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Using the Sandbox tools

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Using the Sandbox tools

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the Sandbox Tools. And these ship with SketchUp Pro. If you go over to Extension Manager, the Sandbox Tools are here. You just want to make sure that they are enabled. And if they are enabled you can access the Toolbar, which is the Sandbox Toolbar right here. And while I'm at it and then I'm going to need to move them up to different elevations, so I'm going to select these three, move them up a foot, and then I'll select these two, move those up a foot, finally move the last one up another foot. So they're at different elevations. Now if I select all of those and say, right here, From Contours, it generates a surface based on the contour information. And that's separate from the contours themselves. So if I just move this over you'll see that the contour objects are still there. So you might want to manage this with layers, for example, so you can toggle off the contour lines and just look at the terrain. Another approach is to start with a flat surface, such as From Scratch. So if…

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