From the course: Learning SketchUp Free (2023)
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Exporting to 2D formats - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: Learning SketchUp Free (2023)
Exporting to 2D formats
- [Instructor] SketchUp is a great way to create images for presentations. Now, in order to create an image, you need to either export or print that image. So let's go ahead and take this particular building, and let's go ahead and make some 2D images. So we can do that in one of two places. So if I click here, you can see I have a download, and I should have a PNG option. And when I do, you'll see that I have not just the option to export it, but I can also manipulate my scene a little bit. And so I can use my pan and orbit tools to position this exactly the way that I want. I can also change my view if I really want to. I can also change my background to transparent, and that helps me to overlay if I'm using that to overlay to a photograph or something like that. But I'm going to go ahead and keep that at the default, and then if I want to, I can also change the aspect ratio. But all I have to do is export as PNG, and it…
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