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Model wheels and pulleys

Model wheels and pulleys - SketchUp Tutorial

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Model wheels and pulleys

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri, and today we're going to learn how to create radial objects such as wheels and pulleys. So we're going to create something that looks a little bit like this. So before we get started, we do have some reference that we are using here, and that's this image called Pulley.jpg, and that's what we will use to create our pulley. So the first thing we want to do is just bring in that image. Now I want to bring that in as a texture, and I want to scale it properly. One way to do that is to simply just attach it to a known size object. So I'm just going to create a rectangle, and let's go ahead and make this pulley say two feet in diameter. So I'm just going to create a rectangle that's two feet by two feet, so that would be 24 inches, comma, 24 inches. And then I'm going to zoom in on this. And let's go ahead and bring in that texture, so I'm going to do File, Import, and we have a file called Pulley.jpg. Now we want to bring that in as a texture, Import…

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