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Make upholstery using Sandbox

Make upholstery using Sandbox - SketchUp Tutorial

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Make upholstery using Sandbox

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- [Narrator] Hi, I'm George Macetree and today we're going to do upholstery in SketchUp. And specifically, we're going to do a tuck and roll effect that looks something like this. So, let's go ahead and get started. Now, what I've done is I've already drawn my basic bench and a pad for on top of that bench. But we want to add a tuck and roll on top of the pad. Now, in this, I've actually put in some dimensions so that we understand how big this is. And as you can see, it's 73 inches in one direction, 28 in the other. Now, the reason I drew this is because it basically gives me a half inch border from 27x72 and that allows me to create my effect nine inches at a time. So, if I have nine inch squares, I can do three squares this way and eight squares this way to create the tuck and roll effect. So, the first thing I want to do is go ahead and create my panel. Now, as I said before, it's going to be based on a nine inch pattern. So, I'm going to start with a rectangle tool and we're…

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