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How to produce and employ a Construction Guide in Sketchup

Debamoy Ghosh

This is an excerpt that how this process has been completed. wikihow.com has published this article, from which we have taken an excerpt.

First Step: The user first has to click on the Tape Measure tool. Then the change will be seen in a tiny plus sign. This indicates that the tool is ready to generate guidelines.

It can be measurable, click the CTRL key and then you will just be computing something.

How to produce and employ a Construction Guide in Sketchup
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Second step: The point of tip of the calculating tape on the line that you want to examination from.

How to produce and employ a Construction Guide in Sketchup
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Third Step: The user can drag to the preferred position or if you have a certain dimension, type that in, like: Pick another point that you want to gauge from. It could be:

  • Same point as before
  • The guideline just created.

If you would desire a little a sure width, then you would want to assess the new principle from the old one. Clicking and dragging will pull out an additional rule.

How to produce and employ a Construction Guide in Sketchup
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Fourth Step: Now you have to use the rule. But using the guidelines, use the rectangle tool to create the shape (a window in this case).

How to produce and employ a Construction Guide in Sketchup
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Fifth Step: Now you have to delete the construction guide-line when done. The user can carry out this with: a permanent eraser.

See the chart below:

Click on View >> Non-permanent Guides >> you can get them back by repeating the same.

How to produce and employ a Construction Guide in Sketchup
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