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Master arrays

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- [Scott] Hi, it's Scott Onstott here. This week, I'm going to talk about arrays, and there is no dedicated array tool in SketchUp. Instead, this is build into the move and rotate tools, where you can make linear and radial arrays. To demonstrate this, let's start by building a staircase, so we can explore linear arrays, and later, we'll reveal a chair and a round table, which we will copy around the table, and explore radial arrays. So, at first let's zoom in here to the intersection of the wall and the floor and build a typical tread of a staircase. I'll draw a rectangle here on the ground that measures three feet wide by 11 inches deep. And then I'm going to pull that up two inches and then triple click to select all. Right click, make component, and call this tread. Now I'd like to make a copy of that tread above, so I'll use the move tool, start moving it from the top here, move it up, press the Option key on the Mac or the Control key in Windows to go into copy mode. Note that…

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