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Shaping the external shell slopes: Pro method

Shaping the external shell slopes: Pro method - SketchUp Tutorial

From the course: SketchUp for Architecture

Shaping the external shell slopes: Pro method

- [Instructor] It's now time to shape these walls to the same pitch as the roof. I'm using the solid tools to do this. They're only available on the pro version of the software. To access the solid tools right click on a blank bit of toolbar and then come down to solid tools. If you've got the Mac then go to the view menu and then it's tool pallettes and solid tools. Just tick that one. Make sure that the west wing layer is selected. And choose the pencil tool. Now click on this bit. I'll make sure I'm clicking on the edge of that. It wants to go in the blue direction so you may have to zoom in a bit on that. And then come back down to that. So that's crated that shape. So now I'm going to push/pull this all the way through to the other side. Okay? It doesn't matter how far I go. And I'm going to select the top surface and I'm going to use the move tool, M and move this up on the blue axis. So again if it's going all over the place, hit the up arrow. That will lock it out and…

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