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Mapping the shadows to the views

Mapping the shadows to the views - SketchUp Tutorial

From the course: SketchUp for Architecture

Mapping the shadows to the views

- [Educator] Chapter 10_02, we're going to be mapping the shadows in this lesson. We've got our existing views, so Front view, Left view Rear view and the Right view. We'll use those, we'll also use the roof plan and we'll use our perspectives as well. And we need to have access to the shadows now that should be loaded but if it's not, then go to window if you're using windows, Default Tray and down to Shadows. If you're on the Mac then go to the window menu and then shadow settings and you'll get something similar to this. And then depending on where on the planet you've decided to put it, it'll give you a UTC value that's a time zone based on Greenwich. So minus eight hours, so eight hours behind is British Columbia from Greenwich. So again we've got the sliders so we can slide between the times and we've got the dates. Now nothing's happening at the moment because I need to click this button here. And now it's in darkness because I am right at the end of the day roundabout at the…

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