From the course: SketchUp for Architecture: LayOut
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Styling dimensions - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp for Architecture: LayOut
Styling dimensions
- [Narrator] Chapter 3-08, the last one in this chapter. We are looking at adding some style to these dimensions. Now you might notice that on the length sketch up file there's little orange backgrounds to these two dimensions. That's because they've become unlinked. So just right click on each dimension and then relink it to the model, and then you'll find that that little orange background will go away. For some reason it's just got attached, but you can reattach it, and then it references the model again, and then all will be good. I will zoom in a bit so we can see what we're working with. So when we get a situation like this, it's never a good idea to have the leaders running all the way from the points even though they're referencing the points. Things that you can do are to thin these down as much as possible. So you can do that by selecting it, double clicking, double clicking again, you want to get it right down until you get to the line. Then you can give that line a much…
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Introduction to the drawing tools in LayOut5m 7s
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The Pencil tool4m 44s
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The Arc tools4m 42s
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The Rectangle tools5m 52s
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The Circle and Polygon tools5m 1s
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Adding text and labels4m 44s
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Creating linear and angular dimensions5m 11s
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Styling dimensions3m 50s
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