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Hello everybody and welcome to

this class in where we are going to see

a very important tool which will

be used in many different cases.

This tool is the tape measure tool.

This will be the first tool that we're going to

learn because actually it

will help us a lot in order to draw correctly in Sketch.

Firstly, you must know that it has four properties.

Measure distances, create guidelines,

or guide points on a scale, the entire model.

Let's analyze all of them.

The first thing that we can do and

the most obvious one is to measure things.

So if I zoom in here and I want to measure e.g.

this side of this rectangle,

I have just to select this tool by tapping the letter P,

that is the shortcut letter T.

And then you will be able to play with the control key,

tiny guideline, icon appear or disappear.

You want to measure things.

You will have to make icon disappear.

Then just one click and release on the first point.

And you don't even need to click for the second time.

You just need to hover the mouse over

that second point and have

a look on the length measure bar.

Here we have 3 m,

so there is no secret here.

Very easy.

So let's jump into the next property.

Create guidelines or guide points.

Let's go with the guidelines.

In order to create a guideline,

I should tap the Control key.

Then that guideline appears next to the measure tool.

Then I will have to choose a previous ads are

lying on my drawing to create a parallel with it.

E.g. I.

Choose this edge, then one-click unreleased.

I move the mouse to any direction I can even type in.

Let's say 0.5 m.

This lines will be used as references.

We will not use them for drawing,

but as a reference, e.g.

now I can choose another drawing to ask the rectangle.

And now I have that reference

for creating this next rectangle,

0.5 m far from the previous one.

In addition to this,

you should know that when we are using these guidelines,

Let's do it now with this q and with this.

As far as in this case,

this auxiliary line could be parallel with

the red axis or the green axis.

I could tap as well the arrow keys to

constrain unspecific axis, left arrow, e.g.

and I'm locking this green axis,

right arrow, and I am looking this red axis.

I could use as well the sift key in order to

hold the axis in where I'm moving at that moment.

In this case, I have to hold down shift key.

Finally, for using this tool correctly,

I can support myself as well on the general axis,

if I need a vertical auxiliary line,

I could use this blue axis,

one click and release,

and then I can create a parallel with it.

My advice here is that once you have

finished with your guidelines,

delayed immediately, all of

them in order to sort out your drawing.

So click on delayed and click ambulate.

Let's go now with the next property, guide points.

This is similar to guide lines,

but with some differences.

In order to create a guide point,

we should hit the tool.

And instead of clicking on any point of one Eds,

we have to go to the end points of a line, e.g.

here, here.

Or if we have a line which has been drawn in two pieces,

1.2, this line has one piece here, another piece here.

So we have 12.3 end points from any of them,

we can create a guide points letter T,

I'll choose my end point.

And then as I was doing with the guideline,

I just need to select the direction and the length,

the distance, let's say 1 m here, e.g.

Enter. And this point will appear,

it looks like as a guide line,

but it is not.

This dotted line is the kind of

track for guiding us to this point.

Here the geometry that matters

is this element, this cross,

this point, this is the point, the rest,

this dot line is nothing just attract for.

I've been asked to find the point.

Once we have the point, we can use it.

E.g. if we want to draw

a cycle and we need the center of this article,

we know that it should be there. Here we are.

Let's go now through the fourth property,

a scale, the entire model.

We will practice with

this tool quite a lot in the future.

So don't worry if you don't

understand perfectly now the tool,

but I'll give you a preview of it.

Imagine that we measure this Q,

this is the first property of the measure tool.

I don't need that guideline icon,

so I tap Control key, it disappears.

Then I measure, this,

adds one single click.

I hover over this second point.

I don't need to click for the second time, 3 m.

And then I want this q to be 5 m instead of three.

With this tool, I will be able to

resize this ends of the queue.

But the thing here is that I

will resize the entire model as well.

So the same scale will be applied

to all the geometry in my drawing,

except one thing called external components.

And that is an important exception.

Let's do an example here.

I go to the full tray components.

Here I will take e.g.

this guy called cris.

One click, I move the mouse into the screen.

I place this man here on the origin.

This guy is considered by

SketchUp as an external component.

Let's measure how tall is here,

1.74 m at the same time, Let's measure e.g.

these ads of this rectangle, 1.53.

Okay?

Now let's re-scale the size of the queue

and we will check how this affects the rest of the model.

So one-click here, first point,

second click here on the end point.

Then I have to type in the length.

I want 5 m Enter.

And this window will pop up asking me this question,

do you want to resize the model?

Note that components within the model that we're loaded

from external files will not be resides.

This node is talking about this guy.

Yes. Everything was resized.

Now is bigger except these external component.

We can check it by measuring things.

Control key, first point,

I hover over the second 0.5 m.

The, it has been resized.

But the rest of the geometry to the rest of

the queue and the rest of the things, e.g.

this site was 1.53, now is bigger.

But when we check this man, how tall is he?

It is exactly the same, 1.75.

So now that we have

this knowledge about this important tool,

we are ready for going ahead and in the next episode,

we will start learning how to draw using the line tool.