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Hello everybody and welcome to this new class in

where we are going to learn how to use the Copy tool.

This tool is part of

the move tool as we saw in the previous chapter.

So let's see how to use it.

First of all, we have to select our geometry.

For this example, we will use this cylinder,

which could be inside a group box or

could be as well, just three-year metric.

In this case, it is not inside a group,

so I should select it then letter m for the shortcut,

we have hit the Move tool.

And now SketchUp is asking us for

the first point of that movement, right?

So click and release.

My first point will be here outside the cylinder.

One-click and then let's move

this cylinder along the red axis.

But if I want to make a copy,

then I have just to tap

the control key when, whenever I want.

So Control key, then you will see that

plus icon next to our Move icon,

and we are generating one copy of the cylinder.

Let's type in the land e.g.

3 m Enter.

And here we are, basically one click on

the free space and our copy is done.

Let's see now how to do multiples copies, control set.

And I go one step back again.

I select my cylinder again,

Move Copy again, one-click and

released for the first point of the movement.

And then again, Control key for

doing a copy instead of a simple movement.

Now, again, I type in the length 3 m enter.

But now if I want multiples copy instead of just one,

what I have to do before I

unselect the element which is now in blue color,

then I have to type in

arteries and precise the number of copies that I want.

You will see the asterisk in the distance bar.

Now, let's say instead of one copy,

I want three copies, three enter,

and you will see how a SketchUp

has generated three copies,

12.3 instead of one.

So in total, we have four cylinders.

This is one of the two ways that we

have for copying things.

Let's explore the second option.

So I will select

this cylinder letter M and I

will make a copy using Control key.

Let's say here.

Now, I will hover the mouse over

the cylinder right bottom and make group.

This time, I want to make copies

starting from our group box.

In addition to this,

I will draw a kind of ground floor,

which could be, let's say, a square.

And imagine now that we want to create a kind

of colonnade so we know where it is placed,

this last column here,

and the number of columns in the middle.

And of course as well,

we know that they have to keep

the same distance between each other.

How can we do that? Well, the thing

here is to start measuring and

using guidelines to fix the position of that last column.

Here we have 0.82 m.

Then I can go to that other side and create

a guideline using that distance zero point T2.

Now, I will select my column moves.

First point of the movement should be any

of these side one-click unreleased to Mao,

I move the column along the red axis again,

Control key for making a copy.

And then the second point should be on that guideline.

I can constrain the axis

and choose any point of that guideline.

Secondly, I have my copy well-positioned there,

and now we know that we want not one copy,

but three of them keeping

the same distance between each other.

So instead of using the asterisk,

I will use the seven bar,

that inclined bar above

the number seven in your keyboard.

Here we are.

You have to use it always before unselect

the first copy when it is still in this blue color,

then we precise the number of copies that we want three.

If you consume too much time,

then you will lose

that inclined bar and the tool is not going to work.

I have to repeat it.

Inclined bar number three,

we want three copies.

Enter here.

We are not one copy,

but 312.3 in total.

We have, for this time,

we have started with

the column placed in the last position.

In the previous example,

we started with a copy placed in the first position,

and then using our 3s,

we create that more copies.

Here the process is different.

We are started with

this copy placed in the last position.

Then we said that we wanted not just one copy, but 312.3.

Now we can erase these guidelines.

The exercise would be over.

So this is all about the Copy tool.

We will use it a lot during

the course, as you can imagine.

And in the next episode,

we'll learn about this,

another tool from the transformation panel called rotate.

With this Rotate tool,

we will be able, of course,

to rotate things, but as well,

the tool will allow us to rotate and copy things

in a very similar way that we have

just learned in this class.