From the course: SketchUp 2019 Essential Training
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Offset tool - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2019 Essential Training
Offset tool
- [Instructor] The Offset tool is helpful when you want to replicate a shape within itself or outside of itself. In this example, we're going to give each door some trim. Activate the Offset tool by clicking the Offset icon above, or the letter F. To remember this shortcut, I like to think of offset, F for offset. Click and release on the face that you'd like to offset, and you can move your cursor inward or outward. In this case, we're going to move it inside of itself. I'd like this offset distance to be one inch, so I'm going to type one, enter. Now, instead of typing one, enter for all of these faces, I can just double click on the next faces, and it will remember that one inch offset. So go ahead and continue to offset those faces. The offset tool can be kind of finicky. Sometimes if you move your cursor at all between those double clicks, it's going to set the offset down right where your cursor was. So you'll have to undo that, command + z, and start over with the measurement…
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