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Articulating the upper and lower armatures

Articulating the upper and lower armatures - SketchUp Tutorial

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Articulating the upper and lower armatures

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- [Instructor] Chapter six, 05, Articulating the Upper and Lower armatures. We're just really going to see what happens when we move this arm and the relationship between this back piece and the front piece. It affects the large spring, so we'll have to make an adjustment to that. Don't forget we have to swivel it, as well, because this back piece will pivot at that point, and it's going to come closer to it, and also further down. So, that needs moving, before we can make the adjustment. So, let's go back to this piece and let's choose the rotate tool, back arrow on your keyboard to lock out the rotation, and then we'll click on that node point there, and then just come around maybe about 50 degrees. I've got 52.4 degrees there, that's fine, anything like that. Just so we can see proper movement on this. Then, we can move this one. So, with the move tool we're going to grab that node point and then another way of doing it is locking it out on the blue axis, and then lining it up with…

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