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Hey guys and welcome to

this new class in where we are going to see

the dimension tool will find this tool here.

And the description says,

draw dimension lines between any two points.

It is very easy and intuitive.

So we hit the tool one click e.g.

here, another click on this end point, click and release.

And then when I move the mouse,

we can see our dimension,

12.37 m. Third click for fixing that dimension.

Here it is.

We could repeat the same action on this,

another facade of this building,

or better said, this plant floor.

Furthermore, we have the possibility to go

over the model info window.

We already know that we can open this window if we

go over this little person,

or we can find it too.

If we go over window model info.

In the previous class,

we saw here this text category,

and this time we'll go over these dimensions category.

It works in a very similar way.

We have here text, leader lines dimension.

What we're gonna do from here is to edit

our dimensions drawn in our Canvas.

The current font is called tau.

This is the size of the font and this is the color.

We can change it easily.

Let's pick up Verdana font.

It static, 14 Points size.

We can change the color, red color.

And if we want to update these changes in our dimensions,

we have to click on Select all dimensions

first and then update selected dimensions.

Here we are. If we are talking about the leader lines,

we can expand this window and we

can choose between all these options.

Now we are working with closed arrow.

Let's select dot.

Again, select all dimensions,

update selected dimensions, very easy.

The last option is called dimensional,

and we have two possibilities aligned to

screen and aligned two-dimensional line aligned to

a screen means that when we are

with the text of our dimensions

is always facing the camera so we

can read it easily from any position.

On the other hand, if we select

aligned two-dimensional line, again,

select all dimensions and updates selected dimensions.

Then when we orbit,

we won't be able to read those dimensions

because that text is now aligned to the dimension line.

Furthermore, we can align that text

outside of that line centered.

You can see it here or what is called above.

As you can see, we don't have here

a lot of possibilities, just a few.

But to be honest,

if you want to prepare layout of

your plants or of your drawings

and use dimensions on that layout.

Maybe SketchUp is not the correct software,

but another software called precisely layout.

This software is a kind of brother or sister of SketchUp.

When we download SketchUp,

actually it comes with it and it is thought exactly

for doing presentations of our projects.

Anyways, in this window,

we can find here our last option

called experts dementia and settings.

I'll go just through the first one, room,

withdraw a cycle, and we use the dimension tool on it.

We can read a prefix before our measure.

The prefix of diameter,

thanks to this option,

will be able to hide that prefix,

which is not, let's say, attractive.

Besides this edit options,

if we want to change just one dimension, e.g.

these 12.37, I can select it right button.

And here again, we can edit text and change this measure

and pay attention here because these

12.37 is the true measure.

But here, if it is convenient for us,

maybe we can say that this measure is 12.3.

Enter.

We are lying, but sometimes it can

be handy for our goals again,

right button and we can go over the x position as well.

We can change the position of that text now is centered.

We can say outside start and it

moves here to the beginning of the dimension.

Or we can say outside n and it goes,

as you can see, to the opposite side.

Let's place it again, centered.

And then the last option here is go over Entity Info.

Thanks to this tray, again,

we'll be able to make changes easily.

We could change the color,

we could change the font and

the font style exactly as we did before,

but just for this specific dimension.

So this is all about the dimension tool.

In the next class,

we will see how to change

the position of our general axis in

order to draw in

a more faster and simple way when our model demands it.