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Connecting up the lower armature

Connecting up the lower armature - SketchUp Tutorial

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Connecting up the lower armature

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We're really going to start to put some shape on this. Now we're going to put the lower armature unit in place, then it's 02 Lower Armature folder open or create local collection, and then browse for the 02 lower armature folder, and inside we want the armature hinge unit. I also noticed that the stubs for this are slightly too short. Okay, so what we're going to do first is to update our component. It's never a bad thing to show you how these things go together. So, double click on your base arm, or whatever you've called it if you made it yourself, and then with our little tape measure tool we can come in and we want at one mil, and before we sort of copy it it's a good idea to do it now. So, we just locate the center, one enter, and then find the center again. And that's going to save us huge amounts of time later on. This is fine. That's okay, and then wee come to this one. The swivel connector, and sadly we can't stretch these things, so we have to sort of recreate them, but it…

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