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The Circle and Polygon tools

The Circle and Polygon tools - SketchUp Tutorial

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The Circle and Polygon tools

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- [Narrator] Chapter three oh five. We are looking at the circle and the polygon. And we've also got an ellipse, drop down from the circle. So we'll start off with the circle tool. And to create circle, there's no modification keys. You just click at the center of the circle and if you were to enter your values, don't forget it's the square brackets that we use and then the value separated by the comma. And then you enter the radius. So either snapping to the grid or to a specific object, or just entering a value, let's say 50. And then hit enter. Okay, so that's as simple as a gets for creating a circle. The one thing that you can do with circles is double-click at a point, or any point on the drawing. But I'll double click here. And you'll create a duplicate of that circle. Okay, so that can be useful for creating all sorts of interesting patterns and intersections. So that's what you can do with the circle tool. From the drop-down of the circle we can choose the ellipse tool and…

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