothly.

Well, time to say goodbye.

I hope that you find this exercise helpful.

In the next episode,

we will start talking about

the main concepts for drawing correctly in SketchUp.

And not just drawing for

understanding how a sketch up, Let's say things.

You are able to understand how the software things,

then you will be able to fix any problem that you have.

You will be much more skillful.

At the end, you will enjoy more

the experience of drawing here and modelling here.