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Zoom tools - Sketchup Pro Tutorial

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Zoom tools

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- [Instructor] Zooming in and out of your 3D model is an important tool in navigating your model. There are a few different way to do this. This icon here, is the Zoom tool, and it allows you to move your camera forward and backward, by clicking and dragging up and down. However, we don't have control over the spot in our model in which it zooms into, it just zooms on center. A more efficient way to zoom would be to use the Center scroll wheel of your three-button mouse. You can roll the wheel upward to zoom in, and downward to zoom out. And this also allows you to choose where you're zooming into, by placing your cursor over that area. If I'd like to zoom in on these windows here, I can place my cursor over the windows, roll my wheel upwards, or backwards, and I can zoom in on that area of my model. But the same action can be done with your laptop trackpad, by using two fingers and placing them on the…

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