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Hello guys and welcome to this new class in

where we're going to see how to use the measure tools.

And when I say measure,

I mean measure distances and measure angles.

Because actually we have already

learned how to measure distances.

We learned that we have to use the tape measure tool.

And I'll give you here a reminder,

because this tool is one of

the most important tools in

SketchUp and it has four features.

The first one, we can measure things, e.g.

the basement of this cone, 1.50 m.

The second feature is the possibility to create

guidelines and that guideline icon will pop up.

We'll have to tap Control

key to turn it on or turn it off.

The third feature is

the possibility to create guide points.

Remember that for creating a guide point,

we have to click and release on an endpoint like e.g.

here, or here or here.

The fourth feature, as you already know,

is the possibility to scale all the model.

We have to measure any distance,

e.g. this 11.5 s.

Click.

Then we have to type in their desire measure.

Let's say e.g. 1 m enter,

window pops up and we say yes or no.

This time we'll say No.

This is all about the tape measure tool.

But we have another tool for measure angles.

It is this one.

Here. It is called protractor.

And in the description,

we can read measure angles and create guides.

Because a part of measure angles,

this tool will create a guideline to,

let's see how it works.

It is very easy.

Let's hit on the protractor.

Then this protractor will pop up.

Depending on the camera position,

it will have one color or another.

We know that that color means that we are working

on the orthogonal plane to the color of that axis.

So let's place the camera on a top view,

and then we will be working on

these orthogonal plane to the blue axis,

in other words, in the ground floor.

And don't forget that we can change that color

of the protractor if we hit the arrow keys,

right arrow and we change to the red color,

left arrow and which thanks to the green color, arrow,

blue color and down arrow and returns two are

orthogonal or parallel plane relative to other element.

In this case here

the protractor is parallel to that photo.

Once we are clear about those concepts,

we have to click unreleased on one specific point.

For this example, let's do it

randomly here, one-click release,

and then we have to choose another single point

in order to create a kind of rotation axis.

Let's choose this second point on the red axis.

And once we have said that axis,

then it is the time for measure the angle that we are

looking for that I am moving

the mouse and in the measure tools,

it appears a number,

which means the angle.

So here we can do it graphically

or we can type in that specific number,

let's say e.g. 45 degrees.

I type in 45 Enter.

And here we have

that guideline which has been created in order

to allow us to draw normally aligned using that angle.

Now let's use again this tool.

In a more practical example.

I will erase everything except my column.

I will even this photo,

then I will make a copy.

This column, e.g.

10 m far away from the first one.

And let's draw this kind of triangular fronting,

typically from these Greek temples.

So firstly, we have to heat the tool protractor.

Then we'll need to choose

the correct lane for that angle.

And the first specific point for the rotation axis.

I will choose this mid 0.1 click and hold

down in order to change the color of that protractor.

We can do it this way as well,

or using the arrow keys,

as we said before,

once the green color is marked,

I released the bottom of my mouse and

then that green color is fixed.

And the tool is asking me for choosing

that second point of the rotation axis.

This second points should be along this red axis.

So one-click e.g.

here, it is already fixed and then

it's high time for choosing the angle.

I can orbit.

And let's say that our angle will be 30 degrees.

So I type in theory,

enter that guideline keeps drawn on the screen so I can

use the line tool in order to draw over this reference.

But before using the line tool,

I will repeat this previous axiom

with this another column.

So productive.

Again, mid 0.1, click and hold down,

I choose the correct color,

the wing 1 s point for fixing the rotation axis.

Then the tool is asking us for the angle three.

Enter.

Here we are.

Now we can hit the line tool in order to

draw easily this triangular front term.

Actually in the future,

we will continue drawing

this rig temple in a more precise way.

And we'll use this protractor in order to draw

in a very accurate way this rig front-end.

So I hope that you liked the class.

And in the next episode,

we will see this another tool called text.