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Create decorative arches

Create decorative arches - SketchUp Tutorial

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Create decorative arches

- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri, and today we're going to take a look at how to create some arches to go with these columns. It's really fairly straightforward. All we have to do is draw the profile of our arch, and then use Follow Me to create it. So, the first thing I want to do is, let's go ahead and just get the center lines of these columns so that we can get things aligned properly. So I'm going to just take my tape measure tool, and this first column is actually centered to the origin, so I'm just going to go ahead and snap to that and drag along the green axis to create a line across the center of the top, and then let's take the tape measure tool and create two more guides, and so now I know the centers of both of these, and let's go ahead and draw our arch between those. Now, when we draw the arch, we will need a profile, so we can draw that really almost anywhere, so I'm going to go ahead and draw an outline. So actually I'm going to do that on the ground here, and I'm…

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